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Start Time:

15 September 2003 at 08:00

Ends On:

19 September 2003

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

15-17/9: AGH-KLH; 18-19/9: M (LH).

Organizer(s):

J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen, F. Raulin

Material:

no notes available

15 September 2003
08:00
09:30
REGISTRATION
01h30'
15 September 2003
09:30
10:00
OPENING CEREMONY - Welcome Addresses
30'
Boncinelli, Grymes, Molaro, van Dunne, Owen, Raulin, Chela-Flores
15 September 2003
10:00
10:45
Overview of cosmic evolution
45'
George V. Coyne, S.J.
Specola Vaticana, Citta' del Vaticano
10:45
11:15
Coffee Break
30'
15 September 2003
11:15
12:00
Physical phenomena underlying the origin of life
45'
Juan Perez-Mercader
Centro de Astrobiologia, Associated to NAI, Madrid, Spain
15 September 2003
12:00
12:30
The origin of biogenic elements
30'
Francesca Matteucci
University of Trieste
12:30
12:45
Thermochemistry of the Dark Age
15'
Denis Puy
University of Geneva, Switzerland
12:45
14:30
Lunch Break
01h45'
15 September 2003
14:30
15:00
Recent advances and setbacks in searching for the oldest life on earth: a geologist's viewpoint
30'
Stephen Moorbath
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, U.K.
15 September 2003
15:00
15:30
The NASA Astrobiology Institute
30'
Rosalind Grymes
NASA Astrobiology Institute, USA
15:30
16:00
EANA, The European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association
30'
Andre Brack
Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, CNRS, Orleans, France
16:00
16:30
Coffee Break
30'
15 September 2003
16:30
16:45
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 terrestr...
15'
Simon Nicholas Platts
Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
16:45
17:00
Kinetic modeling of the SOAI-type alkylzinc addition as a model system for efficient chiral autoamplification
15'
Jean-Claude Micheau (*) and Thomas Buhse (**)
(*) Univ. P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France (**) Universidad Autonoma de Morelos, Mexico
17:00
17:15
Phase transition beats in natural optical activity and parity violation of alanine enantiomers
15'
Wang Wenqing
Peking University, China
17:15
17:30
Break
15'
15 September 2003
17:30
17:45
Origin and evolution of metabolic pathways
15'
Matteo Brilli and Renato Fani
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, University of Florence, Italy
17:45
18:00
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
15'
Harold P. De Vladar (*), Roberto Cipriani (**)
(*) Fundacion IDEA, Venezuela, (**) Universidad Simon Bolivar
18:00
18:15
A functional and self-referential model for the genetic code
15'
Romeu Cardoso Guimaraes
Universidad Federal Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
18:15
18:30
The importance of biased synthesis in chemical evolution studies
15'
A. Negron-Mendoza and S. Ramos-Bernal
UNAM, Mexico
16 September 2003
08:30
09:00
Prebiotic organic synthesis and the emergence of life: from the Miller experiment to the start of biological evolution
30'
Antonio Lazcano
UNAM, Mexico
16 September 2003
09:00
09:30
Mineral surfaces as a cradle of primordial genetic material
30'
Enzo Gallori
University of Florence, Italy
09:30
10:00
Adsorption and self-organization of small molecules on inorganic surfaces: some applications to the origin of life
30'
Donald G. Fraser
University of Oxford, UK
16 September 2003
10:00
10:30
Origin and evolution of very early sequence motifs in enzymes
30'
Herrick Baltscheffsky
University of Stockholm, Sweden
10:30
11:15
Group photograph at the Terrance Level of the AGH to be followed by a Coffee Break (In case of bad weather the photo will be taken on Wednesday during the morning coffee break)
45'
11:15
11:45
The lipid world: from catalytic and informational headgroups to Micelle replication and evolution without nucleic acids
30'
Doron Lancet
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
16 September 2003
11:45
12:15
Spontaneous generation of amino acid structures in the interstellar medium
30'
Uwe Meierhenrich
University of Bremen, Germany
12:15
12:30
Experimental study of the degradation of complex organic molecules. Application to the origin of extended sources in cometary atmospheres
15'
N. Fray
Universite Paris 7 and Paris 12, France
12:30
14:30
Lunch Break
02h00'
16 September 2003
14:30
15:30
Recollections of the beginning of chemical evolution experiments
01h00'
Stanley Miller
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA
15:30
16:30
Reception in honour of Professor Stanley Miller
01h00'
16 September 2003
16:30
17:00
Viable halobacteria from permian salt deposits - and in outer space?
30'
Helga Stan-Lotter
University of Salzburg, Austria
17:00
17:15
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
15'
Rosalba Bonaccorsi
University of Trieste
16 September 2003
17:15
17:45
The Rosetta mission
30'
Gerard Schwehm
European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
17:45
18:00
Fate of glycine and other complex biomolecules during interstellar collapse
15'
Sandip Chakrabarti
Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, India
18:00
18:15
Chemical evolution of simple biomolecules in hydrodynamically collapsing interstellar gas in presence of grains
15'
Kinsuk Acharyya
Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata, India
17 September 2003
08:30
09:00
Mars odyssey
30'
Michael Meyer
NASA Headquarters, USA
09:00
09:30
Search for life on Mars: the Beagle 2 lander and the Stone experiment
30'
Andre Brack
Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, France
09:30
10:00
Water evolution on Mars
30'
Philippe Masson
Universite' Paris-Sud, France
10:00
10:15
Minimal units of terraforming an alternative for remodelling Mars
15'
Omar Pensado Diaz
Instituto de Ciencias Avanzadas, Mexico
10:15
10:45
Coffee Break
30'
17 September 2003
10:45
11:15
Early life and hydrothermal environments
30'
Frances Westall
Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire, France
11:15
11:30
Isotopic evidence for microbial sulfate reduction and methanotrophy during the late Archean, Witwatersrand basin, South Africa
15'
Erik Boice
Indiana University, USA
11:30
12:00
Ancient life on Earth and Mars
30'
Mark Van Zuilen
Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques, France
17 September 2003
12:00
12:15
Studies on copper-chromicyanide as prebiotic catalyst
15'
Kamaluddin and Ali Raj Shah
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
12:15
12:30
A surface-mediated origin of the RNA world: "biological" activities of clay-absorbed RNA molecules
15'
Marco Franchi, Elisa Biondi and Enzo Gallori
University of Florence, Italy
12:30
12:45
Adsorption and catalysis of nucleotide hydrolysis by pyrite in media simulating primeval aqueous environments
15'
A. Vieyra (*) and F. De Souza-Barros (**)
(*) Instituto de Biofisica "Carlos Chagas Filho", (**) Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12:45
13:00
Phosphate immobilization by oxide precursors and pyrite: implications on phosphate availability before life on Earth
15'
A. Vieyra (*) and F. De Souza-Barros (**)
(*) Instituto de Biofisica "Carlos Chagas Filho", (**) Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
13:00
14:30
Lunch Break
01h30'
17 September 2003
14:30
14:45
Coenzymes in evolution of the RNA world
15'
Mikhail Kritskiy
Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Moscow, Russia
14:45
15:00
Diversity of microbial life on Earth and beyond
15'
Joseph Seckbach
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
15:00
15:15
Title to be announced
15'
Luis J. Delaye
UNAM, mexico
15:15
15:30
Extraterrestrial impacts on Earth and extinction of life in the Himalaya
15'
Vinod Chandra Tewari
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India & ICTP
15:30
16:00
Coffee Break
30'
POSTER SESSION A - Chemical Evolution - (brief 5 minute oral introductions of posters)

Description: (posters will be on display in the Art Gallery area from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 September 2003)

Chairperson: Mohindra Chadha

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

17 September 2003
16:00
16:05
Decomposition temperatures of prebiotic monomers
05'
P.R. Bahn and A. Pappelis
USA
16:05
16:10
Prebiotic chirality transfer from extraterrestrial Ca-tetrasubsituted a-amino acids to protein amino acids
05'
Marco Crisma, Italy
16:10
16:15
The hunt for "biologically active" biopolymers: spontaneous folding of random RNA oligomers
05'
M. Franchi and E. Gallori, Italy
16:15
16:20
Prebiotic polymerization of aminoacids: A Markov chain approach
05'
S. Ramos-Bernal and A. Negron-Mendoza, Mexico
17 September 2003
16:00
16:05
Interstellar dust as a tracer of environments favourable to planet formation: evidence for the existence of a metallicity threshold
05'
Giovanni Vladilo, Italy
16:05
16:10
Characterization of extrasolar planet candidates
05'
Jose Gallardo, Chile
16:10
16:15
Proposing a United Nations Secretary General SETI International Advisory Board
05'
G. Genta, Italy
16:15
16:20
How advanced is ETI?
05'
Paolo Musso, Italy
16:20
16:25
Hauser-Chomsky-Fitch hypothesis on the evolution of unbounded mental faculties - language and number instincts
05'
Tahir Shah, Italy
17 September 2003
16:20
16:25
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)
05'
M.S. Kritskiy, Russia
16:25
16:30
Amino acid chronology?
05'
William Collis, Italy
16:30
16:35
The role of clay material in shielding DNA against X-ray radiation
05'
F. Scappini, Italy
17 September 2003
16:25
16:30
Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of nitrogen fixation
05'
Janet Siefert, USA
16:30
16:35
The case for life existing outside of our biosphere: techniques for identifying molecular structures
05'
Riccardo Gatta, India
16:35
16:40
Palaeobiology and biosedimentology of the stromatolitic buxa dolomite, Ranjit window, Sikkim, Ne Lesser Himalaya, India
05'
Vinod Chandra Tewari, India & ICTP
16:40
16:45
Conserved oligopeptides in Rubisco large chain: an evolutionary perspective
05'
P.B. Vidyasagar and Pratip Shil, India
17 September 2003
Analysis of the works of the german naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) on the origin of life
Florence Raulin-Cerceau, France
Chemical abundances of cometary meteoroids from meteor spectroscopy: Implications to the Earth enrichment
J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez, J. Llorca and J. Oro', Spain
Some statistical aspects related to the study of treelines in Pico De Orizaba
L Cruz Kuri and R. Navarro-Gonzalez, Mexico & C. McKay, USA
Effects of non-carbonaceous meteoritic extracts on the germination, growth and chrolophyll content of edible plants
V. Marcano, P. Matheus et al., Venezuela
17 September 2003
19:00
20:00
The future of SETI
01h00'
Frank Drake
President, The SETI Institute
20:30
22:45
Conference Dinner (In case of bad weather the dinner will begin at 9 p.m. in the dining room) - Please register with the Conference Secretary before 5 p.m. Monday, 15 September
02h15'
REVIEW OF MISSIONS TO THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE SEARCH FOR EXTRASOLAR PLANETS

Description: Sessions organized jointly with Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy

Chairperson: Paolo Molaro

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

18 September 2003
08:30
09:00
Current status and expected exobiological return of the Cassini-Huygens mission
30'
Francois Raulin
Universite' Paris 7 & 12, France
09:00
09:30
Planets with detectable life
30'
Tobias Owen
Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii, USA
18 September 2003
09:30
10:00
Current status of the search for extrasolar planets
30'
Michel Mayor
Observatoire de Geneve, Switzerland
10:00
10:30
Coffee Break
30'
10:30
11:00
Search for extrasolar planets around giant stars
30'
Leo Girardi
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy
18 September 2003
11:00
11:30
Search for water outside the solar system
30'
Cristiano Cosmovici
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome, Italy
18 September 2003
11:30
11:45
Sulphate volumes and the fitness of SUPCRT92 for calculating deep ocean chemistry
15'
Steven Vance
University of Washington, USA
11:45
12:00
Search for bacterial waste as a possible signature of life on Europa
15'
A. B. Bhattacherjee (*) and Julian Chela-Flores (**)
(*) Universita' di Pisa, (**) ICTP Trieste & IDEA, Venezuela
THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM: TITAN

Chairperson: Margareta Baltscheffsky

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

18 September 2003
12:00
12:15
Exobiology of Titan
15'
Michael B. Simakov
Institute of Cytology RAS, Russia
12:15
12:30
Chemical characterization of aerosols in simulated planetary atmospheres. Titan's aerosol analogues
15'
Sandra I. Ramirez (*), Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez (**), Francois Raulin (***)
(*) UAEM, Mexico (**) UNAM, Mexico (***) Universite' Paris XII, France
12:30
12:45
Observation, modeling and experimental simulation; understanding Titan's atmospheric chemistry using these three tools
15'
F. Raulin
LISA, Universite' Paris 7 & 12, France
12:45
14:30
Lunch Break
01h45'
18 September 2003
14:30
15:00
Search for extrasolar life: the Darwin/TPF mission
30'
Alain Leger
Universite' Paris-Sud, France
ROUND TABLE

Chairperson: Tobias Owen

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

18 September 2003
15:00
16:30
How ancient is life on Earth and Mars?
01h30'
A. Brack, P. Masson, M. Meyer, S. Moorbath, R. Navarro-Gonzalez, M. Van Zuilen, F. Westall
16:30
17:30
Get-Together
01h00'
THE PUBLIC LECTURE

Description: Discussion Leader: Fabio Pagan

Chairperson: Julian Chela-Flores

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

Material:

18 September 2003
17:30
19:00
Europa: overview of the future missions
01h30'
Torrence Johnson
Jet Propulsion Lab., Caltech, USA
19 September 2003
08:30
09:00
Factors leading to the appearance and survival of metazoan equivalents on habitable planets
30'
Peter D. Ward
University of Washington, USA
09:00
09:30
Evolution of intelligent behaviour: Is it just a question of time?
30'
Julian Chela-Flores
ICTP Trieste and IDEA, Venezuela
19 September 2003
09:30
09:45
Quasar absorption line systems and astrobiology
15'
Giovanni Vladilo
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
09:45
10:00
The habitability of the nearest stars to complex lifeforms
15'
Margaret Turnbull
University of Arizona, USA
10:00
10:15
Space weather and space climate life inhibitors or catalysts?
15'
Mauro Messerotti
Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
10:15
10:45
Coffee Break
30'
19 September 2003
10:45
11:15
SETI-ITALIA status report
30'
Stelio Montebugnoli
Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy
11:15
11:45
SETI on the moon
30'
Claudio Maccone
International Academy of Astronautics, Italy
19 September 2003
11:45
12:00
Astrobiology and Biocentrism
15'
Roberto Aretxaga
University of Deusto, Spain
12:00
12:15
Determinism and the proteinoid theory
15'
A. Pappelis
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
12:15
12:30
On the question of convergent evolution in biochemistry
15'
A. Akindahunsi (*) and J. Chela-Flores (**)
(*) U. Trieste and Fed. Univ. of Technology, Nigeria (**) ICTP Trieste & IDEA Venezuela
12:45
14:45
Lunch Break
02h00'
19 September 2003
14:30
14:45
When did information first appear in the universe?
15'
Juan G. Roederer
University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
14:45
15:00
Searching for Dyson spheres in the Milky Way
15'
Dante Minniti
Universidad Catolica, Chile
19 September 2003
15:00
15:15
Some engineering considerations on the controversial issue of humanoids
15'
Giancarlo Genta
Politechnico di Torino, Italy
15:15
15:30
Application of SETI instruments in astrophysics investigations
15'
Simona Righini
Radiotelescopi di Medicina, Bologna, Italy
15:30
15:45
Application of molecular biology techniques in astrobiology
15'
Riccardo Gatta (*) and Julian Chela-Flores (**)
(*) ICGEB, India (**) ICTP Trieste & IDEA Venezuela
REVIEW TALK

Chairperson: Wang Wenqing

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

19 September 2003
15:45
16:00
Ten years of Trieste Conferences on chemical evolution and origin of life: A pictorial overview
15'
Mohindra Chadha
16:00
16:30
Coffee Break
30'
CLOSING LECTURE

Chairperson: Antonio Lazcano

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

19 September 2003
16:30
17:30
The new universe, destiny of life and cultural implications
01h00'
Steven J. Dick
US Naval Observatory, Washington DC, USA
19 September 2003
17:30
17:45
Words by Julian Chela-Flores, Tobias Owen and Francois Raulin
15'
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