Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres will be publishing the abstracts from the San Diego ISSOL conference which was held from 16 to 21 July 2017 at the University of California, San Diego, California. Participants may submit abstracts of talks and posters which were presented at the conference, by forwarding an updated Word file of the abstract to the undersigned at the address given above, before 15 September 2017. Please indicate in your mail the title of the session in which the talk or poster was presented in San Diego. The abstracts should not exceed a single printed page (including possible illustrations or tables). Full manuscripts from the San Diego Conference are also solicited for a separate issue. These should be submitted in the usual way via the journal’s home page https://link.springer.com/journal/11084 and should conform to the OLEB style (see Instructions for Authors). They should indicate on the first page that they were presented at the conference.

A.W. Schwartz