| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Introduction |
| Leslie Orgel (Salk Institute, San Diego)
"Current Perspectives, Problems, and Advances in the Origin of Life" |
| M. Reza Ghadiri (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla)
"Probing the Requirements for the Transition from Inanimate to Animate Chemistry" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | The Early Co-Evolution of Earth and Life |
| Chair: Rob Rye (California Institute of Technology) |
| Stephen J. Mojzsis (University of Colorado)
"Geological habitable zones on the Hadean (> 4 Ga) Earth" |
| James Farquhar (University of Maryland)
"Implications of mass-independent sulfur isotope compositions for evolution of the Earth's atmosphere" |
| Yanan Shen (Harvard University)
"Microbial sulfate reduction in the early Archean" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Chemistry of Hydrothermal Systems |
| Chair: George Cody (Carnegie Institution of Washington) |
| Anurag Sharma (Geophysical Laboratory)
"An experimental window into hydrothermal systems" |
| Koichiro Matsuno (Nagaoka University of Technology)
"Prebiotic Evolution in the Context of Hydrothermal Chemistry" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Information, Regulation, and Evolution of Cells |
| Chair: Eric Gaidos (University of Hawaii) |
| Ernesto Perez-Rueda (Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos)
"The Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation in Prokaryotes" |
| Yves Brun (Indiana University)
"The Cell Cycle and Development in Prokaryotes: Evolutionary Strategies to Enhance Survival" |
| Dale Kaiser (Stanford University)
"Myxococcus xanthus: On the Threshhold of Multicellularity" |
| Chris Rao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Evolution in a Simple Biochemical Network" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Mutation, Adaptation, and Environmental Stress |
| Chair: Steve Finkel (University of Southern California) |
| Patricia Foster (Indiana University)
"The generation of genetic diversity under stress" |
| Suzanne Rutherford (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center)
"Buffering mechanisms and the storage of genetic information" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Extremophiles and the Evolution of Life |
| Chair: James F. Holden (University of Georgia) |
| Hannu Myllykallio (Universite Paris-Sud Institut de Genetique de Microbiologie)
"Early cellular evolution: insight from molecular studies of hyperthermophiles" |
| Frank Robb (Center of Marine Biotechnology)
"Insights into Minimal Metabolic Systems from Genomic and Biochemical Studies of Thermophiles and Hyperthermophiles" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Experimental Evolution |
| Chair: Michael Travisano (University of Houston) |
| Brendan Bohannan (Stanford University) |
| Valeria Souza (Instituto de Ecologa, UNAM) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Some New Approaches to Biosignatures |
| Chair: Gene McDonald (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| Ariel Anbar (University of Rochester)
"Novel Isotope biosignatures: promise and progress" |
| Max Coleman (University of Reading, UK)
"Multispectral Imaging and Temporal Changes as Biosignatures" |
| Ruth Blake (Yale University)
"Oxygen Isotopic Biosignatures in Phosphates" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm | Keynote Speaker |
| Antonio Lazcano (UNAM, Mexico)
"Current Perspectives in the Origin of Life: going backwards from extant organisms" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am | Breakfast |
