Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2021
von
Mittwoch, 25. August 2021(10:45)
bis
Freitag, 27. August 2021(18:45)
Mittwoch, 25. August 2021
10:45
Welcome Note & Info
Welcome Note & Info
10:45 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:25
Beiträge
11:00
On the origins of chemical evolution
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Wilhelm Huck
(
Radboud University
)
11:25
11:25 - 11:50
Beiträge
11:25
Synthetic Molecular Networks that Integrate Key Features of Life
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Sijbren Otto
(
University of Groningen
)
11:50
Q&A
Q&A
11:50 - 12:00
12:00
12:00 - 12:25
Beiträge
12:00
Coacervate droplets as viable protocell models
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Dora Tang
(
MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
)
12:25
12:25 - 12:50
Beiträge
12:25
On the prebiotic synthesis of non-canonical nucleosides
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Matthew Powner
(
UCL
)
12:50
Q&A
Q&A
12:50 - 13:00
13:00
Meet the Speakers of Sessions I & II
Meet the Speakers of Sessions I & II
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 14:45
14:50
Info Session
Info Session
14:50 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 15:25
Beiträge
15:00
Mechanistic Insight into Metal Ion-Catalyzed Transamination Under Biological Conditions and its Evolutionary Implications
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Joseph Moran
(
University of Strasbourg
)
15:25
15:25 - 15:50
Beiträge
15:25
Photons, electrons, and chemistry in muddy lakes
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Dimitar Sasselov
(
Harvard University
)
15:50
Q&A
Q&A
15:50 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:25
Beiträge
16:00
Bottom-up synthetic cells using cell-free gene expression
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Vincent Noireaux
(
University of Minnesota
)
16:25
16:25 - 16:50
Beiträge
16:25
Did surfaces enable the origin of life?
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Irep Gözen
(
University of Oslo
)
16:50
Meet the Speakers of Sessions III & IV
Meet the Speakers of Sessions III & IV
16:50 - 17:35
17:35
17:35 - 18:35
Donnerstag, 26. August 2021
10:45
Info Session
Info Session
10:45 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:25
Beiträge
11:00
Colossal events in late accretion: A kick-start to the origins of life on Earth?
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Ramon Brasser
(
Origins Research Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
)
11:25
11:25 - 11:50
Beiträge
11:25
Astrophysical origins of biomolecular homochirality
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Cornelia Meinert
(
University of Côte d'Azur
)
11:50
Q&A
Q&A
11:50 - 12:00
12:00
12:00 - 12:25
Beiträge
12:00
Harnessing energy for the formation, activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks
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Ziwei Liu
(
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
)
12:25
12:25 - 12:50
Beiträge
12:25
RNA replication: approaches to the strand separation problem
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Philipp Holliger
(
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
)
12:50
Q&A
Q&A
12:50 - 13:00
13:00
Meet the Speakers of Sessions V & VI
Meet the Speakers of Sessions V & VI
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 14:45
14:50
Info Session
Info Session
14:50 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 15:25
Beiträge
15:00
Availability and transformation of bio-essential elements on rocky differentiated planets
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Stephen Mojzsis
(
University of Colorado Boulder
)
15:25
15:25 - 15:50
Beiträge
15:25
UV-induced photochemistry of short DNA oligonucleotides: Ultrafast dynamics and prebiotic self-repair
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Corinna Kufner
(
Harvard University
)
15:50
Q&A
Q&A
15:50 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:25
Beiträge
16:00
Using a pH gradient to drive CO2 reduction
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Victor Sojo
(
New York Natural History Museum
)
16:25
16:25 - 16:50
Beiträge
16:25
Rethinking the “reverse-TCA world” approach to understanding the origins of protometabolism
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Ram Krishnamurthy
(
Scripps Research
)
16:50
Q&A
Q&A
16:50 - 17:00
17:00
Meet the Speakers of Sessions VII & VIII
Meet the Speakers of Sessions VII & VIII
17:00 - 17:45
17:45
17:45 - 18:45
Freitag, 27. August 2021
10:45
Info Session
Info Session
10:45 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:25
Beiträge
11:00
Beating the serendipity of evolution: Building alternative pathways to generate life’s building blocks from inorganic carbon
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Tobias Erb
(
MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
)
11:25
11:25 - 11:50
Beiträge
11:25
Coupling ribozyme catalyzed ligation and recombination with heterogeneous reaction environments
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Hannes Mutschler
(
MPI of Biochemistry
)
11:50
Q&A
Q&A
11:50 - 12:00
12:00
12:00 - 12:25
Beiträge
12:00
New developments in the abiotic generation of oligonucleotide sequences from 3’,5’ cyclic guanosine monophosphate
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Judit Sponer
(
Masaryk University
)
12:25
12:25 - 12:50
Beiträge
12:25
The effect of broadband ultraviolet light on prebiotic and abiotic chemistry
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Paul Rimmer
(
University of Cambridge
)
12:50
Q&A
Q&A
12:50 - 13:00
13:00
Meet the Speakers of Sessions IX & X
Meet the Speakers of Sessions IX & X
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 14:45
14:50
Info Session
Info Session
14:50 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 15:25
Beiträge
15:00
Emergent by-products of evolution
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Irene Chen
(
UCLA
)
15:25
15:25 - 15:50
Beiträge
15:25
Chemistry mimicking life: From hydrothermal vent precipitates to self-propulsion
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Oliver Steinbock
(
Florida State University
)
15:50
Q&A
Q&A
15:50 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:25
Beiträge
16:00
Towards fuel-driven protocells
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Sheref Mansy
(
University of Alberta
)
16:25
16:25 - 16:50
Beiträge
16:25
Geochemical conditions determine organic product distributions in proto-metabolic reaction networks
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Laurie Barge
(
NASA JPL
)
16:50
Q&A
Q&A
16:50 - 17:00
17:00
Meet the Speakers of Sessions XI & XII
Meet the Speakers of Sessions XI & XII
17:00 - 17:45
17:45
17:45 - 18:45