The program is available here  and the abstract is available here in pdf format.

The program of the conference will be mainly organized around the 11 following topics:

1: Astronomical context for the origins of life and habitability

• 1.a: Specificity of our Earth and Solar system in the exoplanetary context
• 1.b: Host stars and habitability of their planets

2: Early Earth environment

• 2.a: Interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and the microbial world in Archean
• 2.b: How the early history of our solar system informs us about the emergence of life?

3: Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life

• 3.a: New directions in prebiotic chemistry
• 3.b: Chance and Necessity in the Origins of Life
• 3.c: Origins of the building blocks of life

4: Early life and its evolution

• 4.a: Where did life emerge on Earth: was it contingent or unavoidable ?
• 4.b: Last Universal Common Ancestor: complex or simple?

5: Traces of life

• 5.a: What are the earliest traces of life on Earth ?
• 5.b: Exoplanet detection and unambiguous biosignatures ?

 

PROGRAM

	Monday 25th
08.30 – 08.45	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
	Session : Hadean and Archean interactions between atmosphere, oceans and microbial world Chair : Masatoshi OHISHI
08.45 – 09.15	Stefan LALONDE Oxygenic photosynthesis during the Archean: theory, evidence, and controversy
09.15 – 09.45	Christoph HEUBECK The ICDP Drilling Project: Barberton Archaean Surface Environments (BASE), South Africa (3.2 Ga)
09.45 -10.15	Debate Synthesiser: Hervé MARTIN
10.15 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 11.05	Isabelle DANIEL Role of clay minerals in the emergence of life
11.05 – 11.25	Yiliang LI Microorganisms might be able to deal with UVR before the emergence of a ozonosphere
	Session : Where did life emerge? Was it contingent or unavoidable? Chair: Yiliang LI
11.25 – 11.55	Eric SMITH Moving beyond narrative for questions of chance and necessity
11.55 – 12.25	Sukrit RANJAN The Planetary Environment for Prebiotic Chemistry
12.25 – 12.55	Debate Synthesiser: Christoph HEUBECK
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
	Session : Host stars and Habitability of their planets Chair : Nikos PRANTZOS
14.00 – 14.30	Manuel GUEDEL Setting the stage: Key constraints from star formation and stellar evolution on planetary habitable conditions
14.30 – 15.00	Emeline BOLMONT Habitability of rocky planets around low-mass stars
15.00 – 15.30	Xavier BONFILS Habitable-zone planets orbiting M dwarfs. Status and prospects for detection and characterization
15.30 – 16.00	Debate Synthesiser: Theresa LUFTINGER
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break

	Tuesday 26
	Session : Origins of the building blocks of life? Chair: Tony JIA
08.45 – 09.15	Masatoshi OHISHI Recent Findings on Prebiotic Organic Molecules in Space
09.15 – 09.45	Yoshihiro FURUKAWA Sugar formation on the prebiotic Earth and beyond
09.45 -10.15	Debate Synthesiser: Sarah MAURER
10.15 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 11.05	Mitsuo SHOJI Glycine formation reactions via none-radical and radical processes in interstellar mediu
11.05 – 11.25	Sohan JHEETA Synthesis of the basic ‘building blocks’ of life
11.25 – 12.55	Astrobiology at international scale: IAU (M.Ohishi), ISSOL (M.Gargaud), ELSI (E.Smith) , EAI (M.Gargaud), NAI
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
	Session : Exoplanet detection : is it possible to have unambiguous biosignatures ? Chair: Emeline BOLMONT
14.00 – 14.30	Pierre-Olivier LAGAGE Prospects in Characterizing Exoplanetary Atmospheres in the Next Decade and Beyond
14.30 – 15.30	Round table with Guillaume HEBRARD and Emmanuelle JAVAUX
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 – 16.30	Short Presentations of Posters
16.30 – 17.00	Muriel GARGAUD Encyclopedia of Astrobiology Discussion

	Wednesday 27
	Session : Specificity of our Earth and Solar system in the exoplanetary context Chair: Pierre-Olivier LAGAGE
08.45 – 09.15	Amaury TRIAUD Earth-like worlds orbiting non Solar-like stars
09.15 – 09.45	Elichiro KOKUBO Formation of Terrestrial Planets
09.45 – 10.15	Seth JACOBSON What makes the Solar System unique?
10.15 -10.45	Debate Synthesiser: Xavier BONFILS
10.45 – 11.15	Coffee break
	Session : Are we alone ? Chair : Guillaume HEBRARD
11.15 – 11.45	Nikos PRANTZOS A reassessment of Drake’s equation and Fermi’s paradox
11.45 – 12.45	Round table with Amaury TRIAUD and Manuel GUEDEL
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
	AFTERNOON EXCURSION

	Thursday 28
	Session: New directions in prebiotic chemistry:the development of protobiological complexity Chair: Christophe MALATERRE
08.45 – 09.15	Tony JIA Membraneless Polyester Microdroplets as Primordial Compartments at the Origins of Life
09.15 – 09.45	Sarah MAURER The ability of simple membranes to harvest light-energy: proton gradient generation and CO2 reduction
09.45 -10.15	Debate Synthesiser: Elisa BIONDI
10.15 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 11.05	Doron LANCET Enceladus reported organic chemistry supports Origin of Life in a Lipid-World scenario
11.05 – 11.25	Elisa BIONDI Alternative biopolymeres in early evolution
11.25 – 11.45	Hyo-Joong KIM Prebiotic Stereoselective Nucleotide Synthesis
11.45 – 12.05	Helen HANSMA Biotite is a better mica for the origins of life
12.05 – 12.25	Wim HORDIJK Autocatalytic sets and the origin of life
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
	Session : What are the earliest traces of life ? Chair: Hervé MARTIN
13.30 – 14.00	Emmanuelle JAVAUX The earliest traces of life: evidence and challenges
14.00 – 14.30	Elizabeth BELL Identifying and assessing traces of early life in the zircon record
15.00 – 15.30	Joseph MICHALSKI Mars as a Rosetta Stone for the Origin of Life
15.30– 16.00	Debate Synthesiser: Christoph HEUBECK
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break
16.30– 17.00	Tue HASSENKAM Elements of Eoarchean life trapped in mineral inclusions