Prebiotic Chemistry and Chemical Evolution of Nucleic Acids

Introduction: Reminiscing about Stanley Miller and Prebiotic Chemistry Jeff Bada (jbada@ucsd.edu)

1. From the dawn of Organic Chemistry to Astrobiology: an historical perspective on the Prebiotic Chemistry of nucleobases Cesar Menor-Salvan (cmenorsalvan@gmail.com)

2. Decomposition and condensation of nucleotides in hydrothermal fields. Bruce Damer and David Deamer (deamer@soe.ucsc.edu)

3. Nucleobases on the primitive Earth: their sources and stability
Jim Cleaves and Jeff Bada (jbada@ucsd.edu)

4. The Case for Mineralogy in the Origins of Life Hyo Joong Kim and Steven Benner (sbenner@ffame.org)

5. Urea: a common reagent behind the origin of bases, nucleosides and nucleotides. Cesar Menor-Salvan

6. -title pending- David Fialho and Nick Hud (nick.hud@chemistry.gatech.edu). Georgia Institute of Technology.
7. The origin of the ionized linker: Geochemical predestination for phosphate?
Matthew Pasek (mpasek@usf.edu) University of South Florida

8. Prebiotic phosphorylation Bradley Burcar (Bradley.burcar@chemistry.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology
9. The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acids James H Cleaves (henderson.cleaves@gmail.com)
10. RNA and Protein: The Molecular Symbiosis at the Core of Life Anton Petrov, Jessica C Bowman and Loren D. Williams (loren.williams@chemistry.gatech.edu). Georgia Institute of Technology
11. On the origin of interactions between nucleic acids and peptides Irene Chen (chen@chem.ucsb.edu) and Celia Blanco de Torres. University of California-Santa Barbara.
12. Self-Replication and Information Transfer of Nucleic-Acids Mediated by Non-Aqueous Environments. Isaac Gallego (isgaoss@gmail.com ) and Christine He