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Dr. Sean Jordan

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Period: Dec. 2016 - May 2020

Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Camprubi E, Jordan SF, Vasiliadou R, Lane N. "Iron catalysis at the origin of life" IUBMB Life (2017) 69(6): 373-381

  2. Jordan SF, Nee E, Lane N. "Isoprenoids enhance the stability of fatty acid membranes at the emergence of life potentially leading to an early lipid divide" Interface Focus (2019) 9(6): 20190067

  3. Vasiliadou R, Dimov N, Szita N, Jordan SF, Lane N. "Possible mechanisms of CO2 reduction by H2 via prebiotic vectorial electrochemistry" Interface Focus (2019) 9(6): 20190073

  4. Jordan SF, Rammu H, Zheludev I, Hartley AM, Maréchal A, Lane N. "Promotion of protocell self-assembly from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life" Nat. Ecol. Evol. (2019)

  5. Jordan SF, Ioannou I, Rammu H, Halpern A, Bogart L, Ahn M, Vasiliadou R, Christodoulou J, Maréchal A,  Lane N. "Spontaneous assembly of redox-active iron-sulfur clusters at low concentrations of cysteine" Nature Communications, 12:5925 (2021)

  6. Camprubi E, Harrison S, Jordan S, Bonnel J, Pinna S, Lane N. "Do soluble phosphates direct the formose reaction towards pentose sugars?" MS under review (2021)

  7. Pinna S, Kunz C, Harrison S, Jordan SF Ward J, Werner F, Lane N. "A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency" MS under review (2021) [available on bioRxiv]

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Toby Harries

Undergraduate student

Programme: BSc Biological Sciences

Period: Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020

Currently: Partnerships manage at Dorm

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Harrison S, Harries T, Pinna S, Lane N. "Prebiotically plausible, non-enzymatic synthesis of Pyrimidine nucleobases" MS in prep. (2021)

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Cäcilia Kunz

Summer student

Period: July 2019 - Aug. 2019
Project: "Investigation of the catalytic action of Fe(III) for nucleotide synthesis"
Currently: MSci Biochemistry student at UCL

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Pinna S, Kunz C, Harrison S, Jordan SF,  Ward J, Werner F, Lane N. "A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency" MS under review (2021) [available on bioRxiv]

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Dr. Raphaela Vasiliadou

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Period: Feb. 2017 - Apr. 2019

Currently: Lecturer in Biological Chemistry at The Open University

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Camprubi E, Jordan SF, Vasiliadou R, Lane N. "Iron catalysis at the origin of life" IUBMB Life (2017) 69(6): 373-381

  2. Vasiliadou R, Dimov N, Szita N, Jordan S, Lane N. "Possible mechanisms of CO2 reduction by H2 via prebiotic vectorial electrochemistry" Interface Focus (2019) 9(6): 20190073

  3. Jordan S, Ioannou I, Rammu H, Halpern A, Bogart L, Ahn M, Vasiliadou R, Christodoulou J, Maréchal A,  Lane N. "Spontaneous assembly of redox-active iron-sulfur clusters at low concentrations of cysteine" Nature Communications, 12:5925 (2021)

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Eloise Nee

Master student

Programme: MSci Natural Sciences

Period: Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2019

Currently: DPhil student at the University of Oxford
Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Jordan SF, Nee E, Lane N. "Isoprenoids enhance the stability of fatty acid membranes at the emergence of life potentially leading to an early lipid divide" Interface Focus (2019) 9(6): 20190067

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Barış Özdinç

Undergraduate student

Programme: BSc Genetics

Period: Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2019

Currently: Research Analyst at CosmosID

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Ioannis Ioannou

Master student

Programme: MRes Synthetic Biology

Period: Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2019
Currently: PhD Student The Imperial College of London

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Jordan S, Ioannou I, Rammu H, Halpern A, Bogart L, Ahn M, Vasiliadou R, Christodoulou J, Maréchal A,  Lane N. "Spontaneous assembly of redox-active iron-sulfur clusters at low concentrations of cysteine" Nature Communications, 12:5925 (2021)

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Dr. Eloi Camprubi

PhD student

Period: Oct. 2014 - Apr. 2018
Thesis: "The origin of proto-metabolism at the origin of life in alkaline hydrothermal vents"
Currently: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Origins Center

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Watson C, Dartnell L, Ward J, Evans JRG, Lane N. "An origin-of-life reactor to simulate alkaline hydrothermal vents" J Mol Evol (2014) 79: 213-227

  2. Sojo V, Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Lane N. "The origin of life in alkaline hydrothermal vents" Astrobiology (2016) 16(2): 181-197

  3. Camprubi E, Jordan SF, Vasiliadou R, Lane N. "Iron catalysis at the origin of life" IUBMB Life (2017) 69(6): 373-381

  4. Whicher A, Camprubi E, Pinna S, Herschy B, Lane N. "Acetyl phosphate as a primordial energy currency at the origin of life" OLEB (2018) 48: 159

  5. Camprubi E, Harrison S, Jordan S, Bonnel J, Pinna S, Lane N. "Do soluble phosphates direct the formose reaction towards pentose sugars?" MS under review (2021)

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Stewart Gault

Summer student

Period: July 2017 - Aug. 2017
Project: "Development of a microfluidics assay to simulate alkaline hydrothermal vents"
Currently: PhD Student in Astrobiology at The University of Edinburgh

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Ivan Zheludev

Summer student

Period: July 2017 - Aug. 2017
Project: "Development of a high throughput assay for probing vesicular critical bilayer concentrations"
Currently: PhD student at Stanford University

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Jordan S, Rammu H, Zheludev I, Hartley AM, Maréchal A, Lane N. "Promotion of protocell self-assembly from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life" Nat. Ecol. Evol. (2019)

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Iro Pieridou

Master student

Programme: MSci in Natural Sciences

Period: Oct. 2016 - Mar. 2017
Project: "The origin of life in hydrothermal vents"
Currently: Research Technician at CeMM

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Dr. Alex Whicher

PhD student

Period: Jan. 2013 - May 2016
Thesis: "Simulated alkaline hydrothermal vent environments to investigate prebiotic metabolism at the origin of life"
Currently: Event Producer at the BioIndustry Association

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Watson C, Dartnell L, Ward J, Evans JRG, Lane N. "An origin-of-life reactor to simulate alkaline hydrothermal vents" J Mol Evol (2014) 79: 213-227

  2. Sojo V, Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Lane N. "The origin of life in alkaline hydrothermal vents" Astrobiology (2016) 16(2): 181-197

  3. Whicher A, Camprubi E, Pinna S, Herschy B, Lane N. "Acetyl phosphate as a primordial energy currency at the origin of life" OLEB (2018) 48: 159

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Sylvia Lim

Master student

Programme: MSci in Natural Sciences

Period: Oct. 2016 - Mar. 2017
Project: "The origin of life in hydrothermal vents"
Currently: Secondary Science Teacher at Robert Clack School of Science

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Dr. Barry Herschy

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Period: Feb. 2013 - Jan. 2016

Currently: Regional Business Specialist at Shimadzu UK

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Watson C, Dartnell L, Ward J, Evans JRG, Lane N. "An origin-of-life reactor to simulate alkaline hydrothermal vents" J Mol Evol (2014) 79: 213-227

  2. Sojo V, Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Lane N. "The origin of life in alkaline hydrothermal vents" Astrobiology (2016) 16(2): 181 - 197​

  3. Whicher A, Camprubi E, Pinna S, Herschy B, Lane N. "Acetyl phosphate as a primordial energy currency at the origin of life" OLEB (2018) 48: 159

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Dr. Victor Sojo

PhD student

Period: Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2016

Currently at: American Museum of Natural History

Lane Origins Group publications:

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  1. Sojo V, Pomiankowski A, Lane N. "A bioenergetic basis for membrane divergence in archaea and bacteria" PLOS Biology (2014) 12: e1001926

  2. Sojo V, Herschy B, Whicher A, Camprubi E, Lane N. "The origin of life in alkaline hydrothermal vents" Astrobiology (2016) 16(2): 181-197

  3. Sojo V, Dessimoz C, Pomiankowski A, Lane N. "Membrane Proteins Are Dramatically Less Conserved than Water-Soluble Proteins across the Tree of Life" Mol. Biol. Evol. (2016) 33(11): 2874 - 2884

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