Conference program

Monday, July 1, 2019

Time Event  
08:40 - 09:00 Welcome - A.M. Saitta and R. Vuilleumier  
09:00 - 09:45 The organic content of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as revealed by the Rosetta mission - Hervé Cottin (LISA, Université Paris Est)  
09:45 - 10:30 The role of gas-phase reactions in prebiotic chemistry - Nadia Balucani (DCBB – University of Perugia)  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:45 Meteoritic prebiotic chemistry - Raffaele Saladino (Università della Tuscia)  
11:45 - 12:30 Titan prebiotic chemistry - Nathalie Carrasco (LATMOS, Université Versailles Saint Quentin)  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:45 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution: from the Isolated Reactant Approach to Solution Phase Simulations to probe Chemical Reactivity - Frank De Proft (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
14:45 - 15:30 Glycine Condensation Chemistry Under Extreme Conditions - Nir Goldman (Lawrence Livermore National Labs)  
15:30 - 16:15 Rotational Spectroscopy Meets Quantum Chemistry for Elucidating Astrochemical Challenges - Cristina Puzzarini (Universita’ di Bologna)  
16:15 - 17:30 Coffee + discussion  

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:45 Interplay Between Experiment and Computer Simulation to Elucidate the Amide Bond Formation at Silica Surfaces in a Prebiotic Context - Piero Ugliengo (University of Torino)  
09:45 - 10:30 The detection of organic molecules on the surface of cometary nucleus - Uwe Meierhenrich (Université Cote d'Azur)  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:45 Prebiotic selection and assembly of peptides - Matthew Powner (University College London)  
11:45 - 12:30 Photochemical synthesis, chirality and detection of the building blocks of life in ‘simulated’ cometary matter - Cornelia Meinert (Université de Nice)  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:45 Thermophoresis and the "Origin-of-Life" Concept - Simone Wiegand (Forschungszentrum Jülich)  
14:45 - 15:30 On the formation of complex organic molecules from gas phase ion chemistry: simulations and experiments - Riccardo Spezia (CNRS Sorbonne Université)  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 17:00 Poster session - -  
19:00 - 21:00 Social dinner  

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:45 A computable Ariadne's thread from 1-C compounds to RNA - Ernesto Di Mauro (Università La Sapienza)  
09:45 - 10:30 Surface chemistry and origins of life - Jean-François Lambert (Sorbonne Université)  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:45 From ancient to modern RNA worlds and vice versa - Marie-Christine Maurel (MNHN Sorbonne Université)  
11:45 - 12:30 Ribonucleotides and the RNA World - Antonio Lazcano Araujo (Universidad Autonoma Mexico)  
12:30 - 12:35 Closing words - Closing words  
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