Meeting Schedule
Sunday, July 16
(4:00–6:00 p.m.) |
Opening Session, with two keynote lectures |
Monday, July 17
(8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.) |
- Research on Exoplanets from the Origin of Life’s Perspective
- Search for Life in the Solar System
Lunch break
- Meteorites, Comets, and the Fate of Their Organic Matter
- ELSI Session
Evening break
- Evening Panel: How Can Exoplanet Research Take Advantage of the Cooperation with Origin of Life Studies?
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Tuesday, July 18
(8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.) |
- Conditions for Life’s Origin on the Early Earth
- The Environmental Context and Traces of Early Life on Earth
Lunch break
- The Formation and Evolution of Organics on the Early Earth
- The Formation of Minerals in the Fate of Organic Matter and Chemical Evolution
Dinner break
- Evening Panel: The Contribution of Minerals and Surfaces
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Wednesday, July 19
(8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.) |
- The Chemical Evolution Toward the Transition to Life
- The Chemical Evolution Toward the Transition to Life (continued)
Break/free afternoon; tickets available for Birch Aquarium ($40)
- Evening Panel: “64 Years After the Miller Experiment, Can the Formation of Building Blocks be Considered as Solved?”
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Thursday, July 20
(8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m.) |
- Self-Organization and Prebiotic Molecular Systems
- The Interplay of the Different Subsystems for the Origin of Life: Fatty Acids or Other Compartment-Forming Systems/Amino Acids/Nucleotides
Lunch break
- Early Metabolism and Development of Compartmentalization
- Genetic Information and Function in the Early Stages of Life
Dinner break
- Special Session in Honor of Jim Ferris: “From the Prebiotic Synthesis of Bases and Polymerization to RNA World Research/Concepts”
- Gala Dinner (Ballroom West of the UCSD Price Center)
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Friday, July 21
(8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.) |
- Evolution: The Driving Force for Evolution at the Chemical and Biological Stages
- Evolution Before and After LUCA/Evolution of Metabolism
Lunch break
- Evolution: Competition, Cooperativity, Complexity, and Ecology
- ISSOL Open Business Meeting and Closing Ceremony
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Poster presentations will be held during coffee breaks, lunch, dinner, and Wednesday afternoon.
The UCSD food courts adjacent to the meeting rooms will be available for lunch. A buffet dinner is included in your conference registration for each evening except Thursday. Attendees wishing to attend the Gala Dinner on Thursday must purchase a ticket during the registration process. It is not possible to revise a registration and add a gala ticket at a later date.
The conference will officially end at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 21.
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