Cellular Evolution: From Matter to Life

Chair: L. Bogorad (Harvard, U.S.A.) / J. Seckbach (Jerusalem, Israel)

• Fredrick, M. (New York, U.S.A.)
  The Origin of Protists: Glycogen Storage (Paper by J.F. Fredrick)

• Stetter, K.O. (Regensburg, Germany)
  Archaeal and Bacterial Life at the Upper Temperature Border

• Matsuno, K. (Nagaoka, Japan)
  Autocatalytic Oligopeptide Synthesis in a Flow Reactor Simulating Submarine Hydrothermal Vents

• Kandler, O. (München, Germany)
  Diversification of Early Life and the Origin of the Three Domains

• Bogorad, L. (Harvard, U.S.A.)
  Evolution of Eukaryotism

• Searcy, D.G. (Amherst, U.S.A.)
  Sulfur Respiration by Eukaryotic Cytoplasm: Accidental, or Vestigial, or Functional?

 Eukaryogenesis

Chair: T.E. Jensen (New York, U.S.A.) / J.J. Lee (New York, U.S.A.)

• Lee, J.J. and Correia, M. (New York, U.S.A.)
  Morphometric variation of Nitzschia frustulum var. symbiotica the most common endosymbiotic diatom in larger foraminifera

• Nakamura, H. (Kobe, Japan)
  Non-Symbiotic Eukaryogenesis - Membrane Evolution Theory

• Jensen, T.E. (New York, U.S.A.)
  Origin of Eukaryotic Cells by Intra-Cellular Natural Selection

• Krisman, C. (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  Glucosyltransferase: From Genesine to the Macromolecule

• Chapman, R.L. and Waters, D.A. (Baton Rouge, U.S.A.)
  The mysterious origin and evolution of green algae and land plants from ancient marine flagellates

 Organellar Evolution and Ecology of Prokaryotes

Chair: M. Sugiura (Nagoya, Japan) / O. Kandler (München, Germany)

• Seckbach, J. (Jerusalem, Israel)
  Cellular Evolution and Ubiquity of Life: Eukaryogenesis

• Baumeister, W. (Martinsried, Germany)
  Thermosomes and Proteasomes: Evolution of the Cellular Protein Folding and Degradation Machinery

• Hartman, H. (Berkeley, U.S.A.)
  The Origin and Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell. The Nucleus as Endosymbiont

• Rizzotti, M. (Padova, Italy)
  The Possible Origin of the Bacterial Flagellum

• Rainey, F.A. (Baton Rouge, U.S.A.)
  The extensive diversity of the prokaryotes even in extreme environments

• Sugiura, M. (Nagoya, Japan)
  Phytogene Sequence: From Cyanobacteria to Plastids

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