Poster Session

Guide Line for Poster Presentations:

The poster boards are optimized for A0 size in portrait orientation (841mm wide × 1189mm tall). You can put your poster after the banquet (21:00 on the day 3) or before the poster session (9:00 on the day 4) and remove after the poster session. You can use the magnets provided here to affix your poster.

Poster List:

The listed order is the submitted order. Anyone requesting modifications or withdrawals, please let us (sympo12@elsi.jp) know by 20 December.

• Aaron Berliner ----- Modeling of Candidate Biosignatures in Circum-Singularity Habitability Zones

• Yan Chen ----- Biosignature detection in fluvio-lacustrine deposits from the Mars-analog Qaidam Basin, NW China

• Natnicha Klayposri ----- Mineral characterization of Chae Son hot spring deposits as an analogue for Columbia Hills, Mars

• Dimitra Demertzi ----- Mineral Surfaces as Information Storages for Prebiotic Chemical Reaction Networks

• Flavio Siro Brigiano ----- Mechanism and Free-Energy Landscape of Peptide Bond Formation at the Silica–Water Interface

• Sean Brown ----- Xeno Amino Acids: A look into biochemistry as we don’t know it

• Pedro Russo ----- What is the role of science journalism in the effective communication of potential life detection results?

• Anastasia Kokori ----- Understanding exoplanets through the Solar System: Investigating the case of water on Venus through petrological modelling

• Ellie Hara ----- Releasing cyanide from ferrocyanide by carbon monoxide ligand exchange in alkaline and hyperalkaline aqueous environments

• Haruka Nakagawa ----- Exploring Thioesters and Thioacids in the Context of Prebiotic Chemistry: Unraveling Mysteries of Origin of Life

• Ninos Hermis -----  TBD

• Kenya Tajima ----- In vitro assembly of protein capsule and cargo nucleic acids into a virus-like particle

• Yuanyuan He ----- The evolution of amino acids under simulated asteroidal aqueous alteration 

• Taren Ginter ----- Plausible Peptide-Protocell Processes: Fatty acid membrane and peptide interactions 

• Philip Vetter ----- Supersampling tests of phylogeny resilience, and their implication on tree-based interpretation of evolution

• Seba Fuyutsuki ----- Ultra-violet absorption cross sections of carbon monoxide isotopes by first-principles calculations, applications to Mars atmospheric photochemistry

• Risa Sasaki -----  Nitrogen redox reaction selectivity from a pool of 1332 options

• Paula Prondzinsky ----- Introducing the LUNATICs: a student-led online platform providing resources for early career astrobiology research

• Hye-Eun  Lee ----- Power Generation in Hierarchical Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents

• Zening Yang ----- Geoelectrical Cyanogenesis by Glycine Decomposition at Alkaline Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent 

• Saacnicteh Toledo-Patino ----- The Role of Insertions and Deletions (InDels) in the Emergence of Early Proteins and Their Functionalities

• Takanori Kodama ----- Climate of tidally locked exo-terrestrial planets

• Jun Su ----- Looking for large redox reservoirs in the Earth's deep mantle

• Joe Kirschvink ----- Evidence for Magnetotactic Bacteria at 3.47 Ga, from Black Cherts of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

• Riddhi Gondhalekar ----- Deciphering the origin of protein polymerases using an RNA-protein coevolution system

• Suresh  Bansal ----- Earth Itself is a Single Giant living Organism 

• Aileen Cooney ----- Viscous changes in synthetic cells as a tool towards novel functionalities

• Takumi Matsunaga ----- Mapping out Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary Heat Flux with multi-seismic structures

• Shunto Harada ----- Generating Electrochemical Proton Gradients across the Primitive Fatty Acid Vesicle under Simulated Geoelectrical Current at Hydrothermal Vents

• Austin Taylor ----- Is there a Mixed Layer at the Top of the Outer Core?

• Tamami Okamoto ----- Effect of different stickiness between icy and silicate particles on carbon depletion in a protoplanetary disk

• Siddhant Sharma ----- A computational workflow for the discovery of autocatalytic networks in abiotic reactions

• Kaustav Sen ----- Volatile Budget of Young Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone of M-Stars

• Keiko Hamano ----- Planetary mass dependence of oxygen fugacity in a magma ocean

• Hideshi Ooka ----- Autocatalytic Threshold to Sustain Chemical Reaction Networks in the Presence of Diffusion

• Akira Yamaguchi ----- Synthesis of metabolic-hub compounds starting from CO2 as a reaction substrate

• Jinfei Yu ----- Unveiling Aqueous Alteration and Thermal Metamorphism in Carbonaceous Asteroids: Insights from Four Infrared Features

• Courteney Monchinski ----- The Icy Origins of the Martian Moons

• Christine Houser ----- Constraints on early mantle oxidation from iron-rich regions along the core-mantle boundary

• Shota Nishikawa ----- Bottom-up construction of a polylactate-metabolizing chemoheterotrophic system

• Xiaofeng Zang ----- Photochemical Synthesis of amonia, amino acids and imidazole from CO and N2O

• Koudai Taguchi ----- 13C-13C Abiomarker of hydrocarbons

• Hayate Hirai ----- Minimal Nutritional Requirements of Diverse Microorganisms Inferred by Metabolic Network Expansion

• Shintaro Kadoya ----- Boron cycle under Neoproterozoic snowball events: δ11B could indicate the evolution of B concentration, not ocean pH

• Harrison Smith ----- Life detection in a universe of false positives

• Shotaro Tagawa ----- Role of subseafloor supercritical CO2-water two-phase environment in chemical evolution

• Tomoharu Suda ----- Chemical reaction networks from a non-autonomous viewpoint

• Hiroya Takahashi ----- Understanding the formation mechanism of mineral alignment in hydrothermal vents: a laboratory approach to origin of life studies 

• Kota Yanase ----- Development of a screening method to identify the peptide sequence capable of catalyzing adenylation reactions

• Yoko Ochiai ----- Monte Carlo simulation of complex organic molecules synthesis by UV irradiation

• Nishiki Tomizawa ----- Heterolytic N-N coupling Catalyzed by Copper Sulfide Mineral Toward Nonenzymatic Pyrimidine Nucleobase Synthesis

• Yasuto Watanabe ----- Atmospheric methane on early Earth and inhabited Earth-like exoplanets around stars with different spectral types

• Kazumi Ozaki ----- Relative abundances of CO2, CO, and CH4 in atmospheres of Earth-like lifeless planets

• Kohei Morino ----- Quantitative Understanding of Nucleoside Phosphorylation in Supercritical CO2 - Water Two-Phase System

• Yoshiaki Endo ----- A numerical analysis of Δ36S/Δ33S dependence on definitions of sulfur mass-independent fractionation: Implication for early Earth's atmosphere

• Hayato Tazaki ----- Investigation of enzymatic thioester and thioacid formation 

• Wancheng Zhang ----- Oriented folding of lipid bilayer regulated by proteins

• Yuta Sato ----- Intramolecular 13C distibution of biogenic acetate from CO and CO2

• Tetsuo Taki ----- Revisiting the greenhouse effect of non-greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of Earth-like planets

• Shunjiro Sodei ----- A high-throughput screening system for the emergence of cofactor-peptide synergistic catalysis

• Thilina Heenatigala ----- An Exploratory Study on Origins of Life and Public Engagement: Views from the Researchers

• Taiyo Tamura ----- Bioinformatic Assessment on the Linear Scaling Relationship between the Binding Affinity and the Rate Constant of Enzymes 

• Akira Tanemura ----- Production of sulfide metal chimney wall in the flow-reactor simulating ancient deep-sea alkaline hydrothermal system

• Selene Cannelli  ----- Exploring the dynamics of Fatty Acid Vesicles with various buffers and minerals

• Rei Abe ----- Phylogenetic distribution of genes related to non-ribosomal protein synthesis in archaea

• Mizuki Horino ----- Laboratory evolution experiment of Cupriavidus necator H16 with semi-synthetic carbon fixation pathway 

• Natsumi Noda ----- Effective DNA hybridization via freeze-thaw cycles and implication for prebiotic formation of large information molecules

• Adriano Mazzini ----- The Indonesian Lusi eruption: an unprecedented opportunity to explore extremophiles and early life communities

• Ankita Jauhari  ----- TBD

• Anoop B S ----- Unveiling the Functional Significance of ArcB Protein in Bacterial Proteomes: Implications for Human Exoplanetary Habitability

• Beatrice Marincioni ----- A prebiotic route towards lipids: photo-oxidation of a primeval oil slick

• Martina  Preiner ----- Mineral surfaces as protoenzymes: how to connect cofactors, rock pores and heterogeneous catalysis

• Eito Hirai ----- Investigation for physicochemical properties of organic materials: Toward understanding the origin and evolution of organic dunes on Titan