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Welcome to OoLEN

We are an international post-disciplinary network of early-career researchers on the origin of life.

About Us

Understanding the origin of life (OoL) is among the greatest unsolved mysteries and represents an exciting frontier for science in the 21st century. The research on OoL is based on a variety of different, often dividing hypotheses and is only slowly transforming into a united field. The Origin of Life…Continue reading “About Us”

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OoLEN defends honest and responsible communication with the media and the public. Skimming through the media coverage about the origin…

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At OoLEN we are actively engaged in the creation of a secure, connected and healthy community. We stand strongly against…

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Post-Disciplinarity

Members of OoLEN are united by their interest in one big question: How does life start? This question existed well…

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Liam M. Longo

3 Jul 2022
Professor (non-tenured) Earth-Life Science Institute Keywords: protein folding, protein evolution, prebiotic protein design, amino acid alphabet evolution, ancestor sequence reconstruction Email: llongo at elsi dot jp
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Iris Smokers

3 Jul 2022
Phd student Radboud University Nijmegen Keywords: Coacervate protocells, phosphorylation Email: iris dot smokers at ru dot nl
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Teresa Mccarrell

3 Jul 2022
Phd student University of Minnesota Keywords: hot springs, cyanobacteria, thermophiles, oxygenic photosynthesis Email: mcca1048 at umn dot edu
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Peng A

3 Jul 2022
Phd student McGill university Keywords: phase separation, membraneless organelle Email: peng dot a at mail dot mcgill dot ca
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Ellie Hara

3 Jul 2022
Phd student University of Colorado Boulder Keywords: mineral-facilitated organic chemistry reactions, organometallic ligand chemistry, serpentinizing systems, spectroscopy (Raman, IR) Email: ellie.hara at colorado dot edu
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Annaliese Mayer

23 Jun 2022
Phd student Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Keywords: metal-microbe interactions, metallome, co-evolution, planetary protection, oceanography Email: acsmeyer at mit dot edu
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Tymofii Sokolskyi

23 Jun 2022
Phd student University of Wisconsin-Madison Keywords: Compartmentalization, Vesicle stability, Chemical ecosystems, Prebiotic soups Email: sokolskyi at wisc dot edu
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Bruno Ćurjurić

23 Jun 2022
Non-permanent position Geophysics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb Keywords: Planet Formation, Habitability, Tidal Locking, Star-Planet interactions Email: bcurjuric at gmail dot com
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Carla Bautista

23 Jun 2022
Phd student Université Laval Keywords: Experimental evolution, Hybridization, UV radiation, DNA damage, Yeast Email: c dot bautistarourjc at gmail dot com
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Shota Nishikawa

23 Jun 202223 Jun 2022
Phd student Earth-life science institute, Tokyo institute of technology Keywords: Directed evolution, Origins of translation, Ribosome evolution, RNA-peptide convolution, Cell-free system Email: shotanishikawa at elsi dot jp
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Roger Rubio Sanchez

23 Jun 2022
Postdoc Imperial College London Keywords: lipid self-assembly, protocells, membrane organisation Email: r dot rubio at imperial dot ac dot uk
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Thomas Matreux

23 Jun 2022
Phd student LMU Munich, Germany Keywords: thermal gradients, biophysics, selection processes, microfluidics Email: th dot matreux at physik dot lmu dot de
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Elia Salibi

11 May 2022
Phd student TU Dortmund Keywords: Protocells, Catalytic Nucleic Acids, Phospholipid Membranes Email: elia.salibi at tu-dortmund dot de
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Loraine Schwander

11 May 202212 May 2022
Phd student Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Keywords: Hydrothermal vents, Metabolism, Serpentinization, Mineral surface chemistry, Network analysis Email: loraine.schwander at hhu dot de
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Paul B Rimmer

11 May 202211 May 2022
Professor (non-tenured) University of Cambridge Keywords: Planetary astrochemistry, Chemical kinetics, Prebiotic chemistry, Origins of life, Heterogenous photochemistry, Atmospheric chemistry Email: pbr27 at cam.ac dot uk
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Claudia Alvarez

11 May 2022
Postdoc Georgia Institute of Technology Keywords: Evolution of Protein Folds, Evolution of the Translation Machinery Email: ccarreno6 at gatech dot edu
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Juliette Langlais

11 May 2022
PhD Student Ludwig Maximilans University Keywords: RNA world, Polymerisation, Phosphorylation, 2'3'cyclic phosphate nucleotides, Polyphosphate Email: juliette.langlais at physik.uni-muenchen dot de
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Kavita Matange

11 May 202211 May 2022
PhD Student Georgia Institute of Technology Keywords: Chemical Evolution, Proto-Ribosome Email: kmatange3 at gatech dot edu
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Alix Dujardin

11 May 2022
PhD Student McMaster University Keywords: Warm little pond, RNA world, Nucleotides, Pre-polymers Email: dujardia at mcmaster dot ca
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Kaitlin Cerillo

11 May 202211 May 2022
PhD Student McMaster University Keywords: Exoplanets, Early Earth, Habitability, Habitable Zone, Radiative Transfer Email: cerrillk at mcmaster dot ca
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Angad Yuvraj

11 May 202211 May 2022
PhD Student University of Delhi Keywords: Protocells, Autocatalytic Sets, Multi-stability, Chemical Reaction Networks Email: aysingh at physics.du.ac dot in
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Shotaro Tagawa

11 May 2022
PhD Student Earth-life science institute, Tokyo institute of technology Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, Nucleic acids synthesis, Deep-sea, Supercritical carbon dioxide, Hydrothermal reactor Email: shotaro.tagawa at elsi dot jp
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Benji Thoma

10 May 2022
PhD Student University College London Keywords: Organic Chemistry, Peptide bond formation, Organocatalysis, Amino acids, Amino nitriles Email: uccabth at ucl.ac dot uk
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Hannah Dromiack

10 May 2022
PhD Student Arizona State University Keywords: Physics of Living Systems, Biological Algorithms, Complex Object Formation Email: hdromiac at asu dot edu
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Catherine Maggiori

10 May 2022
PhD Student McGill University Keywords: Astrobiology, life detection, DNA, biosignatures, nanopore sequencing Email: catherine.maggiori at gmail dot
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Veronica Mierzejewski

19 Apr 2022
PhD Student Arizona State University Keywords: universal biochemistry, scaling, metabolism Email: vmierzej at asu dot edu
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David Boulesteix

19 Apr 2022
PhD Student CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay University Keywords: Derivatization reagents, microbiology/ecology of extreme environments, eDNA/RNA analyses, irradiation, mass spectrometry Email: david dot boulesteix at hotmail dot com
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Tomasz Zajkowski

11 Apr 2022
Postdoc NASA Ames Research Center Keywords: protein aggreagation, prions, amyloids Email: tomaszzajkowski at gmail dot com
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Laura Rodriguez

11 Apr 202211 Apr 2022
Postdoc NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA Keywords: pre-RNAs, N-heterocycles, Phosphorus Cycling, Hydrothermal Vents, Chemometrics Email: laura dot rodriguez at jpl dot nasa dot gov
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Saurja DasGupta

7 Mar 20227 Mar 2022
Postdoc Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, USA Keywords: RNA Evolution, RNA catalysis, Synthetic Biology Email: dasgupta at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu
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Sawsan Wehbi

7 Mar 2022
Phd student University of Arizona, USA Keywords: protein evolution, disordered regions, amino acid preferences, early life Email: sawsanwehbi at email dot arizona dot edu
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Melese Getenet Dessie

7 Mar 2022
Phd student Spanish National Research Council Madrid, Spain Keywords: mineral self-assembly, chemical gardens, biomimetic materials, prebiotic chemistry Email: melese dot getenetd at gmail dot com
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Kshitij Deshpande

7 Mar 20227 Mar 2022
Masters student Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India Keywords: Protocells, Prebiotic chemistry, Lipid-nucleotide interactions, Self-Assembly, Geothermal Pools Email: kshitijdeshpande2498 at gmail dot com
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Tanai Cardona

7 Feb 2022
Professor (non-tenured) Imperial College London, UK Keywords: Photosynthesis, Photosystems, Evolution, Oxygenic, Biocatalysis Email: t dot cardona at imperial dot ac dot uk
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Manesh Joshi

7 Feb 2022
Phd student Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India Keywords: N-acyl amino acids, protoamphiphiles, hot springs, prebiotic membranes, protocells Email: manesh dot joshi at students dot iiserpune dot…
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Bernardo Ballotta

7 Feb 2022
Phd student Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Keywords: Computational chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Gas-Phase reactions, Complex Organic Molecules Email: bernardo dot ballotta at sns dot it
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Raquel Nunes Palmeira

31 Jan 2022
Phd student University College London, UK Keywords: heredity, genetic code, theoretical models Email: raquel dot palmeira dot 13 at ucl dot ac dot uk
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Avinash Vicholous Dass

28 Dec 202128 Feb 2022
Postdoc Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Keywords: Organic chemistry, biophysics, chemical evolution, artificial cells, Self-assembly Email: avinash dot dass at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de
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Moran Frenkel-Pinter

28 Dec 202130 Dec 2021
Professor non-tenured Hebrew University of Jerusalem Keywords: chemical evolution, origins of life, prebiotic chemistry, peptide evolution Email: moran dot fp at mail dot huji dot ac dot il (photo credit…
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Yoshiya Matsubara

9 Dec 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc National Centre for Biological Sciences, India Keywords: self-replication; nonequilibrium; polymerization; dynamical systems; emergence Email: yoshiyam at ncbs dot res dot in
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Rishir Kalepu

28 Oct 202130 Dec 2021
Masters student Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Keywords: Primordial Proteins, Self-replication, Peptide self-assembly Email: rishir dot kalepu at gmail dot com
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Dominique Beaini

21 Oct 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal Canada Keywords: fractal, information theory Email: Dominique dot beaini at outlook dot com
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Alex Plum

13 Oct 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student UC San Diego, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, USA Keywords: Autocatalytic Cycles, Chemical Kinetics, Chemical Ecosystem ecology, Origin of Life, Spatial Structure, Multi-level Selection Email: aplum at ucsd dot…
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Tugce Beyazay

13 Oct 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung, Germany Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis, carbon dioxide fixation, materials science Email: beyazay at kofo dot mpg dot de
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Oliver Maguire

3 Sep 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Radbound University, Netherlands Keywords: Systems Chemistry, Phosphorylation, Chemical Reaction Networks, Out-of-Equilibrium Email: o dot r dot maguire at gmail dot com
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Joaquin Perez-Grande

3 Sep 202130 Dec 2021
Undergraduate Student The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Keywords: Assembly Theory, Biosignatures, RNA-World, Complexity Email: joaquin dot perezgrande at student dot manchester dot ac dot uk
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Orr Rose Bezaly

10 Aug 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student LUniversity of Amsterdam and Utrecht University, Netherlands Keywords: prebiotic chemistry, polymerisation, amino acids, selectivity, wet-dry cycles Email: o dot r dot bezaly at uva dot nl
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Valentin Moulay

5 Aug 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student LATMOS, Paris, France Keywords: In situ analysis, Prebiotic chemistry, ocean worlds, GCMS, Analog samples Email: valentin dot moulay at latmos dot ipsl dot fr
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Iskinder Arasno

15 Jul 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Akron, USA Keywords: montmorillonite clay, primitive nucleotides, primitive membranes Email: arsano at uakron dot edu
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Elle Chimiak

23 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Colorado Boulder, USA Keywords: Site-Specific Isotope Ratio Measurements, Prebiotic Chemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry Email: elle dot chimiak at gmail dot com
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Annemiek Waajen

23 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: anaerobic microbiology, meteorites, early Earth, extreme microbiology, space microbiology Email: annemiek dot waajen at ed dot ac dot uk
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Jonathan Stimmer

23 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student Tokyo University, Japan Keywords: amino acids, peptides, impact-induced synthesis, Hadean, Noachian Email: stimmer dot jonathan dot adam dot t1 at dc dot tohoku dot ac dot jp
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Eran Agmon

15 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Stanford University, USA Keywords: computational systems biology, E. coli, whole-cell models Email: agmon dot eran at gmail dot com
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Carmen Baiano

10 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Keywords: quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, molecular modelling, computational spectroscopy Email: carmen dot baiano at sns dot it
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Gianluca Rinaldi

10 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy Keywords: adsorption, solid-state quantum simulation, oxides, clays, prebiotic species Email: gianluca dot rinaldi at sns dot it
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Elle Bethune

7 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Fullerenes, anaerobic microbiology, extraterrestrial organics, early heterotrophy Email: s2033391 at ed dot ac dot uk
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Bryce Clifton

1 Jun 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Nucleic acids, self-assembly, alternative solvents, replication Email: bclifton3 at gatech dot edu
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Ziqin (Grace) Ni

23 May 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student University of Maryland, USA Keywords: life detection, agnostic biosignatures, coevolution of planet and life Email: zni at umd dot edu
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Emily R. Paris

21 May 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Stanford University, USA Keywords: nanoSIMS, hypersaline environments, metagenomics, deep sea, microbial evolution, single-cell activity Email: erparis at stanford dot edu
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Mahendran Sithamparam

20 May 202130 Dec 2021
Masters student National University of Malaysia Keywords: Polymer, Gel formation Email: iammahen96 at gmail dot com
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Siddhant Sharma

6 May 202130 Dec 2021
Undergraduate CASSUM Fellow, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Keywords: BIOCHEMISTRY, GEOCHEMISTRY, BIOSIGNATURES Email: sharmasi at chalmers dot se
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Kamesh Narasimhan

6 May 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Harvard, USA Keywords: Xenobiology, Genetic Code Expansion, Synthetic Cell, Xeno-cellular Machines, Mirror-life Email: Kamesh_Narasimhan at hms dot harvard dot edu
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Klaus Paschek

6 May 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Germany Keywords: Prebiotic Chemistry, Carbonaceous Chondrites, Autocatalytic networks, RNA-World Email: paschek at mpia dot de
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Yuanyuan He

5 May 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Sorbonne university, MNHN (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle), and CNRS, France Keywords: TMAH, Mars, C and N isotopes, organic compounds, life bio signatures Email: yyuanhe at hotmail dot com
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Kate Adamala

29 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Professor (non-tenured) University of Minnesota, USA Keywords: Synthetic cells, protocells Email: kadamala at umn dot edu
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Dmitry Semenov

26 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany Keywords: astronomy/planetary sciences, prebiotic chemistry, autocatalysis Email: semenov at mpia dot de
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Pablo Zambrano

26 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany Keywords: Foams, microfluidics, air-water interface, DNA, RNA Email: zambranolobos at biochem dot mpg dot de
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Paola Riente Paiva

23 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keywords: Organic chemistry, Asymmetric autocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Prebiotic chemistry Email: p dot rientepaiva at uva dot nl
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Yagmur Gunes

23 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Keywords: Stromatolites, Geomicrobiology, Surface Mineralogy, Extreme Environments Email: gunesya at itu dot edu dot tr
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Mang Lin

23 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Professor (non-tenured) Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Keywords: isotope geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, protoplanetary disk, early Earth, Mars Email: linm at gig dot ac dot cn
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Edoardo Gianni

20 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Keywords: RNA world; ribozymes; directed evolution Email: egianni at mrc-lmb dot cam dot ac dot uk
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Annalena Salditt

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student LMU Munich, Germany Keywords: Replication; Ligation chain reaction; Information transfer Email: a dot salditt at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de
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Camille Lambert

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student LBC, UMR CBI, ESPCI-Paris, France Keywords: in vitro evolution, ribozymes, autocatalysis, self-reproduction Email: camille dot lambert at espci dot psl dot eu
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Jay Forsythe

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Professor (non-tenured) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, USA Keywords: peptides, amino acids, hydroxy acids, cycling Email: forsythejg at cofc dot edu
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Tomislav Stolar

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia Keywords: Peptides, Oligomerization, Selection of Nucleobases, Watson-Crick Pairing Email: tomislav dot stolar at irb dot hr
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Odín Morón Garcia

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Aberystwyth University, UK Keywords: Epigenetic markers, Species barcoding, pollination networks, plant shape and morphology Email: omgmvi at gmail dot com
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Jana Bocková

24 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France Keywords: chirality, asymmetric photolysis, photochemistry, astrochemistry, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry Email: jana dot bockova at univ-cotedazur dot fr
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Luke Steller

23 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia Keywords: Boron, Ribose, Vesicles, Stromatolites, Hot Springs Email: l dot steller at unsw dot edu dot au
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Nino Lauber

18 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student Biofisika Institute (CSIC-UPV/EHU) and Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain Keywords: Systems Biology, Systems Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Minimal Metabolism, Philosophy of…
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Nemanja Cvjetan

18 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student ETH Zurich, Switzerland Keywords: Vesicles, Compartments, Systems Chemistry Email: nemanja dot cvjetan at mat dot ethz dot ch
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David Kuster

11 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Keywords: RNA modifications, Epitranscriptomics, RNA phase separation, Aptamers, Ribozymes Email: kuster at mpi-cbg dot de
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Ghjuvan Grimaud

11 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc APC microbiome/Teagasc, Cork, Ireland Keywords: Evolution of metabolism, metabolic networks Email: ghjuvan dot grimaud at teagasc dot ie
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Adrian Jinich

11 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA Keywords: thermodynamics of biochemical redox reactions Email: adj2010 at med dot cornell dot edu
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Tyler Roche

3 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Prebiotic Chemistry, Origins of Life, Noncanonical Nucleosides, Prebiotic Sugars Email: tyler dot roche at gmail dot com
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Ben K. D. Pearce

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student Origins Institute, McMaster University, Canada Keywords: Origin of Biomolecules, Early Earth Environments, Quantum Chemistry, Atmospheric Modelling, Thermodynamics. Email: pearcbe at mcmaster dot ca
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Tim Lichtenberg

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Oxford, UK Keywords: planet formation, magma oceans, atmosphere origin, atmosphere composition, crust formation Email: tim dot lichtenberg at physics dot ox dot ac dot uk
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Josh Goldford

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Metabolic networks, non-equilibrium thermodynamics Email: goldford at mit dot edu
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Fatma Pir Cakmak

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Protocells, membranes, condensates, biomolecules, evolution Email: fatmapir at mit dot edu
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Milad Miladi

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Freiburg, Germany Keywords: RNA, ribozymes, Autocatalytic sets Email: miladim at cs dot uni-freiburg dot de
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Minoru Kurisu

27 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Tohoku University, Japan Keywords: Membrane, Vesicle, Reproduction, Amphiphile, Autocatalysis Email: kurisu at bio dot phys dot tohoku dot ac dot jp
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Wataru Takahagi

27 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student The University of Tokyo, Japan Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, protometabolism, metals availability, nonenzymatic reaction Email: watarut at g dot ecc dot u-tokyo dot ac dot jp
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Eduardo Rodríguez-Román

26 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela Keywords: Virus evolution, Virus ecology, Emerging and re-emerging viruses, Virus dynamics, Virus characterization erodriguezroman@gmail.com
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Huan Cui

25 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc IPGP, University of Paris, France Keywords: Shuram excursion, Precambrian, Neoproterozoic, SIMS, paleoenvironment Email: geohcui at gmail dot com
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Artemy Kolchinsky

16 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM, USA Keywords: Information theory, stochastic thermodynamics, nonequilibrium statistical physics, Email: artemyk at gmail dot com
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Yuliia Orlova

9 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keywords: Reaction networks, metabolic networks, minimal properties of life. Email: yuliiaorlova at gmail dot com
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Stuart Harrison

2 Feb 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student University College London, UK Keywords: Nucleotides, non-enzymatic, metabolism, biochemistry, genetic code. Email: stuart dot harrison dot 17 at ucl dot ac dot uk
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Cyrille Jeancolas

19 Jan 202130 Jan 2022
Postdoc Durham University, UK Keywords: Social epistemology, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, synthetic life, life as we don’t know it Email: cyrille dot jeancolas at durham dot ac dot uk
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Marta Filipa Simões

18 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc Macau University of Science and Technology, China Keywords: Mycology, filamentous fungi, biotechnology Email: msimoes at must dot edu dot mo
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Filipa Sousa

16 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Professor (non-tenured) University of Vienna, Austria Keywords: Early bioenergetics evolution, cofactors, Metals, comparative genomics, electron transfer chains Email: filipa dot sousa at univie dot ac dot at
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Ismael Acosta Servetto

15 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Undergraduate Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Keywords: Microfossils, Biosignatures, Exoplanets, Prebiotic Chemistry Email: ismacosta96 at gmail dot com
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Sandeep Ameta

12 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc National Center For Biological Sciences, India Keywords: Chemical networks, NGS, microfluidics, autocatalytic networks Email: ametasandeep at gmail dot com
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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel

12 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student University of Montreal, Canada Keywords: Emergence, phase transitions, evolution of cooperation, self-organized criticality, major evolutionary transitions Email: alexandre dot champagne-ruel at umontreal dot ca
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Michaela Dobson

9 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
PhD student The University of Auckland, New Zealand Keywords: Early Life, stromatolites, hot springs, pilbara Email: mdob102 at aucklanduni dot ac dot nz
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Abril Hernandez Monroy

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Masters Student National Autonomous University of Mexico Keywords: Microbial molecular ecology Email: abrilh85 at gmail dot com
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Han Jia

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Phd student Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Keywords: Peptide, biosensing, conductive polymers Email: jia dot h dot ab at m dot titech dot ac dot jp
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Soumitra Athavale

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Postdoc California Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Asymmetric Autocatalysis, Prebiotic synthesis, directed evolution, polymer evolution Email: athavale at caltech dot edu
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Jihua Hao

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
Professor (un-tenured) University of Science and Technology of China, China Keywords: Water-rock interactions, photogeochemistry, early Earth surface environments, habitability of other planetary waters Email: haojihua at gmail dot com
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Mazin Nasralla

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021
PhD Student University of Leeds, UK Keywords: Water, ammonia, neutron diffraction Email: pymna at leeds dot ac dot uk
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Ryo Mizuuchi

22 Dec 202030 Dec 2021
Project Assistant Professor (un-tenured) Komaba Institute for Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Keywords: RNA, replication, evolution, compartmentalization, networks Email: mizuuchi at bio dot c dot u-tokyo dot ac dot…
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Byunghwa Kang

22 Dec 202030 Dec 2021
PhD Student Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea Keywords: In vitro evolution, ribozyme, molecular catalysts Email: kangbw93 at postech dot ac dot kr
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Stewart Gault

22 Dec 202030 Dec 2021
PhD Student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Enzymology Email: s dot a dot gault at sms dot ed dot ac dot uk
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Amit Kahana

22 Dec 202030 Dec 2021
Masters Student The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Keywords: Micelles, lipid world, molecular dynamics, GARD Email: amit dot kahana at weizmann dot ac dot il
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Jingbo Nan

22 Dec 202030 Dec 2021
PhD student Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Keywords: Abiotic organic synthesis in the oceanic lithosphere, biomarkers on early earth, Fe-based catalysts Email: nanjb at idsse dot ac dot cn
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Lena Vincent

18 Dec 202030 Dec 2021
PhD student University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Keywords: Agnostic biosignatures, prebiotic chemistry, systems chemistry Email: lvincent3 at wisc dot edu
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Delfina P. Henriques Pereira

14 Nov 202030 Dec 2021
PhD student Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Keywords: Early metabolism, heterogeneous catalysis, abiotic reduction Email: dph dot pereira at campus dot fct dot unl dot pt
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Claudia Bonfio

12 Nov 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc (MSCA Fellow) MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, protocells, systems chemistry Email: bonfio at unistra dot fr
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Amanda Garcia

11 Nov 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Arizona, USA Keywords: Molecular paleobiology, nitrogen fixation, metalloenzyme, biogeochemistry, planetary coevolution akgarcia3 at wisc dot edu
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Sean F. Jordan

11 Nov 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc University College London, UK Keywords: Protocells, prebiotic chemistry, biogeochemistry sean dot jordan at ucl dot ac dot uk
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Michael L. Wong

22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc University of Washington, USA Keywords: Planetary atmospheres, solar system, exoplanets mwong at carnegiescience dot edu
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Sreejith J. Varma

22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc Charite Universitatsmedizin, Germany Keywords: Non-enzyatic metabolic reactions, mass spectrommetry, organic chemistry, biochemistry srevar at gmail dot com
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Hanadi Rammu

22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021
PhD student University College London, UK Keywords: Protocells, [4Fe-4S] cluster synthesis, lipid chemistry hanadi dot rammu dot 14 at ucl dot ac dot uk
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Martina Preiner

22 Oct 202021 Jan 2022
Postdoc Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research & Utrecht University, Netherlands Keywords: Early metabolism, carbon fixation, heterogeneous catalysis, mineral surface chemistry, serpentinization martina dot preiner at nioz dot nl
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Saroj Poudel

22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc Rutgers University, USA Keywords: Computational biology saroj dot poudel at marine dot rutgers dot edu
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Silvana Pinna

22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021
PhD student UCL, UK Keywords: ATP, acetyl phosphate, early metabolism, catalysis silvana dot pinna at hotmail dot com
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Zhen Peng

22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021
Postdoc Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Keywords: Autocatalysis, reaction networks, chemical kinetics, ecology, evolution peng dot zhen2002 at yahoo dot com

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