Next on is Sandeep Ameta with the question whether #evolution is using self-sustaining chemical networks. #ool #originoflife #OoLEN

Don't miss this exciting talk by @thattai for a drive through the #eukaryotic vesicle traffic network and how #GraphTheory can help us understand the constraints placed on such transport networks! Wed, 20th Oct | 2:30 pm AEDT | 9 am IST National Centre for Biological Sciences theoryoflivingsystems.org/event-details/…

New Science alert!!!

We've been receiving some great applications for this PostDoc/Research Fellow position, but rolling applications for it are still open! If you'd be interested in working at the interface of #RNABiology, #Biophysics & #MachineLearning, send in your applications at the earliest!

So last week we published a new paper in Nature Reviews Chemistry where we strongly argue life may have emerged from micelles - nanoscopic lipid assemblies - and review both untapped and emerging experimental reports that support this scenario.

Our latest paper on Astrobiology as a Driver to Connect India's Public, Scientists, and Space Missions NewSpace India Siddharth Pandey Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Astrobiology India liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/sp…

New preprint in ChemRxiv! We studied lipid self-assembly using Molecular Dynamics and observed kinetic influences of micellar compositions. This constitutes a simple recursive selection, enabling reproduction and evolution, relevant to the Origin of Life. doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

📢With eight great years of #teaching, we are thrilled to announce '9th annual lecture series in advanced biology' on '#feedback systems in biology'🤩 visit ncbs.res.in/people/postdoc… Registrations open soon!🗓️ Stay tuned and spread the word📢

Our Friday morning began with a talk by Yoshiya Matsubara (Yoshiya Matsubara (松原 嘉哉)) titled: Error catastrophe can be avoided by proofreading innate to template-directed polymerization He talked about his recent collaborative work on solving the 'error catastrophe' problem in replication.

#AcademicTwitter! Autocatalysis is back! My latest paper with dear not-on-Twitter mentor Stuart Kauffman shows: 6683 prokaryotic metabolic nets contain autocatalytic networks of variable sizes. 300 reactions are conserved in aut nets of ≥2732 proks! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… /1

📢And we commence #9thUndergraduateLectureSeries tomorrow for enthusiastic participants with the opening orientation talk by Renjitha Gopurappilly and Sandeep Ameta🤩 Aalok Varma will be talking about sensors in the biological feedback systems!

📢After an engaging inaugural Sunday at #9thUndergraduateLectureSeries, tomorrow, we have Payel Chatterjee and Manoj Kumar talking about #navigation in biological #feedback systems!

This Sunday we will have two exciting talks in our #9thUndergarduateLectureSeries about #feedback in #communication by Sukanya Madhwal, Oindrila Bhattacharjee, and Ishutesh Jain!

Book Alert!: I'm excited to contribute a chapter to the Royal Society of Chemistry book on #Prebiotic chemistry and #OriginsOfLife. It's a good piece of work from some of the experts in the field, with extensive information on the most recent advancements! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebo…

Royal Society of Chemistry Exceptional work from all the co-authors Cyrille Jeancolas, Alex Blokhuis | alexblokhuis.bsky.social, and Philippe Nghe (ESPCI Paris - PSL)!

Evo folks Meeting alert!!!

An experimental paper demonstrating RNA auto- and cross-catalytic reaction network in coacervate compartments. Led by the indomitable Sandeep Ameta, Manoj Kumar and Nayan Chakraborty. Multispecies autocatalytic RNA reaction networks in coacervates - biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What does it take for an autocatalytic network within a prebiotic compartment to display heredity? Yoshiya takes this question on. Read the paper here : Robustness of compositional heredity to the growth and division dynamics of prebiotic compartments - arxiv.org/abs/2211.03155

The triennial meeting of ISSOL will finally happen next year after not seeing the light of day in 2022! V.Eagerly look forward to the wide variety of talks, the various interactions & debates, & the fun people who attend that always makes this meeting a must-go for OoL folks!😍

💬 We're excited to share the second feature of our two-part series on #OriginOfLife research: 🦠 "Unravelling the Origin of Life: Digging Deeper" ✍️🏽 Written by Angad Yuvraj, Harshwardhan Jain, #NayanChakraborty & edited by 𓆉 Siddharth Kankaria/ सिद्धार्थ कांकरिया (he/him) 💻 Read: news.ncbs.res.in/research-expla…