Origin of Life and Molecular Evolution
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.
Time: May 23, 2011 - May 25, 2011 Location: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
Lectures


Craig Venter: Synthetic Life

Jack Szostak: Reconstructing the First Cells

Joan Steitz: Noncoding RNAs: With a Viral Twist

Gustavo Caetano-Anolles: The Phylogenomic Roots of Modern Biochemistry

Jennifer Blank: The Generation of Prebiotic Molecules in Cometary Impacts

Gerald Joyce: Evolution of Nucleic Acids Under Abiological Conditions

Michael Russel: On the Emergence of Life Through "Negative" Entropy Trapping

Susan Lindquist: Lamarck redux: Prions, Hsp90...

Eske Willerslev; Hunting the Molecular Past

Charles Kurland: Evolution Differently: the Origins of Prokaryotes
