Speakers

Plenary Speaker
Nobel Laureate,
Prof. Ada Yonath
WIS
"Prebiotic Peptide Bond Formation by the Protoribosome: A Probable Link between the RNA and the Protein Dominated Worlds"
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Eugene Koonin
NIH
"On the origin of genomes and viruses"
Invited Speakers
Prof. Ron Naaman
WIS
"The Electron’s Spin, Chirality and the Origin of Life"
Prof. Doron Lancet
WIS
"A Darwinian Origin of Life: from Micellar Protocells to LUCA"
Prof. Amri Wandel
HUJ
"A New Perspective for Habitability and the Circumstellar Habitable Zone"
Prof. Rami Pugatch
BGU
"Rebooting Life - on the Minimal Number of Autocatalytic Entities Required for Sustained Replication"
Prof. Ute Deichmann
BGU
"Early Controversies about the Origin of Life and their Philosophical/Ideological Backgrounds"
Prof. Gonen Ashkenasy
BGU
"Peptides and Proteins as Molecular Hubs in the Origin of Life"
Prof. Benjamin Podbilewicz
TECH
"Membrane fusion and fission and the origin of eukaryotes"
Confirmed Speakers
Mangesh Daspute
Ariel University
"Interior Structures and Potential Habitability of the Super-Earth Exoplanets LHS 1140 b, K2-18 b, TOI-1452 b and TOI-1468 c"
Itay Weintraub
TECH
"Examination of the Adaptive Habitability Concept in Search for Habitable Exoplanets"
Rotem Edri
HUJI
"Lipid-Hydroxy acids Conjugates as Novel Prebiotic Amphiphiles"
Shoval Gilboa
TECH
"Photo-assisted Formation of Nucleobases, Nucleosides and Nucleotides from Formamide and Cerium Phosphate"
List of Posters
Eliav | Marland | HUJI | "Oligomerization of Amino acids and Keto Acids under Dried Conditions - Robust Synthesis of Prebiotic Precursors" |
Esraa | Abu Safi | HUJI | "The sweet origin of glycolipids" |
Or | Cohen | HUJI | "Abiotic Phosphorylation Reactions in the Origin of Life" |
Sarah | Fisher | HUJI | "Selective formation of microdroplets in model abiotic depsipeptide reactions" |
Disha Gajanan | Hiregange | WIS | "Structural insights on protoribosome" |
Sisira | Mambram Kunnath | BGU |
Noa | Mandliel | HUJI |
Ahmad | Nawaz | HUJI | "Electron induced chemistry of Xenon and Amorphous solid water in interstellar medium as astrochemistry study" |

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