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Shawn E. McGlynn

Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI)                                                    Phone: +81 3 5734 3154

Tokyo Institute of Technology                                                          Email:  mcglynn@elsi.jp

2-12-1 (I7E-322) Ookayama Meguro-ku

Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan

Professional Training                                                                                                                      

Ph.D.            Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University Bozeman, 2010

B.S.              Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University Bozeman, 2005

Professional Appointments                                                                                                            

2016-present    Associate Professor, ELSI, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2015-present    Researcher, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science.

2015-present    Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.

2014-2016       Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University

2010-2014       Postdoctoral Scholar in Geobiology, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests                                                                                                                        

Chemical origin of life, microbial metabolism and evolution, microbial ecology, single-cell ecophysiology.

Honors                                                                                                                                           

CIRES Visiting Fellow, CU Boulder, 2024 | NASA Early Career Fellowship Award, 2014 | Agouron Post-Doctoral Scholar, 2012 | NASA Planetary Biology Internship 2008 | NSF-IGERT Fellow in Geobiological Systems 2006-2010 | DAAD (German academic exchange service) RISE Scholar 2005

Selected Synergistic Activities                                                                                                   

Associate Editor: Geochemical Journal | Associate Editor: Microbes and Environments

Recent funding

HFSP: Experimentally Explaining Biological Methane Isotopes with Martina Dal Bello at Yale and Jacopo Grilli at ICTP

MEXT Kiban A: "Experimentally Explaining Biological Methane Isotopes"

MEXT Pioneering Research: "pH Gradient Dependent Geo-Electrochemical Origin of Life on Aqua Planets in the Universe." FY 2022-2024

MEXT Kiban B." Origin of ATP phosphate esters and sulfur thio-esters in early Life." FY 2022-2024

MEXT Kakenhi “Determining sulfur isotope fractionation values of individual enzymes and how they evolve through time.”

NSF-NASA Ideas Lab for origin of life CoI/PI “Collaborative Research: Biochemical, Genetic, Metabolic, and Isotopic Constraints on an Ancient Thiobiosphere”

Recent publications: (Please visit google scholar for an up to date list)