Started in 2006, Molecular Frontiers operates as a non-profit organization, hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Its Scientific Advisory Board, a group of eminent scientists including many Nobel Prize laureates, represent expertise from a wide range of molecular science disciplines
This symposium covered the question of how Life began, from a molecular perspective.
Speakers included Craig Venter, Nobel Prize winner Jack Szostak, Joan Steitz, Gerald Joyce and Susan Lindquist.
Lectures, in chronologial order:
Synthetic genomics | 
Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute, United States
Reconstructing the first cells |
Jack Szostak, 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
Noncoding RNAs: with a viral twist|
Joan Steitz, Yale University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
The phylogenomic roots of modern biochemistry|
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
The generation of prebiotic molecules in cometary impacts|
Jennifer Blank, Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute, United States
Evolution of nucleic acids under abiological conditions |
Gerald Joyce, Scripps Research Institute, United States
On the emergence of life through “negative” entropy trapping |
Michael Russel, California Institute of Technology, United States
Lamarck redux: Prions, Hsp90, and the inheritance of environmentally acquired traits |
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, United States
Hunting the Molecular Past |
Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Evolution differently: the origins of prokaryotes |
Charles Kurland, Evolutionary Biology Centre, BMC, Uppsala, Sweden
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