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KAWAMURA Kunio
Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies

Professor

■ Present specialized field

●Specialized field
Origin of Life, Environmental Chemical Technology, Hydrothermal Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Nucleic acid Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics, Citizen Science, Chemical Recycle, Green Chemistry
●Keyword
Origin of life, hydrothermal fluids, environmental technology, nucleic acids, proteins, metal analysis, chemical recycling, science education, citizen science
●The main research themes
1.	Deveoplment of in situ spectroscopic detection systems for rapid and high temepature and high pressure reactions in liquid phases
2.	Investigations of chemical evolution of protein and nucleic acid using hydrothermal flow reactor system
3.	Construction of evolutionary system using prebiotic molecules
4.	Application of hydrothermal flow reactor systems for environmental harmless technology
5.	Analogy between the life-like systems and civilizations and its application to global environmental protection
●Capable of joint research and research consultation content

■ Academic background

1.	1985/04～1988/03	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Engineering Material chemistry〔Doctoral course〕 Completed Doctor of Enginering
2.	1983/04～1985/03	Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Engineering 〔Master degree program〕 Completed
3.	1979/04～1983/03	Tohoku University Faculty of Engineering Graduated

■ Research activities

1.	1983～	The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
2.	1985～	The Chemical Society of Japan.
3.	1992～	American chemical society
4.	1992～	the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life and Astrobiology Society
5.	1995～	The society for the study of the origin and evolution of life, Japan
6.	2012～	Japan Association on the Environmental Studies
7.	2013/08～	Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach
8.	2013/08～	∟ Editorial board member
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■ Business career

1.	1990/07～1990/09	Australia, Coal Corporation of Victoria
2.	1992/04～1995/03	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States of America
3.	2011/04～	Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Human Environmental Studies Professor
4.	2012/02～2012/02	France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Acides Nucléiques et Biophysique Invited Professor
5.	2021/09～2022/08	France, Sorbonne University and and France, National Museum of Natural Histor Laboratory of Surface Reactivity and Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity Visiting Scholor

■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	Hydrothermalism for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Simplest Life-Like System on the Hadean Earth (Collaboration) 2024/11
2.	Book	Chapter 8, Hydrothermalism for the Chemical Evolution Toward the Simplest Life-Like System on the Hadean Earth, p163-192, in “The First Steps of Life” Ed. By Ernesto Di Mauro (Collaboration) 2024/02
3.	Book	Chapters “Activated Nucleotide, p.54-55”, “Nucleotide Phosphirimidazolide, p.2105-2106”, and “Oligonuleotide, p.2160-2161”, in “Encyclopedia of Astrobiology", Eds. by M. Garguad et al. (Collaboration) 2023/07
4.	Book	A Non-paradoxical Pathway for the Chemical Evolution toward the Most Primitive RNA-based Life-like System, in “Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods” Ed. by Pierre Pontarotti, Evolutionary Biology Book (Collaboration) 2019/09
5.	Book	Chapters “Activated Nucleotide”, “Nucleotide Phosphirimidazolide”, and “Oligonuleotide”, in “Encyclopedia of Astrobiology” edited by, M. Gargaud, W. M. Irvine, R. Amils, J. Cernicharo Quintanilla, H. J. Cleaves, D. Pinti, D. Rouan, T. Spohn, S. Tirard, M. Viso (Collaboration) 2015/07
6.	Book	“Oligomerization of nucleic acids and peptides under the primitive earth conditions”, Chapter 6 in “Oligomerization of Chemical and Biological Compounds” Ed. by Claire Lesieur (Collaboration) 2014/06
7.	Book	Reality of the emergence of life-like systems from simple prebiotic polymers on primitive earth” in “GENESIS - IN THE BEGINNING: Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early biological Evolution (Collaboration) 2012/04
8.	Book	Chapters “Activated Nucleotide”, “Nucleotide Phosphirimidazolide”, and “Oligonuleotide”, in “Encyclopedia of Astrobiology", Eds. by Ricardo Amils et al. (Collaboration) 2011/05
9.	Book	In the shadow of Darwinism: Alternative evolutionary theories in the 20th century ダーウィニズムの影：20世紀の他の進化論 (Collaboration) 2003/11
10.	Book	“The Origin of Life from the Life of Subjectivity”, in "Fundamentals of Life", Eds. by G. Palyi, C. Zucchi, L. Caglioti (Collaboration) 2002/11
11.	Book	"Capillary Electrophoresis of Nucleic Acids" in "Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry" (Collaboration) 2000/11
12.	Thesis	Classical-simple-chemical system for 5’-hydroxymethylfurfural recovery formed during the hydrothermal treatment of saccharide materials (Collaboration) 2025/06
13.	Thesis	Linear oligopeptide formation from alanine-diketopiperazine in acidic aqueous solutions using interfacial nano-pulsed discharge plasma (Collaboration) 2024/12
14.	Thesis	HPLC retention behavior of oligonucleotides on an anion-exchange HPLC with a high concentration of urea (Collaboration) 2024/01
15.	Thesis	The Environmental Technology as a Fiction 4: Disappearance of Global Warming Problem and Emergence of Climate Change Problem (Single) 2023/02
16.	Thesis	Life on minerals: Binding behaviors of oligonucleotides on zirconium silicate and its inhibitory activity for the self-cleavage of hammerhead ribozyme (Collaboration) 2022/10
17.	Thesis	A high-pressure, high-temperature flow reactor simulating the hadean earth environment, with application to the pressure dependence of the cleavage of avocado viroid hammerhead ribozyme (Collaboration) 2022/08
18.	Thesis	Nano-pulsed discharge-plasma-induced abiotic oligopeptide formation from diketopiperazine (Collaboration) 2022/05
19.	Thesis	The Environmental Technology as a Fiction 1: Trail for Easy to Understand Explanation for Electric Vehicle and Hydrogen Energy on the Basis of Chemical Thermodynamics (Single) 2022/02
20.	Thesis	The Environmental Technology as a Fiction 2: An Approach on the Basis of the Origin-of-life Study as a Fundamental Study (Single) 2022/02
21.	Thesis	A view on the origin-of-life: The model on the time-dependent development of biosystems and the two-gene hypothesis (Single) 2021/12
22.	Thesis	Environmentally friendly, hydrothermal treatment of mixed fabric wastes containing polyester, cotton, and wool fibers: Application for HMF production (Collaboration) 2020/09
23.	Thesis	Production of 5’-hydroxymethylfurfural by the hydrothermal treatment of cotton fabric wastes using a pilot-plant scale flow reactor (Collaboration) 2020/09
24.	Thesis	Education as a Key Social System for the Global Environmental Protection Deduced from a Biosystematic View of Civilization (Single) 2019/06
25.	Thesis	In situ UV–VIS–NIR spectrophotometric detection system as a research tool for environment-friendly chemical processes (Collaboration) 2019/06
26.	Thesis	Enhancement and inhibitory activities of minerals for alanine oligopeptide elongation under hydrothermal conditions (Collaboration) 2018/08
27.	Thesis	Hydrothermal microflow technology as a research tool for origin-of-life studies in extreme Earth environment (Single) 2017/10
28.	Thesis	A Powerful Research Tool for Screening and Development of Solid-state Catalysts Building up the Environment Harmless Chemical Technologies (Single) 2017/06
29.	Thesis	Walking over 4 Gya: Chemical evolution from photochemistry to mineral and organic chemistries leading to an RNA worl (Collaboration) 2017/04
30.	Thesis	In situ UV-VIS spectrophotometry within the second time scale as a research tool for solid-state catalyst and liquid-phase reactions at high temperatures: Its application to the formation of HMF from glucose and cellulose (Collaboration) 2016/09
31.	Thesis	A hypothesis: life initiated from two genes, as deduced from the RNA world hypothesis and the characteristics of life-like systems (Single) 2016/08
32.	Thesis	A Biosystematic View of Civilizations: Western Europe and Japan: Before and After the Industrial Revolution (Single) 2015/11
33.	Thesis	Oxidation of aliphatic alcohols and benzyl alcohol by H2O2 under the hydrothermal conditions in the presence of solid-state catalysts using batch and flow reactors (Collaboration) 2015/11
34.	Thesis	Efficient Research Tool for the Improvement of Classical Chemical Processes Using High Temperature Micro-flow Reactor Technologies (Single) 2015/06
35.	Thesis	Global Environmental Protection on the Basis of the Biosystematic View of Civilization – Importance of Information Flow, and Roles of Energy and Material Flow – (Single) 2015/06
36.	Thesis	Verification of chemical evolution of RNA under hydrothermal environments on the primitive Earth (Collaboration) 2015/04
37.	Thesis	Separation Behavior of Short Oligonucleotides by Ion-Pair Reversed-Phase Capillary Liquid Chromatography Using a Silica-Based Monolithic Column Applied to Simple Detection of SNPs (Collaboration) 2015/03
38.	Thesis	Oligopeptide production from alanine monomer by pulsed corona discharge plasma in ambient and supercritical argon (Collaboration) 2013/06
39.	Thesis	Recent progress for the peptide synthesis using hydrothermal-microflow reactor systems (Single) 2013/03
40.	Thesis	Behavior of a hammerhead ribozyme in aqueous solution at medium to high temperatures (Collaboration) 2012/09
41.	Thesis	High-throughput Ru(III) analysis using the hydrothermal flow reactor-mediated FIA by the extreme acceleration of Ru(III) complexation with 1,10-phenanthroline (Collaboration) 2012/09
42.	Thesis	Drawbacks of the ancient RNA-based life-like system under primitive earth conditions (Single) 2012/07
43.	Thesis	Bulk- and surface-modified combinable PDMS capillary sensor array as easy-to-use sensing device with enhanced sensitivity to elevated concentrations of multiple serum sample components (Collaboration) 2012/04
44.	Thesis	Combinable poly(dimethyl siloxane) capillary sensor array for single-step and multiple enzyme inhibitor assays (Collaboration) 2012/01
45.	Thesis	Single-step sandwich immunoreaction in a square glass capillary immobilizing capture and enzyme-linked antibodies for simplified enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Collaboration) 2012/01
46.	Thesis	Development of micro-flow hydrothermal monitoring systems and their applications to the origin of life study on earth (Single) 2011/07
47.	Thesis	Mineral-enhanced hydrothermal oligopeptide formation at the second time scale (Collaboration) 2011/06
48.	Thesis	Flow injection analysis combined with a hydrothermal flow reactor: application to kinetic determination of trace amounts of iridium using a water-soluble porphyrin (Collaboration) 2011/05
49.	Thesis	Catalytic activity of noble metal ions for the degradation of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphine in the presence of oxidizing agent and its application to determination of ultra trace amounts of ruthenium (Collaboration) 2011/01
50.	Thesis	Reagent-release capillary array-isoelectric focusing device as a rapid screening device for IEF condition optimization (Collaboration) 2010/08
51.	Thesis	Temperature limit for the emergence of life-like system deduced from the prebiotic chemical kinetics under the hydrothermal conditions (Single) 2010/08
52.	Thesis	Single-step ELISA capillary sensor based on surface-bonded glucose oxidase, antibody, and physically-adsorbed PEG membrane containing peroxidase-labeled antibody (Collaboration) 2010/07
53.	Thesis	Facile preparation method of a disposable capillary biosensor using an ion-selective optode membrane and a dissolvable enzyme membrane and its application to urea sensing (Collaboration) 2010/05
54.	Thesis	In situ analysis of proteins at high temperatures mediated by capillary-flow hydrothermal UV-Vis spectrophotometer with a water-soluble chromogenic reagent (Collaboration) 2010/05
55.	Thesis	Effect of condensation agents and minerals for oligopeptide formation under mild and hydrothermal conditions in related to chemical evolution of proteins (Collaboration) 2009/07
56.	Thesis	Stability of ribonuclease A under hydrothermal conditions in relation to the origin-of-life hypothesis: Verification with the hydrothermal micro-flow reactor system (Collaboration) 2009/02
57.	Thesis	Kinetics and activation parameter analysis for the prebiotic oligocytidylate formation on Na+-montmorillonite at 0 – 100 °C (Collaboration) 2008/09
58.	Thesis	One-step formation of oligopeptide-like molecules from Glu and Asp in hydrothermal environments (Collaboration) 2008/05
59.	Thesis	Behavior of DNA under hydrothermal conditions with MgCl2 additive using an in situ UV-visible spectrophotometer (Collaboration) 2007/12
60.	Thesis	Civilization as a biosystem examined by the comparative analysis of biosystems (Single) 2007/07
61.	Thesis	Kinetics of the accelerator ligand effect for the complex formation of Cd(II) ion with a cationic water-soluble porphyrin (Collaboration) 2007/07
62.	Thesis	Morphology of aluminum phosphate by the Al-EDTA mediated particle formation in aqueous solutions at high temperatures (Collaboration) 2007/03
63.	Thesis	Kinetic analysis of oligo(C) formation from the 5'-monophosphorimidazolide of cytidine with Pb(II) ion catalyst at 10 – 75 oC (Collaboration) 2007/02
64.	Thesis	Stopped-flow spectrophotometric determination of nM level of Pb(II) using 5,10,15,20-terakis(1-methylpyridinium-4-yl)porphine (Collaboration) 2007/01
65.	Thesis	Behavior of alanine oligopeptides in aqueous solution at extremely high temperatures (Collaboration) 2006/12
66.	Thesis	Influence of pH and diluent for the ion-pair solvent extractionof aromatic carboxylic acids using quaternary ammonium salts (Collaboration) 2006/09
67.	Thesis	Inhibitory activity of thermal copolymers of amino acids for the metal-catalyzed hydrolysis of an RNA dinucleotide (Collaboration) 2006/09
68.	Thesis	Acceleration effect of ethanol for the complexation of rhodium(III) with a cationic water-soluble porphyrin and an attempt to develop a determination method of rhodium(III) (Collaboration) 2006/06
69.	Thesis	Separation of aromatic carboxylic acids using quaternary ammonium salts on reversed-phase HPLC 2. Application for the analysis of Loy Yang coal oxidation products (Collaboration) 2006/04
70.	Thesis	Acceleration of metal ion incorporation into cationic porphyrin by 5-sulfo-8-quinolinol and spectrophotometric determination of nickel(II) (Collaboration) 2006/02
71.	Thesis	Separation of aromatic carboxylic acids using quaternary ammonium saltson reversed-phase HPLC 1. Separation behavior of aromatic carboxylic acids (Collaboration) 2006/02
72.	Thesis	Possible pathways before and after the RNA world on the basis of experimental and theoretical evidences (Single) 2005/12
73.	Thesis	A new probe for the indirect measurement of the conformation and interaction of biopolymers at extremely high temperatures using a capillary flow hydrothermal reactor system for UV-visible spectrophotometry (Single) 2005/09
74.	Thesis	Extraction of benzene and naphthalene carboxylic acids using quaternary ammonium salts as a model study for the separation of coal oxidation products (Collaboration) 2005/09
75.	Thesis	Chemical evolution of RNA under hydrothermal conditions and the role of thermal copolymers of amino acids for the prebiotic degradation and formation of RNA (Collaboration) 2005/06
76.	Thesis	Consecutive elongation of alanine oligopeptides at the second time range under hydrothermal condition using a micro flow reactor system (Collaboration) 2005/01
77.	Thesis	Prebiotic inhibitory activity of protein-like molecules to the template-directed formation of oligoguanylate from guanosine 5’-monophosphate 2-methylimidazolide on a polycytidylic acid template (Collaboration) 2004/07
78.	Thesis	Behavior of RNA under hydrothermal conditions and the origins of life (Single) 2004/06
79.	Thesis	Temperature dependence of the cyclization of guanine and cytosine mix hexanucleotides with water-soluble carbodiimide at 0 -75 oC (Collaboration) 2003/12
80.	Thesis	Influence of 20 common amino acids on the template-directed formation of oligoguanylate from guanosine 5’-monophosphate 2-methylimidazolide on a polycytidylic acid template (Collaboration) 2003/09
81.	Thesis	In situ UV-VIS detection of the association of water-soluble anionic porphyrin and aromatic bases in aqueous solution at high temperatures using a capillary flow hydrothermal reactor system (Single) 2003/08
82.	Thesis	Kinetics and activation parameter analyses of hydrolysis and interconversion of 2',5'- and 3',5'-linked dinucleoside monophosphate at extremely high temperatures (Single) 2003/02
83.	Thesis	Kinetic analysis of cleavage of ribose phosphodiester bond within guanine and cytosine rich oligonucleotides and dinucleotides at 65 - 200 oC and its implications on the chemical evolution of RNA (Single) 2003/01
84.	Thesis	A new approach for the cooperative chemical evolution of nucleic acids and proteins under the primitive earth environment (Collaboration) 2002/11
85.	Thesis	Chemical evolution of RNA and RNA polymerases: Implications from search for the prebiotic pathway of formation of RNA from adenosine 5’-triphosphate in the presence of thermal condensation products of amino acids as primitive enzymes (Collaboration) 2002/09
86.	Thesis	In situ UV-VIS detection of hydrothermal reactions using fused-silica capillary tubing within 0.08 - 3.2 s at high temperatures (Single) 2002/05
87.	Thesis	Cyclization and dimerization of hexanucleotides containing guanine and cytosine with water-soluble carbodiimide (Collaboration) 2001/12
88.	Thesis	Hydrolytic stability of ribose phosphodiester bonds within several oligonucleotides at high temperatures using a real-time monitoring method for hydrothermal reactions (Single) 2001/11
89.	Thesis	Comparison of the rates of prebiotic formation and hydrolysis of RNA under hydrothermal environments and its implications on the chemical evolution of RNA (Single) 2001/10
90.	Thesis	Hisitidine and thermal copolymers of amino acids containing histidine as prebiotic inhibitor for the template-directed formation of oligoguanylate on a poly(C) template (Collaboration) 2001/10
91.	Thesis	Kinetic analysis of the temperature dependence of the template-directed formation of oligoguanylate from the 5'-phosphorimidazolide of guanosine on a poly(C) template with Zn2+ (Collaboration) 2001/05
92.	Thesis	Kinetics of the racemization of amino acids at 225 - 275 oC using a real-time monitoring method of hydrothermal reactions (Collaboration) 2001/04
93.	Thesis	Condensation reaction of hexanucleotides containing guanine and cytosine with water soluble carbodiimide (Collaboration) 2000/10
94.	Thesis	Monitoring hydrothermal reactions on the millisecond time scale using a micro-tube flow reactor and kinetics of ATP hydrolysis for the RNA world hypothesis (Single) 2000/08
95.	Thesis	Clay catalysis of oligonucleotide formation: Kinetics of the reaction of the 5'-phosphorimidazolides of nucleotides with the non-basic heterocycles uracil and hypoxanthine (Collaboration) 1999/12
96.	Thesis	Measurement of the rate of RNA hydrolysis in aqueous solution at elevated temperatures using a new monitoring method for hydrothermal reactions (Single) 1999/11
97.	Thesis	Kinetics of hydrolysis of ribonucleotide polymers in aqueous solution at elevated temperatures: implications of chemical evolution of RNA and primitive ribonuclease (Collaboration) 1999/06
98.	Thesis	Capillary electrophoretic separation of mono and dinucleotides of adenosine using cyclodextrin solutions with MgCl2 additive (Single) 1998/10
99.	Thesis	Oligomerization of uridine phosphorimidazolides on montmorillonite: A model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA on minerals (Collaboration) 1996/04
100.	Thesis	Kinetics and mechanistic analysis of dinucleotide and oligonucleotide formation from the 5'-phosphorimidazolide of adenosine on Na+-montmorillonite (Collaboration) 1994/08
101.	Thesis	Preparation of needle-like hydroxyapatite by homogeneous preparation under hydrothermal conditions (Collaboration) 1993/08
102.	Thesis	Acceleration effect of L-tryptophan on metal ion exchange reaction of cadmium(II) with watersoluble-porphyrin-lead(II) complex and its application to stopped-flow spectrophotpmetryic determination of nM level of cadmium(II) (Collaboration) 1988/04
103.	Thesis	Kinetics of pyridine derivatives as accelerators for the incorporation reaction ofcadmium(II) into porphyrin and association behaviors of the accelerators with porphyrin (Collaboration) 1987/12
104.	Thesis	Porphyrin as reagent of new indicator reaction for the catalytic determination of ultra trace amounts of ruthenium(III) (Collaboration) 1987/11
105.	Other	Difficulty of the self-replication of prebiotic RNA molecules (Collaboration) 2013/08
106.	Other	An RNA world under hydrothermal environments on the basis of kinetic analyses of the prebiotic formation of RNA (Collaboration) 2009/12
107.	Other	Oligopeptide formation under hydrothermal conditions using a micro-flow hydrothermal reactor, (Collaboration) 2009/12
108.	Other	Is the RNA world hypothesis consistent with the hydrothermal origin of life? (Single) 2003/09
109.	Other	Chemical evolution of RNA in aqueous solution at high temperatures : a new method for monitoring of hydrothermal reactions (Single) 2000/12
110.	Other	Hydrolysis of 3',5'- and 2',5'-linked dinucleotide monophosphate in aqueous solution at 175 - 240 oC (Collaboration) 2000/12
111.	Other	Kinetics and mechanistic investigations for oligonucleotide formation from 5'-phosphorimidazolide of adenosine, uridine and inosine on Na+-montmorillonite (Collaboration) 1996/04
112.	Other	Kinetics of dimerization and oligomerization of the 5'-phosphorimidazolide of adenosine on Na+-montmorillonite (Collaboration) 1994/12
113.	Other	Oligomerization of 5'-activated nucleotides on montmorillonite clay - a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA (Collaboration) 1994/03
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2021/12/20	Environmental harmless chemical technology (The 6th EnvironmentAsia Virtual International Conference on “Challenge of Global Environmental Changes in the 21st Century”)
2.	2021/10/11	Chemical evolution of RNA and protein-like molecules leading a life-like chemical network compatible with the Hadean Earth environments (Conférence Nationale d'Exobiologie)
3.	2021/09/27	Powerful research tools for hydrothermal reactions applicable to the Origin-of-Life study and Green Chemistry (Seminar in LRS, Sorbonne)
4.	2020/12/03	Effect of Some Parameters on The Conversion of Ala-DKP to Linear Oligopeptides Using Pulsed Discharge (The 15th International Student Conference on Advanced Science and Technology)
5.	2020/09/25	Effect of Some Parameters on The Synthesis of Linear Oligopeptides from DKP Using Pulsed Discharge
6.	2020/08/28	Chemical evolution of RNA and proteins compatible with the primitive Earth environments and the two-gene hypothesis on the origin-of-life (ELSI Seminar)
7.	2020/02/17	Chemical evolution of RNA and protein-like molecules compatible with the primitive Earth environments and the two-gene hypothesis for initiation of life-like system (“Origins of Life Chemistries & Evolution” Workshop)
8.	2019/11/28	The selective conversion of diketopiperazine to linear oligopeptide using pulsed arc discharge (The 14th International Student Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST) 2019)
9.	2019/06/17	Education as a Key Social System for the Global Environmental Protection Deduced from a Biosystematic View of Civilization (The 5th EnvironmentAsia International Conference on “Transboundary environmental nexus: From local to regional perspectives”)
10.	2018/09/22	Formation of oligonucleotides and oligopeptides under hydrothermal environments with minerals evaluated using hydrothermal microflow reactor systems (A.E.E.B: Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles)
11.	2018/09/22	Two-gene hypothesis for the emergence of life-like system from a simple chemical evolution network of RNA molecules (A.E.E.B: Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles)
12.	2018/09/18	Effect of Pulsed discharge in formation of Liner Oligopeptides from DKP (SCEJ 50th Autumn Meeting)
13.	2018/03/06	Hydrothermal flow reactor system as a research tool for origin-of-life study and more practical applications (The 1st International Workshop on the Research and Development of Unique Reaction/Separation Techniques in Kumamoto)
14.	2017/07/16	Mineral-Mediated Chemical Evolution of RNA and Related Molecules Compatible with the Hadean Environments (XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life)
15.	2017/07/16	Two Gene Hypothesis for the Initiation of Life-like Systems towards the RNA (XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life)
16.	2017/06/21	A Powerful Research Tool for Screening and Development of Solid-state Catalysts Building up the Environment Harmless Chemical Technologies (The 4th EnvironmentAsia International Conference Practical Global Policy and Environmental Dynamics)
17.	2017/02/17	Chemical evolution and the origin of life in relation to the enzymatic and informational molecules (Seminar for Master’s students invited by Professor Dominique Guianvarc’h, UPMC)
18.	2017/02/16	Origins of life on the Earth in 4.6 billion years towards modern civilizations (Conference, Maison Universitaire France-Japon)
19.	2017/02/15	Chemical Evolution of RNA and peptides under the extreme ancient Erth environments (Seminar at Sandrine Sagan Laboratoire des BioMolecules-LBM)
20.	2016/09/27	Oligopeptide formation in the presence and absence of naturally occurring minerals under the hydrothermal environments (European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA))
21.	2016/06/20	Roles of minerals for the chemical evolution of RNA and peptides under the primitive hydrothermal earth environments (CECAM Atomistic simulations in prebiotic chemistry – a dialog between experiment and theory at University Pierre and Marie Curie)
22.	2015/12	Difficulty of spontaneous formation and replication of oligonucleotides containing 4 kinds of nucleotide residues using the monomeric activated nucleotides (Pacifichem 2015)
23.	2015/12	Drawbacks regarding the chemical evolution of biopolymers under the primitive hydrothermal earth environments (Pacifichem 2015)
24.	2015/10	Opening remarks: Drawbacks on the chemical evolution of RNA (JSPS-CNRS “The international Seminar on the Origin of Life and Chemical Evolution of RNA” in Hiroshima Shudo University)
25.	2015/09	Experimental verifications of the chemical evolution of RNA and proteins from the viewpoint of primitive hydrothermal environnements (JSPS-CNRS As part of the agreement JSPS-CNRS worn by Marie-Christine Maurel Professor of Biology UPMC and MNHN)
26.	2015/08	Role of minerals for the oligomerization of amino acids under the primitive hydrothermal earth environments (Goldschmidt 2015)
27.	2015/06	Efficient Research Tool for the Improvement of Classical Chemical Processes Using High Temperature Micro-flow Reactor Technologies (Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment EnvironmentAsia2015)
28.	2015/06	Global Environmental Protection on the Basis of the Biosystematic View of Civilization – Importance of Information Flow, and Roles of Energy and Material Flow – (Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment EnvironemtAsia2015)
29.	2015/06	Simulation experimental study for the process from chemical evolution to primitive organisms under the Hadean Environments (新学術領域研究「冥王代生命学の創成」合同班会議)
30.	2014/07	Behavior of amino acid and peptide under the pulsed discharge plasma (ISSOL － the International Astrobiology Society and Bioastronomy and Bioastronomy (Commission 51 of the International Astronomical Union) Origins 2014 as the second joint international conference)
31.	2014/07	Difficulty of oligonucleotide replication using the monomeric activated nucleotides (ISSOL － the International Astrobiology Society and Bioastronomy and Bioastronomy (Commission 51 of the International Astronomical Union) Origins 2014 as the second joint international conference)
32.	2013/05	Environment harmless technology on the basis of old-fashioned chemistry: usage of classical analytical reactions for highly sensitive and selective, high-through put, small sample size metal analyses (The 2nd EnvironmentAsia International Conference on “Human Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change)
33.	2013/05	The role of education and invention for global environmental protection on the basis of the biosystem view of civilization (The 2nd EnvironmentAsia International Conference on “Human Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change”)
34.	2012/02	Behaviors of RNA and peptides under the hydrothermal environments towards the ancient life-like system (University de Strasbourg and JSPS Strasbourg office Seminar in University de Strasbourg and JSPS Strasbourg office)
35.	2012/02	Possible RNA-based life-like systems under hydrothermal environments (UPMC "The Future of RNA Worlds", Acides Nucléiques et BioPhotoNique)
36.	2011/10/16	Elongation of Alanine Induced by Discharged Plasma Under Hydrothermal Condition (AlChE meeting, 2011 Annual Meeting)
37.	2011/07	The role of naturally occurring minerals for the formation of oligopeptides unde hydrothermal conditions by using Mineral-mediate hydrothermal reactor system (ISSOL, IAU ISSOL – The International Astrobiology Society and Bioastronomy (IAU C51) Joint International Conference)
38.	2011/05	Development of hydrothermal flow reactor-microchip electrophoresis device for amino acid analysis (IUPAC International Congress on Analytical Sciences 2011(ICAS 2011))
39.	2011/05	Hydrothermal flow injection analysis for platinum group metal ions using traditional chromogenic reagents (IUPAC International Congress on Analytical Sciences 2011(ICAS 2011))
40.	2010/12	Development of real-time and in situ UV-visible monitoring methods for hydrothermal reactions and its applications to the origin of life study (日本化学会 Pachifichem 2010)
41.	2010/10	Reagent-release capillary array-isoelectric focusing device for rapid screening of protein analysis conditions (The 14th International Conference onMiniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS 2010))
42.	2010/10	Single-step and multiple bioassay based on combinable pdms capillary (cpc) sensor array (The 14th International Conference onMiniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS 2010))
43.	2010/08	Temperature limit for the emergence of life-like system deduced from the prebiotic chemical kinetics under the hydrothermal conditions (Artificial Life 12)
44.	2010/07	Chemical evolution of life-like system under hydrothermal environments: prebiotic formation, degradation, and functions regarding protein-like molecules and RNA (COSPAR Scientific Assembly 2010)
45.	2010/04/25	Hydrothermal reactor system for the flow injection analysis of trace metal ions (16th International conference on flow injection analysis)
46.	2009/09/01	In situ monitoring of fast chemical processes under the hydrothermal conditions (China-Japan-Korea Symposium on Analytical Chemistry)
47.	2008/08/24	An RNA world under hydrothermal environments on the basis of kinetic analyses of the prebiotic formation of RNA (15th International Conference on the Origin of Life: 12th ISSOL meeting)
48.	2008/08/24	Oligopeptide formation under hydrothermal conditions using a micro-flow hydrothermal reactor (15th International Conference on the Origin of Life: 12th ISSOL meeting)
49.	2008/03/14	Search for the effective and higher oligopeptide formation under hydrothermal conditions using a micro-flow hydrothermal reactor system (International Workshop on Chemical Evolution & Origin of Life)
50.	2007/11	Development of a new method for the peptide synthesis using a hydrothermal flow reactor (大阪府立大学大学院工学研究科国際学術講演会)
51.	2005/06/27	Kinetics and temperature dependence of the oligocytidylate formation from 5’-phosphorimidazolide of cytidine with Pb2+ ion (International Symposium on Origins of Life and Astrobiology (ISOLAB'05))
52.	2005/06/27	Possible pathways before and after the RNA world on the basis of experimental and theoretical evidences (International Symposium on Origins of Life and Astrobiology (ISOLAB'05))
53.	2005/04/24	Amperometric determination of formaldehyde and phenol in rainwater and automobile exhaust gas by a flow-injection biosensor system with an on-line microdialysis sampling (Thirteenth International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis)
54.	2004/07/18	Chemical evolution of RNA under hydrothermal conditions and the role of thermal copolymers of amino acids for the prebiotic degradation and formation of RNA (COSPAR Scientific Assembly 2004)
55.	2004/06/03	A New Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Developed in the Far East and the Origin of Biosystems (Alternative Evolutionary Theories in the 20th and 21st Centuries in the International and Interdisciplinary Perspective)
56.	2003/09/07	Is the RNA world hypothesis consistent with the hydrothermal origin of life? (Goldschmidt Conference 2003)
57.	2000/12/14	Stability of RNA and Origins of LIfe under Hydrothermal Environments : An Experimental Approache for Monitoring of RNA Hydrolysis at High Temperatures (The international chemical congress of pacific basin society)
58.	2000/09/03	The Origin of LIfe from the Life of Subjectivity (Keynote Lecture) (Workshop on Life)
59.	1999/07/11	Chemical Evolution of RNA in Aqueous Solution at High Temperatures : A New Method for Monitoring of Hydrothermal Reactions (Annual meeting of ISSOL 99)
60.	1999/07/11	Hydrolysis of 3',5'- and 2',5'-linked dinucleotide monophosphate in aqueous solution at 175 - 240 oC (Annual meeting of ISSOL 99)
61.	1998/03/02	Hydrolysis of polyribonucleotides in aqueous solution at elevated temperatures (Kyoto University International Conference on "The role of radiation in the origin and evolution of life")
62.	1998/03/02	Kinetic analysis of hydrothermal reactions: Monitoring of ATP hydrolyssis by flow tube reactor (Kyoto University International Conference on "The role of radiation in the origin and evolution of life")
63.	1998/03/02	Kinetic analysis of the poly(C) template-directed synthesis of oligoguanylates in aqueous solution at elevated temperatures (Kyoto University International Conference on "The role of radiation in the origin and evolution of life")
64.	1997/07/08	Capillary Electrophoretic Separation of Mono and Dinucleotides of Adenosine using Cyclodextrin Solutions with Magnesium Chloride Additive (10th International Symposium on High Peformance Capillary Electrophoresis)
65.	1996/07/07	Kinetics and Mechanistic Investigations for Oligonucleotide Formation from 5'-Phosphorimidazolide of Adenosine, Uridine and Inosine on Na+-Montmorillonite (11th International Conference on the Origin of Life)
66.	1996/01/07	Kinetics and Mechanistic investigations for oligonucleotide formation from 5'-phosphorimidazolide of adenosine, uridine, and inosine on Na+-montmorillonite (Gordon conference)
67.	1994/08/21	Kinetics and Mechanistic Investigations for dinucleotide and oligonucleotide formation from 5'-phosphorimidazolide of adenosine and uridine on Na+-montmorillonite (Gordon conference)
68.	1994/03/13	Oligomerization of 5'-activated nucleotides on montmorillonite clay - a model for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA (Annual meeting of Americal Chemical Society)
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■ Winning science prize

2009/05

Awarded in InnoCentive challenge - Lignin as feedstock to make aromatics

■ Subject

1.	Basic Science and Technology
2.	Chemistry
3.	Chemistry for Daily Life and Water Environments
4.	Directed Research
5.	Environmental Research Program a
6.	Environmental Research Program b
7.	Fundamentals of Environmental Science
8.	Thesis
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（市民講座）Origins of life on the Earth in 4.6 billion years towards modern civilizations

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