Name: Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2023
Start: 2023-06-20T10:50:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-22T18:25:00+02:00
Location: Online

Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2023

from Tuesday, June 20, 2023 (10:50 AM) to Thursday, June 22, 2023 (6:25 PM)

Monday, June 19, 2023
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

10:50 AM Welcome Note & Info
Welcome Note & Info
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Talks
Talks
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM Constructing artificial cells that can evolve based on the function of membrane proteins - Tomoaki Matsuura (ELSI, Tokyo Inst Tech, JP)

11:25 AM From cell-size confinement effects on polymer solutions to the physical significance of cell size - Miho Yanagisawa (U Tokyo, JP)
11:50 AM Q&A
Q&A
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM Talks
Talks
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM Towards a protein-free biology - Hannes Mutschler (TU Dortmund, DE)

12:25 PM Assessing the probability of autocatalytic RNAs using generative models and high-throughput screening - Philippe Nghe (ESPCI-PSL, France)
12:50 PM Q&A
Q&A
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Meet the Speakers of Sessions I & II
Meet the Speakers of Sessions I & II
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Talks
Talks
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Retracing the modular evolution of Life by exploring extant genomes - Filipa L. Sousa (U Vienna, AT)

3:25 PM When coacervates meet membranes - Evan Spruijt (Radboud U, NL)
3:50 PM Q&A
Q&A
3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Talks
Talks
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM On the unified roots of biological peptides and their spontaneous differentiation - Matthew W. Powner (UCL, UK)

4:25 PM Growth of prebiotically plausible fatty acid vesicles proceeds in the presence of prebiotic amino acids, dipeptides, sugars, and nucleic acid components - Zoe R. Todd (U Washington, USA)
4:50 PM Q&A
Q&A
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM Meet the Speakers of Sessions III & IV
Meet the Speakers of Sessions III & IV
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM

5:45 PM

5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
11:00 AM Talks
Talks
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Development of diversity and ecological complexity in the experimental evolution of an RNA-protein replicator - Norikazu Ichihashi (U Tokyo, JP)

11:25 AM Peptide-nucleic acid coacervation as a route to primitive compartmentalisation - T-Y. Dora Tang (MPI-CBG, DE)

11:50 AM Molten Exoplanets as a Window into the Earliest Earth - Tim Lichtenberg (U Groningen, NL)
12:15 PM Q&A
Q&A
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM Talks
Talks
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Molecular Flavins: Catalytic Activity outside Enzymes - Golo Storch (TU Munich, DE)

12:55 PM Tales of select protocellular systems - Sudha Rajamani (IISER Pune, IN)
1:20 PM Q&A
Q&A
1:20 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Meet the Speakers of Sessions V & VI
Meet the Speakers of Sessions V & VI
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

2:15 PM

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Talks
Talks
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM The Origin of Genetic Code - Meng Su (MRC LMB, UK)

3:55 PM RNA catalysis beyond phosphodiester chemistry: RNA methylation catalyzed by a methyltransferase ribozyme - Claudia Höbartner (U Würzburg, DE)
4:20 PM Q&A
Q&A
4:20 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Talks
Talks
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM From RNA Copying Chemistry to RNA Replication - Jack W. Szostak (University of Chicago)

4:55 PM MuSeCOL: Mineral-Catalyzed Mutualism and Selection from a Complicated Broth in the Origins of Life - Nita Sahai (U Akron, USA)
5:20 PM Q&A
Q&A
5:20 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM Meet the Speakers of Sessions VII & VIII
Meet the Speakers of Sessions VII & VIII
5:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Thursday, June 22, 2023
11:00 AM Talks
Talks
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM Organic Matter in the Samples of Asteroid Ryugu - Hikaru Yabuta (Hiroshima U, JP)

11:25 AM Krebs cycle intermediates as tracers of prebiotic chemistry - Paul B. Rimmer (U Cambridge, UK)
11:50 AM Q&A
Q&A
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM Talks
Talks
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

12:00 PM The molecular atlas of soluble organic matter of meteorites and of Ryugu C-type asteroid parent body - Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz & TU Munich, DE)

12:25 PM Open-ended amplification of RNA by a ribozyme - James Attwater (UCL, UK)
12:50 PM Q&A
Q&A
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Meet the Speakers of Sessions IX & X
Meet the Speakers of Sessions IX & X
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Talks
Talks
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Alkaline Vents Recreated in Two Dimensions to Study pH Gradients, Precipitation Morphology and Molecule Accumulation - Karen Alim (TU Munich, DE)

3:25 PM Chemically-driven molecular templating - Thomas E. Ouldridge (Imperial College London, UK)
3:50 PM Q&A
Q&A
3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Talks
Talks
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Expected composition of the atmosphere and surface waters on the early Earth that favored the origin of life - David Catling (U Washington, USA)

4:25 PM Nonenzymatic RNA assembly, ribozyme activity, and encapsulation by protocell membranes within natural carbonate lakes - Zachary Cohen (U Washington, USA)

4:50 PM Early traces of life - Emmanuelle J. Javaux (U Liège, BE)
5:15 PM Q&A
Q&A
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM Meet the Speakers of Sessions XI & XII
Meet the Speakers of Sessions XI & XII
5:30 PM - 6:15 PM

6:15 PM Goodbye Note
Goodbye Note
6:15 PM - 6:25 PM

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