Welcome, introductory remarks

Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium

• Izaskun Jiménez-Serra

In the past decade, Astrochemistry has witnessed an impressive increase in the number of detections of complex organic molecules. Some of these species are of prebiotic interest such as glycolaldehyde, the simplest sugar, or amino acetonitrile, a possible precursor of glycine. Recently, we have reported the detection of several new complex organic species in the interstellar medium, such as hydroxylamine, ethanolamine and n- propanol, known to be intermediate species in the formation process of ribonucleotides and phospholipids within theories for the origin of life. In this talk, I will present our recent efforts to establish whether key precursors of prebiotic systems chemistry can be found in space, and I will show how we can tackle searches with future instrumentation such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life: the legacy of Joan Oró

• Antonio Lazcano

Round table discussion: Joan OrÓ and our ideas on the origin of life

• Ricard Guerrero
• Carme Chica
• Antonio Lazcano

Outreach talk: Exoplanetes: A la recerca d’un altra Terra

• Ignasi Ribas

Investigating the interior secrets of the Solar System

• Toni Santana-Ros

The Hycean Paradigm in Exoplanet Habitability

• Nikku Madhusudhan

Afternoon for local visits

LIFE looks for life

• Daniel Angerhausen

Final round-table discussion: The future of the search for life in the Solar System, exoplanets and interstellar medium

Open gatherings for discussions, collaborations and poster papers