2026 NASA LIFE RCN Seminar: Dr. Emil Ruff and Dr. Carolina Fernandes Moreira de Carvalho
Join us for the 2026 NASA LIFE RCN Seminar Series!
Time: October 13th, 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 5PM CET!
This month’s speakers are Dr. Emil Ruff and Dr. Carolina Fernandes Moreira de Carvalho!
Here is the Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gq473pDB
Dr. Emil Ruff is a microbial ecologist at the University of Bremen, Germany and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, focusing on microbial metabolisms and interactions that impact the carbon, sulfur, and oxygen cycle in aquatic ecosystems. His group is particularly interested in interactions between microbes that lead to novel community functions, often enabling these microbes to conquer new habitats. His team mainly studies ecosystems with reduced complexity, such as natural or laboratory enrichment cultures, microbial blooms, or extreme habitats.
Title of the talk: “Dark oxygen production: Progress with an unknown process”.
Dr. Carolina Fernandes Moreira de Carvalho is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich investigating dark oxygen production (DOP) and associated oxygen isotope fractionation in both environmental and laboratory systems. She specializes in experimental design, gas handling, and high-precision isotope-ratio mass spectrometry to quantify O isotope fractionation during O₂ production and consumption processes.
Title of the talk: Towards resolving O₂ isotope effects of DOP processes: catalase and chlorite dismutase.