Name: Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2025
Start: 2025-07-16T10:50:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-18T16:45:00+02:00
Location: Online

Montag, 14. Juli 2025
Dienstag, 15. Juli 2025
Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2025

10:50 Welcome Note
Welcome Note
10:50 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Beiträge

11:00 Replicating RNA with RNA - Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

11:30 How many lipids are enough? - James Saenz (TU Dresden, B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering)

12:00 Meet the Speakers - Session I
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Beiträge

12:30 Regulation of coacervate properties by molecular flux - Dora Tang (University of Saarland)

13:00 Molecular evolution of chemically modified aptamers and oligonucleotides - Marcel Hollenstein (Institut Pasteur)

13:30 Meet the Speakers - Session II
14:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Beiträge

15:00 Phosphorylation mediated by alternative P sources - Matthew Pasek (University of South Florida, School of Geoscience)

15:30 Minimal ingredients for folding and function - Jasna Brujic (New York University)

16:00 Meet the Speakers - Session III
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Beiträge

16:30 Heterogeneous reactant mixtures promote unbiased nonenzymatic RNA template copying - Daniel Duzdevich (University of Chicago)

17:00 Prebiotically Plausible Autocatalytic Network for the Origin of Biological Homochirality - Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research)

17:30 Meet the Speakers - Session IV
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2025

10:00

10:00 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Beiträge

11:00 Aldehyde Troika: Atmospheric synthesis from CO and H2O. - Yuichiro Ueno (Science Tokyo, ELSI (Earth-Life Science Institute))

11:30 Photochemistry 101 – Importance to the Origins of Life Field - Corinna Kufner (Leibniz-IPHT)

12:00 Meet the Speakers - Session V
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Beiträge

12:30 A short history of cellular life on Earth - Anja Spang (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ))

13:00 Building synthetic cells: From non-living to life-like in the lab? - Henrike Niederholtmeyer (TU Munich)

13:30 Meet the Speakers - Session VI
14:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Beiträge

15:00 Submarine Serpentinization and Hydrogen Generation on Early Earth - Frieder Klein (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

15:30 Catalytic RNAs in early Stages of Life - Ulrich Müller (UC San Diego)

16:00 Meet the Speakers - Session VII
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Beiträge

16:30 Mechanisms to increase selectivity in an RNA World - Irene Chen (UCLA)

17:00 Robustness of collectively coded information - Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago)

17:30 Meet the Speakers - Session VIII
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Freitag, 18. Juli 2025

10:00

10:00 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Beiträge

11:00 Supercritical CO₂-Water Systems Drive Prebiotic Nucleoside Phosphorylation in Deep-Sea Environments - Kosuke Fujishima (Science Tokyo, ELSI (Earth-Life Science Institute))

11:30 SAM Dependent Alkyltransferase Ribozyme for Prebiotic Epitranscriptome - Takumi Okuda (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

12:00 Meet the Speakers - Session IX
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Beiträge

12:30 Astrochemistry and the Origin of Life - Alexey Potapov (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

13:00 Non-enzymatic RNA Replication in Protocells - Paul Higgs (McMaster University)

13:30 Meet the Speakers - Session X
14:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 16:30
Beiträge

15:00 Emergence of Catalytic Cleavage Activity in Prebiotic Information Coding Polymers - Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:30 The role of UV light in prebiotic chemistry - Zoe Todd (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

16:00 Meet the Speakers - Session XI
16:30 Goodbye Note
Goodbye Note
16:30 - 16:45