Colloquium of the CNRS Interdisciplinary Initiative "Planetary Environments and Origins of Life
29-30 Nov 2012 Paris (France)

Colloquium program

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Time Event  
10:00 - 10:30 Participants welcome - welcome coffee  
10:30 - 10:45 Colloqium intooduction talk (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M. Ollivier  
10:45 - 12:00 Opening talk : Conférence d'ouverture : "Organic Chemistry and Mineralogy in the Transition from the Prebiotic World to the Biotic World" (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - S. Benner  
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch - buffet (Salle annexe)  
13:30 - 14:00 Planetary environments : scientific issues and futures (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - T. Encrenaz  
13:30 - 14:40 Planetary environments (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M. Ollivier  
14:00 - 14:20 Physico-Chemistry of exospheres : "UV Absorption cross section at high temperature" (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - O. Venot  
14:20 - 14:40 Formation of telluric planets and the origin of terrestrial water (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - S. Raymond  
14:40 - 15:10 Extreme life forms: from molecules to cells (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - G. Zaccaï  
14:40 - 15:50 The diversity of early life and environments (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M-C. Maurel  
15:10 - 15:30 How microbes adapt to extrem conditions: implication for origins of life and exobiology (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - B. Franzetti  
15:30 - 15:50 Geomicrobiological study of modern stromatolites from Mexico: towards a better understanding of the anciant fossil records (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - K. Benzerara  
15:50 - 16:15 Coffee break (Salle annexe)  
16:15 - 16:45 Primitiv and fossil materials (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - L. Remusat  
16:15 - 17:25 Primitiv materials, fossil materials (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M. Ollivier  
16:45 - 17:05 MICMOC/MICMOS: Photo/Thermo-chemistry of interstellar van der Waals solids and the rise of molecular complexity (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - L. D'Hendecourt  
17:05 - 17:25 Cometary micrometeorites and origins of terrestrial life (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - C. Engrand  
17:30 - 19:00 Poster session (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie)  

Friday, November 30, 2012

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:40 Origins of life chemistry - reconciling the iron-sulfur and the RNA worlds (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - J. Sutherland  
09:00 - 10:20 Bricks of life and pre-biotic chemistry (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M. Ollivier  
09:40 - 10:00 Formation and evolution of peptides in prebiotic environments (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - R. Pascal  
10:00 - 10:20 Organic chemistry : from the interstellar medium to the primitiv Earth (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - J-C. Guillemin  
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break (Salle annexe)  
10:40 - 11:20 Primitive self-replication and the origin of life (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - G. von Kiedrowski  
10:40 - 12:00 RNA world, metabolisms diversity and complexification (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M-C. Maurel  
11:20 - 11:40 Compatimentation (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - S. Bonneau  
11:40 - 12:00 Key steps from "RNA World" to the "DNA World" (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - J-L. Decout  
12:00 - 12:20 En quoi la linguistique peut contribuer à la stabilisation d'une néo-discipline comme l'exobiologie (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - A. Condamines  
12:00 - 12:50 Linguistique et épistémologie (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - S. Tirard  
12:20 - 12:50 Discussion sur la thématique (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - S. Tirard  
12:50 - 13:00 Concluding remarks (Amphithéâtre Marie-Curie) - M-C. Maurel  
13:00 - 13:00 End of the colloquium - end of the colloquium  
  
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