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Prof. Dr. David Deamer Editor-in-Chief Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: membrane biophysics; nanopore sequencing; origin of cellular life Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Dr. William Bains * Section Editor-in-Chief 1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QT, UK 2 Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: astrobiology; detection of life; limits of life; origin of life; nature of aging; anti-aging medicine; computational chemistry; science commercialization; biotechnology financing; venture capital * Section 'Hypotheses in the Life Sciences' Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Antonio Lazcano * Section Editor-in-Chief Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; early evolution of life * Section 'Life Sciences'
Prof. Dr. Niles Lehman * Section Editor-in-Chief Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; recombination; prebiotic chemistry; systems chemistry, cooperation; in vitro evolution * Section 'Chemistry' Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Andrew Pohorille * Section Editor-in-Chief 1. Director, NASA Center for Computational Astrobiology and Fundamental Biology, NASA-Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA 2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA E-Mail Interests: statistical mechanics of chemical and biological systems, molecular and cellular-scale computer simulations and modeling, astrobiology, origin of life, protein structure, function and folding, biological membranes, transport through membranes, evolutionary innovation * Section 'Physics'
Prof. Pabulo H. Rampelotto Former Editor-in-Chief Center of Biotechnology and PPGBCM, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil E-Mail Interests: biotechnology; next generation sequencing; metagenomics; molecular biology and biochemistry of microorganisms; extremophiles; grand challenges Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals

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Prof. Dr. Ralf Anken Head, Biomedical Science Support Center, German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Biomedical Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: gravitational biology; fish as model systems for the understanding of motion sickness/neurovestibular behavior/sensorimotor disorders; aquatic life support systems; bioregeneration
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Bada Distinguished Research Professor of Marine Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0212, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: primitive Earth; prebiotic amino acids; cosmogeochemistry; origin of life chemistry; homochirality
Prof. Dr. John A. Baross School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195 USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: life in estreme environments; limits of life; the origin and evolution of life on Earth; astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: The Physico-Chemical Limits of Life
Dr. Paul Clarke Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; carbohydrate genesis; homochirality; minimal cell
Prof. Dr. Henderson James Cleaves 1. Director, ELSI Origins Network (EON), Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-IE-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN 2. Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-IE-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN 3. Long-Term Member, Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; organic geochemistry; molecular evolution; analytical chemistry; astrobiology; astrochemistry
Prof. Dr. Virginia W. Cornish Department of Chemistry, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: chemical biology; synthetic biology; ribosome and translational machinery; live cell imaging tools; yeast engineering
Prof. Dr. Don A. Cowan UP Genomics Research Institute, Room 3-12, NW2 Building, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa Website \| E-Mail Interests: extremophiles; microbial ecology (soils, particularly desert soils); environmental microbiology; functional metagenomics; microbial enzymes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Genomics, Molecular Biology, Environmental Diversity and Evolution of Archaea and their Viruses
Dr. Bruce Damer 1. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 2. DigitalSpace Research, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; computational modeling; space science; theoretical biology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Origin of Cellular Life
Prof. Dr. George E. Fox Department of Biology and Biochemstry, University of Houston, 369 Science & research Bldg. 2, Houston, TX 77204-5001, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: ribosome evolution; RNA sequence space; RNA structure; Archaea
Dr. Helen Greenwood Hansma Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; cell biology; biophysics
Prof. Dr. Nils G. Holm Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden E-Mail Interests: geobiology; astrobiology; hydrothermal organic geochemistry; subsurface biosphere
Prof. Dr. Christopher H. House Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: microbial evolution; microbial geochemistry; biosignatures; Precambrian microfossils
Dr. Sohan Jheeta NoR HGT & LUCA, 1 Scott Hall Crescent, Leeds, LS7 3RB, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests:* origin of life; RNA world; panspermia,; hydrothermal vent; horizontal gene transfer; tree of life; phylogenetics; extraterrestrial life; astrochemistry Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Common Ancestor Special Issue: The Landscape of the Emergence of Life
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Klenk Head, School of Biology, Ridley Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; archaea; actinomycetes; phages; life in extreme environments; microbial genomics; phylogenomics; taxonomy; microbial diversity; systems biology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology
Prof. Dr. Jeremy S. Kua Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; computational chemistry; self-assembly
Prof. Dr. Pier Luigi Luisi 1. Professor emeritus ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Roma, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: never born proteins; minimal cell; synthetic biology; emergence of life Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Prof. Dr. Timothy W. Lyons Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: biogeochemical cycles; astrobiology; geobiology; Earth history; isotope geochemistry; oceanic anoxia; evolution of the ocean and atmosphere and the co-evolution of life
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias Geosciences Institute, IGEO (CSIC-UCM) Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas C/ José Antonio Novais, 2 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 Madrid, SPAIN Website \| E-Mail Interests: planetary geology; astrobiology; natural resources of near earth space and sustainability; geo and biomarkers; extreme environments and planetary habitability; geodiversity and biodiversity; natural hazards and planetary ecosystems; mineralogy; geoethics in earth and space sciences; geoeducation; science and technology for development; emerging sciences, cultural implications; new paradigms Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Astrobiology and Sustainability Special Issue: Challenges in Astrobiology Special Issue: Planetary Geosciences and Space Exploration Special Issue: Challenges in Astrobiology II Special Issue: Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy Special Issue: Geosciences and Future Earth Special Issue: Ethics and Geoethics in Geosciences Special Issue: Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
Prof. Marie-Christine Maurel Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité ISYEB- UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE - Sorbonne Universités 57 Rue Cuvier - CP39 F-75005 Paris, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; prebiotic chemistry; extreme conditions; in vitro evolution; viroids; heredity
Dr. Linda B. McGown Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: bioanalytical chemistry, prebiotic chemistry and astrobiology, G-quadruplex DNA and guanosine gels, aptamer discovery and applications, DNA separation
Prof. Dr. Karen J. Meech Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: comets; delivery of volatiles in the early solar system to habitable worlds; space missions
Prof. Dr. Vic Norris Theoretical Biology Unit, EA 4312, University of Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, 76821 France E-Mail Interests: integrative approaches to the bacterial cell cycle, origins of life; biotechnology; systems biology
Prof. Dr. Aharon Oren Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel Website \| E-Mail Interests: Microbial life in extreme environments; Halophiles; Prokaryote; taxonomy and nomenclature Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Proceedings from the 11th Conference on Halophilic Microorganisms Halophiles 2016
Dr. Matthew W. Powner Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: organic chemistry; RNA; peptides; systems chemistry; prebiotic chemistry; crystallisation; photochemistry
Prof. Dr. Addy Pross Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel Website \| E-Mail Interests: chemical reactivity; origin of life; abiogenesis; evolution
Dr. Sudha Rajamani Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Maharashtra 411008, India Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins and early evolution of life; self-assembly; primitive informational polymers; RNA; nonenzymatic replication
Prof. Dr. Francois Raulin Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; extraterrestrial organic chemistry; astrobiology; exobiology; astrobiologically oriented space missions; Titan; Mars; comets
Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and ICREA, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: proteome quality control in cell biology and disease; structure-function studies of protein-RNA interactions; biomedicine and biotechnology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Evolution of tRNA
Prof. Dr. Francisco Rodriguez-Valera Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Campus de San Juan, 03550, San Juan de Alicante, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: microbiology; microbial ecology; genomics; metagenomics; population genomics; evolution; bacteria; archaea; viruses
Prof. Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823 USA Website \| E-Mail 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 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Origin of Life 2011
Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch School of the Environment, Webster Hall 1148, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA E-Mail Interests: planetary habitability; astrobiology; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; geobiology; space missions Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Planetary Exploration: Habitats and Terrestrial Analogs
Prof. Dr. Joseph Seckbach Mevo Hadas 20, P.O.Box 1132, Efrat 90435, Israel Website \| E-Mail Interests: enigmatic microorganisms; life in extreme environments and astrobiology; phycology-thermo-acidic algae; plant ferritin
Prof. Dr. Mark A. Smith Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77205-5003, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: abiotic organic chemistry; aerosols; atmospheres; interstellar chemistry; instrumentation; physical chemistry
Prof. Dr. Peter F. Stadler 1. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science + Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics + German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, University Leipzig, D-04107, Leipzig, Germany 2. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstraße 22, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany; RNomics Group, Fraunhofer Institut for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Perlickstraße 1, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany 3. Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090, Wien, Austria 4. Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; 5. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: bioinformatics; structural biology; evolution; phylogenetics; RNA; genomics; transcriptomics; systems chemistry; graph theory; discrete mathematics; algorithmics; origins of life
Prof. Dr. Ken Takai Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: geomicrobiology; biogeochemistry; astrobiology; extremophiles; limits of life and biosphere; habitability; exploration of boundary biosphere

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Prof. Dr. David Deamer Editor-in-Chief Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: membrane biophysics; nanopore sequencing; origin of cellular life Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Dr. William Bains * Section Editor-in-Chief 1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QT, UK 2 Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: astrobiology; detection of life; limits of life; origin of life; nature of aging; anti-aging medicine; computational chemistry; science commercialization; biotechnology financing; venture capital * Section 'Hypotheses in the Life Sciences' Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Antonio Lazcano * Section Editor-in-Chief Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; early evolution of life * Section 'Life Sciences'
Prof. Dr. Niles Lehman * Section Editor-in-Chief Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; recombination; prebiotic chemistry; systems chemistry, cooperation; in vitro evolution * Section 'Chemistry' Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Andrew Pohorille * Section Editor-in-Chief 1. Director, NASA Center for Computational Astrobiology and Fundamental Biology, NASA-Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA 2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA E-Mail Interests: statistical mechanics of chemical and biological systems, molecular and cellular-scale computer simulations and modeling, astrobiology, origin of life, protein structure, function and folding, biological membranes, transport through membranes, evolutionary innovation * Section 'Physics'
Prof. Pabulo H. Rampelotto Former Editor-in-Chief Center of Biotechnology and PPGBCM, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil E-Mail Interests: biotechnology; next generation sequencing; metagenomics; molecular biology and biochemistry of microorganisms; extremophiles; grand challenges Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Ralf Anken Head, Biomedical Science Support Center, German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Biomedical Research, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany Website \| E-Mail Interests: gravitational biology; fish as model systems for the understanding of motion sickness/neurovestibular behavior/sensorimotor disorders; aquatic life support systems; bioregeneration
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Bada Distinguished Research Professor of Marine Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0212, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: primitive Earth; prebiotic amino acids; cosmogeochemistry; origin of life chemistry; homochirality
Prof. Dr. John A. Baross School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195 USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: life in estreme environments; limits of life; the origin and evolution of life on Earth; astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: The Physico-Chemical Limits of Life
Dr. Paul Clarke Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; carbohydrate genesis; homochirality; minimal cell
Prof. Dr. Henderson James Cleaves 1. Director, ELSI Origins Network (EON), Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-IE-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN 2. Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-IE-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN 3. Long-Term Member, Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; prebiotic chemistry; organic geochemistry; molecular evolution; analytical chemistry; astrobiology; astrochemistry
Prof. Dr. Virginia W. Cornish Department of Chemistry, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: chemical biology; synthetic biology; ribosome and translational machinery; live cell imaging tools; yeast engineering
Prof. Dr. Don A. Cowan UP Genomics Research Institute, Room 3-12, NW2 Building, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa Website \| E-Mail Interests: extremophiles; microbial ecology (soils, particularly desert soils); environmental microbiology; functional metagenomics; microbial enzymes Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Genomics, Molecular Biology, Environmental Diversity and Evolution of Archaea and their Viruses
Dr. Bruce Damer 1. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 2. DigitalSpace Research, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; computational modeling; space science; theoretical biology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Origin of Cellular Life
Prof. Dr. George E. Fox Department of Biology and Biochemstry, University of Houston, 369 Science & research Bldg. 2, Houston, TX 77204-5001, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: ribosome evolution; RNA sequence space; RNA structure; Archaea
Dr. Helen Greenwood Hansma Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; cell biology; biophysics
Prof. Dr. Nils G. Holm Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden E-Mail Interests: geobiology; astrobiology; hydrothermal organic geochemistry; subsurface biosphere
Prof. Dr. Christopher H. House Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: microbial evolution; microbial geochemistry; biosignatures; Precambrian microfossils
Dr. Sohan Jheeta NoR HGT & LUCA, 1 Scott Hall Crescent, Leeds, LS7 3RB, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests:* origin of life; RNA world; panspermia,; hydrothermal vent; horizontal gene transfer; tree of life; phylogenetics; extraterrestrial life; astrochemistry Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Common Ancestor Special Issue: The Landscape of the Emergence of Life
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Klenk Head, School of Biology, Ridley Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; archaea; actinomycetes; phages; life in extreme environments; microbial genomics; phylogenomics; taxonomy; microbial diversity; systems biology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology
Prof. Dr. Jeremy S. Kua Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; computational chemistry; self-assembly
Prof. Dr. Pier Luigi Luisi 1. Professor emeritus ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Viale Marconi 446, 00146 Roma, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: never born proteins; minimal cell; synthetic biology; emergence of life Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Prof. Dr. Timothy W. Lyons Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: biogeochemical cycles; astrobiology; geobiology; Earth history; isotope geochemistry; oceanic anoxia; evolution of the ocean and atmosphere and the co-evolution of life
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias Geosciences Institute, IGEO (CSIC-UCM) Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas C/ José Antonio Novais, 2 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 Madrid, SPAIN Website \| E-Mail Interests: planetary geology; astrobiology; natural resources of near earth space and sustainability; geo and biomarkers; extreme environments and planetary habitability; geodiversity and biodiversity; natural hazards and planetary ecosystems; mineralogy; geoethics in earth and space sciences; geoeducation; science and technology for development; emerging sciences, cultural implications; new paradigms Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Astrobiology and Sustainability Special Issue: Challenges in Astrobiology Special Issue: Planetary Geosciences and Space Exploration Special Issue: Challenges in Astrobiology II Special Issue: Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy Special Issue: Geosciences and Future Earth Special Issue: Ethics and Geoethics in Geosciences Special Issue: Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
Prof. Marie-Christine Maurel Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité ISYEB- UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE - Sorbonne Universités 57 Rue Cuvier - CP39 F-75005 Paris, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; prebiotic chemistry; extreme conditions; in vitro evolution; viroids; heredity
Dr. Linda B. McGown Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: bioanalytical chemistry, prebiotic chemistry and astrobiology, G-quadruplex DNA and guanosine gels, aptamer discovery and applications, DNA separation
Prof. Dr. Karen J. Meech Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: comets; delivery of volatiles in the early solar system to habitable worlds; space missions
Prof. Dr. Vic Norris Theoretical Biology Unit, EA 4312, University of Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, 76821 France E-Mail Interests: integrative approaches to the bacterial cell cycle, origins of life; biotechnology; systems biology
Prof. Dr. Aharon Oren Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel Website \| E-Mail Interests: Microbial life in extreme environments; Halophiles; Prokaryote; taxonomy and nomenclature Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Proceedings from the 11th Conference on Halophilic Microorganisms Halophiles 2016
Dr. Matthew W. Powner Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK Website \| E-Mail Interests: organic chemistry; RNA; peptides; systems chemistry; prebiotic chemistry; crystallisation; photochemistry
Prof. Dr. Addy Pross Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel Website \| E-Mail Interests: chemical reactivity; origin of life; abiogenesis; evolution
Dr. Sudha Rajamani Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Maharashtra 411008, India Website \| E-Mail Interests: origins and early evolution of life; self-assembly; primitive informational polymers; RNA; nonenzymatic replication
Prof. Dr. Francois Raulin Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France Website \| E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; extraterrestrial organic chemistry; astrobiology; exobiology; astrobiologically oriented space missions; Titan; Mars; comets
Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and ICREA, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: proteome quality control in cell biology and disease; structure-function studies of protein-RNA interactions; biomedicine and biotechnology Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Evolution of tRNA
Prof. Dr. Francisco Rodriguez-Valera Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Campus de San Juan, 03550, San Juan de Alicante, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: microbiology; microbial ecology; genomics; metagenomics; population genomics; evolution; bacteria; archaea; viruses
Prof. Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823 USA Website \| E-Mail 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 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Origin of Life 2011
Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch School of the Environment, Webster Hall 1148, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA E-Mail Interests: planetary habitability; astrobiology; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; geobiology; space missions Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Planetary Exploration: Habitats and Terrestrial Analogs
Prof. Dr. Joseph Seckbach Mevo Hadas 20, P.O.Box 1132, Efrat 90435, Israel Website \| E-Mail Interests: enigmatic microorganisms; life in extreme environments and astrobiology; phycology-thermo-acidic algae; plant ferritin
Prof. Dr. Mark A. Smith Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77205-5003, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: abiotic organic chemistry; aerosols; atmospheres; interstellar chemistry; instrumentation; physical chemistry
Prof. Dr. Peter F. Stadler 1. Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science + Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics + German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, University Leipzig, D-04107, Leipzig, Germany 2. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstraße 22, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany; RNomics Group, Fraunhofer Institut for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Perlickstraße 1, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany 3. Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090, Wien, Austria 4. Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; 5. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: bioinformatics; structural biology; evolution; phylogenetics; RNA; genomics; transcriptomics; systems chemistry; graph theory; discrete mathematics; algorithmics; origins of life
Prof. Dr. Ken Takai Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan Website \| E-Mail Interests: geomicrobiology; biogeochemistry; astrobiology; extremophiles; limits of life and biosphere; habitability; exploration of boundary biosphere