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Roger Everett Summons

January 01, 1970

Roger Everett Summons FAA FRS (born 11 June 1946) is the Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.[2]

Roger Everett Summons
FAA FRS
Born (1946-06-11) 11 June 1946 (age 77)[1]
Sydney, Australia
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe alkaloids of some Australian and New Guinea plants (1971)
Doctoral advisorsEmery Gellert
J. Ellis
Websitesummons.mit.edu

Summons’ research spans biogeochemistry, geobiology, and astrobiology. His work employs organic geochemical methods to examine the lipid chemistry of modern and ancient microbes, the isotopic signatures of climate change, and the evolution and origins of life.

Summons was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.[3]

Education and early life edit

Roger Summons was born on 11 June 1946 in Sydney,[1] and attended Lithgow High School. He earned his BSc (Honours Class I) in 1968[4] and PhD in 1971 in organic chemistry from the Wollongong University College of the University of New South Wales.[5][6] This institution is now the University of Wollongong.[7] Summons' doctoral supervisors were professors Emery Gellert and J. Ellis.[5] Following graduation, Summons completed a two-year fellowship in the genetics department, Stanford University, from 1972 to 1973 before starting postdoctoral and research fellowships in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. At Stanford, Summons worked under the direction of Alan Duffield and Joshua Lederberg.[8]

Research and career edit

Before joining MIT as a professor of geobiology in 2001, he held appointments at the Australian National University’s Research School of Biological Sciences from 1977 to 1983, and at Geoscience Australia, Canberra from 1983 to 2001, where he led a research team that focused on the characterization of the biogeochemical carbon cycle and the nature and habitat of Australian petroleum.[9]

Summons is particularly known for the application of organic geochemical techniques to sediments of Precambrian age and modern microbes to increase the understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth. Summons is a member of the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed scientific journals Astrobiology, Geobiology, and Palaeoworld since their inception. He also served as associate editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta from 1995 to 2006.

From 2003 to 2007, Summons served on three committees of the US National Research Council including the Committee on Origin and Evolution of Life, the Committee on Limits of Life, and the Committee on Mars Astrobiology. Summons served as NASA co-chair of the organic contamination panel for the Mars 2020 Rover,[10] and was a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Executive Council from 2008 to 2017. During that time, he led the Foundations of Complex Life, the MIT NASA Astrobiology Institute team which interrogated the environmental, ecological, and genetic factors that lead to the evolution of complex life.[11][12]

In addition to actively teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses at MIT, Summons is engaged as a collaborator with the search for organics on Mars as a member of the SAM Team of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. He is also an investigator in the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life (SCOL).[13]

Selected papers edit

  • Molecular biosignatures: generic qualities of organic compounds that betray biological origins[14]
  • Ancient biomolecules: their origin, fossilization and significance in revealing the history of life[15]
  • Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C40 carotenoids through time[16]
  • Rapid oxidation of Earth's atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago[17]
  • Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen[18]
  • The ‘Dirty Ice’ of the McMurdo Ice Shelf: Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian[19]
  • Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater[20]
  • Steroids, triterpenoids and molecular oxygen[21]
  • 2-Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis[22]
  • Chlorobiaceae in Palaeozoic seas - Combined evidence from biological markers, isotopes and geology[23]

Honors and awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Summons, Roger Everett, (FAA) (1946–)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Summons, Roger | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. ^ "2020 NAS Election".
  4. ^ Summons, Roger (1968). The synthesis of phenanthropiperidines (B.S., with honours thesis). Wollongong University College, The University of New South Wales. OCLC 221091817.
  5. ^ a b Summons, Roger (1971). The alkaloids of some Australian and New Guinea plants (PhD thesis). Wollongong University College, The University of N.S.W. OCLC 221056730.
  6. ^ "Roger Summons – Alumni @ UOW". University of Wollongong.
  7. ^ Formerly known as the Wollongong University College of UNSW, then part of the University of New South Wales before the University of Wollongong gained its autonomy in 1975.
  8. ^ a b Hayes, John M. (October 2004). "Citation for presentation of the 2004 Alfred E. Treibs Medal to Roger Summons" (PDF). Newsletter of the Geochemical Society. Geochemical Society. p. 7.
  9. ^ "The Summons Lab • Geobiology and Astrobiology at MIT » Roger Summons". summons.mit.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. ^ "NASA Astrobiology". astrobiology.nasa.gov. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  11. ^ "| NASA Astrobiology Institute". nai.nasa.gov. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  12. ^ "NASA Astrobiology Institute". nai.nasa.gov. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Roger E. Summons | Simons Foundation". www.simonsfoundation.org. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  14. ^ Summons, Roger E.; Albrecht, Pierre; McDonald, Gene; Moldowan, J. Michael (10 October 2007). "Molecular Biosignatures". Space Science Reviews. 135 (1–4): 133–159. doi:10.1007/s11214-007-9256-5. ISSN 0038-6308. S2CID 189770934.
  15. ^ Briggs, Derek E. G.; Summons, Roger E. (13 March 2014). "Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life". BioEssays. 36 (5): 482–490. doi:10.1002/bies.201400010. ISSN 0265-9247. PMID 24623098. S2CID 26699744.
  16. ^ French, K. L.; Rocher, D.; Zumberge, J. E.; Summons, R. E. (28 January 2015). "Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C40carotenoids through time". Geobiology. 13 (2): 139–151. Bibcode:2015Gbio...13..139F. doi:10.1111/gbi.12126. ISSN 1472-4677. PMID 25631735. S2CID 22535663.
  17. ^ Luo, Genming; Ono, Shuhei; Beukes, Nicolas J.; Wang, David T.; Xie, Shucheng; Summons, Roger E. (1 May 2016). "Rapid oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago". Science Advances. 2 (5): e1600134. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E0134L. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600134. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 4928975. PMID 27386544.
  18. ^ Gold, David A.; Caron, Abigail; Fournier, Gregory P.; Summons, Roger E. (March 2017). "Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen" (PDF). Nature. 543 (7645): 420–423. Bibcode:2017Natur.543..420G. doi:10.1038/nature21412. hdl:1721.1/128450. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28264195. S2CID 205254122.
  19. ^ Hawes, I.; Jungblut, A. D.; Matys, E. D.; Summons, R. E. (12 March 2018). "The "Dirty Ice" of the McMurdo Ice Shelf: Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian". Geobiology. 16 (4): 369–377. Bibcode:2018Gbio...16..369H. doi:10.1111/gbi.12280. hdl:1721.1/140848.2. ISSN 1472-4677. PMID 29527802. S2CID 3885072.
  20. ^ Eigenbrode, Jennifer L.; Summons, Roger E.; Steele, Andrew; Freissinet, Caroline; Millan, Maëva; Navarro-González, Rafael; Sutter, Brad; McAdam, Amy C.; Franz, Heather B. (8 June 2018). "Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater, Mars". Science. 360 (6393): 1096–1101. Bibcode:2018Sci...360.1096E. doi:10.1126/science.aas9185. hdl:10044/1/60810. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 29880683.
  21. ^ Summons, R. E; Bradley, A. S; Jahnke, L. L; Waldbauer, J. R (2006). "Steroids, triterpenoids and molecular oxygen". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 361 (1470): 951–968. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1837. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 1578733. PMID 16754609.
  22. ^ Summons, Roger E.; Jahnke, Linda L.; Hope, Janet M.; Logan, Graham A. (1999). "2-Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis". Nature. 400 (6744): 554–557. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..554S. doi:10.1038/23005. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 10448856. S2CID 204995022.
  23. ^ Summons, Roger E.; Powell, Trevor G. (1986). "Chlorobiaceae in Palaeozoic seas revealed by biological markers, isotopes and geology". Nature. 319 (6056): 763–765. Bibcode:1986Natur.319..763S. doi:10.1038/319763a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4368960.
  24. ^ "Biographical entry Summons, Roger Everett (1946 - )". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. 26 May 2006. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  25. ^ Summons, Roger (2016). "CV" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.>
  26. ^ . Australian Academy of Science. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  27. ^ "Public profile". Australian Centre for Astrobiology. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  28. ^ "Alfred Treibs Award". Geochemical Society. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  29. ^ "Bert Halpern lecturers" (PDF). University of Wollongong. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  30. ^ "AGU Fellows". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  31. ^ . Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) (Press release). Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  32. ^ . London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  33. ^ Moore Distinguished Scholars (PDF). California Institute of Technology. 2008. p. 555. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  34. ^ "Roger Summons". University of Wollongong. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  35. ^ . American Academy of Microbiology. Archived from the original on 22 April 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  36. ^ "Fellows". Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.[permanent dead link]
  37. ^ "Roger Summons' Profile". Stanford University. Retrieved 28 September 2018.[dead link]
  38. ^ Lauren, Hinkel (27 April 2020). "Roger Summons Elected to the National Academy of Sciences". MIT EAPS News.

External links edit

Official website

January 01, 1970
roger, everett, summons, born, june, 1946, schlumberger, professor, geobiology, massachusetts, institute, technology, professor, geobiology, department, earth, atmospheric, planetary, sciences, frsborn, 1946, june, 1946, sydney, australiaalma, materuniversity,. Roger Everett Summons FAA FRS born 11 June 1946 is the Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences 2 Roger Everett SummonsFAA FRSBorn 1946 06 11 11 June 1946 age 77 1 Sydney AustraliaAlma materUniversity of New South WalesScientific careerFieldsBiogeochemistryGeobiologyAstrobiologyInstitutionsAustralian National UniversityGeoscience AustraliaMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThesisThe alkaloids of some Australian and New Guinea plants 1971 Doctoral advisorsEmery GellertJ EllisWebsitesummons wbr mit wbr edu Summons research spans biogeochemistry geobiology and astrobiology His work employs organic geochemical methods to examine the lipid chemistry of modern and ancient microbes the isotopic signatures of climate change and the evolution and origins of life Summons was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 3 Contents 1 Education and early life 2 Research and career 2 1 Selected papers 3 Honors and awards 4 References 5 External linksEducation and early life editRoger Summons was born on 11 June 1946 in Sydney 1 and attended Lithgow High School He earned his BSc Honours Class I in 1968 4 and PhD in 1971 in organic chemistry from the Wollongong University College of the University of New South Wales 5 6 This institution is now the University of Wollongong 7 Summons doctoral supervisors were professors Emery Gellert and J Ellis 5 Following graduation Summons completed a two year fellowship in the genetics department Stanford University from 1972 to 1973 before starting postdoctoral and research fellowships in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University At Stanford Summons worked under the direction of Alan Duffield and Joshua Lederberg 8 Research and career editBefore joining MIT as a professor of geobiology in 2001 he held appointments at the Australian National University s Research School of Biological Sciences from 1977 to 1983 and at Geoscience Australia Canberra from 1983 to 2001 where he led a research team that focused on the characterization of the biogeochemical carbon cycle and the nature and habitat of Australian petroleum 9 Summons is particularly known for the application of organic geochemical techniques to sediments of Precambrian age and modern microbes to increase the understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth Summons is a member of the editorial boards of the peer reviewed scientific journals Astrobiology Geobiology and Palaeoworld since their inception He also served as associate editor of the peer reviewed scientific journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta from 1995 to 2006 From 2003 to 2007 Summons served on three committees of the US National Research Council including the Committee on Origin and Evolution of Life the Committee on Limits of Life and the Committee on Mars Astrobiology Summons served as NASA co chair of the organic contamination panel for the Mars 2020 Rover 10 and was a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Executive Council from 2008 to 2017 During that time he led the Foundations of Complex Life the MIT NASA Astrobiology Institute team which interrogated the environmental ecological and genetic factors that lead to the evolution of complex life 11 12 In addition to actively teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses at MIT Summons is engaged as a collaborator with the search for organics on Mars as a member of the SAM Team of NASA s Mars Science Laboratory mission He is also an investigator in the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life SCOL 13 Selected papers edit Molecular biosignatures generic qualities of organic compounds that betray biological origins 14 Ancient biomolecules their origin fossilization and significance in revealing the history of life 15 Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C40 carotenoids through time 16 Rapid oxidation of Earth s atmosphere 2 33 billion years ago 17 Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen 18 The Dirty Ice of the McMurdo Ice Shelf Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian 19 Organic matter preserved in 3 billion year old mudstones at Gale crater 20 Steroids triterpenoids and molecular oxygen 21 2 Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis 22 Chlorobiaceae in Palaeozoic seas Combined evidence from biological markers isotopes and geology 23 Honors and awards edit1987 24 1998 25 Fellow Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1998 Fellow Australian Academy of Science 26 2002 Australian Organic Geochemistry Medal 27 2003 Alfred E Treibs Award of the Geochemical Society 28 8 2005 Halpern Medal University of Wollongong 29 2006 Fellow American Geophysical Union 30 2008 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award 31 2008 Fellow Royal Society 32 2008 Moore Distinguished Scholar Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences California Institute of Technology 33 2009 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa University of Wollongong 34 2012 Fellow American Academy of Microbiology 35 2013 Honorary Fellow Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study 36 2014 Inaugural Fellow Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry 2015 Cox visiting professor School of Earth Energy and Environmental Sciences Stanford University through 2016 37 2020 Fellow National Academy of Sciences NAS 38 References edit a b Summons Roger Everett FAA 1946 Encyclopedia of Australian Science National Library of Australia Summons Roger MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences eapsweb mit edu Retrieved 26 September 2018 2020 NAS Election Summons Roger 1968 The synthesis of phenanthropiperidines B S with honours thesis Wollongong University College The University of New South Wales OCLC 221091817 a b Summons Roger 1971 The alkaloids of some Australian and New Guinea plants PhD thesis Wollongong University College The University of N S W OCLC 221056730 Roger Summons Alumni UOW University of Wollongong Formerly known as the Wollongong University College of UNSW then part of the University of New South Wales before the University of Wollongong gained its autonomy in 1975 a b Hayes John M October 2004 Citation for presentation of the 2004 Alfred E Treibs Medal to Roger Summons PDF Newsletter of the Geochemical Society Geochemical Society p 7 The Summons Lab Geobiology and Astrobiology at MIT Roger Summons summons mit edu Retrieved 26 September 2018 NASA Astrobiology astrobiology nasa gov Retrieved 26 September 2018 NASA Astrobiology Institute nai nasa gov Retrieved 26 September 2018 NASA Astrobiology Institute nai nasa gov Retrieved 26 September 2018 Roger E Summons Simons Foundation www simonsfoundation org 10 August 2017 Retrieved 26 September 2018 Summons Roger E Albrecht Pierre McDonald Gene Moldowan J Michael 10 October 2007 Molecular Biosignatures Space Science Reviews 135 1 4 133 159 doi 10 1007 s11214 007 9256 5 ISSN 0038 6308 S2CID 189770934 Briggs Derek E G Summons Roger E 13 March 2014 Ancient biomolecules Their origins fossilization and role in revealing the history of life BioEssays 36 5 482 490 doi 10 1002 bies 201400010 ISSN 0265 9247 PMID 24623098 S2CID 26699744 French K L Rocher D Zumberge J E Summons R E 28 January 2015 Assessing the distribution of sedimentary C40carotenoids through time Geobiology 13 2 139 151 Bibcode 2015Gbio 13 139F doi 10 1111 gbi 12126 ISSN 1472 4677 PMID 25631735 S2CID 22535663 Luo Genming Ono Shuhei Beukes Nicolas J Wang David T Xie Shucheng Summons Roger E 1 May 2016 Rapid oxygenation of Earth s atmosphere 2 33 billion years ago Science Advances 2 5 e1600134 Bibcode 2016SciA 2E0134L doi 10 1126 sciadv 1600134 ISSN 2375 2548 PMC 4928975 PMID 27386544 Gold David A Caron Abigail Fournier Gregory P Summons Roger E March 2017 Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen PDF Nature 543 7645 420 423 Bibcode 2017Natur 543 420G doi 10 1038 nature21412 hdl 1721 1 128450 ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 28264195 S2CID 205254122 Hawes I Jungblut A D Matys E D Summons R E 12 March 2018 The Dirty Ice of the McMurdo Ice Shelf Analogues for biological oases during the Cryogenian Geobiology 16 4 369 377 Bibcode 2018Gbio 16 369H doi 10 1111 gbi 12280 hdl 1721 1 140848 2 ISSN 1472 4677 PMID 29527802 S2CID 3885072 Eigenbrode Jennifer L Summons Roger E Steele Andrew Freissinet Caroline Millan Maeva Navarro Gonzalez Rafael Sutter Brad McAdam Amy C Franz Heather B 8 June 2018 Organic matter preserved in 3 billion year old mudstones at Gale crater Mars Science 360 6393 1096 1101 Bibcode 2018Sci 360 1096E doi 10 1126 science aas9185 hdl 10044 1 60810 ISSN 0036 8075 PMID 29880683 Summons R E Bradley A S Jahnke L L Waldbauer J R 2006 Steroids triterpenoids and molecular oxygen Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 361 1470 951 968 doi 10 1098 rstb 2006 1837 ISSN 0962 8436 PMC 1578733 PMID 16754609 Summons Roger E Jahnke Linda L Hope Janet M Logan Graham A 1999 2 Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis Nature 400 6744 554 557 Bibcode 1999Natur 400 554S doi 10 1038 23005 ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 10448856 S2CID 204995022 Summons Roger E Powell Trevor G 1986 Chlorobiaceae in Palaeozoic seas revealed by biological markers isotopes and geology Nature 319 6056 763 765 Bibcode 1986Natur 319 763S doi 10 1038 319763a0 ISSN 0028 0836 S2CID 4368960 Biographical entry Summons Roger Everett 1946 Encyclopedia of Australian Science 26 May 2006 Retrieved 5 June 2013 Summons Roger 2016 CV PDF Massachusetts Institute of Technology gt Dr Roger Everett Summons Australian Academy of Science Archived from the original on 1 September 2019 Retrieved 1 September 2019 Public profile Australian Centre for Astrobiology Retrieved 27 September 2018 Alfred Treibs Award Geochemical Society Retrieved 21 July 2019 Bert Halpern lecturers PDF University of Wollongong Retrieved 5 June 2013 AGU Fellows American Geophysical Union Retrieved 5 June 2013 Humboldt Awardee comes to Bremen Renowned geochemist Roger Summons receives prestigious Humboldt Award for research in Bremen Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM Press release Archived from the original on 2 February 2009 Retrieved 5 June 2013 Professor Roger Summons FRS London Royal Society Archived from the original on 17 November 2015 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety org website where All text published under the heading Biography on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 International License Royal Society Terms conditions and policies Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 Retrieved 9 March 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Moore Distinguished Scholars PDF California Institute of Technology 2008 p 555 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a work 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