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Research & Activities

  • The ELSI International Symposium
  • VIDEOS ELSI Origins I
  • VIDEOS Intl Sympo 5
  • VIDEOS Intl Sympo 6
  • World Premier International Research Center Initiative
  • The ELSI Origins Network, EON
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Student Entrance and Selection
  • ELSI Offcial Blog
  • ELSI Column
  • Meet an ELSI Researcher

Public Lectures

Latest Public Lectures

For press
Date March 24 - March 26, 2014 Name Masashi Aono
Amoeba-inspired heuristic search dynamics for exploring the origins of life
The 2nd ELSI (Earth-Life Science Institute) International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan
Date March 24 - March 26, 2014 Name Yutetsu Kuruma
Creation of possible living organisms to study an early life
The 2nd ELSI (Earth-Life Science Institute) International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan
Date March 19-22, 2014 Name Yoshitomo Maeda, Takayuki Hayashi , Ryo Iizuka (ISAS/JAXA), Hiroshi Murakami (Tohoku Gakuin University), Masayoshi Nobukawa (Kyoto University), Takayuki Saitoh (Tokyo Institute of Technology) other the Suzaku Sgr A* collaborations
Overview of the Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
ASJ, Annual Spring Meeting 2014
Date March 18 - March 20, 2014 Name Tsukatani, Y., Harada, J., Nomata, J., Mizoguchi, T., Fujita, Y., and Tamiaki, H.
Chlorophyllide a oxidoreductase of Blastochloris viridis enables Rhodobacter sphaeroides to produce bacteriochlorophyll b.
55th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, Toyama, Japan​
Date March 2014 Name
"硫化カルボニルの安定硫黄同位体比測定法の開発と大気試料への適用"
The Oceanographic Society of Japan Spring Meeting
Date December 2013 Name
"Photometric Variability of Solar System Solid Objects: Implications for Rocky/Icy Exoplanets"
Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity II, USA
Date December 2013 Name
"The naked planet Earth: Most essential pre-requisite for the origin and evolution of life"
American Geophysical Union, San Francisco
Date December 2013 Name
"New dense hydrous magnesium silicate in the lower mantle"
AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA
Date November 30, 2013 Name Amikura K. Kawahara-Kobayashi A. Kiga D
Simplification of the Genetic Code: Restricted Diversity of Genetically Encoded Amino Acids
The International Astrobiology Workshop 2013 (as the Japan Astrobiology Network Annual Meeting #6). Sagamihara, Japan
Date November 28, 2013 Name Ueno Y., Danielache S.O., Endo Y., Johnson M
Unique Late Archean Atmosphere: Enhanced Volcanic and Biological Activities.
International Astrobiology Workshop (JABN6), Sagamihara. [oral in a chaired session]