| 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 | Keynote Presentation |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Jack Szostak (Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital) |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Prebiotic Chemistry and Self-Organization |
| Discussion Leaders: Aaron Engelhart (Harvard Medical School) and Irena Mamajanov (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Shenglong Zhang (Harvard Medical School)
"Toward Non-enzymatic Replication in a Synthetic Cell" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Rafal Wieczorek (University of Southern Denmark)
"Peptides as Catalysts in the RNA World" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Nilesh Vaidya (Portland State University)
"Fragment Recycling and Error Correction in an RNA Recombinase Ribozyme through Dynamic Transesterification Chemistry" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Omer Markovitch (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Selection in Populations of Compositional Assemblies" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Ancestral Reconstruction and Laboratory Models for Early Life |
| Discussion Leader: Rebecca Turk MacLeod (Harvard University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Gregory Fournier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"The Decline and Fall of the RNA world" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Ziming Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Ancestral Genome Reconstruction and Genome Evolution of Mycoplasma Species" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Aaron Goldman (Princeton University)
"Oxytricha as a Model for Early Genetic Systems" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Cihan Erkut (Max Planck Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
"Anhydrobiosis in Caenorhabditis Elegans" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 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 | Meteorites and Early Earth Environments |
| Discussion Leader: Amy Kelly (Arizona State University) and Heshan Illangkoon (University of Florida) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Cecile Feuillie (Laboratoire de Géologie De Lyon -E)
"Adsorption of Nuclei Acids on Fe-Mg Rich Phyllosilicates Characteristic of Early Oceanic Environments" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Karen Smith (Pennsylvania State University)
"Metabolic Precursors in Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites" |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 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. |
