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Employment (3)

Earth-Life Science Institute: Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JP

2022-07-01 to present | Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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Tony Jia

Earth-Life Science Institute: Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JP

2019-06-01 to 2022-06-30 | Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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Tony Jia

Earth-Life Science Institute: Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JP

2017-01-01 to 2019-05-31 | Research Scientist (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2010-08 to 2016-11 | Ph.D. (Chemistry)
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Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2010-08 to 2012-05 | A.M. (Chemistry)
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Tony Jia

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

2006-09 to 2010-06 | B.S. (Chemistry and Business, Economics, and Management)
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Professional activities (9)

Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP

2023 to present
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Tony Jia

Blue Marble Space: Seattle, Washington, US

2022-05-01 to present | Research Investigator
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Tony Jia

Japan Society for Biological Sciences in Space: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, JP

2022 to present
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Japan Society for Cell Synthesis Research: Tokyo, JP

2019 to present
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Chemical Society of Japan: Tokyo, JP

2019 to present
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American Chemical Society: D.C., D.C., US

2019 to present
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Biophysical Society of Japan: Osaka, JP

2017 to present
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Blue Marble Space Institute of Science: Seattle, Washington, US

2019 to 2022-04 | Affiliated Scientist
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Japan Geophysical Union: Tokyo, JP

2020-01-01 to 2021-12-31
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Works (38)

Various Viewpoints to Investigate the Origins of Life Are Needed

Life
2024-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/life14101324
Contributors: Tony Jia; Kuhan Chandru
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life

Life
2024-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/life14091069
Contributors: Kuhan Chandru; Christian Potiszil; Tony Jia
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Recent progress in primitive polyester synthesis and membraneless microdroplet assembly

Biophysics and Physicobiology
2023 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.0012
Part of ISSN: 2189-4779
Contributors: Tony Jia; Kuhan Chandru
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Tony Jia

Spectroscopic and Biophysical Methods to Determine Differential Salt-Uptake by Primitive Membraneless Polyester Microdroplets

Small Methods
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Tony Jia
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Tony Jia

Applying Novel Techniques from Physical and Biological Sciences to Life Detection

Space: Science & Technology
2023-05-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.34133/space.0040
Part of ISSN: 2692-7659
Contributors: Tony Jia; Chaitanya Giri; Andrea Aldaba; Ilknur Bahcivan; Nipun Chandrasiri; Ilankuzhali Elavarasan; Kashish Gupta; Sakshi P. Khandare; Christos Liaconis; Arpita Saha et al.
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Tony Jia

Alternating co-synthesis of glycol nucleic acid (GNA) monomers with dicarboxylic acids <i>via</i> drying

Chemical Communications
2023-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc06818d
Part of ISSN: 1359-7345
Part of ISSN: 1364-548X
Contributors: Ruiqin Yi; Tony Jia; Markus Meringer; Luke K. Marshall; Chen Chen; Shawn E. McGlynn; Albert C. Fahrenbach; H. James Cleaves
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Tony Jia

Sequencing the origins of life

BBA Advances
2022 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadva.2022.100049
Part of ISSN: 2667-1603
Contributors: Tony Jia; Shota Nishikawa; Kosuke Fujishima
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Tony Jia

AbGradCon 2021: lessons in digital meetings, international collaboration, and interdisciplinarity in astrobiology

International Journal of Astrobiology
2022-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1017/s1473550422000258
Part of ISSN: 1473-5504
Part of ISSN: 1475-3006
Contributors: Tony Jia; Kristin N. Johnson-Finn; Osama M. Alian; Irene Bonati; Kosuke Fujishima; Natalie Grefenstette; Thilina Heenatigala; Yamei Li; Natsumi Noda; Petar I. Penev et al.
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Tony Jia

The Effects of Dehydration Temperature and Monomer Chirality on Primitive Polyester Synthesis and Microdroplet Assembly

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
2022-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1002/macp.202200235
Part of ISSN: 1022-1352
Part of ISSN: 1521-3935
Contributors: REHANA AFRIN; Chen Chen; Davide Sarpa; Mahendran Sithamparam; Ruiqin Yi; Chaitanya Giri; Irena Mamajanov; Henderson Cleaves; Kuhan Chandru; Tony Jia
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Tony Jia

A liquid crystal world for the origins of life

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
2022-12-22 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1042/etls20220081
Part of ISSN: 2397-8554
Part of ISSN: 2397-8562
Contributors: Tony Jia; Tommaso Bellini; Noel Clark; Tommaso P. Fraccia
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Tony Jia

A Physicochemical Consideration of Prebiotic Microenvironments for Self-Assembly and Prebiotic Chemistry

Life
2022-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/life12101595
Contributors: Arpita Saha; Ruiqin Yi; Albert Fahrenbach; Anna Wang; Tony Jia
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Sensitive and Specific MicroRNA <i>In Situ</i> Hybridization Using Partially Methylated Phosphotriester Antisense DNA Probes

GEN Biotechnology
2022-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1089/genbio.2022.0023
Part of ISSN: 2768-1572
Part of ISSN: 2768-1556
Contributors: Po Hsiang Wang; Tony Z. Jia; Ching-Wen Chang; Bertrand Chin-Ming Tan; Ya-Hui Chi; Wen-Yih Chen
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Tony Jia

Tractable molecular adaptation patterns in a designed complex peptide system

Chem
2022-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.03.016
Part of ISSN: 2451-9294
Contributors: Ankit Jain; Scott A. McPhee; Tong Wang; Maya Narayanan Nair; Daniela Kroiss; Tony Z. Jia; Rein V. Ulijn
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Tony Jia

A material‐based panspermia hypothesis: The potential of polymer gels and membraneless droplets

Biopolymers
2022-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1002/bip.23486
Part of ISSN: 0006-3525
Part of ISSN: 1097-0282
Contributors: Mahendran Sithamparam; Nirmell Satthiyasilan; Chen Chen; Tony Jia; Kuhan Chandru
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Tony Jia

Editorial: Biological Phase Separation

Frontiers in Genetics
2022-04-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.895689
Part of ISSN: 1664-8021
Contributors: Eiichiro Mori; Tony Z. Jia
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Tony Jia

Increasing complexity of primitive compartments

Biophysics and Physicobiology
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v18.032
Part of ISSN: 2189-4779
Contributors: Tony Z. Jia; Yutetsu Kuruma
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Tony Jia

Liquid Crystal Phase Assembly in Peptide-DNA Coacervates as a Mechanism for Primitive Emergence of Structural Complexity

The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1162/isal_a_00362
Contributors: Tony Z. Jia; Tommaso P. Fraccia
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Tony Jia

Connecting primitive phase separation to biotechnology, synthetic biology, and engineering

Journal of Biosciences
2021-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-021-00204-z
Part of ISSN: 0250-5991
Part of ISSN: 0973-7138
Contributors: Tony Jia; Po-Hsiang Wang; Tatsuya Niwa; Irena Mamajanov
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Tony Jia

Incorporation of Basic α-Hydroxy Acid Residues into Primitive Polyester Microdroplets for RNA Segregation

Biomacromolecules
2021-03-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01697
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Tony Jia

Origin of Species before Origin of Life: The Role of Speciation in Chemical Evolution

Life
2021-02 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/life11020154
Contributors: Tony Jia; Melina Caudan; Irena Mamajanov
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Liquid Crystal Peptide/DNA Coacervates in the Context of Prebiotic Molecular Evolution

Crystals
2020-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/cryst10110964
Contributors: Tony Jia; Tommaso Pietro FRACCIA
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Prebiotic oligomerization and self-assembly of structurally diverse xenobiological monomers.

Scientific reports
2020-10-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74223-5
PMID: 33067516
PMC: PMC7567815
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Tony Jia

Liquid Crystal Coacervates Composed of Short Double-Stranded DNA and Cationic Peptides.

ACS nano
2020-09-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05083
PMID: 32852935
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Tony Jia

Protoenzymes: The Case of Hyperbranched Polymer-Scaffolded ZnS Nanocrystals

Life
2020-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/life10080150
Contributors: Irena Mamajanov; Melina Caudan; Tony Jia
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Direct Sequencing of tRNA by 2D-HELS-AA MS Seq Reveals Its Different Isoforms and Dynamic Base Modifications.

ACS chemical biology
2020-05-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00119
PMID: 32364699
PMC: PMC7902080
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Tony Jia

Biological phase separation: cell biology meets biophysics

Biophysical Reviews
2020-03-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00680-x
Part of ISSN: 1867-2450
Part of ISSN: 1867-2469
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Tony Jia

Unbinding events of amino acids and peptides from water–pyrite interfaces: A case study of life’s origin on mineral surfaces

Biophysical Chemistry
2020-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2020.106338
Part of ISSN: 0301-4622
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Tony Jia

Polyesters as a Model System for Building Primitive Biologies from Non-Biological Prebiotic Chemistry

Life
2020-01-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/life10010006
Part of ISSN: 2075-1729
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Tony Jia
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A Bifunctional Polyphosphate Kinase Driving the Regeneration of Nucleoside Triphosphate and Reconstituted Cell-Free Protein Synthesis

ACS Synthetic Biology
2020-01-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00456
Part of ISSN: 2161-5063
Part of ISSN: 2161-5063
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Tony Jia

A general LC-MS-based RNA sequencing method for direct analysis of multiple-base modifications in RNA mixtures

Nucleic Acids Research
2019-09-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz731
Part of ISSN: 0305-1048
Part of ISSN: 1362-4962
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Tony Jia

Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts

Astrobiology
2019-07-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2018.1903
Part of ISSN: 1531-1074
Part of ISSN: 1557-8070
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Tony Jia

Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019-07-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1902336116
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
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Tony Jia

Recent Advances in Origins of Life Research by Biophysicists in Japan

Challenges
2019-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/challe10010028
Contributors: Tony Jia; Yutetsu Kuruma
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Mineral Surface-Templated Self-Assembling Systems: Case Studies from Nanoscience and Surface Science towards Origins of Life Research

Life
2018-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/life8020010
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

N-Carboxyanhydride-Mediated Fatty Acylation of Amino Acids and Peptides for Functionalization of Protocell Membranes

Journal of the American Chemical Society
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b08801
Part of ISSN: 0002-7863
Contributors: Enver Cagri Izgu; Anders Björkbom; Neha P. Kamat; Victor S. Lelyveld; Weicheng Zhang; Tony Z. Jia; Jack W. Szostak
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Rapid RNA Exchange in Aqueous Two-Phase System and Coacervate Droplets

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
2014-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-014-9355-8
Part of ISSN: 0169-6149
Contributors: Tony Z. Jia; Christian Hentrich; Jack W. Szostak
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Digital RNA sequencing minimizes sequence-dependent bias and amplification noise with optimized single-molecule barcodes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2012-01-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118018109
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Contributors: K. Shiroguchi; T. Z. Jia; P. A. Sims; X. S. Xie
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ATP-independent reversal of a membrane protein aggregate by a chloroplast SRP subunit

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
2010-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1836
Part of ISSN: 1545-9993
Contributors: Peera Jaru-Ampornpan; Kuang Shen; Vinh Q Lam; Mona Ali; Sebastian Doniach; Tony Z Jia; Shu-ou Shan
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