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Prof. Dr. Antonio Lazcano Editor-in-Chief Departamento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Circuito Escolar Exterior, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, Coyoacan, Cd. de Mexico, Mexico Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; early evolution of life
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. 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 'Astrobiology'
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

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. David Deamer *

Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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Interests: membrane biophysics; nanopore sequencing; origin of cellular life
* Former Editor-in-Chief (from January 2016 to January 2018)
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Life: Origin of Cellular Life

Editorial Board

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 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Life: Conditions on the Early Earth >3.5Gy: Limitations for the Sources/Stability of Prebiotic Compounds and the Prebiotic/Biotic Transition
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, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa Website \| E-Mail Interests: extremophiles; microbial ecology (soils, particularly desert soils); environmental microbiology; functional metagenomics; microbial enzymes
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 in Life: Origin of Cellular Life Special Issue in Life: Themed Issue Commemorating Prof. David Deamer's 80th Birthday
Prof. Dr. Luis Delaye Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, CINVESTAV Irapuato, Km. 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carr., Irapuato-León 36821, Irapuato Guanajuato, Mexico Website \| E-Mail Interests: genome evolution; endosymbiotic bacteria; novel genes; horizontal gene transfer; early evolution of life; phylogenetic analysis
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. Paul Higgs Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; RNA structure and evolution; RNA world; mathematical and computational models; phylogenetic methods; molecular evolution; population genetics; biophysics Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Life: The RNA World and the Origin of Life
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 in Life: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Common Ancestor Special Issue in Life: 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 in Life: 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. 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. Sheref Mansy CIBIO - Centre for integrative biology, University of Trento in Povo, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: protocells; metallopeptides; iron-sulfur cluster; artificial cells
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM), C/ Del Doctor Severo Ochoa 7, Facultad de Medicina (Edificio Entrepabellones 7 y 8), 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 in Sustainability: Astrobiology and Sustainability Special Issue in Challenges: Challenges in Astrobiology Special Issue in Geosciences: Planetary Geosciences and Space Exploration Special Issue in Challenges: Challenges in Astrobiology II Special Issue in Minerals: Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy Special Issue in Geosciences: Geosciences and Future Earth Special Issue in Geosciences: Ethics and Geoethics in Geosciences Special Issue in Geosciences: Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets Special Issue in Geosciences: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Esperanza Martinez-Romero Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico Website \| E-Mail Interests: biodiversity; taxonomy; evolution and molecular genetics of bacterial symbiosis; nitrogen fixation in plants of agricultural and forestry interest; use of biofertilizers in reforestation projects and in agricultural fields; bacterial genomics; metagenomics of endosymbionts and arthropod microbiome
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 in Life: Proceedings from the 11th Conference on Halophilic Microorganisms Halophiles 2016
Prof. Dr. Juli Peretó Institute for Integrative Systems Biology I2SysBio, University of Valencia-CSIC, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin and early evolution of life; the evolution of metabolism; the symbiogenetic evolution of metabolic pathways; the stoichiometric analysis of metabolic networks; the microbial bioprospection of natural environments; and the history of ideas on the natural origin and the artificial synthesis of life
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 Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Parc Científic de Barcelona, C/Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: genetic code; genetic translation; codon usage; proteome control; tRNAs; ribosomes; 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 in Life: Evolution of tRNA Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Functions of Transfer RNAs 2.0
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 in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Origin of Life 2011 Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Structure, Function and Evolution of the Ribosome
Prof. Dr. Nita Sahai 1. Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, USA 2. Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: biomolecular and cellular (human and bacterial cells) interactions with biomaterials and minerals; interfacial chemistry; bone-tissue engineering; organic-mediated crystal nucleation and growth (biomineralization); origin and early evolution of life; relationship between molecular-level, nanoscale & macroscopic properties
Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch Astrobiology Group, Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technical University Berlin, Germany E-Mail Interests: planetary habitability; astrobiology; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; geobiology; space missions Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Life: 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
Prof. Dr. Dimas A. M. Zaia LQP-Prebiotic Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department-CCE, Londrina State University, Brazil Website \| E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; minerals; adsorption; biomolecules

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Prof. Dr. Antonio Lazcano Editor-in-Chief Departamento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Circuito Escolar Exterior, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, Coyoacan, Cd. de Mexico, Mexico Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; early evolution of life
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. 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 'Astrobiology'
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. 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 Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Life: Conditions on the Early Earth >3.5Gy: Limitations for the Sources/Stability of Prebiotic Compounds and the Prebiotic/Biotic Transition
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, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa Website \| E-Mail Interests: extremophiles; microbial ecology (soils, particularly desert soils); environmental microbiology; functional metagenomics; microbial enzymes
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 in Life: Origin of Cellular Life Special Issue in Life: Themed Issue Commemorating Prof. David Deamer's 80th Birthday
Prof. Dr. Luis Delaye Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, CINVESTAV Irapuato, Km. 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carr., Irapuato-León 36821, Irapuato Guanajuato, Mexico Website \| E-Mail Interests: genome evolution; endosymbiotic bacteria; novel genes; horizontal gene transfer; early evolution of life; phylogenetic analysis
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. Paul Higgs Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin of life; RNA structure and evolution; RNA world; mathematical and computational models; phylogenetic methods; molecular evolution; population genetics; biophysics Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Life: The RNA World and the Origin of Life
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 in Life: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Last Universal Common Ancestor Special Issue in Life: 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 in Life: 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. 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. Sheref Mansy CIBIO - Centre for integrative biology, University of Trento in Povo, Italy Website \| E-Mail Interests: protocells; metallopeptides; iron-sulfur cluster; artificial cells
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM), C/ Del Doctor Severo Ochoa 7, Facultad de Medicina (Edificio Entrepabellones 7 y 8), 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 in Sustainability: Astrobiology and Sustainability Special Issue in Challenges: Challenges in Astrobiology Special Issue in Geosciences: Planetary Geosciences and Space Exploration Special Issue in Challenges: Challenges in Astrobiology II Special Issue in Minerals: Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy Special Issue in Geosciences: Geosciences and Future Earth Special Issue in Geosciences: Ethics and Geoethics in Geosciences Special Issue in Geosciences: Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets Special Issue in Geosciences: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Esperanza Martinez-Romero Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico Website \| E-Mail Interests: biodiversity; taxonomy; evolution and molecular genetics of bacterial symbiosis; nitrogen fixation in plants of agricultural and forestry interest; use of biofertilizers in reforestation projects and in agricultural fields; bacterial genomics; metagenomics of endosymbionts and arthropod microbiome
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 in Life: Proceedings from the 11th Conference on Halophilic Microorganisms Halophiles 2016
Prof. Dr. Juli Peretó Institute for Integrative Systems Biology I2SysBio, University of Valencia-CSIC, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: origin and early evolution of life; the evolution of metabolism; the symbiogenetic evolution of metabolic pathways; the stoichiometric analysis of metabolic networks; the microbial bioprospection of natural environments; and the history of ideas on the natural origin and the artificial synthesis of life
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 Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Parc Científic de Barcelona, C/Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Website \| E-Mail Interests: genetic code; genetic translation; codon usage; proteome control; tRNAs; ribosomes; 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 in Life: Evolution of tRNA Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Functions of Transfer RNAs 2.0
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 in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Origin of Life 2011 Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Structure, Function and Evolution of the Ribosome
Prof. Dr. Nita Sahai 1. Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, USA 2. Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, 170 University Ave, Akron, USA Website \| E-Mail Interests: biomolecular and cellular (human and bacterial cells) interactions with biomaterials and minerals; interfacial chemistry; bone-tissue engineering; organic-mediated crystal nucleation and growth (biomineralization); origin and early evolution of life; relationship between molecular-level, nanoscale & macroscopic properties
Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch Astrobiology Group, Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technical University Berlin, Germany E-Mail Interests: planetary habitability; astrobiology; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; geobiology; space missions Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals: Special Issue in Life: 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
Prof. Dr. Dimas A. M. Zaia LQP-Prebiotic Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department-CCE, Londrina State University, Brazil Website \| E-Mail Interests: prebiotic chemistry; minerals; adsorption; biomolecules