Phil. Trans. R. Soc.

B (2006) 361, 1893–1894

doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1911

List of posters presented at the Royal Society

Discussion Meeting ‘Conditions for the emergence
of life on the early Earth’

Modelling the Martian subsurface radiation environment

L. R. DARTNELL1, A. J. COATES2, J. M. WARD3
1
CoMPLEX (Centre for Mathematics & Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology),
University College London, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK (l.dartnell@ucl.ac.uk)
2
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmburg St Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK
3
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Protein and nucleic acid together: a mechanism for the emergence of biological selection
Professor TREVOR DALE
Cardiff School of Biosciences, Biomedical Sciences Building, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK

Complexity of biotic materials from space

CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE AND MAX WALLIS
Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff, UK

On the origin of the Murchison meteorite phosphonates: implications for pre-biotic chemistry
IAN B. GORRELL,1 LIMING WANG,1,2 ALISON J. MARKS,3 DAVID E. BRYANT,1 FRÉDÉRIQUE BOUILLOT,1
ANDREW GODDARD,1 DWAYNE E. HEARD,1 AND TERENCE P. KEE1
1
School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
2
School of Chemistry, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
3
School of Pharmacy, University of Bradford, Richmond Road, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK

Direct evidence for the availability of water soluble reactive phosphorus on the early Earth:
H-Phosphinic acid from the Nantan meteorite fall
DAVID E. BRYANT AND TERENCE P. KEE
School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Life from poison? Hydrogen cyanide polymers and the origin of life
RICHARD W. COURT1, JOHN PARNELL1, MARK A. SEPHTON2
1
Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, College of Physical Sciences, Meston Building, King’s College,
University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE
2
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ

Evolution of prebiotic oscillations

JOHN A HEWITT
John A. Hewitt MA PhD, 33 Hillyfields, Dunstable, Beds. LU6 3NS, United Kingdom ( john.hewitt22@virgin.net)

Mineral clusters as common factors in the emergence of life and of oxygenic photosynthesis
JOHN F. ALLEN1 AND MICHAEL J. RUSSELL2
1
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
( j.f.allen@qmul.ac.uk)
2
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California, USA
(michael.j.russell@jpl.nasa.gov)

Hydrogen cyanide polymers deposited by comets may have initiated protein/nucleic acid life on Earth
CLIFFORD N. MATTHEWS1 AND ROBERT D. MINARD2
1
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60680 USA (hcnmatthews@cs.com)
2
Penn State Astrobiology Research Centre and Chemistry Department, 104 Chemistry Building, Penn State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA (rminard@psu.edu)

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1894 Posters

The Tiamat Hypothesis and the early faint sun paradox

ALASTAIR B. MCDONALD
The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK (abm33@student.open.ac.uk)

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C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of the formose reaction
GEOFFREY D. BROWN
School of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AD ( g.d.brown@reading.ac.uk)

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