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ELSI professor Kei Hirose elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society
May 11, 2023The former director and current PI of ELSI, Professor Kei Hirose was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society
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ELSI Professors receive the prestigious international research award
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JUICE Mission livestream features ELSI Director, Yasuhito Sekine
April 12, 2023 ELSI Director and JUICE project scientist, Yasuhito SekineEvent Date：2022/4/13
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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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47th Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life Japan
March 14, 2023Event Date： 28 and 29 March, 2023
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2023 ‘Hayabusa2: Unlocking the Mysteries of Life’ lecture videos are available online
February 16, 2023Videos of lectures by Associate Professor Elizabeth Tasker (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)) and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI)
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ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the JSPS Prize
December 20, 2022ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the 19th（FY2022）JSPS Prize
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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 2023)
December 12, 2022Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course
Event Date：26 January 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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How the origin of life could have arisen from a “Liquid Crystal World”
November 30, 2022Tony Z. Jia et al., Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022
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The 8th ELSI/ Kavli IPMU/ IRCN Joint Public Lecture series “A Question of Origins”
November 14, 2022Event Date：2022/11/23
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ELSI supervised, Tokyo Tech graduate students receive Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences Awards
October 31, 2022 -
Physicochemical properties of reaction microenvironments can inform future prebiotic chemistry experiments
October 31, 2022Tony Z. Jia et al., Life, 2022
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ELSI scientists dissect ancient molecular structures in memory of protein evolution pioneer Prof. Dan Tawfik
October 31, 2022Liam M. Longo, Hayate Hirai, Shawn E. McGlynn, Protein Science, 2022
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ELSI’s Tony Z. Jia receives the best general oral presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Biological Sciences in Space
October 31, 2022 -
ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2023
October 28, 2022Event Date：18 January 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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How the origin of life could have arisen from a “Liquid Crystal World”
November 30, 2022Tony Z. Jia et al., Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022
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Physicochemical properties of reaction microenvironments can inform future prebiotic chemistry experiments
October 31, 2022Tony Z. Jia et al., Life, 2022
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ELSI scientists dissect ancient molecular structures in memory of protein evolution pioneer Prof. Dan Tawfik
October 31, 2022Liam M. Longo, Hayate Hirai, Shawn E. McGlynn, Protein Science, 2022
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Polyester chemistry highlights possible role of microdroplets in the origin of life
October 19, 2022Rehana Afrin, Tony Z. Jia et al., Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2022
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Coacervates as a cradle for the evolution of structured proteins
October 6, 2022Liam Longo et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022
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Hayabusa2 samples reveal the formation and evolution of asteroid Ryugu
September 27, 2022Hidenori Genda et al., Science, 2022
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Organisation of AbGradCon 2021 and analysis of international and interdisciplinary collaboration in astrobiology
September 21, 2022Tony Z. Jia et al., International Journal of Astrobiology, 2022
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Tiny pollution scavengers: marine bacteria dine on pesticides, flame retardants, and plasticisers
September 20, 2022Liam Longo et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
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Scientists unravelled new chemical processes that may impact the chemical evolution in the early Solar System
September 7, 2022Yamei Li, Norio Kitadai, Yasuhito Sekine et al., Nature Communications, 2022
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Scientists discover potential key missing link protein bridging eukaryotes and prokaryotes
July 5, 2022Caner Akil, Kosuke Fujishima et al., Science Advances, 2022
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ELSI professor Kei Hirose elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society
May 11, 2023The former director and current PI of ELSI, Professor Kei Hirose was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society
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ELSI Professors receive the prestigious international research award
April 17, 2023 -
JUICE Mission livestream features ELSI Director, Yasuhito Sekine
April 12, 2023 ELSI Director and JUICE project scientist, Yasuhito SekineEvent Date：2022/4/13
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2023 ‘Hayabusa2: Unlocking the Mysteries of Life’ lecture videos are available online
February 16, 2023Videos of lectures by Associate Professor Elizabeth Tasker (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)) and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI)
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ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the JSPS Prize
December 20, 2022ELSI Director Yasuhito Sekine was awarded the 19th（FY2022）JSPS Prize
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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 2023)
December 12, 2022Orientation Webinar for the Earth-Life Science Course
Event Date：26 January 2023
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ELSI supervised, Tokyo Tech graduate students receive Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences Awards
October 31, 2022 -
ELSI’s Tony Z. Jia receives the best general oral presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Biological Sciences in Space
October 31, 2022 -
Launch of the Falling Walls Engage Hub Japan
October 6, 2022Bringing together Japanese and international perspectives on science communication and engagement
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Call for Artists for ELSI Science-Art Residency FY2022
September 9, 2022Application is closed
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ELSI’s Tony Z. Jia receives Seiichi Tejima Research Award
June 15, 2022ELSI's Tony Z. Jia receives Seiichi Tejima Research Award
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47th Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life Japan
March 14, 2023Event Date： 28 and 29 March, 2023
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The 8th ELSI/ Kavli IPMU/ IRCN Joint Public Lecture series “A Question of Origins”
November 14, 2022Event Date：2022/11/23
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ELSI Annual Public Lecture 2023
October 28, 2022Event Date：18 January 2023
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Decolonising Science Session at UN Science Summit at 77th UN General Assembly
September 22, 2022ELSI's Thilina Heenatigala will be giving a keynote at the UN Science Summit of UN General Assembly
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Symposium on Evolution and Emergence of Living Systems
September 8, 2022 Tomoaki Matsuura and Ryuhei NakamuraELSI Professors, Tomoaki Matsuura and Ryuhei Nakamura will host the ‘Symposium on Evolution and Emergence of Living Systems: from Geochemistry to Synthetic Biology’ on October 19, 2022.
Event Date：October 19，2022
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25th Science in Japan Forum by JSPS Washington Office
September 8, 2022Sample Return and the Origins of Life
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Orientation Webinar for Earth-Life Science Course of International Graduate Program in Tokyo Tech (commencing from April 2023)
August 6, 2022Event Date：September 14, 2022
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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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