| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | What Is "X" for Origins of Life? |
| Discussion Leader: Omer Markovitch (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Rebecca Turk-MacLeod (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
"Chemistry and Biology in the Origin of Life (X=Chemistry)" |
| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:25 pm | Nobuto Takeuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Evolution as the Means and End for the Origin of Life (X=Biology)" |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | What Is "X" for Origins of Life? (continued) |
| Discussion Leader: Matilda Newton (University of Minnesota, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Tyler Robinson (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
"Astronomy and Life's Origins: From Specks to Special (X=Astronomy)" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Barry Herschy (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Geologic Evidence on the Origin of Life (X=Geology)" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | General Discussion |
| Synthesis |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Aaron McKee (Center for Chemical Evolution, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Mineral Interactions with Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Forming Systems – Towards Prebiotic Polypeptides" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Rebecca Rapf (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Sunlight-Driven, Water-Mediated Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Model Amphiphiles Under Prebiotic Conditions" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Jay Forsythe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Resolving the Complexity of the Prebiotic Proto-Peptidome" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Homeostasis and Heredity |
| Discussion Leaders: Agata Chotera (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) and Claudia Alvarez-Carreño (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:05 am - 9:20 am | Nicholas Guttenberg (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Reservoir Mechanism for Chemical Heredity" |
| 9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
| 9:25 am - 9:40 am | Aaron Engelhart (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Homeostatic Control of Ribozyme Activity Within Growing Model Protocells" |
| 9:40 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 9:50 am | General Discussion |
| Laws and Principles |
| 9:50 am - 9:55 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:55 am - 10:10 am | Kim Hyunju (Arizona State University, USA)
"New Scaling Relation for Information Transfer in Biological Networks" |
| 10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Milena Popovic (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science / NASA, USA)
"Molecular Crowding and Evolution of Ligase Ribozymes" |
| 10:30 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
| 10:35 am - 10:50 am | Simon Lanzmich (Systems Biophysics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
"Length Selection and Replication in a Thermal Flow Chamber" |
| 10:50 am - 10:55 am | Discussion |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | General Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Astrobiology |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Damer (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:35 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 1:35 pm - 1:50 pm | Aditya Chopra (Australian National University, Australia)
"The Biology of Habitability" |
| 1:50 pm - 1:55 pm | Discussion |
| 1:55 pm - 2:10 pm | Heather Kaluna (Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, USA)
"The Production of Organics via Space Weathering of Aqueously Altered Minerals" |
| 2:10 pm - 2:15 pm | Discussion |
| 2:15 pm - 2:20 pm | General Discussion |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
