Chemical Evolution: Structure and Model of the First Cell

The origin of the cell from Oparin to the present day.- Alfonso L. Herrera: A Mexican pioneer in the study of chemical evolution.- Experimental retracement of the origins of a protocell: It was also a protoneuron.- Exobiology on Titan: A reference laboratory for studying prebiotic chemistry on a planetary scale.- Search for Bioorganic Compounds and Organisms on Mars.- Interstellar dust, chirality, comets and the origins of life: Life from dead stars?.- Some aspects of laboratory cometary models.- SETH: The search for extra-terrestrial homochirality.- Age of the oldest rocks with biogenic components: An estimate for the age of the origin of life.- Significance of biogeochemical markers in Precambrian sediments.- Coherent dynamics in water as a possible explanation of biological membranes formation.- Physics underlying the formation of protocells.- A possible route for the formation of protoprotein and its microspheres from primitive gases under possible prebiotic conditions.- Domain protolife: Protocells and metaprotocells within thermal protein matrices.- Chemical synthesis of lipids and the origin of life.- Adsorption interaction on the interface of phase-separated systems. Modeling studies.- Lipid vesicles: Are they plausible primordial aggregates?.- Cell wall biochemistry in Archaea and its phylogenetic implications.- Contribution from coenzyme related molecules to evolution of photoreceptors.- On the origin of biological information.- Linguistics of biomolecules and the protein-first hypothesis for the origins of cells.- Evolution of the cellular communication system: An analysis in the computational paradigm.- Thermodynamics and biological evolution: A motive force of evolution.- On stable spherical configurations of artificial protocells.- Molecular chirality andthe origin of life.- False chirality, CP violation and the breakdown of microscopic reversibility in chiral molecular and elementary particle processes.- Possibilities to measure the parity-violating energy difference.- Low temperature specifie heat anomaly of D-valine.- Inorganic polyphosphate functions at various stages of cell evolution.- Hardware and software in biology: Simultaneous origin of proteins and nucleic acids via hydrogen cyanide polymers.- Phosphoryl amino acids: Common origin for nucleic acids and protein.- A search for symmetries in the genetic code.- Evolutionary roots of genetic code.- A new hypothesis for the origin of life.- Some physical problems in biology: Aspects of the origin and structure of the first cell.- Repetitive elements of protein sequences as fossils of early life.- The first eukaryotic cell-acid hot-spring algae.- Thoughts on the origin and nature of life and intelligence on earth.- The beginning of the first cell.- List of participants.