Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2025

Speaker List

• Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research)
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    Prebiotically Plausible Autocatalytic Network for the Origin of Biological Homochirality

• Jasna Brujic (New York University)
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    Minimal ingredients for folding and function

• Irene Chen (UCLA)
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    Mechanisms to increase selectivity in an RNA World

• Daniel Duzdevich (University of Chicago, Dept of Chemistry)
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    Heterogeneous reactant mixtures promote unbiased nonenzymatic RNA template copying

• Kosuke Fujishima (ELSI (Earth-Life Science Institute))
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    Supercritical CO₂-Water Systems Drive Prebiotic Nucleoside Phosphorylation in Deep-Sea Environments

• Paul Higgs (McMaster University)
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    Non-enzymatic RNA Replication in Protocells

• Marcel Hollenstein (Institut Pasteur)
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    Molecular evolution of chemically modified aptamers and oligonucleotides

• Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
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    Replicating RNA with RNA

• Frieder Klein (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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    Submarine Serpentinization and Hydrogen Generation on Early Earth

• Corinna Kufner (Leibniz-IPHT)
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    Photochemistry 101 – Importance to the Origins of Life Field

• Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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    Emergence of Catalytic Cleavage Activity in Prebiotic Information Coding Polymers

• Ulrich Müller (UC San Diego)
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    Catalytic RNAs in early Stages of Life

• Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago, Dept of Physics)
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    Robustness of collectively coded information

• Henrike Niederholtmeyer (TU Munich)
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    Building synthetic cells: From non-living to life-like in the lab?

• Takumi Okuda (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
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    SAM Dependent Alkyltransferase Ribozyme for Prebiotic Epitranscriptome

• Matthew Pasek (University of South Florida, School of Geoscience)
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    Phosphorylation mediated by alternative P sources

• Alexey Potapov (Uni Jena)
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    Astrochemistry and the Origin of Life

• James Saenz (TU Dresden, B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering)
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    How many lipids are enough?

• Anja Spang (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ))
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    A short history of cellular life on Earth

• Dora Tang (MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
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    Regulation of coacervate properties by molecular flux

• Zoe Todd (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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    The role of UV light in prebiotic chemistry

• Yuichiro Ueno (ELSI (Earth-Life Science Institute) & Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Tech.)
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    Aldehyde Troika: Atmospheric synthesis from CO and H2O.