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Prebiotic Evaporative Conditions. J Mol Evol. 2026 Aug 14. doi: 10.1007/s00239-026-10340-5.
2.*Gull, M., Cruz, H.A. Various inorganic phosphorus species in prebiotic Earth and extraterrestrial settings. Discov. Chem. 3, 366 (2026).
3.Pasek, M.A.,... and Gull, M. et.al. Meteorite impacts altered phosphorus chemistry on the early Earth. EPSL, under revisions.
4.Feng, T.,... and Gull, M. et. al. Phosphorus chemistry in the Venus clouds. PSJ, under revisions.
5. Gull, M, Pasek, M.A., and Krishnamurthy. Redox chemistry reactions on the early Earth. Manuscript in prep. 2026.
6. *Gull, M. et. al. 2026. Nucleoside Phosphorylation and Phosphate Condensation in Simulated Carbonate-Rich Soda Lakes and Bennu-like Evaporative Brines. manuscript submitted, Chem systems chem.
7. Gull, M et al. 2026. A Phosphonate-Based Route to Informational Polymers. Poster presentation, ISSOL, Paris France.
8. Gull, M, et al.Phosphorus speciation in volcanic glasses and its implications to the origins of life. Manuscript in prep.
1. *Gull, M.; Mehta, C.; Perez, M.J.H.; Seeley, A.; Rogers, K.L.; Pasek, M.A. Thermal Decomposition and Prebiotic Formation of Adenosine Phosphates in
Simulated Early-Earth Evaporative Settings. Molecules 2025, 30, 3587.
2. *Gull, M., Centlivre, J., Feng, T. et al. Implausibility of hypophosphate on the early Earth and today. Discov. Chem. 2, 259 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/
s44371-025-00340-7.
3. Gull M, Cruz HA, Krishnamurthy R, Pasek MA. Phosphorylation of nucleosides by P-N bond species generated from prebiotic reduced phosphorus sources.
Commun Chem. 2025 Jun 17;8(1):187.
1. Tian, F.; Omran, A.; Gull, M.; et. al. Schreibersite oxidation under varied oxygen buffers. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 380, pages 140-148.
1. Gull, M and Pasek, M.A. Systems geology in astrobiological context in Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology, Eds: Kolb V et al. Book Chapter, CRC
Press, 2023.
2. *Gull, M. et. al. Prebiotic Syntheses of Organophosphorus Compounds from Reduced Source of Phosphorus in Non-Aqueous Solvents. Life 2023, 13(11), 2134.
3. *Gull, M. et. al. Results of an eight-year extraction of phosphorus minerals within the Seymchan meteorite. Life 2022, 10, 1591.
1. *Gull, M. et al. Organophosphorus Compound Formation Through the Oxidation of Reduced Oxidation State Phosphorus Compounds on the Hadean Earth. J.Mol. Evol. 2022.
2. Pasek, M.A.,...and Gull, M. et. al. Serpentinization as a route to liberating phosphorus on habitable worlds. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2022, 336,
332-340.
1. *Gull, M et al. Catalytic Prebiotic Syntheses of Glycerol and its Phosphorylated Derivatives and their Potential Significance in the origin of Life. Catalysts 2021,
11, 86.
2. *Gull, M et al. Catalytic prebiotic formation of the phosphate esters of glycerol, estimation of their decomposition rates and its implications in the origin & cell
membranes on the early Earth. Catalysts 2021.
3. Tian, F.; Gull, M.; Pasek, M.A. The evolution of ephemeral phosphate minerals on planetary environments. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2021, 5,
1647-1656.
1. *Gull, M. et al. Silicate-, magnesium sulphate-, and urea-induced prebiotic phosphorylation of uridine via pyrophosphate; revisiting the drying water pool
scenario. Life 2020, 10, 122.
2. Feng, T... and Gull, M et al. Ephemeral minerals in planetary science: the case of struvite.51st Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
1. Gull, M, and Pasek M.A. An Early Earth Predisposed to Phosphorylated Biomolecules via Fenton Chemistry. AbSCICON 2019,poster.
1. Pasek, M. A.; Gull, M.; Herschy, B. Phosphorylation on the early earth. Chemical Geology 2017, 475, 149-170.
2. Gull, M.; Cafferty, B.; Hud, N. V.; Pasek, M. A. Silicate-promoted phosphorylation of glycerol in non- aqueous solvents: a prebiotically plausible route to
organophosphates. Life 2017, 7(3), 29.
3. Burcar, B.T.; Pasek, M.A.; Gull, M. et. al. Phosphorylation in Urea-Rich Eutectic Solvents, XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life. 2017
1. Burcar, B.; Pasek, M. A.; Gull, M. et al. Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A one-pot reaction for prebiotic phosphorylation and the mobilization of phosphate from
minerals in a urea-based solvent. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2016, 55, 13249.
2. Cruz, N. L.; Qasim, D.; Abbott-Lyon, H.; Pirim, C.; McKee, A. D.; Orlando, T.; Gull, M. et al. The evolution of the surface of the mineral schreibersite in prebiotic
chemistry. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 20160-20167.
3. Mojica, M.A, Gull, M, Pasek, M.A, et al. A Systems Chemistry Investigation into Nucleoside Phosphorylation Mechanisms by Prebiotic Meteoritic Materials. Poster
presentation, PittCon.Conference & Expo. 2016, Atlanta, USA.
1. Gull, M. et. al. Nucleoside phosphorylation by the mineral schreibersite. Scientific Reports 2015, 5, Article number: 17198.
2. Gull, M. et al. Phosphorylation by Fe3P. Poster presentation, ABScicon, 2015, Chicago.
1. Gull, M. Prebiotic Phosphorylation Reactions on the Early Earth, Challenges 2014, 2, 193-212.
2. Gull, M. et. al. Prebiotic Phosphate Ester Syntheses in a Deep Eutectic Solvent. J. Mol. Evol. 2014, 78, 109-117.
3. Gull, M, Zhou, M, Fernandez, F.M., Pirim, C., Orlando, T., Bryant, D.E., Kee, T.P., and Pasek, M.A. Cell membrane making lipid-P formation by Meteoritic
Phosphorus source. Poster presentation at Gordon conference of Origin of Life, Galveston, Texas, USA, Gordon Origin of Life conference (12-17th Jan-2014),
Galveston, Texas, USA.
4. Cruz, N.L...., and Gull,M. et. al. SYNTHESIS AND CORROSION OF SCHREIBERSITE AND NICKEL PHOSPHIDE AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR ORIGIN OF
LIFE 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
5. Gull, M and Pasek, M. A. Prebiotic phosphorylation reactions and origin of life on the early Earth. Poster Presentation, NASA Ab.Grad.Con. Troy, New York, 2014
1. Gull, M.; Pasek, M. A. Is struvite a prebiotic mineral? Life 2013, 3, 321-330.
2. Pasek, M.A.; Harnmeijer, J.; Buick, R.; Gull, M.; Atlas, Z. Evidence for reactive reduced phosphorus species in the early Archean Ocean. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science USA 2013, 110, 10089-10094.
3. Gull, M and Pasek, M. A. Role of Phosphorus Minerals in the Origin of Life on Earth. Poster presentation at AGU, San Francisco California (9th-13th Dec 2013)
1. Gull, M and Pasek, M. A. Phosphorylation in deep eutectic solvents, Poster presentation, April 17, 2012, NASA Astrobiology Conference April 2012 (Atlanta, Ga)
2. Gull, M and Pasek, M. A. Phosphorylation in Deep Eutectic solvents (the case of calcium phosphates), Poster presentation at NASA Astrobiology graduate
Conference (California) August 28, 2012, JPL, NASA.
1. Gull, M. et. al. Resolving the Enigma of Prebiotic C-O-P Bond Formation: Prebiotic hydrothermal synthesis of important biological phosphate esters” Heteroatom
Chemistry 2010, 21, 161-167.
2. Gull, M. et. al. A Novel Synthetic Route to Synthesize 2,4,8,10-Tetraoxaspiro [5.5]-Undecane from Formaldehyde under Hydrothermal Conditions” Journal of
Heterocyclic Chemistry 2010, 47, 483-485.
3. Janjua, M. R. S. A.; Su, Z-M.; Guan, w.; Liu, C-G.; Yan, L-K.; Song, P.; Gull, M. Tuning second-Order non-linear (NLO) optical response of organoimido-
substituted hexamolybdates through halogens:Quantum Design of Novel Organic-Inorganic Hybrid NLO Materials” Aust J Chem 2010, 63, 836–844.
4. Gull, M. et. al. Mimicking the Prebiotic Acidic Hydrothermal Environment: One Pot Prebiotic Hydrothermal Synthesis of Glucose Phosphates. Heteroatom
Chemistry 2011, 22, 186-191.
5. G. Tian, He. C, M. and Gull, M. Hydrothermal Biochemistry. The 2nd International Solvothermal & Hydrothermal Association Conference, (Beijing,China) July
2010