3Rd Working Group Meeting of the Working Group 3 ( Compartmentalization )

3rd Working group meeting of the Working Group 3 (“Compartmentalization”)

Working Group 3 Coordinator: Prof. Peter Walde, Department of Materials, ETH, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 5, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland:

Focus of the Meeting:

Effect of Vesicle on Chemical Reactions and Importance of Vesicles for the Origin of Life

Place of the meeting

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland

Dates

March 30 – April 1, 2017

Local organizer

Prof. RyszardOstaszewski, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Program

Friday, March 31, 2017

08:45 – 09:00 Opening and general information

Peter Waldeand RyszardOstaszewski

09:00 – 09:20 Guiding of chemical reactions by dispersed and interface-rich systems

Peter Walde, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

09:20 – 09:50 From amphiphilic molecules to spherical and cubic lipid vesicles

Andreas Zumbühl, Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

09:50 – 10:20 Investigation of the Ugi reaction in an aqueous vesicle system

RyszardOstaszewski, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

10:20 – 11:00 Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 – 11:30 Self-promotion of a multicomponent reaction in aqueous medium

Daniel Paprockiand RyszardOstazewski, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

11:30 – 12:00 Improving Giant Unilamellar Vesicles for light energy transduction

Emiliano Altamura and Fabio Mavelli, Chemistry Department, University “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Discussions

14:00 – 14:30 Effect of anionic vesicles on the enzymatic oligomerization of p-aminodiphenylamine

Sandra Luginbühland Peter Walde, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

14:30 – 15:00 Membrane interactions which influence Tdt and T7 RNA polymerase reactivity

Pierre-Alain Monnard, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

15:00 – 15:30 Phosphorylation of long chain alcohols and « incomplete lipids »: from prebiotic to green chemistry, an overview

Peter Strazewskiand Michele Fiore, SysChem – LaboratoireChimieOrganique 2 – ICBMS, UniversitéClaude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee and Tea Break

16:00 – 16:30 ATP-induced hierarchical self-assembly of supramolecular amphiphiles

Flavio della Sala and Leonard Prins, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

16:30 – 17:00 Computational model for the chiral amplification of prebiotic peptides

Stefano Piotto, UniversitàdegliStudi di Salerno, Dipartimento di Farmacia/DIFARMA, Salerno, Italy

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Chairman (morning): Peter Walde

09:00 – 09:30 No vesicle, no life: chemistry without dynamic compartments will never turn biological

Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

09:30 – 11:30 Discussions (coordinated by Peter Walde) with a coffee break. Based on the presentations on Friday and on the discussions following the presentations, the discussions will focus on ideas about possible collaborations between individual groups within the working group. The discussion may be in two or three smaller groups, depending on the outcome on Friday.

11:30 Closingremarks

Peter Waldeand Ryszard Ostaszewski