Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2020

Programme

Time1	Wednesday, July 8th	Thursday, July 9th	Friday, July 10th
10:45	Welcome & Info Session by Dieter Braun	Info Session by Dieter Braun	Info Session by Dieter Braun
	Session I Chair: Petra Schwille?	Session V Chair: Job Boekhoven	Session IX Chair: Don Dingwell
11:00	Tetsuya Yomo East China Normal Uni. Construction and Evolution of a Synthetic Cell	Jan van Esch  TU Delft Approaching Biological Complexity: Beyond Self-Assembly	Allen Nutman  University of Wollongong How Long Ago was the Beginning? Looking for Life Signatures in ≥3.7 Billions-of-years-old Greenland Rocks
11:25	Marileen Dogterom TU Delft A Self-Assembly Approach to Uncovering Possible Ancestors of RNA	Stephen Mann  University of Bristol Coacervate Dynamics and the Origin of Life	William Orsi   LMU Munich Quantifying the Effects of Abiotic H2 Production on Carbon Metabolism in Serpentinization Systems
11:50	Session I Panel Discussion	Session V Panel Discussion	Session IX Panel Discussion
	Session II Chair: William Orsi	Session VI Chair: Andres Jäschke	Session X Chair: Fritz Simmel
12:00	Uwe Meierhenrich Université Côte d'Azur 3D Presentation Rosetta-Philae – The Detection of Organic Molecules on the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus	Longfei Wu  MRC LMB Harnessing Chemical Energy for Activation and Joining of Prebiotic Building Blocks	Sudha Rajamani  Indian Ins. of Sci. Edu. Res. Prebiotic selection pressures shape the evolution of protocells
12:25	Joachim Reitner Georg-August-Uni. of Göttingen Traces of Life in Very Old Rocks – What is Convincing and What Not?	Rafal Szabla  University of Edinburgh Shedding UV Light on the Common Origins of RNA and DNA	Christophe Danelon  TU Delft Roadmap to Building a Cell
12:50	Session II Panel Discussion	Session VI Panel Discussion	Session X Panel Discussion
13:00	Meet the Speakers2 of Session I & II	Meet the Speakers2 of Session V & VI	Meet the Speakers2 of Session IX & X
13.45	Lunch Break
14:45	Info Session by Dieter Braun	Info Session by Dieter Braun	Info Session by Dieter Braun
	Session III Chair: Paola Caselli	Session VII Chair: Clemens Richert	Session XI Chair: Hannes Mutschler
15:00	Thomas Henning MPI for Astronomy Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks	Daniel Duzdevich  HHMI The Sequence Space of Non-enzymatic RNA Copying	Klara Hlouchova  Charles University in Prague Searching for Early Proteins in Randomness
15:25	Ralph Pudritz McMaster University RNA Polymerization in Pre-biotic Environments: Experiments with the Planet Simulator McMaster's Origins of Life Laboratory	Nick Hud  Georgia Institute of Technology A Self-Assembly Approach to Uncovering Possible Ancestors of RNA	Roy Black  University of Washington Prebiotic Membranes Bind Protocell Building Blocks and Catalyze Formation of Biopolymers
15:50	Session III Panel Discussion	Session VII Panel Discussion	Session XI Panel Discussion
	Session IV Chair: Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin	Session VIII Chair: Oliver Trapp	Session XII Chair: Erwin Frey
16:00	John Eiler California Institute of Technology Reconstructing Prebiotic and Biotic Chemistry Using Molecular Isotopic Structures	Lijun Zhou  HHMI Assembly of a Functional Ribozyme from Short Oligomers by Enhanced Non-enzymatic Ligation	Christoph Weber  MPI PKS Selection via Phase Separation
16:25	Elizabeth Bell UC Los Angeles The Role of Zircon in the Search for Earth’s Earliest Biosphere	Donna Blackmond   Scripps Research Asymmetric Amplification in Peptide-Catalyzed Formation of C4 Sugars from Nearly Racemic Amino Acids	Sergei Maslov  Uni. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Onset of Natural Selection in Populations of Autocatalytic Heteropolymers
16:50	Session IV Panel Discussion	Session VIII Panel Discussion	Session XII Panel Discussion
17:00	Meet the Speakers2 of Session III & IV	Meet the Speakers2 of Session VII & VIII	Meet the Speakers2 of Session XI & XII
17:45	Puzzle & Beer of the Day3 + Poster Session4	Puzzle & Beer of the Day3 + Poster Session4	Puzzle & Beer of the Day3 + Poster Session4

 

¹ UTC+02:00, CEST, CEDT, MEST

² Each Speaker will be hosted in a separate chat room that is moderated!

³ Each speaker will have a puzzle and a beer for each day to start the informal evening session in parallel to Poster Session!

⁴ Posters can be visited at any time, please contact the presenter!