How biophysics shapes the origins of life: a 21st IUPAB/62nd BSJ joint congress symposium overview

Tony Z Jia; Ryo Mizuuchi

doi:10.1007/s12551-024-01210-9

How biophysics shapes the origins of life: a 21st IUPAB/62nd BSJ joint congress symposium overview

Biophys Rev. 2024 Jul 23;16(5):539-541. doi: 10.1007/s12551-024-01210-9. eCollection 2024 Oct.

Authors

Tony Z Jia^#^{1

2}, Ryo Mizuuchi^#^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, 600 1 Ave, Floor 1, Seattle, WA 98104 USA.
² Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-IE-1 Ookayama, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo 152-8550 Japan.
³ Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-8480 Japan.
⁴ JST, FOREST, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012 Japan.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 39618798
PMCID: PMC11604865 (available on 2025-07-23)
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01210-9

Abstract

The origins of life remains an unsolved mystery for all of humankind which requires a uniquely interdisciplinary approach incorporating many different subfields from astronomy, to geology, to chemistry, to biology, and beyond. One of these subfields which contributes greatly to understanding of various aspects of the origins of life is biophysics. As part of the 21st IUPAB/62nd BSJ Joint Congress in Kyoto, Japan, a symposium on the Origin of Life was held on June 28, 2024, featuring invited and contributed presentations on various aspects of origins of life research from Japan and around the world.

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