Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2024

Speaker List

• Laurie Barge (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
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    Impacts of Environmental Parameters on Prebiotic Organic Reactions in Hydrothermal Systems

• Roy Bar-Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science, IL)
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    Toward an autonomous “artificial cell” in 2D

• Steven Benner (FfAME)
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    Challenging the Discontinuous Synthesis Model to Make Prebiotic Polyribonucleic Acid

• Elisa Biondi (FfAME)
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    Empowering Nucleic Acid Evolution with Expanded Genetic Alphabets

• Job Boekhoven (TUM, Germany)
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    Template-based copying in dynamic combinatorial libraries out of equilibrium

• Claudia Bonfio (U. Strasbourg)
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    Shaping early life: the chemistry of primitive compartments

• Amanda Ellis (University of Melbourne, AU)
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    Role of helicity in the nonenzymatic template-directed primer extension of DNA

• Kerstin Göpfrich (Heidelberg U.)
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    Engineering a synthetic protocell with RNA origami

• Martha Grover (Georgia Tech)
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    Nucleic Acid Replication Enabled by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Robust Solution to the Product Inhibition Problem

• Klára Hlouchová (Charles U.)
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    Possible roles of peptides in early life

• Nicholas Hud (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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    Self-Assembly and Non-Enzymatic Polymerization of Plausible Proto-Nucleotides: A Model for Monomers and Polymers that Preceded RNA

• Andres Jäschke (Heidelberg U.)
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    Probing the Origin of the Genetic Code by High-Throughput Sequencing

• Christine Keating (Penn State U.)
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    Before cells: Prebiotic compartments based on phase separation and molecular self-assembly

• Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (Scripps Research)
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    Cyclicphospholipids in the emergence of primitive (functional) protocells

• Robert J. Mayer (TUM)
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    A Mechanistic Approach to Prebiotic Chemistry: Coenzymes, Chirality, and Catalysis

• Cornelia Meinert (U. Côte d'Azur)
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    Is the Enantiomeric Excess in Meteorites (truly) the Missing Link to Understanding Biomolecular Homochirality?

• Bénédicte Menez (IPG, Paris)
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    Spatial and temporal dynamics of fluid-rock interactions promoting organic synthesis in the terrestrial lithosphere

• Stephen J. Mojzsis (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU)
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    Hadean Earth Recipes

• Joseph Moran (U. Ottawa)
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    Towards Recreating a Metabolic Origin of Life

• Frank Postberg (FU Berlin)
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    Exploring the habitability of ocean moons by in situ analysis of emitted ice grains

• Martina Preiner (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology)
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    Organic cofactors as connection between minerals and protometabolism?

• Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University)
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    Atmospheric HCN production and the emergence of the RNA world on early Earth

• Judit E. Šponer (IBP)
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    The role of crystallization in prebiotic polymerization processes

• Christoph Weber (Universität Augsburg, DE)
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    Phase separation directs polymerization and selects sequences