September 10, 2003
From the Miller experiment to the search for life on other worlds
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8.00-9.30 REGISTRATION
9.30-10.00 WELCOME ADDRESSES
E. Boncinelli, Director of Scuola
Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Rosalind Grymes, Deputy Director NASA Astrobiology Institute
Paolo Molaro, Director, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
Frans van Dunne, Publishing Editor Agronomy & Microbiology,
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Tobias Owen, François Raulin and Julian Chela-Flores, Conference
Directors
10.00-10.45 George V. Coyne, S.J.
OVERVIEW OF COSMIC EVOLUTION
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.00 Juan Pérez-Mercader,
PHYSICAL PHENOMENA UNDERLYING THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
12.00-12.30 Francesca Matteucci,
University of Trieste
THE ORIGIN OF BIOGENIC ELEMENTS
12.30-12.45 THERMOCHEMISTRY OF
THE DARK AGE
Denis Puy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
14.30-15.00 Stephen Moorbath,
University of Oxford
RECENT ADVANCES AND SETBACKS IN SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST LIFE
ON EARTH: A GEOLOGIST'S VIEWPOINT
15.00-15.30 Rosalind Grymes, NASA
Astrobiology Institute, USA.
THE NASA ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE
15.30-16.00 Andre Brack,
EANA, THE EUROPEAN EXO/ASTROBIOLOGY NETWORK ASSOCIATION
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15
ON THE APPARENTLY CONSISTENT L-BIASED
ENANTIOMERIC EXCESSES IN METEORITIC EXTRACTS AS REPRESENTING A
FORM OF ATTENUATED FORENSIC STEREOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE OF CHIRAL
INFORMATION DERIVED FROM TERRESTRIAL CONTAMINATION.
Simon Nicholas PLATTS(1, 2)
(1.) Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW/NAI), USA
(2.) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI/NSCORT), USA
KINETIC MODELING OF THE SOAI-TYPE
ALKYLZINC ADDITION AS A MODEL SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT CHIRAL AUTOAMPLIFICATION
Jesús Rivera Islasa, Jean-Claude Micheaub and Thomas Buhsea
a Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma
del Estado de Morelos, México, .b Université Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex, France
PHASE TRANSITION BEATS IN NATURAL
OPTICAL ACTIVITY
AND PARITY VIOLATION OF ALANINE ENANTIOMERS
Wang Wenqing, Peking University, China
17.30-18.30
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF METABOLIC
PATHWAYS
Matteo Brilli and Renato Fani*
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, University of Florence,
Italy
A MECHANISM FOR THE PREBIOTIC
EMERGENCE OF PROTEINS:
THE ROLE OF PROTON GRADIENT AND HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THE POLYMERIZATION
OF AMINO ACIDS EMBEDDED IN BILAYERS
P. De Vladar, Harold, 1, Cipriani, Roberto,2, Scharifker, Benjamin2,
and Bubis, Jose 2
1 Fundacion IDEA, Venezuela, 2 Universidad Simon Bolivar
A FUNCTIONAL AND SELF-REFERENTIAL
MODEL FOR THE GENETIC CODE
Romeu Cardoso Guimarães1, Carlos Henrique Costa Moreira,
Univ. Federal Minas Gerais, Inst. Ciências Biológicas,
Dept. Biologia Geral1, Belo Horizonte MG Brasil
THE IMPORTANCE OF BIASED SYNTHESIS
IN CHEMICAL EVOLUTION STUDIES.
A. Negron-Mendoza1, S. Ramos-Bernal1, and G Mosqueira2
1Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico
2 Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia,
UNAM, México.
8.30-9.00 Antonio Lazcano,
PREBIOTIC ORGANIC SYNTHESIS AND THE EMERGENCE OF LIFE: FROM THE
MILLER EXPERIMENT TO THE START OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
9.00-9.30 John A. Baross, University
of Washington, USA
THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE AT HYDROTHERMAL VENTS
9.30-10.00 Enzo Gallori, University
of Florence, Italy
MINERAL SURFACES AS A CRADLE OF
PRIMORDIAL GENETIC MATERIAL
10.00-10.30 Donald G. Fraser,
University of Oxford, UK
ADSORPTION AND SELF-ORGANIZATION OF SMALL
MOLECULES ON INORGANIC SURFACES:
SOME APPLICATIONS TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
10.30-11.00 Group photograph
at the Terrace Level of the AGH
to be followed by a coffee break
11.00-11.30 Herrick Baltscheffsky,
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF VERY EARLY SEQUENCE MOTIFS IN ENZYMES
11.30-12.00 Doron Lancet,
THE LIPID WORLD: FROM CATALYTIC AND INFORMATIONAL HEADGROUPS TO
MICELLE REPLICATION AND EVOLUTION WITHOUT NUCLEIC ACIDS
12.00-12.30 Uwe Meierhenrich,
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION OF AMINO ACID STRUCTURES IN THE INTERSTELLAR
MEDIUM
12.30-12.45 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE DEGRADATION OF COMPLEX
ORGANIC MOLECULES. APPLICATION TO THE ORIGIN OF EXTENDED SOURCES
IN COMETARY ATMOSPHERES.
Fray N., Bénilan Y., Cottin H., Gazeau M.-C., and Raulin
F. LISA, UMR 7583, Universités Paris 7 and Paris 12
14.30-15.30 Stanley Miller,
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE BEGINNING OF CHEMICAL EVOLUTION EXPERIMENTS
15.30-16.30 RECEPTION IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR MILLER
16.30-17.00 Helga Stan-Lotter,
University of Salzburg
VIABLE HALOBACTERIA FROM PERMIAN SALT DEPOSITS - AND IN OUTER
SPACE?
17.00-17.30
MARS-LIKE SOILS ON EARTH IN THE
ATACAMA DESERT, NORTHERN CHILE
Rafael Navarro-González1,2, Fred A. Rainey3, Paola Molina1,
Danielle R. Bagaley3, Becky J. Hollen3, José de la Rosa1,
Alanna M. Small3, Richard C. Quinn4, Frank J. Grunthaner5, Luis
Cáceres6, Benito Gomez-Silva6, Arnaud Buch2, Robert Sternberg2,
Patrice Coll2, Francois Raulin2, and Christopher P. McKay7.
1 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México,
2 Universités Paris 12 & Paris 7, CMC, ,
France, 3 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, , USA.
4 SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, USA, 5 Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, , USA.6 Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, 7Space
Science Division, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA
THE DISCOVERY OF ORGANICS IN EARTH'S
DEEP MATERIALS (SUB-BASEMENT RED PALEOSOLS) DRILLED IN THE NORTH
PACIFIC (ODP LEG 197):
IMPLICATIONS FOR ASTROBIOLOGY RESEARCH.
Rosalba Bonaccorsi (1) & Rocco L. Mancinelli (2); (1),University
of Trieste,Italy, (2) SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, USA
17.30-18.00 Gerard Schwehm, ESA
THE ROSETTA MISSION
18.00-18.30
FATE OF GLYCINE AND OTHER COMPLEX
BIOMOLECULES DURING INTERSTELLAR COLLAPSE
Sandip Chakrabarti, Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, India
CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF SIMPLE BIOMOLECULES
IN HYDRODYNAMICALLY COLLAPSING INTERSTELLAR GAS IN PRESENCE OF
GRAINS
Kinsuk Acharyya, Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, India
8.30-9.00 Michael Meyer, NASA
Headquarters, Washington, USA
MARS ODYSSEY
9.00-9.30 André Brack,
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, France
SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS:
THE BEAGLE 2 LANDER AND THE STONE EXPERIMENT
9.30-10.00 Philippe Masson, Univ.
Paris-Sud, France
WATER EVOLUTION ON MARS
10.00-10.15 Omar Pensado Diaz,
Instituto de Ciencias Avanzadas, Mexico
MINIMAL UNITS OF TERRAFORMING AN ALTERNATIVE FOR
REMODELLING MARS
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.15 Frances Westall, Centre
de Biophysique moléculiare, France
EARLY LIFE AND HYDROTHERMAL ENVIRONMENTS
11.15-11.30 A. Erik Boice, Indiana
University, USA
ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR MICROBIAL SULFATE REDUCTION AND METHANOTROPHY
DURING THE LATE ARCHEAN, WITWATERSRAND BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA
11.30-12.00 Mark Van Zuilen, Centre
de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, France
ANCIENT LIFE ON EARTH AND MARS
12.00-13.00
STUDIES ON COPPER - CHROMICYANIDE AS PREBIOTIC CATALYST
Kamaluddin and Shah Raj Ali, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
, India
A SURFACE-MEDIATED ORIGIN OF THE
RNA WORLD:
"BIOLOGICAL" ACTIVITIES OF CLAY-ADSORBED RNA MOLECULES
Marco Franchi, Elisa Biondi, and Enzo Gallori, University of Florence,
Italy
ADSORPTION AND CATALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE
HYDROLYSIS BY PYRITE IN MEDIA SIMULATING PRIMEVAL AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTS
A. Vieyra1,#, A. C. Tessis1, M. Pontes Buarque1, J. A. Bonapace2,
M. B. M. Monte3, H. Salim de Amorim4 and F. de Souza Barros4 /
1 Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, 2 Instituto
de Química and 4Instituto de Física, Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro; 3 Centro de Tecnologia Mineral, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
PHOSPHATE IMMOBILIZATION BY OXIDE
PRECURSORS AND PYRITE:
IMPLICATIONS ON PHOSPHATE AVAILABILITY BEFORE LIFE ON EARTH
F. de Souza-Barros c,# M. B. M. Monte a, A. C. P. Duarte a, J.
A. P. Bonapace b , M. R. do Amaral Jr.c,*, R. Braz Levigard
d, Y. A. Ching-San Jr.d, and A.Vieyra d .
a Centro de Tecnologia Mineral (CETEM); b, Universidade Federal
do Rio de Janeiro; c Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; d
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho,
14.30-15.30
COENZYMES IN EVOLUTION OF THE
RNA WORLD
Mikhail Kritsky, Russia
DIVERSITY OF MICROBIAL LIFE ON
EARTH AND BEYOND
Joseph Seckbach, Israel.
TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Luis J. Delaye, UNAM, Mexico
EXTRATERRESTRIAL IMPACTS ON EARTH
AND EXTINCTION OF LIFE IN THE HIMALAYA
Vinod Chandra Tewari,
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India and The Abdus Salam
ICTP, Italy
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-19.00
16.00-17.00
1. DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURES
OF PREBIOTIC MONOMERS
P.R. Bahn and A. Pappelis, USA
2. PREBIOTIC CHIRALITY TRANSFER
FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL Ca-TETRASUBSTITUTED a-AMINO ACIDS TO PROTEIN
AMINO ACIDS
Marco Crismaa, Alessandro Morettoa, Fernando Formaggioa, Claudio
Tonioloa, Bernard Kapteinb, University of Padova, Italy, bDSM
Research, Life Sciences, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, Geleen,
The Netherlands
3. THE HUNT FOR "BIOLOGICALLY
ACTIVE" BIOPOLYMERS:
SPONTANEOUS FOLDING OF RANDOM RNA OLIGOMERS
Marco Franchi*, Davide De Lucrezia§, Cristiano Chiarabelli§,
Pier Luigi Luisi §, Enzo Gallori *
* Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, University of Florence
- Florence (Italy)
§ Institute of Polymers, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
ETH Zurich - Zurich (Switzerland)
4. PREBIOTIC POLYMERIZATION OF
AMINOACIDS. A MARKOV CHAIN APPROACH
S. Ramos-Bernal1, G Mosqueira2 and A. Negron-Mendoza1
1Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico
2Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia,
UNAM
México.
5. THE ELECTROCHEMICAL CO2 REDUCTION
TO FORMATE IN HYDROTHERMAL SULFIDE ORE DEPOSIT AS A NOVEL ABIOTIC
SOURCE OF ORGANIC MATTER (A HYPOTHESIS AND THE LABORATORY MODEL).
M. G. Vladimirov 1 *, Yu. F. Ryzhkov 2, V. A. Alekseev 2, V. A.
Bogdanovskaya 3,
V. A. Otroshchenko 1, and M. S. Kritsky 1
1 A.N.Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
(RAS), Moscow; 2 The Russian Federation State Research Center
"Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Research",
Troitsk, Moscow Region; 3 A.N.Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry,
RAS, Moscow; Russia.
6. AMINO ACID CHRONOLOGY?
William Collis, Boglietto di Costigliole, Italy
7. THE ROLE OF CLAY MATERIAL IN
SHIELDING DNA AGAINST X-RAY RADIATION.
Ciaravella A., Barbera M., Micela G., Candia R., INAF-Osservatorio
Astronomico, Palermo, Scappini F, ISMN-CNR, Bologna, Cecchi-Pestellini
C., ISAC-CNR, Firenze
Franchi M., Gallori E., Universita', Firenze
16.00-17.00
8. INTERSTELLAR DUST AS A TRACER
OF ENVIRONMENTS FAVOURABLE TO PLANET FORMATION: EVIDENCE FOR THE
EXISTENCE OF A METALLICITY THRESHOLD.
Giovanni Vladilo
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica,
Italy
9. CHARACTERIZATION OF EXTRASOLAR
PLANET CANDIDATES
Jose Gallardo, Chile
10. PROPOSING A UNITED NATIONS
SECRETARY GENERAL SETI INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Genta G. Politecnico di Torino , Italy, Picco G. Advisor to the
United Nations Secretary General at the Level of Under-secretary
New York USA, Galeotti P. University of Torino, Italy
and Noventa D. Non Govermental Peace Strategies Project
Geneve Switzerland
11. HOW ADVANCED IS ETI?
ARE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS LIKELY TO BE ENDLESS?
Paolo Musso, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross of Roma,
Genova - Italy
12. HAUSER-CHOMSKY-FITCH HYPOTHESIS
ON THE EVOLUTION OF UNBOUNDED MENTAL FACULTIES - LANGUAGE AND
NUMBER INSTINCTS
Tahir K. Shah, Universita' di Trieste, Italy
13. HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER IN
THE EVOLUTION OF NITROGEN FIXATION
Janet Siefert, Rice University, USA
14. THE CASE FORLIFE EXISTING
OUTSIDE OF OUR BIOSPHERE: TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING MOLECULAR
STRUCTURES
Riccardo Gatta, ICGEB, New Delhi, India
15. PALAEOBIOLOGY AND BIOSEDIMENTOLOGY
OF THE STROMATOLITIC BUXA DOLOMITE, RANJIT WINDOW, SIKKIM, NE
LESSER HIMALAYA, INDIA
Vinod Chandra Tewari
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India and The Abdus Salam
ICTP, Italy
16. CONSERVED OLIGOPEPTIDES IN
RUBISCO LARGE CHAIN: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
P.B. Vidyasagar, Pratip Shil and Sarah Thomas, University of Pune,
India.
17. ANALYSIS OF THE WORKS OF THE
GERMAN NATURALIST
ERNST HAECKEL (1834-1919) ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
Florence Raulin-Cerceau
Centre Alexandre Koyré, Muséum national d'Histoire
naturelle, France
18. CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES OF COMETARY
METEOROIDS FROM METEOR
SPECTROSCOPY: IMPLICATIONS TO THE EARTH ENRICHMENT
Josep Mª Trigo-Rodríguez 1, Jordi Llorca2,3 and Joan
Oró4
1 Universitat Jaume I. Campus Riu Sec (E.S.T.C.E), Valencia, Spain,
19. SOME STATISTICAL ASPECTS RELATED
TO THE STUDY OF TREELINES
IN PICO DE ORIZABA
Luis Cruz Kuri, Universidad Veracruzana, MEXICO
Christopher P. McKay, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA
Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, UNAM, MEXICO
20. EFFECTS OF NON-CARBONACEOUS
METEORITIC EXTRACTS ON THE GERMINATION, GROWTH AND CHLOROPHYLL
CONTENT OF EDIBLE PLANTS
Vicente Marcano1, Paula Matheus1, Cesyen Cedeno1, Nelson Falcon
2 and Ernesto Palacios Pru 1,3 1, University of the Andes, Venezuela.
2 University of Carabobo, Venezuela. 3 International Institute
of Advanced Studies, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas,
Venezuela.
19.00-20.00
20.30 CONFERENCE DINNER at the Terrace, Adiatico Guest House. (In case of bad weather the dinner will begin at 9 PM at the dining room, Adiatico Guest House.)
8.30-9.00 François Raulin,
CURRENT STATUS AND EXPECTED EXOBIOLOGICAL RETURN OF THE CASSINI-HUYGENS
MISSION
9.00-9.30 Tobias Owen,
PLANETS WITH DETECTABLE LIFE
9.30-10.00 Michel Mayor,
CURRENT STATUS OF THE SEARCH FOR
EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-10.45 Leo Girardi,
SEARCH FOR EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
AROUND GIANT STARS
10.45-11.15 Cristiano Cosmovici,
SEARCH FOR WATER OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM
11.15-11.45 SULPHATE VOLUMES
AND THE FITNESS OF SUPCRT92 FOR CALCULATING DEEP OCEAN CHEMISTRY
Steven Vance1, Everett Shock2, Tilman Spohn3
1 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
2 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
3 Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, DE.
SEARCH FOR BACTERIAL WASTE AS
A POSSIBLE SIGNATURE OF LIFE ON EUROPA
A. B. Bhattacherjee, Universita di Pisa, Italy and University
of Delhi, India and J. Chela-Flores, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy
and IDEA, Venezuela
11.45-12.30
EXOBIOLOGY OF TITAN
Michael B. Simakov, Institute of Cytology RAS., Russia
CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROSOLS
IN SIMULATED PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. TITAN'S AEROSOL ANALOGUES
Sandra I. Ramírez 1, Rafael Navarro-González 2,
Patrice Coll 3 and François Raulin 3
1 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Mexico.
2, UNAM, Mexico
3 Université Paris XII, France.
OBSERVATION, MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL
SIMULATION;
UNDERSTANDING TITAN'S ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY USING THESE THREE
TOOLS
J.-M. Bernard (1) , P. Coll (1) , A. Jolly (1) , Y. Bénilan
(1) , G. Cernogora (2), C.D. Pintassilgo (3) , F. Raulin (1) (1)
LISA, UMR 7583, France, (2) S.A., UMR 7620, France, (3) Centro
de Fisica dos Plasmas and Departamento de Fisica, Lisboa, Portugal
14.30-15.00 Alain Leger,
SEARCH FOR EXTRASOLAR LIFE:
THE DARWIN/TPF MISSION
15.00-16.30
16.30-17.30 GET-TOGETHER AT THE TERRACE LEVEL, MAIN BUILDING
8.30-9.00 Peter D. Ward, University
of Washington, USA
FACTORS LEADING TO THE APPEARANCE AND SURVIVAL
OF METAZOAN EQUIVALENTS ON HABITABLE PLANETS
9.00-9.30 Julian Chela-Flores,
ICTP, Italy and IDEA, Venezuela
EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOR:
IS IT JUST A QUESTION OF TIME?
9.30-9.45 Giovanni Vladilo, Osservatorio
Astronomico di Trieste, Italy
QUASAR ABSORPTION LINE SYSTEMS AND ASTROBIOLOGY
9.45-10.00 Margaret C. Turnbull,
University of Arizona, USA
THE HABITABILITY OF THE NEAREST STARS TO
COMPLEX LIFEFORMS
10.00-10.15 Mauro Messerotti,
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy
SPACE WEATHER AND SPACE CLIMATE:LIFE INHIBITORS OR CATALYSTS?
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.15 Stelio Montebugnoli,
Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy
SETI-ITALIA STATUS REPORT
11.15-11.45 Claudio Maccone, International
Academy of Astronautics, Italy
SETI ON THE MOON
11.45-12.00 Roberto Aretxaga,
University of Deutso, Spain
ASTROBIOLOGY AND BIOCENTRISM
12.00-12.15 A. Pappelis, Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
DETERMINISM AND THE PROTEINOID THEORY
12.15-12.30 A. A. Akindahunsi,
University of Trieste and Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
and J. Chela-Flores, ICTP, Italy and IDEA, Venezuela
ON THE QUESTION OF CONVERGENT EVOLUTION IN BIOCHEMISTRY
14.30-14.45 Juan G. Roederer,
University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
WHEN DID INFORMATION FIRST APPEAR IN THE UNIVERSE?
14.45-15.00 Dante Minniti, Universidad
Catolica, Chile
SEARCHING FOR DYSON SPHERES
IN THE MILKY WAY
15.00-15.15 Giancarlo Genta, Politecnico
di Torino, Italy
SOME ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE OF
HUMANOIDS
15.15-15.30 Simona Righini, Medicina,
Italy
APPLICATION OF SETI INSTRUMENTS IN ASTROPHYSICS INVESTIGATIONS
15.30-15.45 Riccardo Gatta, ICGEB,
New Delhi, India and J. Chela-Flores, ICTP, Italy and IDEA, Venezuela
APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TECHNIQUES IN ASTROBIOLOGY
15.45-16.00 Mohindra Chadha, India
TEN YEARS OF TRIESTE CONFERENCES ON CHEMICAL EVOLUTION AND ORIGIN
OF LIFE: A PICTORIAL OVERVIEW
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.30
Steven J. Dick,
US Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, USA
THE NEW UNIVERSE, DESTINY OF LIFE AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS
17.30-17.45 Words by Julian
Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen and François Raulin