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The importance of biased synthesis in chemical evolution studies
A. VIEYRA (*) AND F. DE SOUZA-BARROS (**) ((*) Instituto de Biofisica "Carlos Chagas Filho", (**) Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Adsorption and catalysis of nucleotide hydrolysis by pyrite in media simulating primeval aqueous environments
Phosphate immobilization by oxide precursors and pyrite: implications on phosphate availability before life on Earth
ANDRE BRACK (Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, CNRS, Orleans, France)
EANA, The European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association
Search for life on Mars: the Beagle 2 lander and the Stone experiment
ANTONIO LAZCANO (UNAM, Mexico)
Prebiotic organic synthesis and the emergence of life: from the Miller experiment to the start of biological evolution
OPENING CEREMONY - Welcome Addresses
DENIS PUY (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Thermochemistry of the Dark Age
DONALD G. FRASER (University of Oxford, UK)
Adsorption and self-organization of small molecules on inorganic surfaces: some applications to the origin of life
DORON LANCET (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
The lipid world: from catalytic and informational headgroups to Micelle replication and evolution without nucleic acids
ENZO GALLORI (University of Florence, Italy)
Mineral surfaces as a cradle of primordial genetic material
ERIK BOICE (Indiana University, USA)
Isotopic evidence for microbial sulfate reduction and methanotrophy during the late Archean, Witwatersrand basin, South Africa
The role of clay material in shielding DNA against X-ray radiation
FRANCES WESTALL (Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, France)
Early life and hydrothermal environments
FRANCESCA MATTEUCCI (University of Trieste)
The origin of biogenic elements
FRANK DRAKE (President, The SETI Institute)
The future of SETI
Proposing a United Nations Secretary General SETI International Advisory Board
GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. (Specola Vaticana, Citta' del Vaticano)
Overview of cosmic evolution
GERARD SCHWEHM (European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
The Rosetta mission
Interstellar dust as a tracer of environments favourable to planet formation: evidence for the existence of a metallicity threshold
HAROLD P. DE VLADAR (*), ROBERTO CIPRIANI (**) ((*) Fundacion IDEA, Venezuela, (**) Universidad Simon Bolivar)
A mechanism for the prebiotic emergence of proteins: the role of proton gradient and high temperature in the polymerization of amino acids embedded in bilayers
HELGA STAN-LOTTER (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Viable halobacteria from permian salt deposits - and in outer space?
HERRICK BALTSCHEFFSKY (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
Origin and evolution of very early sequence motifs in enzymes
JEAN-CLAUDE MICHEAU (*) AND THOMAS BUHSE (**) ((*) Univ. P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France (**) Universidad Autonoma de Morelos, Mexico)
Kinetic modeling of the SOAI-type alkylzinc addition as a model system for efficient chiral autoamplification
Characterization of extrasolar planet candidates
JOSEPH SECKBACH (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Diversity of microbial life on Earth and beyond
JUAN PEREZ-MERCADER (Centro de Astrobiologia, Associated to NAI, Madrid, Spain)
Physical phenomena underlying the origin of life
KAMALUDDIN AND ALI RAJ SHAH (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)
Studies on copper-chromicyanide as prebiotic catalyst
KINSUK ACHARYYA (Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, India)
Chemical evolution of simple biomolecules in hydrodynamically collapsing interstellar gas in presence of grains
LUIS J. DELAYE (UNAM, mexico)
Title to be announced
The hunt for "biologically active" biopolymers: spontaneous folding of random RNA oligomers
The electrochemical CO2 reduction to formate in hydrothermal sulfide ore deposit as a novel abiotic source of organic matter (a hypothesis and the laboratory model)
Prebiotic chirality transfer from extraterrestrial Ca-tetrasubsituted a-amino acids to protein amino acids
MARCO FRANCHI, ELISA BIONDI AND ENZO GALLORI (University of Florence, Italy)
A surface-mediated origin of the RNA world: "biological" activities of clay-absorbed RNA molecules
MARK VAN ZUILEN (Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques, France)
Ancient life on Earth and Mars
MATTEO BRILLI AND RENATO FANI (Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, University of Florence, Italy)
Origin and evolution of metabolic pathways
MICHAEL MEYER (NASA Headquarters, USA)
Mars odyssey
MIKHAIL KRITSKIY (Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Moscow, Russia)
Coenzymes in evolution of the RNA world
N. FRAY (Universite Paris 7 and Paris 12, France)
Experimental study of the degradation of complex organic molecules. Application to the origin of extended sources in cometary atmospheres
OMAR PENSADO DIAZ (Instituto de Ciencias Avanzadas, Mexico)
Minimal units of terraforming an alternative for remodelling Mars
Decomposition temperatures of prebiotic monomers
How advanced is ETI?
PHILIPPE MASSON (Universite' Paris-Sud, France)
Water evolution on Mars
ROMEU CARDOSO GUIMARAES (Universidad Federal Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
A functional and self-referential model for the genetic code
ROSALBA BONACCORSI (University of Trieste)
The discovery of organics in Earth's deep materials (sub-basement red paleosols) drilled in the North Pacific (ODP LEG 197): Implications for astrobiology research
ROSALIND GRYMES (NASA Astrobiology Institute, USA)
The NASA Astrobiology Institute
Prebiotic polymerization of aminoacids: A Markov chain approach
SANDIP CHAKRABARTI (Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, India)
Fate of glycine and other complex biomolecules during interstellar collapse
SIMON NICHOLAS PLATTS (Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
On the apparently consistent L-biased enantiomeric excesses in meteoritic extracts as representing a form of attenuated forensic stereochemical evidence of chiral information derived from terrestr...
STANLEY MILLER (University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA)
Recollections of the beginning of chemical evolution experiments
STEPHEN MOORBATH (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, U.K.)
Recent advances and setbacks in searching for the oldest life on earth: a geologist's viewpoint
Hauser-Chomsky-Fitch hypothesis on the evolution of unbounded mental faculties - language and number instincts
UWE MEIERHENRICH (University of Bremen, Germany)
Spontaneous generation of amino acid structures in the interstellar medium
VINOD CHANDRA TEWARI (Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India & ICTP)
Extraterrestrial impacts on Earth and extinction of life in the Himalaya
WANG WENQING (Peking University, China)
Phase transition beats in natural optical activity and parity violation of alanine enantiomers
Amino acid chronology?

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