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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
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
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”
6 recent publications: (Please visit google scholar for an up to date list)
CO2 Fixation by a pH Gradient. Hudson et al, PNAS, 2020 117 (37) 22873-22879.
Simultaneous synthesis of thioesters and iron-sulfur clusters in water: two universal components of energy metabolism. S Sanden, R Yi, M Hara, SE McGlynn. Chemical Communications. 2020, 56, 11989 - 11992
A New Analysis of Archaea–Bacteria Domain Separation: Variable Phylogenetic Distance and the Tempo of Early Evolution. SJ Berkemer and SE McGlynn, MBE, 27; 8, 2332–2340 2020.
A single polyphosphate kinase-based NTP regeneration system driving cell-free protein synthesis. PH Wang, K Fujishima, S Berhanu, Y Kuruma, TZ Jia, AN Khusnutdinova, AF Yakunin, SE McGlynn, ACS Synthetic Biology 2020, 9, 1, 36-42
Natural selection based on coordination chemistry: computational assessment of [4Fe–4S]-maquettes with non-coded amino acids, RK Szilagyi, R Hanscam, EM Shepard, SE McGlynn, Interface Focus 9 (6), 20190071, 2019