Origins of Life Initiative Team Meeting
March 6, 2008 (1 - 5 PM)
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

1:00 Opening - Dimitar Sasselov: "Welcome and Intro on Origins"
1:20 Dan Schrag: "On the role of SO2 and global planetary cycles"
1:35 Nick Tosca: "Water activity and the challenge for life on Early Mars"
1:50 Marcelo Guzman: "Nonenzymatic Photoelectrochemical Reverse Krebs Cycle"
2:05 Stein Jacobsen: "The first rocks of our Solar System"
2:20 Jesse Chen: "Alternative genetic polymer amino-GNA"

BREAK & POSTERS

3:15 Jack Szostak: "Update on the Protocell project"
3:30 Raphael Bruckner: "Protocell project: Material properties of simple membranes"
3:45 Sujoy Mukhopadhyay: "The early atmosphere: What was it like & why does it matter"
4:00 Dave Charbonneau: "Prospecting for Habitable Earth-like Planets"
4:15 Irene Chen: "On the error-threshold for genomic replication"
4:30 Martin Nowak: "Prevolutionary dynamics"

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