Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

2023-4 Academic Year: Marie Curie Fellow of the EU, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Research: RNA as a model of pre-cellular genetic information, and prebiotically plausible protocell behavior

Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University College London

Research: The origins of protocellular systems, alternate genetic polymers and prebiotic chemistry

colville@uchicago.edu

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research: Polymerase mechanisms and alternative genetic polymers

lelyveld@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

PhD, Bio-organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry

Research: Chemistry and mechanism bridging the prebiotic building blocks to functional polymers in the origin of life

lfwu@uchicago.edu

PhD, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Research: Gaining mechanistic insights into the replication dynamics of model protocells through advanced microscopy and chemical manipulations

ayzli@uchicago.edu

PhD, Organic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology

Research: Prebiotic in-situ phosphate activation chemistry, and functional RNA assembly

zhangj2@uchicago.edu

Biological and Biomedical Sciences Protgram, Harvard University

B.S., Biochemistry, The College of St. Scholastica
B.A., Biology, The College of St. Scholastica

Research: Primordial roles for aminoacylated RNA

aradakovic@g.harvard.edu

Chemistry and Chemical Biology Program, Harvard University

B.S., Chemistry, Haverford College

Research: Non-enzymatic RNA replication and model protocell

xiwenjia@uchicago.edu

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Program, University of Chicago

B.S., Biology, Tsinghua University

Research: Origin of Life, Bioengineering

yanfengx@uchicago.edu

Chemistry Program, University of Chicago

B.S., Biochemistry-Molecular Biology, University of California,  Santa Barbara 

Research: Origin of Life, Non-enzymatic RNA replication, Protocells 

khan789@uchicago.edu

Chemistry Program, University of Chicago

B.S. in biochemistry from California State University, Los Angeles. Currently – PhD in biophysical chemistry at UChicago. 

Research: Non-enzymatic RNA replication and the origins of life

jessex@uchicago.edu

Chemistry Program, University of Chicago

B.Sc. – Ramjas College, University of Delhi

M.Sc. – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Research: Amino acids in RNA world

anmolmishra@uchicago.edu