Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2021

Speaker List

• Laurie Barge NASA JPL
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    Geochemical conditions determine organic product distributions in proto-metabolic reaction networks

• Ramon Brasser Origins Research Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
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    Colossal events in late accretion: A kick-start to the origins of life on Earth?

• Irene Chen UCLA
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    Emergent by-products of evolution

• Tobias Erb MPI Marburg
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    Beating the serendipity of evolution: Building alternative pathways to generate life’s building blocks from inorganic carbon

• Irep Gözen University of Oslo
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    Did surfaces enable the origin of life?

• Philipp Holliger MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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    RNA replication: approaches to the strand separation problem

• Wilhelm Huck Radboud University
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    On the origins of chemical evolution

• Ram Krishnamurthy The Scripps
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    Rethinking the “reverse-TCA world” approach to understanding the origins of protometabolism

• Corinna Kufner Harvard University
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    UV-induced photochemistry of short DNA oligonucleotides: Ultrafast dynamics and prebiotic self-repair

• Ziwei Liu MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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    Harnessing energy for the formation, activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks

• Sheref Mansy University of Alberta
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    Towards fuel-driven protocells

• Cornelia Meinert University of Côte d'Azur
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    Astrophysical origins of biomolecular homochirality

• Stephen Mojzsis University of Colorado Boulder
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    Availability and transformation of bio-essential elements on rocky differentiated planets

• Joseph Moran University of Strasbourg
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    Mechanistic Insight into Metal Ion-Catalyzed Transamination Under Biological Conditions and its Evolutionary Implications

• Hannes Mutschler MPI of Biochemistry
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    Coupling ribozyme catalyzed ligation and recombination with heterogeneous reaction environments

• Vincent Noireaux University of Minnesota
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    Bottom-up synthetic cells using cell-free gene expression

• Sijbren Otto University of Groningen
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    Synthetic Molecular Networks that Integrate Key Features of Life

• Matthew Powner UCL
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    On the prebiotic synthesis of non-canonical nucleosides

• Paul Rimmer University of Cambridge
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    The effect of broadband ultraviolet light on prebiotic and abiotic chemistry

• Dimitar Sasselov Harvard University
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    Photons, electrons, and chemistry in muddy lakes

• Victor Sojo New York Natural History Museum
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    Using a pH gradient to drive CO2 reduction

• Judit Sponer Masaryk University
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    New developments in the abiotic generation of oligonucleotide sequences from 3’,5’ cyclic guanosine monophosphate

• Oliver Steinbock Florida State University
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    Chemistry mimicking life: From hydrothermal vent precipitates to self-propulsion

• Dora Tang MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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    Coacervate droplets as viable protocell models