*Thursday* (13 January 2005) --> Chair: Axel Brandenburg
10.30-11.00: Registration and Coffee (in the Cantine)
11.00-11.15: Welcome address, practical matter, etc.
11.15-12.00:
Mike Russell (Scotish Universities and Reactor Centre, Glasgow)
The onset of life at an alkaline submarine seepage
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PowerPoint]
12.00-12.30: Discussion
12.30-14.00: Lunch in the NBI Cantine
*afternoon* --> Chair: Birgitta Nordström
14.00-14.20:
Nils Holm (Stockholm)
Fluid circulation in crustal rocks and formation of biomolecules
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PowerPoint]
14.30-15.15:
Richard Lathe (Edinburgh)
Tidal Cycling and the Evolution of Coding
15.30-16.00: Discussion
16.00-16.30: Coffee (in the NBI Cantine)
16.30-17.00:
Kirsi Lehto (Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Turku)
From molecular evolution to cellular life
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PowerPoint]
17.15-17.45:
Peter Nielsen (Panum Institute, Copenhagen)
Could the primordial genetic material have been a peptide?
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PowerPoint]
18.00-18.30: Discussion
18.30: Drinkies and nibbles
*Friday* (14 January 2005) --> Chair: Anja Andersen
9.15-9.45:
Natalia Gontareva (Institute of Cytology, St. Peterburg)
Photochemical stability of biomolecules in the experiments modelling
martian surface and radiation conditions
10.00-10.20:
Kai Finster (Aarhus)
Microbial life in permafrost soil from Svalbard - an analog to Martian permafrost
10.30-11.00: Coffee (in the NBI Cantine)
11.00-11.30:
Karen Guldbæk Schmidt (Center for Planetary Science, Copenhagen)
The water cyclus on Mars
11.45-12.05:
Ib Lundgaard Rasmussen (Danish Space Research Institute)
The Speed of Evolution: The Cambrian Explosion
12.15-12.45: Discussion
12.45-14.00: Lunch in the NBI Cantine
*afternoon* --> Chair: Peter Ekström
14.00-14.30:
Pat Sandars (Oxford)
Chirality in the RNA World and beyond
14.45-15.15:
Jonathan Wattis (Theoretical Mechanics, Nottingham)
Symmetry-breaking in chiral polymerisation
15.30-15.50:
Søren Toxværd (Department of Chemistry, Copenhagen)
Homochirality in Bio-Organic Systems and Glyceraldehyde in the Formose Reaction
16.00-16.30: Coffee (in the NBI Cantine)
The following session will be in Auditorium M (East of the Cantine, not West as Aud A)
16.30-17.00:
Martin Bizzarro (Danish Lithosphere Centre)
Dating the Solar System's oldest rocks with the Al-Mg clock
17.15-17.45:
Henning Haack (Copenhagen Geological Museeum)
Exchange of meteoritic material between the terrestial planets
18.00-18.30: Minik Rosing (Copenhagen Geological Museeum)
Thermodynamics of life on the global scale
18.45-19.15: Discussion:
20.00: Conference Dinner at Spisehuset (Magstræde 12, upstairs, but below the cinema)
*Saturday* (15 January 2005) --> Chair: Susanne Höfner
10.00-10.30:
Ib Lundgaard Rasmussen (Danish Space Research Institute)
The NASA Roadmap for Astrobiology (with perhaps the latest from Huygens)
10.45-11.15: Coffee (in Aud C)
11.15-11.45:
Hans Ludwig (Lund Observatory)
Computer simulations of Darwinian evolution: The origin and complex
organismal features
12.00-12.20:
Tuomas Multamäki (Nordita)
How long can left and right handed life forms coexist?
12.30-12.50:
Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)
On the quantitative analysis of chiral amplification
13.00-14.00: Lunch in Aud C