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

Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2025

from Wednesday, July 16, 2025 (10:50 AM) to Friday, July 18, 2025 (4:45 PM)

Monday, July 14, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

10:50 AM Welcome Note
Welcome Note
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session I
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM Meet the Speakers - Session I
12:30 PM Session II
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

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

1:00 PM Molecular evolution of chemically modified aptamers and oligonucleotides - Marcel Hollenstein (Institut Pasteur)

1:30 PM Meet the Speakers - Session II
2:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Session III
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Phosphorylation mediated by alternative P sources - Matthew Pasek (University of South Florida, School of Geoscience)

3:30 PM Minimal ingredients for folding and function - Jasna Brujic (New York University)

4:00 PM Meet the Speakers - Session III
4:30 PM Session IV
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Heterogeneous reactant mixtures promote unbiased nonenzymatic RNA template copying - Daniel Duzdevich (University of Chicago)

5:00 PM Prebiotically Plausible Autocatalytic Network for the Origin of Biological Homochirality - Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research)

5:30 PM Meet the Speakers - Session IV
6:00 PM Poster Session I

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Thursday, July 17, 2025

10:00 AM Poster Session II

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session V
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM Meet the Speakers - Session V
12:30 PM Session VI
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

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

1:00 PM Building synthetic cells: From non-living to life-like in the lab? - Henrike Niederholtmeyer (TU Munich)

1:30 PM Meet the Speakers - Session VI
2:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Session VII
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Submarine Serpentinization and Hydrogen Generation on Early Earth - Frieder Klein (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

3:30 PM Catalytic RNAs in early Stages of Life - Ulrich Müller (UC San Diego)

4:00 PM Meet the Speakers - Session VII
4:30 PM Session VIII
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Mechanisms to increase selectivity in an RNA World - Irene Chen (UCLA)

5:00 PM Robustness of collectively coded information - Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago)

5:30 PM Meet the Speakers - Session VIII
6:00 PM Poster Session III

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friday, July 18, 2025

10:00 AM Poster Session IV

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session IX
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:00 PM Meet the Speakers - Session IX
12:30 PM Session X
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

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

1:00 PM Non-enzymatic RNA Replication in Protocells - Paul Higgs (McMaster University)

1:30 PM Meet the Speakers - Session X
2:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Session XI
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Emergence of Catalytic Cleavage Activity in Prebiotic Information Coding Polymers - Sergei Maslov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

3:30 PM The role of UV light in prebiotic chemistry - Zoe Todd (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

4:00 PM Meet the Speakers - Session XI
4:30 PM Goodbye Note
Goodbye Note
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

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