Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
Two Columns
Dr. Jason P. Dworkin
Jason Dworkin is responsible for the research direction of the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory. Since arriving at Goddard in 2002 he has worked to purchase and maintain the equipment in the lab and ensure that all who work there maximize their research efforts while maintaining relevance to Astrobiology and NASA.
He first formally pursued his interest in the origin of life at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School (Houston, TX) when in the course of a science fair project (under the influence of PBS's NOVA) he began work at the University of Houston in the Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences & Biology under Professor John Oró. He received his A.B. degree with distinction in 1991 in biochemistry from Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. His research there was under the guidance of Professor Chris Craney on the cryokinetics of human erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. He attended graduate school at the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA) in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the laboratory of Professor Stanley Miller. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 with the dissertation "Alternatives to Uracil in the Pre-RNA World." He previoulsy was a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center through a cooperative agreement with the SETI Institute, where he worked in the Astrochemistry Lab within the Ames NAI Node.
Publications
+ Abridged CVPress Releases
+ Enantiomeric amino acid excesses in meteorites, 2009, PDF of Glavin and Dworkin 2009+ Reinvestigation of Stanley Miller's Experiments, 2008, PDF of Johnson et al. 2008
+ Nucleobases in meteorites, 2008, PDF of Martins et al. 2008
+ OSIRIS Discovery Mission Concept Study, 2007
+ Amines in Stardust, 2006, PDF of Sandford et al., 2006
+ NUGGET instrument concept, 2005
+ Amino acids from lab ices, 2002, PDF of Bernstein et al., 2002
+ Membranes from lab ices, 2001, PDF of Dworkin et al., 2001
