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Elbert Branscomb
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Current Projects

The Evolution of Homochirality as a Universal Biosignature — 2016 NAI
Inv 1 - Geochemical Reactor: Energy Production at Water-Rock Interfaces — 2016 NAI
Project 2: Cells as Engines and the Serpentinization Hypothesis for the Origin of Life — 2015 NAI
Project 1: The Origin of Homochirality — 2015 NAI
Education and Public Outreach — 2014 NAI

Project 1: Dynamics of Self-Programming Systems — 2014 NAI

Project 3: The Origin of Homochirality — 2014 NAI

Project 2: Cells as Engines and the Serpentinization Hypothesis for the Origin of Life — 2014 NAI

Dynamics of Self-Programming Systems — 2013 NAI

Thermodynamics of Life — 2013 NAI

Center for Genomic and Evolutionary Studies on Microbial Life at Low Temperature — 2001 NAI

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NAI Project Collaborators

Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
Hongkai Bi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Isaac Cann
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Scott Dawson
University of California, Davis
Collaborated on 1 Project

Lee DeVille
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Bruce Fouke
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Glen Fried
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Nigel Goldenfeld
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 2 Projects

Philip Hastings
Baylor College Of Medicine, Inc.
Collaborated on 1 Project

Yoshizumi Ishino
Kyushu University
Collaborated on 1 Project

Neil Kim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

DanielK Krause
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Tom Kuhlman
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Gloria Lee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Zaida Luthey-Schulten
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rod Mackie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Michael Martini
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Gary Olsen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Susan Rosenberg
Baylor College Of Medicine, Inc.
Collaborated on 1 Project

Nick Sherer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Hong-Yan Shih
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rajveer Singh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Maria Spies
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Collaborated on 1 Project

Shen Shee Thor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Charles Werth
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rachel Whitaker
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Chi Xue
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Changyi Zhang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Lang Zhou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jan Amend
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Laura Barge
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rory Barnes
University of Washington
Collaborated on 1 Project

Marc Baum
Oak Crest Institute of Science
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rohit Bhartia
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Bruce Bills
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Michael Brown
University of Arizona
Collaborated on 1 Project

Mathieu Choukroun
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Lance Christensen
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Geoffrey Collins
Wheaton College
Collaborated on 1 Project

Steven Desch
Arizona State University
Collaborated on 1 Project

Giuseppe Etiope
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jason Goodman
Wheaton College
Collaborated on 1 Project

Robert Hodyss
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jennifer Jackson
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Paul Johnson
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Isik Kanik
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jeffrey Kargel
University of Arizona
Collaborated on 1 Project

Terence Kee
University of Leeds
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jun Kimura
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Giles Marion
Desert Research Institute
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jose Marques
Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
Collaborated on 1 Project

Victoria Meadows
University of Washington
Collaborated on 1 Project

Kenneth Nealson
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Robert Pappalardo
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Michael Russell
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Takazo Shibuya
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Christophe Sotin
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Shino Suzuki
J. Craig Venter Institute
Collaborated on 1 Project

Ken Takai
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Steven Vance
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

David VanderVelde
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Peter Willis
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Publications

Branscomb, E., & Russell, M. J. (2013). Turnstiles and bifurcators: The disequilibrium converting engines that put metabolism on the road. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 1827(2), 62–78. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.10.003
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Russell, M. J., Nitschke, W., & Branscomb, E. (2013). The inevitable journey to being. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368(1622), 20120254–20120254. doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0254
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Phone:
217-244-0846
Email:
brnscmb@illinois.edu

Past NAI Teams

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CAN 6
Michigan State University
CAN 2
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Icy Worlds
CAN 7