Name: Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2026
Start: 2026-06-11T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T18:10:00+02:00
Location: LMU Munich - Great (Große) Aula

Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2026

von Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2026(08:00) bis Freitag, 12. Juni 2026(18:10)

Montag, 8. Juni 2026
Dienstag, 9. Juni 2026
Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2026
Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2026

08:25 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
08:25 - 08:30
08:30 Session A
08:30 - 11:05
Beiträge

08:30 Poster Pitches I

09:00 Meet your Prokaryotic Ancestors: On the Role of Asgard Archaea in the Evolution of Eukaryotes - Christa Schleper (University of Vienna)

09:25 Natural selection of RNA protocells - Philippe Nghe (Ecole Polytechnique)

09:50 Interplay between Peptide Amyloids and Nucleic Acids in the raise of molecule complexity - Roland Riek (ETH Zürich)

10:15 Moderated Discussion - Session A

10:35 Poster Pitches II
11:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:30
11:30 Session B
11:30 - 13:05
Beiträge

11:30 Prebiotically Possible: Where Prebiotic Chemistry Can Happen, and How It Can Fail - Paul Rimmer (University of Cambridge)

11:55 Coevolution of RNase P and the Ribosome - Anton Petrov (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:20 Lanthanide ions as catalytic cofactors - from prebiotic peptides to de novo photoenzymes - Cathleen Zeymer (TUM)

12:45 Moderated Discussion - Session B
13:05 Lunch Break & Poster Session I
Lunch Break & Poster Session I
13:05 - 14:30
14:30 Session C
14:30 - 16:05
Beiträge

14:30 Archaea as a Living Archive of Biochemical Innovation in the Evolution of Complex Cells - Dina Grohmann (University of Regensburg)

14:55 From geo- to biochemistry: Mineral-mediated RNA Oligonucleotide Polymerization Under Aqueous Conditions - Eloi Camprubi-Casas (University of Texas)

15:20 Deep Mantle–Atmosphere Coupling and Carbonaceous Bombardment: Options for Biomolecule Formation on an Oxidized Early Earth - Klaus Paschek (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)

15:45 Moderated Discussion - Session C
16:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:30
16:30 Session D
16:30 - 18:05
Beiträge

16:30 Mineral-controlled hydrogen and carbon cycling in Earth’s deep lithosphere - Bénédicte Menez (IPG Paris)

16:55 Potentially Prebiotic Synthesis of a3′-Amino-3′-deoxynucleoside - Derek O’Flaherty (University of Guelph)

17:20 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Planetary Atmospheres: Bridging Astrochemistry and Prebiotic Complexity - Barbara Ercolano (LMU Munich)

17:45 Moderated Discussion - Session D
18:05 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
18:05 - 18:10
Freitag, 12. Juni 2026

08:25 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
08:25 - 08:30
08:30 Session E
08:30 - 10:05
Beiträge

08:30 Environmental Selection for Prebiotic metallopeptides - Sheref Mansy (University of Trento)

08:55 Volcanically Driven Prebiotic Environments on the Early Earth: Insights from Modern Icelandic Analogues - Bettina Scheu (LMU Munich)

09:20 Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life’s Homochirality - Furkan Ozturk (California Institute of Technology)

09:45 Moderated Discussion - Session A
10:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:30
10:30 Session F
10:30 - 12:05
Beiträge

10:30 Empirical Constraints on Habitable Early Earth Environments - Elizabeth Bell (University of California)

10:55 Prey-predator-like dynamics in protocell populations - Sudha Rajamani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune)

11:20 Photolytic Controls on Precursor Species for Prebiotic Chemistry - Sukrit Ranjan (University of Arizona)

11:45 Moderated Discussion - Session F
12:05 Lunch Break & Poster Session II
Lunch Break & Poster Session II
12:05 - 14:00
14:00 Session G
14:00 - 15:35
Beiträge

14:00 Information at the Dawn of Life - Jack Szostak (University of Chicago)

14:25 The Potential for Life in Non-Water Solvents Motivated by Venus - Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:50 Exploring the RNA World with Alternative Genetic Polymers - Lijun Zhou (University of Pennsylvania)

15:15 Moderated Discussion - Session G
15:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:35 - 16:00
16:00 Session H
16:00 - 17:35
Beiträge

16:00 Understanding membrane fitness for the Origins of Life Using Automation and Machine Learning - Sarah Maurer (Central Connecticut State University)

16:25 Proto-Peptide Assembly and the Chemical Origins of Backbone Selection - Moran Frenkel-Pinter (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

16:50 Function-driven design of protein assemblies - Alena Khmelinskaia (LMU Munich)

17:15 Moderated Discussion - Session H
17:35 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
17:35 - 17:45

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