This last issue of OLEB of 2011 contains a collection of papers from ORIGINS 2011.

The conference, which was jointly organized by Bioastronomy (IAU Commission 51) and ISSOL, was held in Montpellier, France from 3 to 8 July, 2011. The joint meeting was an experiment for both organizations and was universally considered to have been a great success. It has been decided to repeat the exercise and the next conference will be held in 2014 in Nara, Japan. OLEB congratulates the two societies and, particularly, the Local Organizing Committee of ORIGINS 2011, which was chaired by Muriel Gargaud and Robert Pascal.

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ORIGINS 2011 photo by Innovaxiom (Paris).