Date/Time: Monday, May 23, 2011 11:00AM PacificPresenter: Mark Allen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech) Abstract: The ESA/NASA ExoMars/Trace Gas Orbiter (EMTGO) mission, with a planned launch in 2016, is based on […]
Origin & Evolution of Life
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41st SASS-FEE Advanced Course "From Planets to Life"
From the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy 41st Saas-Fee Advanced Course “From Planets to Life” 3-9 April 2011, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland This astrobiology course consists of 28 lectures organized in […]
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Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) Meeting
The next meeting of the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) will be held March 2-4, 2011 at the Keck Center in Washington, D.C. COEL is the […]
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New Podcast about the Rise of Complex Life on Earth
In this new podcast produced through the NAI MIT team, journey back in time to learn about Ediacaran Fauna, a diverse group of organisms that lived in the world’s oceans […]
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NAI Director's Seminar: Burckhard Seelig, "Potential Origin of Early Functional Proteins"
Date/Time: Monday, February 7, 2011 11:00AM Pacific Burckhard Seelig (University of Minnesota) Abstract: Life on Earth today crucially depends on the workings of proteins. Current proteins are highly sophisticated polypeptides […]
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"Life As We Know It", Redefined
Keith’s note: Multiple, reliable sources within the Astrobiology community tell me that NASA’s Astrobiology announcement tomorrow concerns Arsenic-based biochemistry and the implications for the origin of life on Earth, how […]
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NAI Hosts Workshop Without Walls on Origins of Life
NAI collaborative tools were used to link people from around the globe Using a suite of NAI collaborative tools, an NAI Workshop Without Walls on “Molecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding […]
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24th ILASOL Meeting
5 December 2010Rehovot, Israel The Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life (ILASOL) holds an annual meeting that will take place, this year, during the […]
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Shifts in Ocean Oxygenation Tied to Changes in Animal Evolution
Researchers that include members of NAI’s Arizona State University Team and NASA’s Exobiology program are using the isotopic composition and concentration of molybdenum in sedimentary rocks to explore how the […]
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NAI "Workshop Without Walls" on Molecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life
A three-day workshop using NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) remote communications tools, on “Molecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life,” will be held on 8, 9 & 10 November […]