Sessions and Invited Speakers
* Host stars and Habitability of their planets
- Manuel Guedel (AU)
- Emeline Bolmont (CH)
- Xavier Bonfils (F)
* Origins of the building blocks of life
- Masatoshi Ohishi (J)
- Yoshihiro Furukawa (J)
* Exoplanet detection : is it possible to have unambiguous biosignatures ?</
- Rene Doyon (Can)
- Minik Rosing (DK)
* Hadean and Archean interactions between atmosphere, oceans and microbial world
- Stefan Lalonde (F)
* What are the earliest traces of life ?
- Emmanuelle Javaux (B)
- Elisabeth Bell (USA)
- Joseph Michalski (Hong Kong)
* Where did life emerge? Was it contingent or unavoidable?
- Eric Smith (J/USA)
- Sukrit Ranjan (USA)
* Chance and necessity in the origins of life
- Christophe Malaterre, (Can)
- Lynne Rothschild (USA)
* Specificity of the Earth and Solar system in exoplanetary contexts
- Amaury Triaud (UK)
- Eiichiro Kokubo (J) TBC
- Seth Jacobson (USA) TBC
* What does the early history of our Solar system tell us about the emergence of life?
- Vera Assis Fernandes (UK/Germany)
- Qin Liping (PRC)
* New directions in prebiotic chemistry:the development of protobiological complexity
- Tony Jia (J)
- Sara Maurer (USA)
* Last Universal Common Ancestor: simple or complex?
- Greg Fournier (USA)
- Aj Harris (USA)