Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1
Astrochemistry, prebiotic chemistry in space
Marco Fioroni
2
Geo 1: Physicochemical conditions and processes in the Hadean and Archean crust, atmosphere and ocean - mineralogy, temperatures, pressures, redox conditions, meteoritic infall, radiation conditions, serpentinization...?
Shaunna Morrison, Robert Hazen, Anirudh Prabhu
3
Geo 2: Roles of specific reactive geological environments (black smokers, white smokers, warm little ponds, subsurface, pumice, impact craters, whole Earth, etc.) on the early Earth
Bill Martin
4
Origin of chirality
Axel Brandenburg
5
Origin of polypeptides
Valentina Erastova
6
Origin of nucleic acids (RNA world?)
Frank Trixler and Andrea Greiner
6
Origin of encapsulation
Michele Fiore, Augustin Lopez, Carolina Chieffo
7
Origin of replication with heredity
Oliver Trapp
8
Origin of viruses
Don Pan
9
Earliest fossil record
Sherry Cady, Barbara Cavalazzi
10
Nature of LUCA
Graham Budd and Anthony Pool
11
Origin of eukaryotes
Heda Agic