Jack W. Szostak Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University Alex. A. Rich Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital szostak@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Katarzyna Adamala - Graduate Student MSc., Organic Synthesis, University of Warsaw Research: Prebiotic synthesis of lipid and nucleotide derivatives.
		Anders Bjorkbom - Postdoc Ph.D., Åbo Akademi University, Finland Research: Lipids and membranes bjorkbom@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		J. Craig Blain - Graduate Student, BBS Program B.Sc.H., Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Research: Synthesis of non-natural nucleic acids; Darwinian evolution in artificial chemical systems jcblain@fas.harvard.edu
		Deepti Duvvuru - Postdoc Ph.D., Universite Paris-Sud XI, Paris, France Research: Origins of Life deepti.duvvuru@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Aaron Engelhart - Postdoc Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Research: Self-assembly, nucleic acid polymerization engelhart@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Christian Hentrich - Postdoc Ph.D., EMBL and University of Heidelberg, Germany Research: Protocells, self-organization and microscopy hentrich@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Ben Heuberger - Postdoc Ph.D., UC Riverside Research: In vitro RNA selection, synthetic chemistry, and nonenzymatic informational transfer. heuberger@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Enver Izgu - Postdoc Ph.D., University of Minnesota Research: Origins of Life izgu@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Tony Z. Jia - Graduate Student, Chemistry Program B.S., California Institute of Technology, USA Research: In vitro RNA evolution tzjia@fas.harvard.edu
		Neha Kamat - Postdoc Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Research: Membranes, Protocells nkamat@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Emma Kowal - Undergraduate Student A.B., Chemical and Physical Biology (expected), Harvard University Research: Ribozyme selections kowal@college.harvard.edu
		Aaron Larsen - Postdoc Ph.D., McGill University, Canada Research: Ribozyme selections alarsen@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Brian Lee - Joint Graduate Student with Mahadevan lab B.A., MIT Research: Biophysics
		Li Li - Postdoc Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research: Molecular Dynamics ll@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Alison Liou - Undergraduate Student Harvard University Research: Nonenzymatic RNA Replication alisonliou@college.harvard.edu
		Yale Michaels - Undergraduate Student Harvard University Research: Ribozymes yalemichaels@college.harvard.edu
		Ayan Pal - Postdoc Ph.D., Boston College Research: Origins of Life pal@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Julia Pian - Undergraduate Student Harvard University Research: Ribozyme selections
		Noam Prywes - Graduate Student B.A., Columbia University Research: Ribozymes prywes@fas.harvard.edu
		Jia Sheng - Postdoc Ph.D., Georgia State University Research: RNA crystallography jsheng@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Pam Svec - HHMI Lab Manager svec@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
		Emily Unger - Undergraduate Student Harvard University Research: Nonenzymatic RNA Replication eunger@college.harvard.edu
		Shenglong Zhang - Postdoc Ph.D., Columbia University Research: Oligomerization, mismatch and fidelity, direct DNA and RNA sequencing slzhang@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

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