| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm | Check-In Begins |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Lecture |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Antonio Lazcano (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM)
"Prebiotic evolution, self-organization and the origin of life: the happy liaison?" |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Prebiotic Chemistry and the Environments of Early Life |
| Discussion Leader: Sara Walker (Dartmouth College) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Maria Colin-Garcia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
"The role of minerals as concentration agents: The case of HCN" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Shohei Ohara (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
"Surface-catalyzed peptide formation on pyrite" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Jeff Bowman (University of Washington)
"Implications of a hydrated gel in the sea surface microlayer for prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Eoghan Reeves (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Methanethiol: A geochemical link between carbon and sulfur in seafloor hydrothermal systems?" |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session I (continued) |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | The RNA World and the Transition to Life |
| Discussion Leader: William Brazelton (University of Washington) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Julien Derr (Harvard University)
"Emergence of complexity in the RNA world" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Aaron Burton (Portland State University)
"Enhancing the prebiotic relevance of a set of covalently self-assembling, autorecombining RNAs through in vitro selection" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Megan Cole (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Transition from the RNA world to the ribonucleoprotein world: Selection of an amino acid alphabet" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Aaron Goldman (University of Washington)
"The rapid development of early protein translation" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Sarah Maurer (University of California Santa Cruz/University of Southern Denmark)
"Membrane and metabolism co-dependence in a minimal protocell" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Selection of GRS attendee to give a talk at the GRC Origin of Life |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
