10.00 to 10.30 am: Irena Mamajanov (ELSI) on “From messy chemistry to the origin of life”
10.30 to 11.00 am: Nita Sahai (Univ of Akron) on “Role of minerals on prebiotic processes”
11.00 to 11.20 am: Coffee/tea break
11.20 to 11.50 am: Niraja Bapat (IISER Pune) on “Effect of prebiotic co-solutes on nonenzymatic replication”
11.50 to 12.20 pm: Sandeep Ameta (NCBS) on “Autocatalytic sets of RNA replicators in origin of life”
12.20 to 12.50 pm: Sandeep Krishna (NCBS) on “A theoretical study of conditions that enable the emergence and growth of autocatalytic sets”
1.00 to 2 pm: Lunch break
2.00 to 2.30 pm: Tony Jia (ELSI) on “Polyester membraneless microdroplets as primitive protocells”
2.30 to 3.00 pm: Susovan Sarkar (IISER Pune) on “Compositional heterogeneity of protocellular membranes: Implications for emergence of mixed vesicular systems”
3.00 to 3.20 pm: Coffee/tea break
3.20 to 3.50 pm: Chaitanya Giri (Gateway House) on “Cosmic carbon and habitability”
3.50 to 4.20 pm: Shashi Thutupalli (NCBS) on “Building life-like features from the bottom up”
