SHOL 2025
Welcome to the homepage of the 2nd edition of the Swiss Habitability and Origin of Life days (SHOL). This edition will happen in Lausanne on the 27th and 28th of March.
Program
Thursday 27th of March
| Hour | Talk | Title |
| 9h20-9h50 | Welcome | Coffee | |
| 9h50-10h00 | Johanna & Emeline | Welcome to SHOL 25 |
| 10h00-11h00 | Nicolas Winssinger | The Rise of Molecular Complexity |
| 11h00-12h00 | Christophe Lovis | A landscape of exoplanet detections and studies |
| 12h00-13h00 | Lunch | |
| 13h00-14h00 | Allison Daley | Deciphering the early animal fossil record |
| 14h00-15h00 | Loïc Pellissier | Planetary evolvability for life |
| 15h00-17h30 | Poster Session | |
| 19h | Conference dinner |
Friday 28th of March
| Hour | Talk | Title |
| 9h-10h | Maura Brunetti | Long-Term Climate Stability on Earth (and beyond): mechanisms leading to greenhouse and icehouse regimes |
| 10h-10h30 | Coffee break | |
| 10h30 -11h30 | Paul Tackley | Tectonics, interior dynamics and outgassing of rocky planets |
| 11h30-12h30 | Audrey Vorburger | Exploring Ocean Worlds: Habitability and the Search for Life in the Outer Solar System |
| 12h30-13h30 | Lunch | |
| 13h30-14h30 | Jan Roelof van der Meer | Evolutionary mechanisms of adaptation in the microbial world |
| 14h30-16h30 | Poster Session | |
| 16h30-17h | Quizz | |
| 18h30 | Table Ronde (French) | A. Daley, N. Winssinger, B.-O. Demory |
* placeholders titles
List of Posters
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Laure Moinat | Development of a new biogeodynamical tool for exoclimate modeling |
| Anna Gülcher | Venus and Earth as key anchor points for habitability |
| Valentin Bickel | Martian Slopes do not Experience Transient Flows of Water |
| Marrick Braam | Investigating the pathways to prebiotic compounds in exoplanet atmospheres |
| Adam Valantinas (only there on Friday) |
Detection of ferrihydrite in Martian red dust records ancient cold and wet conditions on Mars |
| Asena Kuzucan | Early Mars: A Habitable Past? |
| Marilina Valatsou | Habitability in water-rich worlds: Linking the atmosphere to the deep interior |
| Kamal Mghazli | The Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition in the Anti-Atlas, Morocco: High-Resolution δ13C Isotope Stratigraphy and Paleontological Evidence |
| Chloé Truong | Iron-rich early Earth alkaline vent analogues as proto-bioenergetic systems |
| Adriana Clouet | Preparation of two minimal experimental systems to understand prebiotic chemiosmosis |
| Lisa Brandenburg | Combining Homochirality and Pigment Biosignatures to Detect Microbial Life |
| Dan Bower | Inventories of Life-Supporting Elements at Planetary Surfaces |
| Jack Gillespie | Dating hydrothermal alteration of the early Martian crust |
| Siddharth Bhatnagar | Diving into exo-oceans: Implications for the climate of TRAPPIST-1e |
| Alice Bosco Santos | Can Viruses Influence Sulfide Metabolism in Anoxic Environments? |
| Nora Hänni | About nucleobases and amino acids on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |
| Susanne Wampfler | Nitrogen isotopes as fingerprints for the evolution of organic matter in planetary systems |
| Revol Alexandre | Models and observations of the rotational state of the TRAPPIST-1 planets |
| Valentin Jamart | Updating the Cambrian Time Scale: A Bayesian approach |
| Caroline Dorn | How to link atmospheric C/O to deep planet interiors |
| Philip Werner | Redox paleo-recording based on sediment composition of Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| Komal Bali | FeOOH in Magma Oceans: A Geochemical Pathway for Molecular Oxygen Outgassing |
| Mathilde Houelle | Exploring the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets and their observability in reflected light with upcoming high-resolution spectrographs |
| Maddalena Bugatti | Detecting and characterizing Proxima b with RISTRETTO |
| Saroj Rout | An Amyloid-Centric View of the Prebiotic Origin of Molecular Complexity |
| Pallab Basuri | Spontaneous Formation of Urea from Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia at the Air-Water Interface of Microdroplets |
| Edoardo Gianni | Development of RNA-based minimal self-replicating systems |
Venue
- The talks and the poster sessions will happen at the Amphimax, located on the campus of the AV短视频 of Lausanne (see screenshot below). Stop at Metro Stop UNIL-Sorge.
- The Conference dinner (27th of March) will be at Café L'Evêché close to the Lausanne Cathedral.
Google maps link - The outreach event (28th of March) will be at the Amphimax, like the talks. Note that this event will be in French.
We would like to thank our partners for this event!
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Some souvenirs of SHOL25!
