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ELSI GRADUATE COURSE TACKLES FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF LIFE Credit: Tokyo Tech
The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) in Tokyo launches a new integrated graduate course exploring the origin and evolution of life and planets. How did Earth form and how did life emerge on our planet? What conditions are required for life to arise on other planets? The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) is launching a new graduate course to address these fundamental questions. The integrated five-year joint master-doctorate, starting in 2022, will be held in partnership with the Tokyo Tech’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Life Science and Technology. The students will be based at ELSI under the mentorship of ELSI faculty. ASIA RESEA RC H NE WS
Training future leaders in earth and life sciences ELSI is an independent research institute established in 2012. Its mission is to study the origin and evolution of planets and life, bringing together hundreds of world-leading scientists in fields ranging from astrophysics to geology to chemistry
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Further Thilina Heenatigala | thilinah@elsi.jp information Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tomoaki Matsuura is a professor of biotechnology and a course supervisor.
