Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2020

Speaker List

• Elizabeth Bell (UC Los Angeles)
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    The role of zircon in the search for Earth’s earliest biosphere

• Roy A. Black (University of Washington)
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    Prebiotic Membranes Bind Protocell Building Blocks and Catalyze Formation of Biopolymers

• Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research)
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    Asymmetric Amplification in Peptide-Catalyzed Formation of C4 Sugars from Nearly Racemic Amino Acids

• Christophe Danelon (TU Delft)
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    Roadmap to building a cell

• Marileen Dogterom (tentative) (TU Delft)
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    Reconstituting cytoskeletal systems in artificial cells

• Daniel Duzdevich (HHMI)
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    The Sequence Space of Nonenzymatic RNA Copying

• John Eiler (California Institute of Technology)
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    Reconstructing Prebiotic and Biotic Chemistry Using Molecular Isotopic Structures

• Thomas Henning (MPI for Astronomy)
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    Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks

• Klára Hlouchová (Charles University in Prague)
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    Searching for early proteins in randomness

• Nicholas V. Hud (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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    A Self-Assembly Approach to Uncovering Possible Ancestors of RNA

• Stephen Mann (University of Bristol)
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    Coacervate Dynamics and the Origin of Life

• Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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    Onset of natural selection in populations of autocatalytic heteropolymers

• Uwe Meierhenrich (Institut de Chimie de Nice)
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    3D Presentation Rosetta-Philae – The Detection of Organic Molecules on the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

• Allen Nutman (University of Wollongong)
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    How long ago was the Beginning? Looking for Life Signatures in ≥3.7 Billions-of-years-old Greenland Rocks

• William Orsi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
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    Quantifying the effects of abiotic H2 production on carbon metabolism in serpentinization systems

• Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University)
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    RNA Polymerization in Pre-biotic Environments: Experiments with the Planet Simulator McMaster's Origins of Life Laboratory

• Sudha Rajamani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
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    Prebiotic selection pressures shape the evolution of protocells

• Joachim Reitner (Georg-August-University of Goettingen)
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    Traces of life in very old rocks – what is convincing and what not?

• Rafal Szabla (University of Edinburgh)
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    Shedding UV light on the common origins of RNA and DNA

• Jan van Esch (TU Delft)
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    Approaching Biological Complexity: Beyond Self-Assembly

• Christoph Weber (MPI PKS)
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    Selection via Phase Separation

• Longfei Wu (MRC LMB, UK)
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    Harnessing chemical energy for activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks

• Tetsuya Yomo (East China Normal University)
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    Construction and Evolution of a Synthetic Cell

• Lijun Zhou (HHMI)
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    Assembly of Functional Ribozyme from Short Oligomers by Enhanced Non-enzymatic Ligation