Construction and Evolution of a Synthetic Cell

• Tetsuya Yomo (East China Normal University)

Reconstituting cytoskeletal systems in artificial cells

• Marileen Dogterom (TU Delft)

3D Presentation Rosetta-Philae – The Detection of Organic Molecules on the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

• Uwe Meierhenrich (Institut de Chimie de Nice)

Traces of life in very old rocks – what is convincing and what not?

• Joachim Reitner (Georg-August-University of Goettingen)

Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks

• Thomas Henning (MPI for Astronomy)

RNA Polymerization in Pre-biotic Environments: Experiments with the Planet Simulator McMaster's Origins of Life Laboratory

• Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University)

Reconstructing Prebiotic and Biotic Chemistry Using Molecular Isotopic Structures

• John Eiler (California Institute of Technology)

The role of zircon in the search for Earth’s earliest biosphere

• Elizabeth Bell (UC Los Angeles)

Approaching Biological Complexity: Beyond Self-Assembly

• Jan van Esch (TU Delft)

Coacervate Dynamics and the Origin of Life

• Stephen Mann (University of Bristol)

Harnessing chemical energy for activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks

• Longfei Wu (MRC LMB, UK)

Shedding UV light on the common origins of RNA and DNA

• Rafal Szabla (University of Edinburgh)

The Sequence Space of Nonenzymatic RNA Copying

• Daniel Duzdevich (HHMI)

A Self-Assembly Approach to Uncovering Possible Ancestors of RNA

• Nicholas V. Hud (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Assembly of Functional Ribozyme from Short Oligomers by Enhanced Non-enzymatic Ligation

• Lijun Zhou (HHMI)

Asymmetric Amplification in Peptide-Catalyzed Formation of C4 Sugars from Nearly Racemic Amino Acids

• Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research)

How long ago was the Beginning? Looking for Life Signatures in ≥3.7 Billions-of-years-old Greenland Rocks

• Allen Nutman (University of Wollongong)

Quantifying the effects of abiotic H2 production on carbon metabolism in serpentinization systems

• William Orsi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Prebiotic selection pressures shape the evolution of protocells

• Sudha Rajamani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)

Roadmap to building a cell

• Christophe Danelon (TU Delft)

Searching for early proteins in randomness

• Klára Hlouchová (Charles University in Prague)

Prebiotic Membranes Bind Protocell Building Blocks and Catalyze Formation of Biopolymers

• Roy A. Black (University of Washington)

Selection via Phase Separation

• Christoph Weber (MPI PKS)

Onset of natural selection in populations of autocatalytic heteropolymers

• Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)