Nancy Y Kiang, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Robert E. Blankenship, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Biology, St. Louis, United States, Christopher Gisriel, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Biochemistry, Madison, United States, Alessandro Agostini, University of Padua, Department of Chemical Sciences, Padua, Italy, Daniel Canniffe, University of Liverpool, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Tanai Cardona, Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology, London, United Kingdom, Nathan Ennist, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Seattle, United States, Woodward W Fischer, Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, Yuka Fujii, SOKENDAI Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Astronomical Science Program, Kanagawa, Japan, Yu Komatsu, Ibaraki University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Mito, Japan, Betul Kacar, University of Arizona, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson, United States; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology, Madison, WI, United States, Nicoletta La Rocca, University of Padua, Department of Biology, Padua, Italy, Avi Mandell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Taro Matsuo, Osaka University, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka, Japan, Gary Moore, Arizona State University, Biodesign Institute, Tempe, United States and Edward Schwieterman, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States