List of seminars:
NOTE:
Interdisciplinary groups are highly encouraged!!!
| DATE | TOPIC and REFERENCES | LECTURER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.11.98 | 1A | A view of earthly life as a departure point for origin of life questions | Prof.Doron Lancet |
| 1B | Life "between history and physics" + overview of proposed seminars | Daniel Segré |
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| 19.11.98 | 2A | Self-representation across the disciplines: Mathematics, Computer Science and Biology | Prof.Ehud Shapiro |
| 2B | Rationale of the search into the origin of life: an overview | Prof.Noam Lahav (Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University) | |
| 26.11.98 | 3A | Computers are not omnipotent | Prof.David Harel |
| 3B | Reconstruction of the earliest stages of the genetic code | Prof. Edward Trifonov | |
| 3.12.98 | A molecular biology primer | Prof. Doron Lancet | |
| Self-representation across the disciplines: Mathematics, Computer Science and Biology (part 2) | Prof. Ehud Shapiro | ||
| 10.12.98 | 4A |
A.I.Oparin, "Evolution of self-assembly of probionts", 1980
A.I.Oparin, "The origin of the first organisms", 1957 A.I.Oparin, "Origin of prebiological systems", 1968 |
Michal Tabach and Ayelet Vilan |
| 4B |
S.L.Miller and H.C.Urey, "Organic Compound Synthesis on the primitive
Earth",1959
S.L.Miller, "A production of amino acids under possible primitive earth conditions", 1953 J.Oró, "Stages and mechanisms of prebiological organic synthesis", 1965 S.L.Miller, "The stability of the RNA bases: Implications for the origin of life", 1998 |
Hagit Affek and Michal Palatnik | |
| 17.12.98 | 5 | A.W.Burks, "Von Neumann's self-reproducing automata", | Dana Fisman, Moshe Machline and Nir Piterman |
| 24.12.98 | 6B |
G.F.Joyce, "Continuous in vitro evolution
of catalytic function", 1997
G.F.Joyce, "RNA evolution and the origins of life" T.R.Cech, "A model for the RNA-catalyzed replication of RNA", 1986 P.Schuster, "Genotypes with phenotypes: adventures in an RNA toy world", 1997 |
Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein and Debora Steiner |
| 6A | G.Wachtershauser, "Peptides by activation
of amino acids with CO on (Ni,Fe)S surfaces: implications for the
origin of life", 1998
B.E.H.Maden, "No soup for starters? Autotrophy and the origins of metabolism" G.Wachtershauser, "Activated acetic acid by carbon fixation on (Fe,Ni)S under primordial conditions", 1997 | Daniel Segré | |
| 31.12.98 | 7A | M. Eigen, P.Schuster, "The Hypercycle",
U.Niesert et al., "Origin of Life between Scylla and Charybdis", 1981 |
Karina Ladizhansky and Ariel Lindner |
| guest seminar | Man-made cell-like compartments for molecular evolution | Dr. Dan Tawfik | |
| 7.1.98 | 8A | J.W. Thatcher, "Self-describing Turing machines and
self-replicating Cellular Automata", 1965
J.W. Thatcher, "Universality in the Von Neumann cellular model", 1964 | Eli Bachmutsky |
| 8B | E.F.Codd, "Cellular Automata", 1968 | Tal Hassner, Lillian Hueber and Oded Lachish | |
| 14.1.99 | 9B | Genetic algorithms and artificial life | Ofer Rahat, Leia Passoni and Peter Renkel | 7B |
M.R.Ghadiri, "A self replicating peptide", 1996
M.R.Ghadiri, "Emergence of symbiosis in peptide self-replication through a hypercyclic network", 1997 |
Victor Kunin |
| 21.1.99 | 10A | F.Dyson, "A model for the origin of life", 1982
F.Dyson, "Origins of life", 1985 |
Oleg Igoshin, Sergei Khristo and Felix Polyakov |
| 10B |
D.Lancet, "Graded Autocatalysis Replication Domain (GARD): kinetic
analysis of self-replication in mutually catalytic sets", 1998
D.Lancet, "Mutual catalysis in sets of prebiotic organic molecules: evolution through computer simulated chemical kinetics", 1998 D.Lancet, "Mutually catalytic amphiphiles: simulated chemical evolution and implications to exobiology", 1998 |
Tzachi Pilpel and Daniel Segré | |
| 28.1.99 | 11A | S.Kauffman, "Autocatalytic sets of proteins", 1986
S.Kauffman, "Autocatalytic replication of polymers" R.J.Bagley and J.D.Farmer, "Spontaneous emergence of a metabolism", 1991 |
Tali Yarnitzki and Gilad Yarnitzki |
| 11B | H.Morowitz,"The chemical logic of a minimum
protocell", 1988
H.J.Morowitz, "Biological Self-replicating systems" |
Amir Goldbourt and Elena Vinogradov | |
| 4.2.99 | 12A |
P.L.Luisi, "Autocatalytic self-replicating micelles as a
model for prebiotic structures", 1992
P.L.Luisi, "Enzymatic RNA synthesis in self-reproducing vesicles: an approach to the construction of a minimal synthetic cell" |
Ephraim Fass and Kobi Paz |
| G.Cairns-Smith, "Genetic Takeover" | Dafna Ben-Eli and Ilan Tsafrir | ||
| 11.2.99 | 13A |
D.W.Deamer, "Amphiphilic components of the Murchison carbonaceous
chondrite:surfaces properties and membrane formation", 1989
C.Chyba and C.Sagan, "Endogenous production, exogenous delivery and impact-shock synthesis of organic molecules: an inventory for the origins of life", 1992 |
Roni Moalev |
| 13B |
W.Fontana, "Algorithmic Chemistry", 1991
W.Fontana and L.W.Buss, "What would be conserved if 'the tape were played twice'?", 1994 |
Naaman Kam, Nurit Lichtestein and Ra'anan Carmieli | |
| 18.2.99 | 14A |
N.A.Baas, "Emergence, Hierarchies, and hyperstructures", 1994
S.Rasmussen,"Self-reproduction of dynamical hierarchies in chemical systems", 1998 [M] |
Horriya Badir and Ira Gordin |
| 14B | T.S.Ray, "An approach to the synthesis of life", 1991 | Ady Ecker |
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