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Prof. Dr. Niles Lehman *
Section Editor-in-ChiefDepartment 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Andrew Pohorille *
Section Editor-in-Chief1. 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 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' |
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Prof. Pabulo H. Rampelotto
Former Editor-in-ChiefCenter of Biotechnology and PPGBCM, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 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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Dr. William Bains *
Section Editor-in-Chief1. 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 |
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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, GermanyWebsite | E-Mail Interests: gravitational biology; fish as model systems for the understanding of motion sickness/neurovestibular behavior/sensorimotor disorders; aquatic life support systems; bioregeneration |
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Prof. Dr. John A. Baross
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195 USAWebsite | 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Don A. Cowan
UP Genomics Research Institute, Room 3-12, NW2 Building, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South AfricaWebsite | 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 |
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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 |
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Prof. Dr. Willem M. de Vos
1. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 2. Finland Academy Professor at the Departments of Bacteriology & Immunology and Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Website | E-Mail Interests: understand and exploit microbes using molecular, (meta)genomics and systems approaches; human intestinal tract microbiota and its relation with health and disease |
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Prof. Dr. Charles Gerday
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Liège, Institute of Chemistry, B6a, B-4000, Liège, BelgiumInterests: protein chemistry; enzymology; microbiology; molecular adaptations to low temperature; extremophiles Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue: Protein Folding 2011 |
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Prof. Dr. Nils G. Holm
Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, SwedenInterests: geobiology; astrobiology; hydrothermal organic geochemistry; subsurface biosphere |
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Dr. Sohan Jheeta
NoR HGT & LUCA*, 1 Scott Hall Crescent, Leeds, LS7 3RB, UKWebsite | 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Klenk
Head, School of Biology, Ridley Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UKWebsite | 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 |
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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 |
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Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias
Geosciences Institute, IGEO (CSIC-UCM) Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas C/ José Antonio Novais, 2 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 Madrid, SPAINWebsite | 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 |
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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, FranceWebsite | E-Mail Interests: origins of life; RNA; ribozymes; prebiotic chemistry; extreme conditions; in vitro evolution; viroids; heredity |
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Prof. Dr. John F. Mustard
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook Street, Box 1846, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USAWebsite | E-Mail Interests: planetary surface composition and evolution; remote sensing and visible to infrared spectroscopy; habitability on Mars; alteration mineralogy; weathering and alteration; terrestrial analog environments and their relationship to astrobiology |
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Prof. Dr. Vic Norris
Theoretical Biology Unit, EA 4312, University of Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, 76821 FranceInterests: integrative approaches to the bacterial cell cycle, origins of life; biotechnology; systems biology |
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Prof. Dr. Aharon Oren
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, IsraelWebsite | 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 |
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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, FranceWebsite | E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; extraterrestrial organic chemistry; astrobiology; exobiology; astrobiologically oriented space missions; Titan; Mars; comets |
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Prof. Dr. Lluís Ribas de Pouplana
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and ICREA, Barcelona, Catalonia, SpainWebsite | 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein
Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823 USAWebsite | 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch
School of the Environment, Webster Hall 1148, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USAInterests: 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 |
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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 |
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Dr. Tore Straume
Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USAWebsite | E-Mail Interests: science and technology associated with health consequences of radiation exposure; present emphasis is on extended human missions into deep space (e.g., Mars); prior emphases include Hiroshima, Chernobyl, biodosimetry “chromosome painting”, biotechnology, and reproductive biology |
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Prof. Dr. Jeffrey P. Sutton
President, CEO and Institute Director, National Space Biomedical Research Institute; Director, Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USAWebsite | E-Mail Interests: space life sciences; space medicine; smart medical systems and technology; neuroscience |
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Prof. Dr. Ken Takai
Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, JapanWebsite | E-Mail Interests: geomicrobiology; biogeochemistry; astrobiology; extremophiles; limits of life and biosphere; habitability; exploration of boundary biosphere |
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Prof. Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi
1. Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit; Vice-Chair, Neurology Research, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA 2. Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA Website | E-Mail Interests: genetics and neurodegenerative disorders |
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