Harvard Origins of Life Initiative - Team Meeting
           Thursday, March 6, 2008
      Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden St.

                 PROGRAM

 1:00  Opening: D.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

 RECEPTION (5:00-6:30 PM)