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ELSI Annual Public Lecture FY2024
September 2, 2024Event Date：Thursday, 28 November 2024
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ELSI student Eito Hirai won the JpGU 2024 Outstanding Student Presentation Award
August 29, 2024 -
Workshop: Communicating Astrobiology with the Public
August 27, 2024Event Date：2-6 September, 2024
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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 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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Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course as part of the International Graduate Program, Institute of Science Tokyo (currently Tokyo Institute of Technology) (commencing from April 2025)
June 21, 2024Event Date：Wednesday, 24 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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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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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
May 16, 2024 -
ELSI at JpGU 2024 conference
May 14, 2024Event Date：Sunday, May 26 -Friday, May 31 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 scientists illuminate previously unrecognised features in the deep Earth
July 24, 2023Jun Su, Christine Houser, John W. Hernlund et al., Geophysical Journal International, 2023
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Life detection techniques inspired by developments and tools in physical and biological sciences
July 21, 2023Tony Z. Jia et al., Space: Science and Technology, 2023
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The state-of-the-art in primitive polyester synthesis and microdroplet assembly
March 29, 2023Tony Z. Jia et al., Biophysics and Physicobiology, 2023
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The genetics of temperature adaptation: how does life thrive in extreme conditions?
March 27, 2023Paula Prondzinsky, Shawn Erin McGlynn et al., DNA Research, 2023
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What is the evolution of rubble-pile asteroids? — Avalanches, and the formation of top-shaped asteroids and rubble-pile satellites
December 1, 2022K. Sugiura et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022
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Carbonyl migration along the entire carbonyl chain of sugars highly influences the stability and chirality of sugars
December 1, 2022Ruiqin Yi, Chemistry—A European Journal, 2022
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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
April 17, 2024 -
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
April 8, 2024 -
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 -
ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the 40th Inoue Prize for Science
March 11, 2024 -
ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2024 ‘A Mission to Earth’ lecture videos are available online
February 26, 2024Videos of the lectures by Associate Professor Shawn McGlynn (ELSI) and Assistant Professor Mayumi Seto (Nara Women's University)
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ELSI student receives 1st Place Prize at GENSEKI2023 – science pitch competition
November 8, 2023 -
Introducing ELSI Science-Art Resident of FY2023 – Kayo Nomura
November 1, 2023 -
ELSI student receives Best Student Poster Award from the International Association of Geochemistry
October 5, 2023 -
Could humans survive on planet Namek in Dragon Ball? ELSI Director answers!
September 1, 2023 -
Call for Artists for ELSI Science-Art Residency FY2023
August 4, 2023 -
ELSI scientist Tony Z. Jia receives the ‘Mizuho Foundation for the Promotion of Sciences’ research award
August 2, 2023
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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 Seminar: Triangulating the chemistry of life’s origin
April 25, 2024Event Date：Thursday, 9 May 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Towards the Search for Signs of Life In Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST
April 17, 2024Event Date：Thursday, 18 April 2024
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Space Café Tokyo – April 2024 featuring Dr. Kipp Cannon (University of Tokyo)
April 17, 2024From exploding eye balls to refueling inside stars, this talk will present ways movies could be better if they got the science (even just a little bit) better.
Event Date：Thursday, 18 April 2024
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Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course as part of the International Graduate Program, Tokyo Institute of Technology (commencing from September 2024)
December 13, 2023Event Date：19 January 2024
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2024
December 5, 2023Event Date：Thursday, 1 February 2024
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ELSI Seminar: Crossing the salty divide: the Great Oxidation event, cyanobacterial evolution, and the marine-terrestrial barrier?
November 15, 2023Event Date：Wednesday, 22 November 2023
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Origins of Life Symposium at IUPAB2024
November 13, 2023Event Date：24-28 June 2024
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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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