Scientific Programme
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2003-09-15 | Julian Chela-Flores
- OPENING CEREMONY - Welcome Addresses (Boncinelli, Grymes, Molaro, van Dunne, Owen, Raulin, Chela-Flores)
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2003-09-15 | Francois Raulin
- The NASA Astrobiology Institute (Rosalind Grymes)
- EANA, The European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association (Andre Brack)
- Coffee Break
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2003-09-15 | Frank Drake
- Overview of cosmic evolution (George V. Coyne, S.J.)
- Coffee Break
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2003-09-15 | Andre Brack
- Physical phenomena underlying the origin of life (Juan Perez-Mercader)
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2003-09-15 | George V. Coyne, S.J.
- The origin of biogenic elements (Francesca Matteucci)
- Thermochemistry of the Dark Age (Denis Puy)
- Lunch Break
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2003-09-15 | Frances Westall
- Recent advances and setbacks in searching for the oldest life on earth: a geologist's viewpoint (Stephen Moorbath)
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2003-09-15 | Roberto Cipriani
- 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... (Simon Nicholas Platts)
- Kinetic modeling of the SOAI-type alkylzinc addition as a model system for efficient chiral autoamplification (Jean-Claude Micheau (*) and Thomas Buhse (**))
- Phase transition beats in natural optical activity and parity violation of alanine enantiomers (Wang Wenqing)
- Break
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2003-09-15 | Aranya Bhattacherjee
- Origin and evolution of metabolic pathways (Matteo Brilli and Renato Fani)
- 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 (Harold P. De Vladar (*), Roberto Cipriani (**))
- A functional and self-referential model for the genetic code (Romeu Cardoso Guimaraes)
- The importance of biased synthesis in chemical evolution studies (A. Negron-Mendoza and S. Ramos-Bernal)
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2003-09-15
- REGISTRATION
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2003-09-16 | Juan Perez Mercader
- Prebiotic organic synthesis and the emergence of life: from the Miller experiment to the start of biological evolution (Antonio Lazcano)
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2003-09-16 | Doron Lancet
- Mineral surfaces as a cradle of primordial genetic material (Enzo Gallori)
- Adsorption and self-organization of small molecules on inorganic surfaces: some applications to the origin of life (Donald G. Fraser)
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2003-09-16 | Janet Siefert
- Origin and evolution of very early sequence motifs in enzymes (Herrick Baltscheffsky)
- Group photograph at the Terrance Level of the AGH to be followed by a Coffee Break (In case of bad weather the photo will be taken on Wednesday during the morning coffee break)
- The lipid world: from catalytic and informational headgroups to Micelle replication and evolution without nucleic acids (Doron Lancet)
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2003-09-16 | Sandip Chakrabarti
- Spontaneous generation of amino acid structures in the interstellar medium (Uwe Meierhenrich)
- Experimental study of the degradation of complex organic molecules. Application to the origin of extended sources in cometary atmospheres (N. Fray)
- Lunch Break
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2003-09-16 | Uwe Meierhenrich
- The Rosetta mission (Gerard Schwehm)
- Fate of glycine and other complex biomolecules during interstellar collapse (Sandip Chakrabarti)
- Chemical evolution of simple biomolecules in hydrodynamically collapsing interstellar gas in presence of grains (Kinsuk Acharyya)
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2003-09-16 | Rosalind Grymes
- Viable halobacteria from permian salt deposits - and in outer space? (Helga Stan-Lotter)
- 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 (Rosalba Bonaccorsi)
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2003-09-16 | Herrick Baltscheffsky
- Recollections of the beginning of chemical evolution experiments (Stanley Miller)
- Reception in honour of Professor Stanley Miller
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2003-09-17 | Michel Mayor
- Mars odyssey (Michael Meyer)
- Search for life on Mars: the Beagle 2 lander and the Stone experiment (Andre Brack)
- Water evolution on Mars (Philippe Masson)
- Minimal units of terraforming an alternative for remodelling Mars (Omar Pensado Diaz)
- Coffee Break
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2003-09-17 | Stephen Moorbath
- Early life and hydrothermal environments (Frances Westall)
- Isotopic evidence for microbial sulfate reduction and methanotrophy during the late Archean, Witwatersrand basin, South Africa (Erik Boice)
- Ancient life on Earth and Mars (Mark Van Zuilen)
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2003-09-17 | Enzo Gallori
- Studies on copper-chromicyanide as prebiotic catalyst (Kamaluddin and Ali Raj Shah)
- A surface-mediated origin of the RNA world: "biological" activities of clay-absorbed RNA molecules (Marco Franchi, Elisa Biondi and Enzo Gallori)
- Adsorption and catalysis of nucleotide hydrolysis by pyrite in media simulating primeval aqueous environments (A. Vieyra (*) and F. De Souza-Barros (**))
- Phosphate immobilization by oxide precursors and pyrite: implications on phosphate availability before life on Earth (A. Vieyra (*) and F. De Souza-Barros (**))
- Lunch Break
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2003-09-17 | Afolabi Akintunde Akindahunsi
- Coenzymes in evolution of the RNA world (Mikhail Kritskiy)
- Diversity of microbial life on Earth and beyond (Joseph Seckbach)
- Title to be announced (Luis J. Delaye)
- Extraterrestrial impacts on Earth and extinction of life in the Himalaya (Vinod Chandra Tewari)
- Coffee Break
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2003-09-17 | Mohindra Chadha
- Decomposition temperatures of prebiotic monomers (P.R. Bahn and A. Pappelis)
- Prebiotic chirality transfer from extraterrestrial Ca-tetrasubsituted a-amino acids to protein amino acids (Marco Crisma, Italy)
- The hunt for "biologically active" biopolymers: spontaneous folding of random RNA oligomers (M. Franchi and E. Gallori, Italy)
- Prebiotic polymerization of aminoacids: A Markov chain approach (S. Ramos-Bernal and A. Negron-Mendoza, Mexico)
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2003-09-17 | Joseph Seckbach
- Interstellar dust as a tracer of environments favourable to planet formation: evidence for the existence of a metallicity threshold (Giovanni Vladilo, Italy)
- Characterization of extrasolar planet candidates (Jose Gallardo, Chile)
- Proposing a United Nations Secretary General SETI International Advisory Board (G. Genta, Italy)
- How advanced is ETI? (Paolo Musso, Italy)
- Hauser-Chomsky-Fitch hypothesis on the evolution of unbounded mental faculties - language and number instincts (Tahir Shah, Italy)
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2003-09-17 | Steven J. Dick
- The future of SETI (Frank Drake)
- Conference Dinner (In case of bad weather the dinner will begin at 9 p.m. in the dining room) - Please register with the Conference Secretary before 5 p.m. Monday, 15 September
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2003-09-17 | Vinod Chandra Tewari
- 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) (M.S. Kritskiy, Russia)
- Amino acid chronology? (William Collis, Italy)
- The role of clay material in shielding DNA against X-ray radiation (F. Scappini, Italy)
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2003-09-17
- Analysis of the works of the german naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) on the origin of life (Florence Raulin-Cerceau, France)
- Chemical abundances of cometary meteoroids from meteor spectroscopy: Implications to the Earth enrichment (J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez, J. Llorca and J. Oro', Spain)
- Some statistical aspects related to the study of treelines in Pico De Orizaba (L Cruz Kuri and R. Navarro-Gonzalez, Mexico & C. McKay, USA)
- Effects of non-carbonaceous meteoritic extracts on the germination, growth and chrolophyll content of edible plants (V. Marcano, P. Matheus et al., Venezuela)
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2003-09-17 | Kamalludin
- Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of nitrogen fixation (Janet Siefert, USA)
- The case for life existing outside of our biosphere: techniques for identifying molecular structures (Riccardo Gatta, India)
- Palaeobiology and biosedimentology of the stromatolitic buxa dolomite, Ranjit window, Sikkim, Ne Lesser Himalaya, India (Vinod Chandra Tewari, India & ICTP)
- Conserved oligopeptides in Rubisco large chain: an evolutionary perspective (P.B. Vidyasagar and Pratip Shil, India)
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2003-09-18 | Paolo Molaro
- Current status and expected exobiological return of the Cassini-Huygens mission (Francois Raulin)
- Planets with detectable life (Tobias Owen)
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2003-09-18 | Peter D. Ward
- Current status of the search for extrasolar planets (Michel Mayor)
- Coffee Break
- Search for extrasolar planets around giant stars (Leo Girardi)
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2003-09-18 | Michael Meyer
- Search for water outside the solar system (Cristiano Cosmovici)
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2003-09-18 | Torrence Johnson
- Sulphate volumes and the fitness of SUPCRT92 for calculating deep ocean chemistry (Steven Vance)
- Search for bacterial waste as a possible signature of life on Europa (A. B. Bhattacherjee (*) and Julian Chela-Flores (**))
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2003-09-18 | Margareta Baltscheffsky
- Exobiology of Titan (Michael B. Simakov)
- Chemical characterization of aerosols in simulated planetary atmospheres. Titan's aerosol analogues (Sandra I. Ramirez (*), Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez (**), Francois Raulin (***))
- Observation, modeling and experimental simulation; understanding Titan's atmospheric chemistry using these three tools (F. Raulin)
- Lunch Break
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2003-09-18 | Cristiano Cosmovici
- Search for extrasolar life: the Darwin/TPF mission (Alain Leger)
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2003-09-18 | Tobias Owen
- How ancient is life on Earth and Mars? (A. Brack, P. Masson, M. Meyer, S. Moorbath, R. Navarro-Gonzalez, M. Van Zuilen, F. Westall)
- Get-Together
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2003-09-18 | Julian Chela-Flores
- Europa: overview of the future missions (Torrence Johnson)
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2003-09-19 | Mauro Messerotti
- Factors leading to the appearance and survival of metazoan equivalents on habitable planets (Peter D. Ward)
- Evolution of intelligent behaviour: Is it just a question of time? (Julian Chela-Flores)
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2003-09-19 | Francois Raulin
- Quasar absorption line systems and astrobiology (Giovanni Vladilo)
- The habitability of the nearest stars to complex lifeforms (Margaret Turnbull)
- Space weather and space climate life inhibitors or catalysts? (Mauro Messerotti)
- Coffee Break
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2003-09-19 | Giancarlo Genta
- SETI-ITALIA status report (Stelio Montebugnoli)
- SETI on the moon (Claudio Maccone)
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2003-09-19 | Mikhail Kritsky
- Astrobiology and Biocentrism (Roberto Aretxaga)
- Determinism and the proteinoid theory (A. Pappelis)
- On the question of convergent evolution in biochemistry (A. Akindahunsi (*) and J. Chela-Flores (**))
- Lunch Break
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2003-09-19 | Alicia Negron Mendoza
- When did information first appear in the universe? (Juan G. Roederer)
- Searching for Dyson spheres in the Milky Way (Dante Minniti)
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2003-09-19 | Stelio Montebugnoli
- Some engineering considerations on the controversial issue of humanoids (Giancarlo Genta)
- Application of SETI instruments in astrophysics investigations (Simona Righini)
- Application of molecular biology techniques in astrobiology (Riccardo Gatta (*) and Julian Chela-Flores (**))
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2003-09-19 | Wang Wenqing
- Ten years of Trieste Conferences on chemical evolution and origin of life: A pictorial overview (Mohindra Chadha)
- Coffee Break
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2003-09-19 | Antonio Lazcano
- The new universe, destiny of life and cultural implications (Steven J. Dick)
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2003-09-19
- Words by Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen and Francois Raulin
Organizers
J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen, F. Raulin