“Better origins of life research through collaboration across disciplines”
Sudha Rajamani, Cole Mathis, Silke Asche, David Boulesteix, Celia Blanco; Omer Markovitch, Alexandre Champagne-Ruel, Carla Bautista and Zhen Peng, Cell Reports Physical Science, (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103220
Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103220
"What it takes to solve the origin of life: An integrated review. Part 1: Experimental methods and data repositories"
OoLEN (Origin of Life Early-Career Network), Silke Asche, Carla Bautista, Celia Blanco, David Boulesteix, Alexandre Champagne-Ruel, Cole Mathis, Omer Markovitch, Zhen Peng, Avinash Vicholous Dass, Alyssa Adams, Eloi Camprubi, Enrico Sandro Colizzi, Stephanie Colón-Santos, Hannah Dromiack, Valentina Erastova, Amanda Garcia, Ghjuvan Grimaud, Aaron Halpern, Stuart A. Harrison, Seán F. Jordan, Tony Z. Jia, Amit Kahana, Artemy Kolchinsky, Odin Moron-Garcia, Ryo Mizuuchi, Jingbo Nan, Yuliia Orlova, Ben K.D. Pearce, Klaus Paschek, Martina Preiner, Silvana Pinna, Eduardo Rodríguez-Román, Loraine Schwander, Siddhant Sharma, Harrison B. Smith, Andrey Vieira, Joana C. Xavier, Cell Reports Physical Science, (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103211
Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103212
"What it takes to solve the origin(s) of life: Part 2: Theoretical methods and emerging trends"
OoLEN (Origin of Life Early-Career Network), Silke Asche, Carla Bautista, Celia Blanco, David Boulesteix, Alexandre Champagne-Ruel, Cole Mathis, Omer Markovitch, Zhen Peng, Avinash Vicholous Dass, Alyssa Adams, Eloi Camprubi, Enrico Sandro Colizzi, Stephanie Colón-Santos, Hannah Dromiack, Valentina Erastova, Amanda Garcia, Ghjuvan Grimaud, Aaron Halpern, Stuart A. Harrison, Seán F. Jordan, Tony Z. Jia, Amit Kahana, Artemy Kolchinsky, Odin Moron-Garcia, Ryo Mizuuchi, Jingbo Nan, Yuliia Orlova, Ben K.D. Pearce, Klaus Paschek, Martina Preiner, Silvana Pinna, Eduardo Rodríguez-Román, Loraine Schwander, Siddhant Sharma, Harrison B. Smith, Andrey Vieira, Joana C. Xavier, Cell Reports Physical Science, (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103211
Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2026.103211
“A Compositionally Biased Oligourethane Sensor Array To Differentiate Solids by Their Surface Chemistry: An Analogy to the Sense of Touch”
Hazel A. Fargher, Jongdoo Lim, Julia R. Shuluk, Christopher D. Wight, Silke Asche, Preethi Devireddy, Yuhan Zhou, Marissa S. Vera, Samuel D. Dahlhauser, Sanchita Bhadra, Catherine Maggiori, Sarah S. Johnson, Heather V. Graham, Andrew D. Ellington, Eric V. Anslyn, Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2025), 147 (34), 31300-31309,
Journal link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c10754
“Operational considerations for approximating Molecular Assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry”
Gabriella M. Weiss, Silke Asche, Hannah McLain, Angela H. Chung, Hessam M. Mehr, Leroy Cronin and Heather V. Graham, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, (2024), 11:1485483.
Journal link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1485483
"Evidence of Selection in Mineral Mediated Polymerization Reactions Executed in a Robotic Chemputer System" Silke Asche, Robert W. Pow, Hessam M. Mehr, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Abhishek Sharma and Leroy Cronin, ChemSystemsChem (2024), 6, e202400006.
"A robotic prebiotic chemist probes long term reactions of complexifying mixtures"
Silke Asche, Geoffrey J. T. Cooper, Graham Keenan, Cole Mathis and Leroy Cronin, Nature Communications 12, 3547 (2021), Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23828-z,
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"The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions"
Preiner, Martina, Silke Asche, Sidney Becker, Holly C. Betts, Adrien Boniface, Eloi Camprubi, Kuhan Chandru, Valentina Erastova, Sriram G. Garg, Nozair Khawaja, Gladys Kostyrka, Rainer Machné, Giacomo Moggioli, Kamila B. Muchowska, Sinje Neukirchen, Benedikt Peter, Edith Pichlhöfer, Ádám Radványi, Daniele Rossetto, Annalena Salditt, Nicolas M. Schmelling, Filipa L. Sousa, Fernando D. K. Tria, Dániel Vörös, and Joana C. Xavier, Life 10, no. 3: 20 (2020),
"Investigating the Formation of Giant {Pd72}Prop and {Pd84}Gly Macrocycles Using NMR, HPLC, and Mass Spectrometry"
Lorna G. Christie, Silke Asche, Jennifer S. Mathieson, Laia Vilà-Nadal, and Leroy Cronin, Journal of the American Chemical Society 140, 9379-9382 (2018),