
CHEMALIFORMS IV
Today, the fourth workshop on chemistry and artificial life forms CHEMALIFORMS IV, organized by Jitka, took place at the ALIFE 2024 conference in Copenhagen. The workshop featured three presentations and a panel discussion where leading experts Steen Rasmussen, Martin Hanczyc, Takashi Ikegami, and Richard Loffler delved into the future of wet artificial life.
The workshop focused on the creation of life-like forms in the laboratory using chemical and biochemical materials. Key topics included wet artificial life, synthetic biology, origin of life, protocells, droplets, chemobrionics, messy chemistry, and other related fields. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines interested in wet artificial life, including chemists, physicists, and biologists. Additionally, computer scientists conducting mathematical simulations of life-like phenomena in chemical systems and experts in robotics, who build platforms for laboratory experiment automation, also participated.