Upcoming activities

9 March 2026, 11:30 – 13:00
AMCOOL pizza gathering

16 April 2026, 15:30
Lecture by Anja Spang
More information about this lecture will follow soon.

Past activities

12 November 2025
AMCOOL mini-symposium

23 September 2025
Nick Lane – Life as a guide to Its own origin
You can watch a recording of this lecture here.

2 June 2025
Bas van de Schootbrugge – Mass extinctions, mutants and metal pollution

19 May 2025
Fabio Pietrucci – Towards effective computer simulations of prebiotic chemical reactions and other rare events

18 Mar 2025
Poster session Origins research at UvA

4 Feb 2025
Ewine van Dishoeck – Building stars, planets & the ingredients for life in space: now with JWST!

14 Jan 2025
Funding opportunities for origins

17 Dec 2024
Sybren Otto – An approach to the de-novo synthesis of life

19 Nov 2024
Origins research in Amsterdam

16 Sep 2024
Origins institutes throughout Europe