Danish Origins of Life Initiative (DOLI)

The Danish Origins of Life Initiative (DOLI) is a new initiative to strengthen research in the origins of life across all disciplines within Denmark and abroad. DOLI is currently being started and will be officially funded at the 2025 Danish Origins of Life Symposium in Copenhagen as an association for all to join. It will be up to the funding committee to define DOLI further.

Already, DOLI might serve as a place to advertise relevant events in DK and abroad. Please get in contact if you have news or events that we should post here.

As our first activity we are hosting the 2-day Danish Origins of Life Symposium (25-26 August 2025) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

News and Events

18-22 august 2025 (Copenhagen) - Dust2DNA: A one-week course, aimed at PhD students, that covers the journey from interstellar dust to habitable planets and the conditions for life. (Registration deadline is 31 May 2025)

25-26 August 2025 (Copenhagen) - The Danish OOL Symposium: Our 2-day OOL symposium on interstellar catalysis, planet formation, prebiotic chemistry, self-assembly, autocatalysis, and the onset of evolution hosted by DOLI. (Early registration deadline is 20 June 2025)

26-29 August 2025 (Copenhagen) - Multipliciy in Young Stars a conference held in Copenhagen (registration is open).

Passed events

10 June 2025 (Aarhus) - AUNAB interdisciplinary workshop: A one day workshop on the historical perspectives of engineering life in science, literature and art. (Registration deadline is 31 May 2025)

Relevant networks

Aarhus University Network for Artificial Biology (AUNAB) - AUNAB is an Interdisciplinary Research Network funded by Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University to promote the exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from different departments, support the coordination and knowledge exchange with respect to academic and/or strategic initiatives and provide an inviting and stimulating platform for young researchers and new faculty at AU on the topic on Artificial Biology.