Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2026

Sitzung

Session B

11.06.2026, 11:30

LMU Munich - Great (Große) Aula

21. Prebiotically Possible: Where Prebiotic Chemistry Can Happen, and How It Can Fail

Paul Rimmer (University of Cambridge)

11.06.26, 11:30

Paul Rimmer

Prebiotic chemistry often begins with a desired product such as a nucleotide, an amino acid, a metabolic intermediate, and then seeks its production from geochemically plausible starting conditions. However, there is a range of plausible conditions for aqueous chemistry on early Earth, with a variety of pH's and temperatures, as well as light, various salts, and minerals. With...

12. Coevolution of RNase P and the Ribosome

Anton Petrov (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11.06.26, 11:55

Anton S. Petrov (a,b*), Claudia Alvarez-Carreno (a,c), Loren Dean Williams (a,b), Mark A. Ditzler (d)

a NASA Center for the Origins of Life, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
b School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, USA
c Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United...

24. Lanthanide ions as catalytic cofactors - from prebiotic peptides to de novo photoenzymes

Cathleen Zeymer (TUM)

11.06.26, 12:20

Cathleen Zeymer

Center for Functional Protein Assemblies, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

Metal ions are powerful catalysts. They serve as versatile cofactors in modern metalloenzymes, but likely also played an essential role at the origin of life. Small peptides binding the available metal ions may have substantially broadened the catalytic...

43. Moderated Discussion - Session B

11.06.26, 12:45