(brief report)

ELSI hosted the 5th ELSI International Symposium: Expanding Views on the Emergence of the Biosphere on January 10-13, 2017.

The 5th ELSI International Symposium: Expanding Views on the Emergence of the Biosphere was held on January 11-13th, 2017, at Titech Kuramae Hall.

Symposium official page
Program

Starting with the pre-event "Young Researchers' Day" on January 10, over 100 researchers in various field gathered and shared many lectures and discussions for three days.
All talks at the hall were webcasted via SAGANet.org and some research presentation was also published in the articles. Exciting research activities has been widely delivered to the world.

-"Many Worlds" column featuring ELSI written by Marc Kaufman
http://www.manyworlds.space/index.php/2017/01/15/messy-chemistry-evolving-rocks-and-the-origin-of-life/

-Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine (online)
Are Humans Freaks of Nature?
http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/are-humans-freaks-nature-180961785/#4ISRAwybs16mBCfh.01

-Researcher's Tweets log: Storify
https://storify.com/elsi-yrd
https://storify.com/elsi-5th-symposium