On the Origin of Life

Stockholm, June 8-10, 2006

Presentations (in chronological order)

Craig Venter

Synthetic biology and re-creation of life

Gerald Joyce

Evolution in an RNA world

Sandra Pizzarello

Organic molecules in meteorites

Leslie Orgel

Origin of the RNA world

Jack Szostak

Origin of the cell

George Cody

Synthesis of organics in hydrothermal systems

Donna Blackmond

Models for the Origin of Biological Homochirality

Günther von Kiedrowski

Chemical replication

Åke Hjalmarsson

Astrochemistry

George Whitesides

Ulf Görman

Religion and science: necessarily a clash?

Albert Eschenmoser

Alternative genetic polymers

James Ferris

Prebiotic oligonucleotide synthesis

Shuguang Zhang

Self-organizing artificial peptides

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