Second year: April 2005 – March 2006

Note that two workshops, Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Evolution and PACE-PAs Science Coordination- Protocell components interactions were supported by funding external to PACE funds.

The two workshops Social and Ethical Issues in Protocell Research: Risk and Responsibilities in an Uncertain World and Social and Ethical Issues Regarding Protocells: Questions and Answers will form the basis of a planned book, Social and Ethical Perspectives on Protocells (eds. Mark Bedau and Emily Parke).

The inter-project workshop planned with another FET IP has been postponed to the coming year.