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