Editorial Board for section 'Origin of Life'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610010, Israel
Interests: systems biology; systems prebiology; mutually catalytic networks; genome; origin of life
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Distinguished Research Professor of Marine Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
Interests: primitive Earth; prebiotic amino acids; cosmogeochemistry; origin of life chemistry; homochirality
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Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
Interests: homochirality; physical autocatalysis; self-reproducing supramolecular aggregates; out of equilibrium; stereochemistry

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The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Interests: peptide; amino acid; peptidomimetic; microbiome; atherosclerosis; condensation

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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Interests: origin of Life; In vitro evolution; catalytic RNAs/ribozymes

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Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel
Interests: chemical reactivity; origin of life; abiogenesis; evolution
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Center for the Origins of Life, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech, 901 Atlantic Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Interests: ribosome; RNA; evolution; iron; origin of life

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Department of Botany and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: evolutionary and phylogenetic theory; plant evolution; origin of life
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Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
Interests: origin-of-life; prebiotic chemistry; organic chemistry; inorganic chemistry

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Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, 1375 Av. Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux, Montreal, QC H2V 0B3, Canada
Interests: natural complexity; lattice simulations; evolutionary computation; solar and stellar activity

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Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK
Interests: origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; carbohydrate genesis; homochirality; minimal cell
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Aix-Marseille Université, PIIM UMR-CNRS 7345, F-13397 Marseille, France
Interests: analytical chemistry; chemical reactivity; astrochemistry; astrobiology; prebiotic chemistry

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Institute of Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR 5246, CEDEX, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: systems chemistry; systems biology; prebiotic chemistry and prebiotic systems chemistry; origin of life; prebiotic synthesis of amphiphiles; total synthesis of racemic and enantiopure phospholipids; evolvable molecular systems synthesis of fluorescent clickable probes; synthesis and application of glycolipids; radical reactions
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Department of Biology and Biochemstry, University of Houston, 369 Science & Research Bldg. 2, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Interests: ribosome evolution; RNA sequence space; RNA structure; Archaea

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Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, PL-50370 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: ab initio quantum chemistry; density functional theory; computational chemistry; photochemistry; photophysics; prebiotic chemistry; origins of Life; nonadiabatic effects; excitation energy transfer (EET); internal conversion; intersystem crossing; linear and nonlinear electrooptic properties; intermolecular interactions; continuous and discrete solvation models

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada
Interests: origin of life; RNA structure and evolution; RNA world; mathematical and computational models; phylogenetic methods; molecular evolution; population genetics; biophysics
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NoR CEL, 1 Scott Hall Crescent, Leeds LS7 3RB, UK
Interests: origin of life; RNA world; panspermia; hydrothermal vent; horizontal gene transfer; tree of life; phylogenetics; extraterrestrial life; astrochemistry
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Department of Human Environmental Studies, Hiroshima Shudo University, 1-1-1 Ozuka-higashi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima 731-3195, Japan
Interests: analytical chemistry; nucleic acid chemistry; origin of life; environmental science; theory of origin and evolution of biospheres
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Division of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
Interests: organic geochemistry; cosmochemistry; analytical chemistry
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
Interests: prebiotic chemistry; computational chemistry; self-assembly

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Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Sorbonne Universités, 75005 Paris, France
Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; prebiotic chemistry; extreme conditions; in vitro evolution; viroids; heredity

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Departamento de Biología de Sistemas-Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Investigación Química "Andrés M. del Río”, Universidad de Alcalá, Campus Científico-Tecnológico, 28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
Interests: prebiotic chemistry; origins of life; chemical evolution; astrobiology; organic geochemistry; biogeochemistry; mineralogy

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Department of Computer Science, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Interests: origin of life; quantum information; biological computing; origin of the genetic code; molecular evolution; autocatalytic sets; early evolution of life; prebiotic chemistry
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BIP (UMR7281), CNRS, 13009 Marseilles, France
Interests: bioenergetics; chemiosmosis; redox enzymes; photosynthesis; emergence of life


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Theoretical Biology Unit, EA 4312, University of Rouen, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Interests: integrative approaches to the bacterial cell cycle, origins of life; biotechnology; systems biology
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of València, 46010 València, Spain
Interests: origin and early evolution of life; the evolution of metabolism; the symbiogenetic evolution of metabolic pathways; the stoichiometric analysis of metabolic networks; the microbial bioprospection of natural environments; and the history of ideas on the natural origin and the artificial synthesis of life

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Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK
Interests: organic chemistry; RNA; peptides; systems chemistry; prebiotic chemistry; crystallisation; photochemistry

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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
Interests: origins and early evolution of life; self-assembly; primitive informational polymers; RNA; nonenzymatic replication

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Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Interests: prebiotic chemical ecology; origins of life; origins of genetic code; origins of homochirality; molecular complementarity; origins of cellular transporters and receptors; STEM education; scientific creativity
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1. Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, OH, USA
2. Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, OH, USA
Interests: biomolecular and cellular (human and bacterial cells) interactions with biomaterials and minerals; interfacial chemistry; bone-tissue engineering; organic-mediated crystal nucleation and growth (biomineralization); origin and early evolution of life; relationship between molecular-level, nanoscale & macroscopic properties
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