Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Systems Chemistry and Beyond
Discussion Leader: Richard Booth (Penn State, United States)
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
3:50 pm - 4:25 pm
Steven Benner (Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), United States)
"How Life Originated on Earth and Mars: The Systems Chemistry of the Hadean"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Fundamental Principles of Systems Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Kavita Matange (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Soumitra Athavale (California Institute of Technology, United States)
"Demystifying the Soai Reaction: Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Evolution of Homochirality"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Paul Richard Adamski (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Giving Self-Replicators a New Home: Emergent Coacervate Compartments"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Oliver Maguire (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
"A Prebiotic Precursor to Life's Phosphate Transfer System with a Kinetically Stable Thermodynamically Activated ATP Analogue and Histidyl Peptide Catalysis"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Christine Kriebisch (Technical University of Munich, Department of Chemistry, Germany)
"Chemical Fueled Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Applications of Complex Molecular Systems
Discussion Leader: Albert Wong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Julius Gemen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Visible Light Azobenzene E -to-Z Isomerization in Ternary Host-Guest Complexes"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Salma Kassem (Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, United States)
"Approaches for the In-Situ Emergence of Functionality in Peptide-Based Systems"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Matthijs ter Harmsel (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"An Organocatalytic Reaction Controlled by a Chemical Oscillator"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Beatrice Marincioni (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"A Hofmeister Effect on Water Droplet Motility"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Achieving Impact in Contemporary Science
Discussion Leader: David Lynn (Emory University, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Achieving Impact in Contemporary Science
Kerstin Göpfrich (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany)
Nathalie Katsonis (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Andreas Walther (University of Mainz, Germany)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes