SATURDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ASTROCHEMISTRY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Callahan (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Heather D. Bean (School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology) "Formation of a beta-Pyrimidine Nucleoside by a Free Pyrimidine Base and Ribose in a Plausible Prebiotic Reaction" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Steve Vance (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena) "Tidal Evolution and Hydrothermal Activity in Habitable Icy Worlds" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Trishool Namani (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz) "Plausible membranes for primitive cellular life under extreme prebiotic conditions" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Katherine Petrie (The Scripps Research Institute) "In Vitro Evolution with Tunable Mutagenesis" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:45 pm | Poster Session |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | GEOBIOLOGY, GENOMICS AND EARLY LIFE |
| Discussion Leader: Matthew W.L. Lau (Simon Fraser University) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Jelte Harnmeijer (Center for Astrobiology & Early Earth Evolution University of Washington) "Earth’s Oldest Kerogenous Sedimentary Succession" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Felix Olasagasti (UC Santa Cruz) "Nonenzymatic replication of a nucleic acid" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Madhan Tirumalai (Dept. Biology and Biochemistry University of Houston) "Early Evolution of the Ribosome - Which Proteins Came First?" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | William J. Brazelton (University of Washington) "Methane cycling at 80°C and pH 10 by archaeal biofilms of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field" |
11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Luis D. Alcaraz Peraza (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional) "Bacillus coahuilensis: adaptations to a relic marine environment" |
11:35 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Marina Resendes de Sousa António (Department of Biology, Indiana University) "Warner Valley: Microbial ‘Pre-Cambrian explosion’?" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Discuss request for a subsequent GRS; Nominations for the next Student/Post-doc Vice Chair(s) to work with GRC Chair (serving as mentor); Fill out Evaluation Forms) |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please be sure to check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |