Seventh Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life: Life in the Universe: From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on other Worlds

A. NEGRON-MENDOZA AND S. RAMOS-BERNAL (UNAM, Mexico)

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

BONCINELLI, GRYMES, MOLARO, VAN DUNNE, OWEN, RAULIN, CHELA-FLORES

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

F. SCAPPINI, ITALY

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

G. GENTA, ITALY

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

GIOVANNI VLADILO, ITALY

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

JOSE GALLARDO, CHILE

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

M. FRANCHI AND E. GALLORI, ITALY

The hunt for "biologically active" biopolymers: spontaneous folding of random RNA oligomers

M.S. KRITSKIY, RUSSIA

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)

MARCO CRISMA, ITALY

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

P.R. BAHN AND A. PAPPELIS (USA)

Decomposition temperatures of prebiotic monomers

PAOLO MUSSO, ITALY

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

S. RAMOS-BERNAL AND A. NEGRON-MENDOZA, MEXICO

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

TAHIR SHAH, ITALY

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

WILLIAM COLLIS, ITALY

Amino acid chronology?

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