News & Events

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  11.06.2026 – 12.06.2026

  Save the Date: Molecular Origins of Life Munich (MOM) Conference 2026

  The next MOM Conference will take place in June 2026 more
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  24.02.2026 – 27.02.2026

  CRC 392 Winter School 2026 - Brixen

  CRC 392 Winter School on Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life, Brixen, 24 - 27 February 2026 more
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  09.12.2025

  7th CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  Announcement: Prof. Shawn McGlynn (ELSI Japan) will be our guest in Munich for the seventh Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. more
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  20.10.2025

  New paper - A quantitative model of enzyme-free copying of RNA with dimers

  Burger et al., Nucleic Acids Research (2025) more
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  15.10.2025

  6th CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  Announcement: The CRC 392 Member Visit Tour continuous: Prof. Ebbe Andersen (Aarhus University) will be our guest in Heidelberg for the next Monthly Meeting on Wednesday, Oktober 15, 2025. more
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  22.09.2025 – 26.09.2025

  CeNS/CRC392 Workshop in Venice

  Announcement: Exploring Nanoscience and the Origins of Life: Advancing Research at the Intersection of Physics, Chemistry, and Molecular Evolution more
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  29.07.2025

  5th CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  Prof. Dr. Max von Delius (University of Ulm) will be our guest for the Monthly Meeting on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. more
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  16.07.2025 – 18.07.2025

  CRC 392 Conference: Molecular Origins of Life Munich 2025

  The online MOM Conference 2025 will take place this July more
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  06.07.2025 – 13.07.2025

  CRC392 Field Trip to Iceland

  CRC 392 PhD students and PIs explore Iceland’s active volcanic and geothermal landscapes firsthand to investigate prebiotic environments and the geological processes linked to the origin of life. more
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  26.06.2025

  New paper - Membraneless protocell confined by a heat flow

  Floroni et al., Nature Physics (2025) more
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  12.06.2025

  New paper - Computational De Novo Design of Group II Introns Yields Highly Active Ribozymes

  Szokoli et al., ChemBioChem (2025) more
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  21.05.2025

  New paper - Synthesis of Nucleoside Derivatives by Biomimetic Ester Migration

  Kurrle et al., ChemBioChem (2025) more
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  02.05.2025

  New paper - Simulated early Earth geochemistry fuels a hydrogen-dependent primordial metabolism

  Helmbrecht et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025) more
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  04.04.2025

  4th CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  Dr. Philippe Nghe (ESPCI Paris) will visit us in Munich for the Monthly Meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025. more
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  03.04.2025

  Girl's Day 2025

  CRC 392 hosting Girl's Day: Exploring the Origins of Life! more
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  17.02.2025 – 20.02.2025

  CRC 392 Winter School 2025 - Brixen

  The CRC 392 Winter School in Brixen, Italy, brought researchers together to discuss molecular evolution and the origin of life. more
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  19.12.2024

  3rd CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  3rd Monthly Meeting of CRC 392: Protocells, Coacervates, and End-of-Year Gathering more
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  04.11.2024

  2nd CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  2nd Monthly Meeting of CRC 392: Insights into Evolutionary Predictability and PhD Speaker Election more
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  16.09.2024

  1st CRC 392 Monthly Meeting

  1st Monthly Meeting of CRC 392: An Interactive Introduction for PhD Students and Researchers more
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  19.07.2024 – 20.07.2024

  CRC 392 Conference: Molecular Origins of Life Munich 2024

  CRC 392 is the new sponsor and organizer of the MOM conferences more
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  24.11.2023

  DFG funds CRC 392

  CRC 392 Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments is one of the 17 new Collaborative Research Programs DFG establishes in 2024. more