All Sessions Held in Room SSB 118 |
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Monday 6/22 | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
9:00-9:30 | Opening Lecture | ||
Session Leader: David Deamer | |||
9:30-10:20 | G.J. Wasserburg | Caltech | Chemical Evolution of the Juvenile Universe: A New Paradigm? Phenomenological Approaches That Expose Unrecognized Processes |
10:20-10:30 | Discussion | ||
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
11:00-11:50 | Michael Simakov | Group of Exobiology, Russian Academy of Sciences | The Rise of Chemical Complexity Under Harsh Space Conditions. The Role of Energy Sources in Chemical Evolution |
11:50-12:00 | Discussion | ||
12:00-1:00 | Lunch Break | ||
1:00-1:50 | Sandra Pizzarello | Arizona State | Cosmochemical Evolution and the Yielding of Biomolecule Precursors |
1:50-2:00 | Discussion | ||
2:00-2:30 | Coffee Break | ||
2:30-3:20 | Pierre-Alain Monnard | Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Denmark | Non-enzymatic Polymerication of RNA on Ice |
3:20-3:30 | Discussion | ||
3:30-7:00 | Social Event - Visit to the Alaska Native Heritage Center and Dinner for all Participants (guests included). Bus departs lobby of the Social Sciences Building at 3:30 and arrives at 4 PM for a village tour, visit of the Cultural Center or view Alaska Native films, buffet and bar, and Alaska Native dance performance. Return to UAA at 7 PM. A van will also be available at 3:15 from West Hall (housing) and will make a stop at the Social Sciences building at 3:30. |
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Tuesday 6/23 | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
Session Leader: Sandra Pizzarello | |||
8:40-9:30 | David Deamer | University of California Santa Cruz | First Life, and Next Life: The Origins and Synthesis of Living Cells |
9:30-9:40 | Discussion | ||
9:40-10:00 | Coffee Break | ||
10:00-10:50 | Steen Rasmussen | University of Southern Denmark | Assembly of Minimal Living System |
10:50-11:00 | Discussion | ||
11:00-11:50 | Nick Hud | Georgia Tech | An Integrated Approach to Connecting the Small Molecule World and the Polymer World in the Origin of Life |
11:50-12:00 | Discussion | ||
12:00-1:00 | Lunch Break | ||
Session Leader: Steen Rasmussen | |||
1:00-1:50 | Alexander Umantsev | Fayetteville State | Structure and Functions of a Protobiont |
1:50-2:00 | Discussion | ||
2:00-2:50 | Robert Root-Bernstein | Michigan State University | Molecular Complementarity as a Selective Agent in the Transition from Chemical to Biochemical Ecologies |
2:50-3:00 | Discussion | ||
3:00-3:20 | Coffee Break | ||
3:20-4:10 | Janet Siefert | Rice University | Building a Genome: From the RNA World to Now |
4:10-4:20 | Discussion | ||
Click for List of Posters. The same poster session will repeat Wednesday evening. |
Controlling Networks of Chemical and Physical Processes |
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Wednesday 6/24 | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
Session Leader: Rebecca Schulman | |||
9:00-9:50 | Martin Feinberg | Ohio State University | Stability and Instability in Complex Reaction Networks: The Big Picture |
9:50-10:00 | Discussion | ||
10:00-10:50 | Andrew Pohorille | NASA | Emergence of Complexity in Protein Functions and Metabolic Networks |
10:50-11:00 | Discussion | ||
11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break | ||
11:20-11:50 | Gonen Ashkenasy | Ben Gurion University of the Negev | The Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Self-Organized Peptide Networks |
11:50-11:55 | Discussion | ||
11:55-12:45 | Jennifer Dunne | Santa Fe Institute | The Robustness of Ecological Networks to Species Loss: The Role of Topological Constraints for Secondary Extinctions and Community Collapse |
12:45-12:55 | Discussion | ||
12:55-1:55 | Lunch Break | ||
Session Leader: Jennifer Dunne | |||
1:55-2:45 | Attila Csikasz-Nagy | Microsoft Research, University of Trento, Italy | Dynamics of Cell Cycle Transitions: Role of Feedback and Feed-Forward Loops in Ensuring Proper Timing and Irreversibility in the Initiation of Cell Cycle Events |
2:45-2:55 | Discussion | ||
2:55-3:45 | Robert Hazen | Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC | How geochemical complexity promotes chemical evolution |
3:45-3:55 | Discussion | ||
3:55-4:15 | Coffee Break | ||
4:15-4:45 | Jerzy Maselko | University of Alaska Anchorage | Different Reactions in Different Places at Different Times |
4:45-4:50 | Discussion | ||
Click for List of Posters. |
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Thursday 6/25 | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
9:00-9:10 | Introduction by Session Leader: Milan Stojanovic | ||
9:10-9:40 | Chengde Mao | Purdue University | Combinatorial Approach for DNA Self-Assembly |
9:40-9:45 | Discussion | ||
9:45-10:15 | Peng Yin | Caltech | Programming biomolecular self-assembly pathways |
10:15-10:20 | Discussion | ||
10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
10:40-11:10 | Rebecca Schulman | Caltech | Self-Replication and Evolution of Designed DNA Tile Crystals: Replication with low error rates, and prospects for complex Darwinian evolution in a chemical system |
11:10-11:15 | Discussion | ||
11:15-11:45 | Eric Winfree | Caltech | Molecular Programming with DNA |
11:45-11:50 | Discussion | 11:50-12:20 | Milan Stojanovic | Columbia University | Molecular Computing and Robotics |
12:20-12:25 | Discussion | ||
12:25-1:10 | Lunch Break | ||
Session Leader: Jim Pantaleone | |||
1:10-2:00 | Luca Cardelli | Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK | Molecules as Automata |
2:00-2:10 | Discussion | ||
2:10-2:40 | Marc Riedel | University of Minnesota | Synthesizing Discrete Signal Processing Operations with Biochemistry |
2:40-2:45 | Discussion | ||
2:45-3:15 | Kobi Benenson | Harvard University | Implantable Biocomputers: From Fiction to Science |
3:15-3:20 | Discussion | ||
3:20-3:40 | Coffee Break | ||
3:40-4:10 | Michael Diehl | Rice University | Emergent Properties of Macromolecular Systems Containing Multiple Molecular motors |
4:10-4:15 | Discussion | ||
4:15-4:45 | Ray Kapral | University of Toronto | Synthetic Self-Propelled Nanomotors |
4:45-4:50 | Discussion |
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Friday 6/26 | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
Session Leader: Renate Wackerbauer | |||
8:40-9:10 | Jim Pantaleone | University of Alaska Anchorage | Oscillatory Motion in Precipitation Structures |
9:10-9:15 | Discussion | ||
9:15-9:45 | Julia Yeomans | The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford UK | Hydrodynamic Interactions Between Microswimmers |
9:45-9:50 | Discussion | ||
9:50-10:20 | Igor Aronson | Argonne National Lab | Self-Assembled Magnetic Surface Swimmers |
10:20-10:25 | Discussion | ||
10:25-10:45 | Coffee Break | ||
10:45-11:15 | Irving Epstein | Brandeis University | Cooperative Behavior of Nano- and Micro-oscillators |
11:15-11:20 | Discussion | ||
11:20-12:10 | Kenneth Showalter | University of West Virginia | Synchronization and Dynamical Quorum Sensing in Populations of Excitable and Oscillatory Particles |
12:10-12:20 | Discussion | ||
12:20-12:50 | John Hudson | University of Virginia | Engineering Complex Dynamical Structures in Populations of Chemical oscillators |
12:50-12:55 | Discussion | ||
12:55-1:40 | Lunch Break | ||
Session Leader: Ray Kapral | |||
1:40-2:10 | Anna Balazs | University of Pittsburgh | Modeling Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels |
2:10-2:15 | Discussion | ||
2:15-2:45 | Harry Swinney | University of Texas | Deadly Competition Between Sibling Bacterial Colonies |
2:45-2:50 | Discussion | ||
2:50-3:20 | Ting Lu | Princeton University | Self-Emergent Pattern Formation in a Synthetic Bacterial Population |
3:20-3:25 | Discussion | ||
3:25-3:40 | Coffee Break | ||
3:45-4:15 | Renate Wackerbauer | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Transient Spatio-temporal Chaos |
4:15-4:20 | Discussion | ||
4:20-4:50 | Oliver Steinbock | Florida State University | Scroll Wave Pinning in Three-Dimensional Excitable Media |
4:50-4:55 | Discussion |
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We are organizing a trip to Prince William Sound. See:
http://www.princewilliamsound.com. The cost, including transportation to Whittier, is about $150. We will depart for the Whittier Glacier Cruise from West Hall at 8:00 AM on Saturday, June 27. The cruise begins at 11 AM. We will return to Anchorage at approximately 7 PM. For more adventures, such as glacier landings, glacier tours, or sea kayaking, see the after-conference activities. |
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Jerzy Maselko, University of Alaska Anchorage |
Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh Renate Wackerbauer, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cheryl Wright, University of Alaska, Anchorage Milan Stojanovic, Columbia University Jim Pantaleone, University of Alaska Anchorage Kenrick Mock, University of Alaska, Anchorage |