Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Exoplanets and Geological Factors Related to Life
Discussion Leader: Rebecca Rapf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Opening Remarks
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Rebekah Dawson (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"Beyond Eta Earth: Exoplanets as a Window on the History and Habitability of Planetary Systems"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
Frances Westall (French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France)
"Geology, Habitability and the Origin and Evolution of Life"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Ways to Build Habitable Planets
Discussion Leader: Matthieu Laneuville (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:40 am
Catherine Espaillat (Boston University, USA)
"Building Planets from Disks Around Young Stars"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
Konstatin Batygin (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Formation of Giant Planet Satellites"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University, USA)
"Life-Essential Volatile Elements During Formation and Differentiation of Rocky Planets"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:15 pm
Gordon Osinski (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
"The Role of Meteorite Impacts in Building Habitable Planets"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address challenges women face in science and issues of diversity and inclusion. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Nita Sahai (University of Akron, USA) and Donald Burke (University of Missouri, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Changing Views of the Chemistry of Life
Discussion Leader: Bradley Burcar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:05 pm
Sarah Maurer (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
"Simple Hydrophobic Aggregates as Robust Photosynthetic Reaction Centers on Early Earth"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Zachary Adam (University of Arizona, USA)
"Complex Network Topology of a Prebiotic Organosynthetic System"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm
Tony Jia (Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Polyester Microdroplets, Coacervates and Other Membraneless Non-Biological Assemblies as Primordial Compartments"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Views on Metabolisms and Molecules
Discussion Leader: Rebecca Turk MacLeod (Illumina, Inc., USA)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:50 am
Isaac Cann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Mining Archaeal Genomes for Insights into the Evolution of Replication Proteins in the Archaeal/Eukaryotic Lineages"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Philip Bevilacqua (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"Cellular Complexity Enhances RNA Folding Cooperativity, Adaptation and Catalysis"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Jill Mikucki (University of Tennessee, USA)
"Keeping It Cryptic: Eavesdropping on Microbial Chatter"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Life at Earth's Extremes
Discussion Leader: Madhan Tirumalai (University of Houston, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm
Jacqueline Goordial (University of Guelph, Canada / Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA)
"Microbial Processes in Low Biomass Subsurface Oceanic Crust Revealed Through Sorted Cell 'Omics"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
William Inskeep (Montana State University, USA)
"Deeply-Rooted Thermophiles Provide Clues on Conditions Necessary for the Origin of Chemosynthetic Life"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Henrik Drake (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
"Tracing and Dating Deep Ancient Life in Impact Structures and Fractured Igneous Rocks"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Conditions for Life on Early Earth
Discussion Leader: Laura Chimiak (California Institute of Technology, USA)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:50 am
Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University, USA)
"Cycling of Life Essential Elements Between the Deep Earth and the Surface"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Jennifer Glass (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Ironing out Life's First Breaths"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Tsuyoshi Komiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"The Nulliak Supracrustal Rocks in the Saglek Block, Canada: Window on Surface Environment and Life on the Early Earth"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Detecting Life on Other Solar System Bodies
Discussion Leader: Eve Berger (Texas State University / JETS, Jacobs Engineering / Johnson Space Center, NASA, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:00 pm
Jennifer Hanley (Lowell Observatory, USA)
"Salts Across the Solar System: A Guide to Finding Life"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
Morgan Cable (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
"Biosignature Detectability with the Europa Clipper Mission"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
Sarah Horst (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Exoplanet Atmospheres in a Bottle: Lessons from the Lab"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Upcoming Spacecraft Missions
Discussion Leader: Andrew Czaja (University of Cincinnati, USA)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:50 am
Luther Beegle (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA)
"SHERLOC: In Situ Science and Sample Characterization for Sample Return"
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:20 am
Melissa Trainer (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA)
"The Dragonfly Mission to Titan"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Kevin Stevenson (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA)
"Into the Great Unknown: Exoplanet Characterization in the Era of JWST and Beyond"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Selected Poster Presentations
Discussion Leader: Nita Sahai (University of Akron, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm
Maren Haas (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany)
"Mechanochemical Monosaccharide Formation as a Possible Scenario for the Early Earth"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Petar Penev (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"The Ribosomal Phylogeny: A Perspective Including Co-Evolution"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Sukrit Ranjan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Sulfur and Nitrogen in Natural Waters on Early Earth"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Tim Lichtenberg (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"A Water Budget Dichotomy of Rocky Protoplanets from 26Al-Heating"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure