Name: Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2024
Start: 2024-07-19T08:25:00+02:00
End: 2024-07-20T17:50:00+02:00
Location: LMU Munich - Great (Große) Aula

Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2024

from Friday, July 19, 2024 (8:25 AM) to Saturday, July 20, 2024 (5:50 PM)

Monday, July 15, 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024

8:25 AM Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
8:25 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Spatial and temporal dynamics of fluid-rock interactions promoting organic synthesis in the terrestrial lithosphere - Bénédicte Menez (IPG, Paris)

8:55 AM Engineering a synthetic protocell with RNA origami - Kerstin Göpfrich (Heidelberg U.)

9:20 AM Before cells: Prebiotic compartments based on phase separation and molecular self-assembly - Christine Keating (Penn State U.)
9:45 AM Discussion
Discussion
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM

10:05 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM A Mechanistic Approach to Prebiotic Chemistry: Coenzymes, Chirality, and Catalysis - Robert J. Mayer (TUM)

10:55 AM Probing the Origin of the Genetic Code by High-Throughput Sequencing - Andres Jäschke (Heidelberg U.)

11:20 AM Phase separation directs polymerization and selects sequences - Christoph Weber (Universität Augsburg, DE)
11:45 AM Discussion
Discussion
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM

12:05 PM

12:05 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Cyclicphospholipids in the emergence of primitive (functional) protocells - Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (Scripps Research)

1:55 PM The role of crystallization in prebiotic polymerization processes - Judit E. Šponer (IBP)

2:20 PM Atmospheric HCN production and the emergence of the RNA world on early Earth - Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University)
2:45 PM Discussion
Discussion
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM

3:05 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:05 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Is the Enantiomeric Excess in Meteorites (truly) the Missing Link to Understanding Biomolecular Homochirality? - Cornelia Meinert (U. Côte d'Azur)

3:55 PM Possible roles of peptides in early life - Klára Hlouchová (Charles U.)

4:20 PM Empowering Nucleic Acid Evolution with Expanded Genetic Alphabets - Elisa Biondi (FfAME)
4:45 PM Discussion
Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:05 PM

5:05 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
5:05 PM - 5:10 PM
Saturday, July 20, 2024

8:25 AM Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
8:25 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Role of helicity in the nonenzymatic template-directed primer extension of DNA - Amanda Ellis (University of Melbourne, AU)

8:55 AM Hadean Earth Recipes - Stephen J. Mojzsis (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU)

9:20 AM Organic cofactors as connection between minerals and protometabolism? - Martina Preiner (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology)
9:45 AM Discussion
Discussion
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM

10:05 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

10:30 AM Nucleic Acid Replication Enabled by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Robust Solution to the Product Inhibition Problem - Martha Grover (Georgia Tech)

10:55 AM Exploring the habitability of ocean moons by in situ analysis of emitted ice grains - Frank Postberg (FU Berlin)

11:20 AM Impacts of Environmental Parameters on Prebiotic Organic Reactions in Hydrothermal Systems - Laurie Barge (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
11:45 AM Discussion
Discussion
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM

12:05 PM

12:05 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Towards Recreating a Metabolic Origin of Life - Joseph Moran (U. Ottawa)

1:55 PM Toward an autonomous “artificial cell” in 2D - Roy Bar-Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science, IL)

2:20 PM Shaping early life: the chemistry of primitive compartments - Claudia Bonfio (U. Strasbourg)
2:45 PM Discussion
Discussion
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM

3:05 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:05 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Challenging the Discontinuous Synthesis Model to Make Prebiotic Polyribonucleic Acid - Steven Benner (FfAME)

3:55 PM Template-based copying in dynamic combinatorial libraries out of equilibrium - Job Boekhoven (TUM, Germany)

4:20 PM Self-Assembly and Non-Enzymatic Polymerization of Plausible Proto-Nucleotides: A Model for Monomers and Polymers that Preceded RNA - Nicholas Hud (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
4:45 PM Discussion
Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:05 PM

5:05 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
5:05 PM - 5:10 PM

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