Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2021

Programme

Time1	Wednesday, August 25th	Thursday, August 26th	Friday, August 27th
10:45	Welcome & Info Session	Info Session	Info Session
	Session I Chair: Job Boekhoven	Session V Chair: Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin	Session IX Chair: Christof Mast
11:00	Wilhelm Huck Radboud Uni. On the origins of chemical evolution	Ramon Brasser Origins Res Ins, Res Cent Ast Earth Sci Colossal events in late accretion: A kick-start to the origins of life on Earth?	Tobias Erb MPI Marburg Beating the serendipity of evolution: Building alternative pathways to generate life’s building blocks from inorganic carbon
11:25	Sijbren Otto University of Groningen Synthetic Molecular Networks that Integrate Key Features of Life	Cornelia Meinert  University of Cote d'Azur Astrophysical origins of biomolecular homochirality	Hannes Mutschler TU Dortmund Coupling ribozyme catalyzed ligation and recombination with heterogeneous reaction environments
11:50	Session I Q&A	Session V Q&A	Session IX Q&A
	Session II Chair: Oliver Trapp	Session VI Chair: Clemens Richert	Session X Chair: Daniel Weidendorfer
12:00	Dora Tang MPI of Mol. Cell. Bio. Gene. Coacervate droplets as viable protocell models	Ziwei Liu  MRC LMB Harnessing energy for the formation, activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks	Judit Sponer  Masaryk University New developments in the abiotic generation of oligonucleotide sequences from 3’,5’ cyclic guanosine monophosphate
12:25	Matthew Powner UCL On the prebiotic synthesis of non-canonical nucleosides	Philipp Holliger MRC LMB RNA replication: approaches to the strand separation problem	Paul B. Rimmer  University of Cambridge The effect of broadband ultraviolet light on prebiotic and abiotic chemistry
12:50	Session II Q&A	Session VI Q&A	Session X Q&A
13:00	Meet the Speakers2 of Session I & II	Meet the Speakers2 of Session V & VI	Meet the Speakers2 of Session IX & X
13:45	Poster Session I	Poster Session III	Poster Session V
14:45	Info Session	Info Session	Info Session
	Session III Chair: Cathleen Zeymer	Session VII Chair: Bettina Scheu	Session XI Chair: Clemens Richert
15:00	Joseph Moran University of Strasbourg Mechanistic Insight into Metal Ion-Catalyzed Transamination Under Biological Conditions and its Evolutionary Implications	Stephen Mojzsis University of Colorado Boulder Availability and transformation of bio-essential elements on rocky differentiated planets	Irene Chen  UCLA Emergent by-products of evolution
15:25	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard University Photons, electrons, and chemistry in muddy lakes	Corinna Kufner  Harvard University UV-induced photochemistry of short DNA oligonucleotides: Ultrafast dynamics and prebiotic self-repair	Oliver Steinbock Florida State University Chemistry mimicking life: From hydrothermal vent precipitates to self-propulsion
15:50	Session III Q&A	Session VII Q&A	Session XI Q&A
	Session IV Chair: Job Boekhoven	Session VIII Chair: Erwin Frey	Session XII Chair: William Orsi
16:00	Vincent Noireaux University of Minnesota Bottom-up synthetic cells using cell-free gene expression	Victor Sojo  New York Natural History Museum Using a pH gradient to drive CO2 reduction	Sheref Mansy  University of Alberta Towards fuel-driven protocells
16:25	Irep Gözen  University of Oslo Did surfaces enable the origin of life?	Ram Krishnamurthy The Scripps Rethinking the “reverse-TCA world” approach to understanding the origins of protometabolism	Laurie Barge NASA JPL Geochemical conditions determine organic product distributions in proto-metabolic reaction networks
16:50	Session IV Q&A	Session VIII Q&A	Session XII Q&A
17:00	Meet the Speakers2 of Session III & IV	Meet the Speakers2 of Session VII & VIII	Meet the Speakers2 of Session XI & XII
17:45	Poster Session II	Poster Session IV	Poster Session VI

 

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