Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2021

Sitzung

Session XII

27.08.2021, 16:00

Online

9. Towards fuel-driven protocells

Sheref Mansy (University of Alberta)

27.08.21, 16:00

Deciphering the origins of the chemistry that supports life has frequently centered on determining prebiotically plausible paths that produce the molecules found in biology. What
has been less investigated is how the energy released from the breakdown of fuel sources is coupled to the persistence of the protocell. To gain better insight into how such coupled chemistry could have emerged...

1. Geochemical conditions determine organic product distributions in proto-metabolic reaction networks

Laurie Barge (NASA JPL)

27.08.21, 16:25

To understand the potential for life elsewhere, it is important to try to detect organic molecules on other planets, but also to understand the “pattern distributions” of organics – that is, the relative amounts of different organic molecules in a system. It is possible that organic distribution patterns could be a biosignature, but only if they can be deconvoluted from non-biological organic...