To provide a platform to collaborate with colleagues in Japanese institutions and abroad on topics of interest to ELSI.
To cultivate new ideas through discussions and open questions provided by the guest speaker.
To familiarize research across disciplines to bring the institute together and build the identity of ELSI2.0
Place: Mishima Hall (ELSI-1, Tokyo Tech) [アクセス Access] and/or Zoom online
Regular day/time: Wednesday 16:15-17:15
[2022]
6/8. Harrison Smith (ELSI) The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures
6/15. Yasuko Takei (U Tokyo) Rock anelasticity: Mathematical framework, laboratory results, and seismological application
6/22. Kei Hirose (U Tokyo) Exploring the Earth’s core composition
6/29. Bob Craddock (Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum) The Geologic History of Water On Mars
7/6. John Hernlund (ELSI) What is the Idea of ELSI?
7/13. Saburo Tsuru (U Tokyo) Environmental plasticity constrains and directs evolution
7/20. Chiaki Kato (NPO Team Kujira-Go) Life in the Deep-Sea High-Pressure World & the SDGs Action by NPO
8/31. Po-Hsiang Wang (NCU) Origin of estrogens—an aromatase-independent estrogenesis in bacteria
9/7. Rei Narikawa (TMU) Recent progress on discovery and engineering of cyanobacteriochrome photoreceptors
10/5. Omer Markovitch (BMSIS) Errors and error correction in a self-assembly driven synthetic chemical replicator
10/26. Jihua Hao (University of Science and Technology of China) Enceladus Ocean Water Chemistry and its Implications on the Habitability
11/2. Thilina Heenatigala (ELSI) ELSI's role and impact through outreach and science communication
11/9. Joana Pereira (University of Basel) A bird’s eye view of the Protein Universe: shedding light onto the dark matter of nature’s proteome
11/16. Liam Longo (ELSI) On the continuity between ancient geochemistry and modern biochemistry
11/30. Kazumi Ozaki (Tokyo Tech) CO2-CO-CH4 cycling on the anoxic Earth system: Implications for the search for life beyond the solar system
12/7. Hiroyuki Kurokawa (ELSI) CO-rich atmospheres on early Earth and on extrasolar terrestrial worlds: the role of deep carbon cycling
12/14. Tetsuya Yamada (Tokyo Tech) Micro-electro-mechanical systems technology for cellular membrane
12/21. Hye-Eun Lee (RIKEN) Selective Ion Transport in Alkaline Hydrothermal Vents
[2023]
1/11. Chen Chen (ELSI) Spectroscopic and Biophysical Methods to Determine Differential Salt-Uptake by Primitive Membraneless Polyester Microdroplets
1/25. Muneyuki Matsuo (Hiroshima U) Title: Toward What is beyond Self-Assembled Droplets in Universal Origins of Life
2/15. Yamei Li (ELSI) Title: Aqueous alteration induced amino acid decomposition in the parent body of carbonaceous chondrites and asteroid Ryugu
2/22. Yasuhito Sekine (ELSI) Title: Detection of phosphate in Enceladus' ocean and comparative chemical evolution in the Solar System
3/15. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy (Scripps Research Institutte) Title: Towards an Understanding of the Prebiotic Chemistries leading to Origins of Life - Mission Impossible or Mission Accomplished?
3/22. Munetake Momose (Ibaraki Univ.) Title: Observations of protoplanetary disks at radio wavelengths: 10-year achievements by ALMA and their future prospects
4/6. Vladimir Airapetian (NASA GSFC). Title: Magnetic Eruptions from Young Solar-Like Stars and Their Impact of (Exo)planetary Habitability
4/7. Conor Nixon (NASA GSFC). Title: OBSERVATIONS OF TITAN WITH ALMA
5/31. Daniel Duzdevich (University of Chicago). Title: The emergence of heredity at the origin of life
From 2023 Autumn, ELSI seminar information will be directly posted on the ELSI news website.