MICHAEL A. WILSON - UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

NASA Ames Research Center - Mail Stop 239-4 - Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Phone:  650-604-5496     Fax:  650-604-1088     Email:  mwilson@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Investigation 3, Origin and Early Evolution of Proteins and Metabolism

Related Experience Summary

Member NASA Center for Computational Astrobiology (NCCA)
Administrator of NCCA summer intern program
Co-Investigator NASA-Ames NAI
Co-Author of 40 peer-reviewed papers in chemistry and astrobiology
Affiliated with NASA-Ames Exobiology Branch since 1990

Employment History

7/2003 to Present:  Associate Researcher, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco.

10/1996 to 6/2003:  Assistant Researcher, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco.

07/1993 to 09/1996:  Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Deptartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco.

Education

Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1988
B.S. Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981

Professional Societies

American Chemical Society
AAAS
Sigma Xi

Awards and Honors

2003 Ames Contractor Employee Honor Award, NASA Ames Research Center
1998 Achievement Award, Space Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center
1990-1991 National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship

Selected Relevant Publications

Pohorille, A., Schweighofer, K. and Wilson, M.A.  (2005)  The Origin and Early Evolution of Membrane Channels, Astrobiology, 5, 1.

Pohorille, A., Wilson, M.A. and Chipot, C.  (2003)  Membrane Peptides and their Role in Protobiological Evolution, Orig. Life and Evol. Biosphere, 33, 173.

Jenniskens, P., Wilson, M.A., Packan, D., Laux, C.O., Kruger, C.H., Boyd, I.D., Popova, O.P. and Fonda, M.  (2000)  Meteors: a delivery mechanism of organic matter to the early Earth.  Earth, Moon and Planets, 82-83, 52.

Pohorille, A. and Wilson, M.A.  (1997)  Adsorption and Solvation of Ethanol at the water liquid-vapor interface, J. Phys. Chem., 101, 3130.

Pohorille, A. and Wilson, M.A.  (1995)  Molecular dynamics studies of simple membrane-water interfaces: structure and functions in the beginning of cellular life, Orig. Life and Evol. Biosphere, 25, 21.

Wilson, M.A., Pohorille, A., Jenniskens, P. and Blake, D.  (1995)  Probing the structure of cometary ice, Orig. Life and Evol. Biosphere, 25, 3.

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