The Danish Origins of Life Initiative (DOLI) is pleased to announce the 2025 Danish Origins of Life Symposium, which will take place 25-26 August 2025 at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen.

The focus of the meeting is: "bridging orders of magnitude - from interstellar catalysis and planet formation to prebiotic chemistry, self-assembly, autocatalysis, and the onset of evolution."

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(Early deadline: 20 June 2025)

Speakers:

David Deamer, University of California, Santa Cruz

Hannes Mutschler, TU Dortmund University

Claudia Bonfio, University of Cambridge

Dante Lauretta, University of Arizona

Liv Hornekær, Aarhus University

Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark

Minik Rosing, University of Copenhagen

Lars A. Buchhave, Technical University of Denmark

Birthe Kragelund, University of Copenhagen

Johan Olsen, University of Copenhagen

Ebbe Andersen, Aarhus University

Uffe Gråe, Copenhagen University

And more to come …

Organizers:

Tue Hassenkam, University of Copenhagen

Emil Kristoffersen, Aarhus University

The meeting

The symposium aims to bring together world-leading scientists in astrophysics, geology, chemistry, and biology for a 2-day intensive meeting to discuss theories on how life originated, viewed from different scientific disciplines. This discussion will truly bridge many orders of magnitude, from the lightyear to the nanometre scale, covering the entire range important for the origin and evolution of life.

The seminar will focus on facilitating discussions and establishing contacts among scientists from different disciplines, aiming to have an impact beyond the seminar itself. It will also facilitate the foundation of the Danish Origins of Life Initiative (DOLI). DOLI is a new initiative aimed at organizing researchers in Denmark, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration, raising funding, and inspiring young researchers to enter the origins of life research area. To spur discussions, we have invited prominent speakers who have made a profound impact on the field of origins of life research across multiple disciplines.

Programme (25.-26. August 2025)

The program will consist of scientific talks, early-career talks and keynotes. There will be a poster session, and we hope that students and early career researchers will join the seminar as well. For signing up for early-career talks please submit an abstract before the 20 June deadline.

Full program to be announced.