○Eleanor F. Banwell (Riken), Jonathan Heddle (Riken)

9. On extension of K2P model

○Takuma Nishimaki (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Keiko Sato (Tokyo Univ. of Science),

Toshihide Hara (Tokyo Univ. of Science)

10. A sequence alignment method for proteins taking into account the sequence annotation

○Hara Toshihide (Tokyo Univ. of science), Sato Keiko (Tokyo Univ. of science), Ohya

Masanori (Tokyo Univ. of science)

11. Simplified genetic codes for creation of primordial proteins

Kazuaki Amikura (Tokyo Tech, Int. Disp. Grad.), Daisuke Kiga (Tokyo Tech, Int. Disp. Grad.)

12. Structural bioinformatics studies of [GADV]-peptides

○Oda Akifumi (Kanazawa Univ., Osaka Univ.), Fukuyoshi Shuichi, Nakagaki Ryoichi

(Kanazawa Univ.)

13. Entirely new genes are created from GC-NSF(a)s of eubacteria

Chieko Kamata, Toru Sonoda, Kosuke Amakatsu, ○Kenji Ikehara (Nara Study Center of Open

University of Japan, Narasaho college, International Institute for Advanced Studies)

March 15 (Fri)

<General Contributions: Space Science>

14. Chemical and isotopic characteristics of the primitive organic matter in carbonaceous

meteorites

○Hiroshi Naraoka, Yuta Hamamura, Yohei Yamashita (Kyushu Univ. Sci)

15. The contrasting chemical compositions of impact-induced atmospheres between Earth and

Mars

○Hideharu Kuwahara (Complexity Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Tokyo), Seiji Sugita (Complexity Sci.

& Eng., Univ. of Tokyo)

16. A theoretical study of hydrothermal reactions on icy moons: constraints on the temperature

and habitability of Enceladus' ocean

○Mishima Shinpei (Tokyo Univ. Sci.), Sekine Yasuhito, Sugita Seiji (Tokyo Univ. Frontier

Sci.)

17. Roles of high-molecular-weight complex organics in abiotic generation of biochemical

functions

○Kensei Kobayashi, Yukinori Kawamoto, Midori Eto, Takeo Kaneko, Yumiko Obayashi

(Yokohama Natl. Univ.), Jun-ichi Takahashi (NTT), Hitoshi Fukuda, Yoshiyuki Oguri (Tokyo

Inst. Tech.), Satoshi Yoshida (NIRS), Kazuhiro Kanda (Univ. Hyogo)

18. Abiotic synthesis of nucleic acid bases from simulated interstellar media by particles

irradiation

○Takuto Okabe, Takeo Kaneko, Yumiko Obayashi (Yokohama Natl. Univ.), Hitoshi Fukuda,

Yoshiyuki Oguri (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Satoshi Yoshida (NIRS), Kensei Kobayashi (Yokohama

Natl. Univ.)

19. Alteration of amino acids and related compounds by soft X-ray irradiation

○Yukinori Kawamoti, Takeo Kaneko, Yumiko Obayashi (Yokohama Natl. Univ.), Kazuhiro

Kanda (Univ. Hyogo), Kensei Kobayashi (Yokohama Natl. Univ.)

20. Current status of preparation of TANPOPO mission (Astrobiology Exposure and

Micrometeoroid Capture Experiments) and investigation of survivability of microbes in space

○Shin-ichi Yokobori, Yuko Kawaguchi, Yinjie Yang, Narutoshi Kawashiri, Keisuke Shiraishi,

Yasuyuki Shimizu, Yuta Takahashi, Tomohiro Sugino (Tokyo Univ. Pharm. Life Sci.), Issay

Narumi, Katsuya Satoh (JAEA), Satoshi Yoshida (NIRS), Kazumichi Nakagawa, Yoshiaki

Tanigawa (Kobe Univ.), Kaori Tomita-Yokotani (Univ. Tsukuba), Nobuhiro Hayashi (Tokyo

Inst. Tech.), Eiichi Imai (Nagaoka Univ. Tech.), Kyoko Okudaira (Univ. Aizu), Hideyuki

Kawai (Chiba Univ.), Kensei Kobayashi (Yokohama Natl. Univ.), Makoto Tabata (Chiba Univ.,

JAXA), Masumi Higashide (JAXA), Hajime Mita (Fukuoka Inst. Tech.), Hikaru Yabuta (Osaka

Univ.) Hirofumi Hashimoto, Hajime Yano (JAXA), Akihiko Yamagishi (Tokyo Univ. Pharm.

Life Sci.), & TANPOPO WG (JAXA)

21. The possible interplanetary migration of aggregated microbes: Deinococcal cells inside

aggregate can be protected from UV radiation

○Yuko Kawaguchi, Yinjie Yang, Narutoshi Kawashiri, Keisuke Shiraishi (Sch. Life Sci.,

Tokyo Univ. Pharm. Life Sci.), Kazumiti Nakagawa, Yoshiaki Tanigawa (Grad. Sch. Human

Develop. Environ., Kobe Univ.), Hirofumi Hashimoto (JAXA/ISAS), Issay Narumi, Katuhiko

satoh (JAEA/QuBS), Satoshi Yoshida (NIRS), Shin-ichi Yokobori, Akihiko Yamaghishi (Sch.

Life Sci., Tokyo Univ. Pharm. Life Sci.)

22. Spore of Funaria hygrometrica (moss) which exposed on the outer wall of the Pirs docking

node of ISS for 13 months germinated

○Yuichi Takahashi, Shinpei Shibata, Jun Yokoyama (Yamagata University), Hirofumi

Hashimoto (JAXA), Shin’ichi Yokobori, Yuko Kawaguchi, Akihiko Yamagishi (Tokyo

University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences), Takuo Nakagawa (Kojirakawa Shiseido Hospital),

Oleg Gusev (NIAS), Issay Narumi, Katsuya Satoh (JAEA), Vladimir Sychev, Natalia Novikova,

Margarita Levinskikh (IMBP/RAS), Manabu Sugimoto (Okayama University)

<General Contributions: Life and RNA>

23. Discovery of RNase resistant RNAs that can reinforce the RNA world hypothesis.

○So Umekage (Toyohashi Tech. Eng.), Akinori Ochi (Toyohashi Tech. Eng.), Yu Pan

(Toyohashi Tech. Eng.), Akira Fujinuma (Toyohashi Tech. Eng.), Yo Kikuchi (Toyohashi Tech.

Eng.)

24. Origin of RNA virus

○Tomohito Tada (Aizato hospital)

25. Behavior of a hammerhead ribozyme in aqueous solution at 10 - 200°C

Nizal El-Murr, Marie-Christine Maurel, Martina Rihova, Jacques Vergne (UPMC ANBioPhy),

Guy Herve (UPMC BIOSIPE), Mikio Kato (Osaka Pref. Univ. Biol. Sci.),○Kunio Kawamura

(Hiroshima Shudo Univ. Human Envi.)

26. Template-independent RNA polymerization by oligopeptide

○Ryohei Nemoto (Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.), Takuya Umehara (Res.

Inst. for Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.), Koji Tamura (Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Technol.,

Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Res. Inst. for Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.)

27. Expression platform of glycine riboswitch and RNA world

○Kokoro Hamachi (Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.), Takuya Umehara (Res.

Inst. for Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.), Koji Tamura (Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Technol.,

Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Res. Inst. for Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.)

28. Aminoacylation of tRNATyr by Nanoarchaeum equitans TyrRS

Tatsuya Horikoshi (Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.), Takuya Umehara (Res.

Inst. for Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.), ○Koji Tamura (Dept. of Biol. Sci. & Technol.,

Tokyo Univ. of Sci., Res. Inst. for Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ. of Sci.)

<General Contributions: Archaea>

29. Three-dimensional cell structure of Thermoplasma acidophilum, a thermophilic acidophilic

Archaeon.

○Kenji Funaki, Tsubasa Matsumoto, Akihiko Yamagishi (Tokyo Univ. of Pharmacy and Life

Science, Faculty of Life Sci.)

30. Biosynthesis of L-gulose, characteristic rare sugar in the main polar lipid of thermophilic

archaea Themoplasma

Yusuke Nakayama, ○Noriaki Yamauchi (Grad. School of Sci, Kyushu Univ.)

<Symposium: Archaea as resource for research on evolution>

S1. Molecular evolution of DNA replication apparatus〜aspects from archaeal molecular

biology〜

○Yoshizumi Ishino, Katsuya Daimon, Sonoko Ishino (Kyushu Univ.)

S2. Intron and RNA splicing in Archaea

○Watanabe Yoh-ichi (Univ. Tokyo, Med.)

S3. Evolutional process detected on archaea

○KAWARABAYASI Yutaka (Kyushu Univ.)

March 16 (Sat)

<General Contributions: Chemical Evolution and Irradiation>

31. Necessity of teaching aid of chemical evolution and origins of life

○Toratane Munegumi（Naruto University of Education）

32. Evaluation of reducing power of reactions induced by discharge and plasma in aqueous

solutions

○Toratane Munegumi (Naruto University of Education)

33. Measurement of absolute absorption spectra of 20 protein amino acids and 5 nuclear acid

bases within wide energy range

○Kazumichi Nakagawa, Yoshiaki Tanigawa, Kimihiro Ishiyama, Yohei Momoki (Kobe U.)

34. Time dependent decrease of L-Ala molecules after stopping 172 nm vacuum ultraviolet

irradiation

○Yoshiaki Tanigawa, Kazumichi Nakagawa (Kobe Univ.), Yudai Izumi (JASRI)

35. Microwave assisted microbial cultivation and the effect of microwave energy

○Wataru Nagayoshi, Rintaro Hoshino, Arata Shiraishi, Shokichi Ohuchi (Kyushu Inst. Tech.,

Dept. of Biosci. and Bioinfo.), Takeo Yoshimura (Tokyo Sci. Univ., Dept of Appl. Biosci.)

36. Chemical evolutions in Titan’s liquidosphere

○Jun Kawai(YNU), Seema Jagota (NASA Ames), Takeo Kaneko, Yumiko Obayashi(YNU),

Yoshitake Yoshimura(Tamagawa Univ.), Bishun N. Khare(NASA Ames), David W. Deamer

(UCSC), Christopher P. McKay (NASA Ames), Kensei Kobayashi (YNU)

<General Contributions: Life activity at cold environment>

37. Prussian blue in prebiotic chemistry: Potential importance of nano particle characteristics

○Jumpei Kobayashi and Hikaru Yabuta (Osaka Univ., Earth and Space Sci.)

38. Quest of Snowball Earth event through carbon isotopic geochemistry of paleoproteozoic

diamictites in South Africa

○Nao Tsukahara (Osaka Univ., Earth and Space Sci.), Hikaru Yabuta (Osaka Univ., Earth and

Space Sci.), Minoru Ikehara (Kochi core center), Andrey Bekker (Univ. Manitoba, Geol)

<General Contributions: Amino Acids and Evolution>

39. Effects of smectite, water and pH on oligomerization of glycine

○Fuchida Shigeshi, Mizuno Yuki, Keiji Shinoda, Masuda Harue (Osaka City Univ. Sci)

40. Characterization of proteinoid in microspheres

Kanamaru Hiroshi, Hatae Keita, Nakamura Syouichi, Turuyama Mami, and ○Mita Hajime

(Fukuoka Inst. Technol.)

41. The synthesis of primitive surface protein by interaction among molecules at

juxtamembrane in the water

○Shinji Karasawa (Miyagi Kousen, Prof. emeritus)

42. Effect of γ-ray irradiation on rat lens proteins

○Kim InGu, Fujii Norihiko, Fujii Noriko (Kyoto Univ.)

43. Prediction of the isomerization rate of the amino acid residue in the protein during human

lifespan using model peptide

○Kenzo Aki, Norihiko Fujii, Noriko Fujii (Kyoto Univ.)

44. Inhibitionary effect of D-serin on tryptophanase-catalyzed tryptophan synthesis from

L-serine

○Ayako Hirano, Akihiko Shimada (Graduate School of Life and Environment Sciences, Univ.

Tsukuba)

45. Screening of soil microorganism with pentachlorophenol-degradating activity

○Ryo Nakahata, Akihiko Shimada (Graduate School of Life and Environment Sciences, Univ.

Tsukuba)

46. How did RNP world emerge in the late stage of RNA world?

○Nemoto, Naoto, Kumachi, Shigefumi (Saitama Univ. Grad. Sci. & Eng.), Husimi, Yuzuru

(Saitama Univ.)