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· Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley2023–

Publications (82)

The Emergence of Competition Between Model Protocells
Science · 2004
380
cited
Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators
Nature · 2012
340
cited
RNA Catalysis in Model Protocell Vesicles
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005
240
cited
From self-assembled vesicles to protocells.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology · 2010
222
cited
A kinetic study of the growth of fatty acid vesicles.
Biophysical Journal · 2004
219
cited
Rapid Colorimetric Detection of Bacterial Species through the Capture of Gold Nanoparticles by Chimeric Phages
ACS Nano · 2018
165
cited
Membrane growth can generate a transmembrane pH gradient in fatty acid vesicles.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2004
156
cited
The RNA World as a Model System to Study the Origin of Life
Current Biology · 2015
147
cited
Comprehensive experimental fitness landscape and evolutionary network for small RNA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
136
cited
Controlled phage therapy by photothermal ablation of specific bacterial species using gold nanorods targeted by chimeric phages
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
121
cited
Microbial predictors of healing and short-term effect of debridement on the microbiome of chronic wounds
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes · 2020
113
cited
Effect of Stalling after Mismatches on the Error Catastrophe in Nonenzymatic Nucleic Acid Replication
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010
111
cited
Inhibition of Bacterial Conjugation by Phage M13 and Its Protein g3p: Quantitative Analysis and Model
PLoS ONE · 2011
88
cited
Mapping a Systematic Ribozyme Fitness Landscape Reveals a Frustrated Evolutionary Network for Self-Aminoacylating RNA
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2019
77
cited
The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA
Nucleic Acids Research · 2011
62
cited
Cascade of reduced speed and accuracy after errors in enzyme-free copying of nucleic acid sequences.
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2013
61
cited
A Strategically Positioned Cation Is Crucial for Efficient Catalysis by Chorismate Mutase*
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2000
59
cited
Prebiotically plausible mechanisms increase compositional diversity of nucleic acid sequences
Nucleic Acids Research · 2012
57
cited
Lipid vesicles chaperone an encapsulated RNA aptamer
Nature Communications · 2018
54
cited
From prelife to life: how chemical kinetics become evolutionary dynamics.
Accounts of Chemical Research · 2012
50
cited
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