News – 2017
William Martin talks about:
Ursprünge des Lebens. Wo lebten die ersten Zellen, und wovon?
Thursday, November 29, 2017, 17:00 h
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Palmenstraße 16, 40217 Düsseldorf
27.11.2017 Radio | Ö1 Dimensionen
William Martin reported on Ö1, an austrian radio station operated by Austria's public broadcaster ORF, in the program "Dimensionen" about the origin of life:
Wie das Leben auf der Erde begonnen hat
21.11.2017 Publication | FEMS Microbiology Reviews
A physiological perspective on the origin and evolution of photosynthesis
FEMS Microbiol Rev (2017)
doi: 10.1093/femsre/fux056
03.11.2017 Prize | William Martin
William Martin recieves the 2017 Spiridion Brusina Medal of the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences.
31.10.2017 Publication | Periodicum biologorum
Symbiogenesis, gradualism, and mitochondrial energy in eukaryote origin
Period Biol 119: 141–158 (2017)
doi: 10.18054/pb.v119i3.5694
25.10.2017 Publication | BioEssays
Too much eukaryote LGT
Bioessays (2017)
doi: 10.1002/bies.201700115
12.10.2017 TV | Arte Xenius
Arte, a public German-French TV network, broadcasted a video about William Martin's findings about the role of iron at the origin of life in the science program Xenius:
"Eisen: Warum wir es zum Überleben brauchen"
17.08.2017 Publication | Frontiers in Plant Science
On being the right size as an animal with plastids
Front. Plant Sci. 8:1402 (2017)
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01402
The physiology of phagocytosis in the context of mitochondrial origin
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 81 (2017)
doi: 10.1128/MMBR.00008-17
02.06.2017 Award | William F. Martin
The VolkswagenStiftung will support Prof. Dr. William F. Martin in the next five years under the initiative "Life – A fresh scientific approach to the basic principles of life".
This project is in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Martin Lercher (HHU Düsseldorf) and Prof. Dr. Eörs Sathmáry (Parmenides Institute Munich).
Project title: "A unified model of recombination in life"
20.05.2017 Radio | WDR 5 Zeitzeichen
William Martin reported on WDR 5, a radio channel produced by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), a public broadcasting company in Germany, in the program "Zeitzeichen" about Stanley Miller on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Miller's death.
30.03.2017 News | NASA Blog
Astrobiology at NASA posted an article about LUCA and William Martin's work:
Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor
Google Scholar lists public profiles for Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
10.03.2017 Graduation | Sriram Garg
Sriram Garg successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Mitochondria and Major Transitions at the Origin of Eukaryotes".
09.03.2017 Publication | Cell
Energy in ancient metabolism
Cell 168:953–955 (2017)
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.02.032
06.03.2017 Publication | Protoplasma
Physiology, phylogeny, early evolution, and GAPDH
Protoplasma 254:1823–1834 (2017)
doi: 10.1007/s00709-017-1095-y
11.02.2017 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
Late mitochondrial origin is an artifact
Genome Biol. Evol. 9:373–379 (2017)
doi: 10.1093/gbe/evx027
10.02.2017 Prize | Chuan Ku
Chuan Ku was awarded for the Best Doctoral Dissertation 2016 of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
02.02.2017 Talk | Haus der Universität Düsseldorf
William Martin talks about:
Einsam und allein auf einem jungen Planeten. Der letzte gemeinsame Vorfahr allen Lebens
Thursday, February 2, 2017, 19:00 h
Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf
01.02.2017 Press | Rheinische Post
Rheinische Post, a major German regional daily newspaper, published an article about Bill Martin and his research on the origin of life:
Wie das Leben auf die Welt kam
01.02.2017 Graduation | Harald Preisner
Harald Preisner successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Cytoskelett-Analyse parabasalischer Parasiten: Die Präsenz potentieller Intermediärfilament Proteine in Protisten".
11.01.2017 Publication | Journal of Theoretical Biology
Physiology, anaerobes, and the origin of mitosing cells 50 years on
J. Theor. Biol. 434: 2–10 (2017)
doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.01.004