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How life’s building blocks took shape on early Earth: the limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation
February 6, 2025Tony Z. Jia and Rehana Afrin et al., ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, 2025
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Solving the evolutionary puzzle of polyploidy: how genome duplication shapes adaptation
January 23, 2025Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama et al., PRX Life, 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Role of prebiotic molecular heterogeneity in the emergence and evolution of biomolecules on the early Earth
January 16, 2025Event Date：Wednesday 22 January 2025
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Could a Subsurface Supercritical CO₂–Water Two-phase Environment Offer a Solution to the Phosphate Problem and Water Paradox?
December 23, 2024Shotaro Tagawa, Kosuke Fujishima et at., Astrobiology, 2024
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture FY2024 ‘Seismic Exploration of Planets’ lecture videos are available online
December 17, 2024Videos of the lectures by Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Christine Houser (ELSI) and Project Researcher Keisuke Onodera (Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
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Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course as part of the International Graduate Programme, Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology) (commencing from September 2025)
December 10, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
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Representing chemistry by its underlying rules to understand how evolution has selected universal pathways
December 6, 2024Eric Smith and Harrison B. Smith et al., PLoS Complex Systems, 2024
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Executive Summary from 6th Japan SciCom Forum (JSF) conference
December 2, 2024 -
ELSI student Mizuki Horino won the Best Poster Award from the Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology
November 19, 2024 -
ELSI Seminar: Earthquake swarm activity and the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake (M7.6)
November 18, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 20 November 2024
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Registration open for 13th ELSI International Symposium 2025
November 1, 2024Event Date：Tuesday-Thursday, 7-9 January 2025
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Could polyesters (yes, the material of which your jacket is made!) drive primitive reactions on early Earth?
October 24, 2024Chen Chen and Tony Z. Jia et al., Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024
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The 12th edition of ELSI Origins Outreach Newsletter is out (Japanese version only)
October 24, 2024 -
Alternative pathways to life should be considered
October 16, 2024Tony Z. Jia et al., Life, 2024
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ELSI student Eito Hirai won Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the Japanese Society for Planetary Science
October 16, 2024 -
ELSI Science-Art Project: The Complexity in the Simplicity
October 15, 2024ELSI Science-Art Collaborative Project featured Kayo Nomura as the ELSI Artist in Resident for FY2023. She explored the complex systems in the Origins of Life as the central theme and conducted seminars, workshops, and live painting during the residency.
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ELSI’s Tony Z. Jia won the Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors’ Choice Award
October 11, 2024 -
ELSI student Eito Hirai won Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the Geochemical Society of Japan
October 10, 2024
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How life’s building blocks took shape on early Earth: the limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation
February 6, 2025Tony Z. Jia and Rehana Afrin et al., ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, 2025
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Solving the evolutionary puzzle of polyploidy: how genome duplication shapes adaptation
January 23, 2025Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama et al., PRX Life, 2024
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Could polyesters (yes, the material of which your jacket is made!) drive primitive reactions on early Earth?
October 24, 2024Chen Chen and Tony Z. Jia et al., Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024
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Alternative pathways to life should be considered
October 16, 2024Tony Z. Jia et al., Life, 2024
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New Study Sheds Light on Ancient Protoribosome and its Role in Early Life Evolution
October 2, 2024Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kosuke Fujishima et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2024
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Osmotic Energy Conversion Discovered in Hydrothermal Vents Provides Clues to Life’s Beginnings
October 1, 2024Hye-Eun Lee, Shawn Erin McGlynn, Ryuhei Nakamuar et al., Nature Communications, 2024
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Scientists create plastic-eating artificial system that make their own protein building blocks
May 30, 2024Shota Nishikawa, Tony Z. Jia and Kosuke Fujishima et al., ACS Catalysis, 2024
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Scientists uncover a multibillion-year epic written into the chemistry of life
May 30, 2024Harrison B. Smith, Liam M. Longo, Shawn E. McGlynn et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024
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Amino acid crisis on carbonaceous meteorites and asteroid Ryugu
December 18, 2023Yamei Li, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yasuhito Sekine et al., Science Advances, 2023
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Discovery of novel RNA-binding peptides not found in nature
December 13, 2023Shota Nishikawa, Naohiro Terasaka, Kosuke Fujishima et al., Biomacromolecules, 2023
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Shedding Light on the Synthesis of Sugars Before the Origin of Life
December 1, 2023Ruiqin Yi et al., JACS Au, 2023
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How membraneless compartments can teach us about the first cells on Earth
October 3, 2023Tony Z. Jia, Biophysical Reviews, 2023
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How salts drove the first (membraneless) protocells to grow
October 2, 2023Chen Chen and Tony Z. Jia et al., Small Methods, 2023
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New study shows how simpler nucleic acids can be generated in primitive environments
September 11, 2023Ruiqin Y, Tony Z. Jia and Shawn Erin McGlynn et al., Chemical Communications, 2023
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Liquid-liquid phase separation: A closer step to understanding life origin and evolution
September 1, 2023Tony Z. Jia et al., Peptide Science, 2023
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Overcoming the challenges to synthesising iron–sulfur proteins outside the glovebox
August 30, 2023Shota Nishikawa, Shawn Erin McGlynn, Kosuke Fujishima et al., ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023
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A new Earth for geophysicists
July 31, 2023George Helffrich et al., Geophysical Journal International, 2023
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How to make “sand” on Titan?
July 31, 2023Eito Hirai, Yasuhito Sekine, Natsumi Noda et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture FY2024 ‘Seismic Exploration of Planets’ lecture videos are available online
December 17, 2024Videos of the lectures by Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Christine Houser (ELSI) and Project Researcher Keisuke Onodera (Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
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Executive Summary from 6th Japan SciCom Forum (JSF) conference
December 2, 2024 -
ELSI student Mizuki Horino won the Best Poster Award from the Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology
November 19, 2024 -
The 12th edition of ELSI Origins Outreach Newsletter is out (Japanese version only)
October 24, 2024 -
ELSI student Eito Hirai won Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the Japanese Society for Planetary Science
October 16, 2024 -
ELSI’s Tony Z. Jia won the Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors’ Choice Award
October 11, 2024 -
ELSI student Eito Hirai won Outstanding Student Presentation Award from the Geochemical Society of Japan
October 10, 2024 -
Executive Summary from the Lorentz Workshop on Astrobiology Communication
October 3, 2024 -
ELSI student Eito Hirai won the JpGU 2024 Outstanding Student Presentation Award
August 29, 2024 -
ELSI receives the Tokyo Tech STEAM Education for Younger Generations Grant
August 14, 2024 -
ELSI student Shunsuke Nozaki won the Best Poster Presentation award at the European Conference on Gas Hydrate
July 29, 2024 -
ELSI researcher, Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama, receives the Young Investigator Award from the Asian Biophysics Association
July 24, 2024 -
ELSI at JpGU 2024 conference
May 14, 2024Event Date：Sunday, May 26 -Friday, May 31 2024
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ELSI researcher Keisuke Fukunaga won the Eastern Japan Branch of the Society of Biotechnology, Japan Director’s Award
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ELSI student Ryusei Matsumoto won the poster presentation award at the 90th Enzyme Engineering meeting
April 9, 2024 -
First place for the poster presentation award for ELSI student Eishin Yamazaki
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The 9th ELSI/ Kavli IPMU/ IRCN Joint Public Lecture series “Quest for Origins” ‘Can we create life from scratch ?’ lecture videos are available online
March 13, 2024 -
ELSI’s Kousuke Fujishima received the 2023 Takeda-rika Award for International Achievement from School of Life Science and Technology of Tokyo Tech
March 12, 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Role of prebiotic molecular heterogeneity in the emergence and evolution of biomolecules on the early Earth
January 16, 2025Event Date：Wednesday 22 January 2025
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ELSI Seminar: Earthquake swarm activity and the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake (M7.6)
November 18, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 20 November 2024
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A commemorative lecture by the winner of Kyoto Prize 2024, Prof. Paul Hoffman
October 9, 2024 -
Registration and abstract submission open for AbGrad Japan (AbGradJ)
October 3, 2024Event Date：9-11 December, 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Bending Waves and a Vertical Rift in Saturn’s Rings
October 3, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 9 October 2024
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Space Café Tokyo – October 2024 featuring Dr. Emily Wong (ELSI / Uni. of Geneva)
October 2, 2024Event Date：Thursday, 10 October 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Does Life ever have a characteristic effect on chemical mixtures? A simulation
September 24, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 25 September 2024
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture FY2024
September 2, 2024Event Date：Thursday, 28 November 2024
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Workshop: Communicating Astrobiology with the Public
August 27, 2024Event Date：2-6 September, 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Robustness of collectively coded information
July 23, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 7 August 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Harnessing natural diversity for development of molecular tools
July 19, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 14 August 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Phosphorus Controls on Earth’s Early Oxygenation History
June 28, 2024Event Date：Wednesday. 3 July 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) to Enable Icy World Ocean Access through an Erupting Vent
June 12, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 26 June 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Self Organization in Computation & Chemistry: Returning to Alchemy
June 7, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 12 June 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Intramolecular Deep Expertise Diagnostic by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry
June 5, 2024Event Date：Tuesday, 18 June 2024
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Space Café Tokyo – May 2024 featuring Dr. Danilo Albergaria (Leiden University)
May 23, 2024Event Date：Thursday, 23 May 2024
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ELSI SciComm Masterclass: Reaching an Informed Public – the Role of Scientists and Journalists
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ELSI Seminar: Astrobiology and the science communication ecosystem
May 14, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 15 May 2024
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ELSI Science-Art Project: The Complexity in the Simplicity
October 15, 2024ELSI Science-Art Collaborative Project featured Kayo Nomura as the ELSI Artist in Resident for FY2023. She explored the complex systems in the Origins of Life as the central theme and conducted seminars, workshops, and live painting during the residency.
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Nurturing graduate students with science communication skills
July 18, 2023 -
Communicating about life beyond Earth and other big news
July 11, 2023 -
ELSI Science-Art Project: Universe; Celebration of Life
July 4, 2023 Madoka NaitoELSI Science-Art Project with the artist Madoka Naito aims to explore and expand the framework of the science language through active discussions and exchange of perceptions between the artist and researchers about life, Earth and the universe, and a workshop that reflects the discussions.
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Placing science outreach centre-stage in Japan
July 5, 2022Interview with ELSI's Director of Communications, Thilina Heenatigala
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ELSI graduate course tackles fundamental questions of life
July 5, 2022Interview with Professor Tomoaki Matsuura and Professor Ryuhei Nakamura
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The dawn of evolution: ELSI’s quest for extra-terrestrial life
July 5, 2022Interview with new ELSI Director, Yasuhito Sekine
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Ten years of ELSI: Earth, life and a new research culture in Japan
July 5, 2022Interview with former ELSI Director, Kei Hirose
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Role of ELSI’s CRAY computer cluster
June 16, 2022 Koichiro UmemotoThe CRAY XC30, which has continued to run since the establishment of ELSI, is a computer cluster with 960 CPUs. It will be replaced for performance and other reasons but has been a significant part of my Earth & planetary science research.
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