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J. Raymond, J.L. Siefert, C.R. Staples, and R.E. Blankenship, The
natural history of nitrogen fixation, Molecular Biology and Evolution,
e-published ahead of print. PDF
- K. Martin, J.L. Siefert, S. Yerrapragada, Y. Lu, T.Z. McNeil, P.A.
Moreno, G.M. Weinstock, W.R. Widger, and G.E. Fox, Cyanobacteria signature
genes, Photosynthetic Research, 75:211-221, 2003 PDF
- J.F. Kasting and J.L. Siefert, Life and the evolution of Earth's
atmosphere, Science , 296:1066-1068, 2002 PDF
- J.F. Kasting and J.L. Siefert, Biogeochemistry- The nitrogen fix,
Nature 412:26-27, 2001 PDF
- J.F. Kasting, A.A. Pavlov, and J.L. Siefert, A coupled ecosystem-climate
model for predicting the methane concentration in the Archean atmosphere,
Origins Life Evol B 31:271-285, 2001
- K.O.F. Hedenstierna, J.L. Siefert, G.E. Fox, and E.J. Murgola, Co-conservation
of rRNA tetraloop sequences and helix length suggests involvement
of the tetraloops in higher order interactions, Biochemie, 82:221-227,
2000
- J.L. Siefert, M. Larios-Sanz, N.K. Nakamura, R.A. Slepecky, J.H.
Paul, E.R.B. Moore, G.E. Fox, and P. Jurtshuk, Jr., Phylogenetic position
of marine Bacillus isolates from the Gulf of Mexico Current Microbiology,
41:84-88, 2000.
- J.L. Siefert and G.E. Fox, Phylogenetic mapping of bacterial morphology,
Microbiology, 144:2803-2808, 1998 PDF
- J.L. Siefert, K.A. Martin, F. Abdi, W.R. Widger and G.E. Fox, Conserved
gene clusters in bacterial genomes provide further support of the
primacy of RNA, J. of Mol. Evol., 45:467-472, 1997. PDF
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- The Phylogeny of Bacterial Shape in Molecules in Time
and Space:
bacterial shape, division and phylogeny. Editors M. Vicenta, A. Valencia,
J. Tamames, and J. Mingorance. 2004
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- Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Evolution of Nitrogen Fixation,
Seventh Conference on Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life, Trieste,
Italy, 9/2003
- The Natural History of Nitrogen Fixation, Exobiology Principle Investigators’
Meeting Seventh Triennial Science Conference, NASA Ames, August 25-29,
2003
- Real rates of RNA Evolution and their relevance to an RNA World,
IAU Sympoisum 213 "Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the Stars, July
2002
- Nitrogenase and the Rise of O2 in the Archean, EUG Meeting, 4/2001
- Molecular Phylogeny: Unveiling the Origin and Early Evolution of
Life. Frontiers of Science Lecture Series, Penn State University 1/29
(2000)
- Reconstructing Ribozyme Phylogeny: Who Begat Whom?, VII ESEB Congress,
Barcelona, Spain, 8/23-28 (1999)
- Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Morphology Genes, NCBI, National
Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,
5/21 (1999)
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- Astrobiology Course for teachers, Open Community Lecture, Spring,
2004, Rice University
- Astrobiology General Meeting 2002, Student Poster Judge 4/2002
- Lead-Organizer of the 1999-2000 Houston Astrobiology Seminar Series,
a schedule of scientific and community talks concerned with bringing
science, astrobiology specifically, into the community.
- NASA Teacher/Scientist Cooperative Grant. 12/1998. In collaboration
with Westfield High School, Houston, TX, Ms. Leyla Morrison and 11th
Grade English and Second Language Science Classes, Spring IDS.
- Scientist Project Supervisor for the Science Engineering Fair of
Houston, T.H. Rogers School, Houston I.S.D., 1997, 1998.
- Speaker, Grades 3-5, Career Day, Houston ISD, 1995.
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- A Look Back in Time: Discovering the First Bacterium, J. L. Siefert.
Focus on Microbiology Education, Spring 2000.
- The Joining of Two Fossils, State Lines, Texas Magazine, Houston,
Chronicle, 4/99
- Not So Common After All, State Lines, Texas Magazine, Houston Chronicle,
12/95
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