

Scientific Program:
List of Speakers and Sessions Chairs
PLENARY SESSION SPEAKERS
Steven Benner (USA)
Gerald Schroeder (Israel)
Sir John Walker (UK)
Ada Yonath (Israel)
PLENARY SESSION CHAIRS
Russ Carlson (USA)
Tim Cox (UK)
Joel Sussman (Israel)
Speakers and Session Chairs
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: PRE-BIOTIC CHEMISTRY
ORIGIN OF LIFE: LIPIDS
ORIGIN & FINE-TUNING OF THE GENETIC CODE
PATHWAYS TO FUNCTIONAL ISLANDS IN PROTEIN SEQUENCE SPACE
EVOLUTION OF NOVEL PROTEINS BY MODIFICATION
EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
FINE-TUNING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
NEW APPROACHES IN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
WHAT IS EMERGING?
Jeremy England (USA)
Peter Imming (Germany)
Ron Naaman (Israel)
David Snoke (USA)
Tomonori Totani (Japan)
James Tour (USA)
David Deamer (USA)
Tony Futerman (Israel)
Doron Lancet (Israel)
Nigel Pyne (UK)
Zachary Ardern (UK)
Ádám Kun (Hungary)
Paul Nelson (USA)
Scott Turner (USA)
Charisse Crenshaw (USA)
Sarel Fleishman (Israel)
Klára Hlouchová (Czech Republic)
Brian Miller (USA)
John Moult (USA)
Israel Silman (Israel)
Lianet Noda (Israel)
Shifra Ben-Dor (Israel)
Klaus Neuhaus (Germany)
Cara M. Weisman (USA)
Zachary Ardern (UK)
Michael Behe (USA)
Richard Buggs (UK)
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern (Israel)
Ola Hössjer (Sweden)
Karl Skorecki (Israel)
Yuval Tabach (Israel)
Offer Gerlitz (Israel)
Emyr MacDonald (UK)
Siegfried Scherer (Germany)
Scott Turner (USA)
Charisse Crenshaw (USA)
Henry Heng (USA)
Martin Nowak (USA)
Addy Pross (Israel)
Yoav Soen (Israel)
James Shapiro (USA)
Zachary Ardern (UK)
Richard Buggs (UK)
Steve Fuller (UK)
Klára Hlouchová (Czech Republic)
Doron Lancet (Israel)
John Lennox (UK)
Addy Pross (Israel)
Nigel Pyne (UK)