Presentations on the emergence of life on in the lab, including "Minerals, Organics, and the Origins of Life," "Synthesizing Life: From Early Origins to New Natures" and "Analysis: Synthesis." Part of a day-long symposium on the origins of life, how we came to know it, and what it means. Speaker Biography: Steven Benner is a distinguished fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. Speaker Biography: Luis Campos is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico and incoming Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology. Speaker Biography: Sophia Roosth is Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the History of Science at Harvard. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7726