学习经历

1998-2002  武汉大学, 分析化学,　博士

1991-1994  武汉大学, 生物物理,　硕士

1987-1991  武汉大学, 细胞生物学,　学士

主要工作经历与任职情况

2003-至今  武汉大学, 生命科学学院, 副教授

1996-2002  武汉大学, 生命科学学院, 讲师

1994-1996  武汉大学, 生命科学学院, 助教

主持课题项目

1. 湖北省自然科学基金面上项目，2019CFB685, 基于“RNA世界”场景的生命单手性起源的计算机模拟, 2019, 9- 2021, 9

2. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，31571367，生命起源过程中“标签介导的遗传信息复制和表达的出现及演化”的计算机模拟研究，2016, 1-2017, 12

3. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，31170958，生命起源过程中“生物信息系统替代”的计算机模拟研究，2012, 1-2015, 12

4. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，30870660，“RNA世界”中原始细胞出现的计算机模拟研究，2009, 1-2011, 12

5. 湖北省自然科学基金面上项目，2003S2113，从模板性催化到RNA世界：核糖酶起源的计算机模型，2004, 1-2006, 1

发表的论文（#并列第一作者，*通讯作者）

1. Liang, Yuzhen; Yu, Chenwu; Ma, Wentao*; The automatic parameter-exploration with a machine-learning-like approach: Powering the evolutionary modeling on the origin of life, PLoS Computational Biology, 2021, 17: e1009761.
   

2. Chen, Yong; Ma, Wentao* ; The origin of biological homochirality along with the origin of life, PLoS Computational Biology , 2020, 16: e1007592.
3. Yin, Shaolin; Chen, Yong; Yu, Chunwu; Ma, Wentao*; From molecular to cellular form: modeling the first major transition during the arising of life,BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019, 19: 84.   
4. Wu, Sanmao; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Yin, Shaolin; Chen, Yong, Feng Yu; Ma, Wentao*; Tag mechanism as a strategy for the RNA replicase to resist parasites in the RNA world,PLoS One, 2017, 12: e0172702.
5. Ma, Wentao*; What does "the RNA world" mean to the origin of life"? Life, 2017, 7:49.
6. Ma, Wentao*; The essence of life, Biology Direct, 2016, 11:49.
7. Ma, Wentao*; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Wu, Sanmao; Feng, Yu; The emergence of DNA in the RNA world: an in silico simulation study of genetic takeover, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2015, 15: 272   
8. Ma, Wentao*; Feng Yu; Protocells: At the interface of life and non-life, Life, 2015, 5:447-458.
9. Ma, Wentao*; The origin of life: a problem of history, chemistry, and evolution.Chemistry and Biodiversity, 2014, 11:1998-2010.
10. Ma, Wentao    *; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Circularity and self-cleavage as a strategy for the emergence of a chromosome in the RNA-based protocell, Biology Direct, 2013, 8, 21.
11. Ma, Wentao*; Hu, Jiming; Computer simulation on the cooperation of functional molecules during the early stages of evolution, PLoS One, 2012, 7: e35454.
12. Ma, Wentao*; Life: Self-directing with unlimited variability on self-speeding. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 2012， 29:623-625
13. Ma, Wentao*; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Zhou,Ping; Hu, Jiming. Self-replication: spelling it out in a chemical background，Theory in Biosciences，2011, 130:119-125.
14. Ma, Wentao* ; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Hu, Jiming; A simple template-dependent ligase ribozyme as the RNA replicase emerging first in the RNA world, Astrobiology, 2010, 10: 437-447.
15. Ma, Wentao*; The scenario on the origin of translation in the RNA world: In principle of replication parsimony,Biology Direct, 2010, 5:65.
16. Ma, Wentao     *; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Zhou, Ping; Hu Jiming; The emergence of ribozymes synthesizing membrane components in RNA-based protocells, Biosystems, 2010, 99:201-209.
17. Ma, Wentao*; Yu, Chunwu; Zhang, Wentao; Hu, Jiming; Nucleotide synthetase ribozymes may have emerged first in the RNA world, RNA, 2007, 13: 2012-2019.
18. Ma, Wentao*, Yu, Chunwu, Zhang, Wentao. Monte Carlo simulation of early molecular evolution in the RNA World. Biosystems, 2007, 90:28-39.
19. Ma, Wentao*; Yu, Chunwu. Intramolecular RNA replicase: Possibly the first self-replicating molecule in the RNA world. Origin of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2006. 36:413-420.