The meeting will take place from 1 to 4 September 2025 in the picturesque medieval city of Nördlingen , which is situated inside the world-famous Ries crater in southern Germany. It aims to cover the role of meteorite and comets impacts in the formation of Earth, its atmosphere and the evolution of life. The registration deadline is June 30th!
Read MoreThe NASA Astrobiology Program is hosting a Mission Ideation Factory focused on the search for life on Ocean Worlds. NASA would like to provide early career researchers the opportunity to develop new concepts for astrobiology missions.
The event will be held for a week beginning October 20, 2025, at the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, OH. We encourage those with an interest in participating to submit an application. Applications open on June 1st and close June 30th, 2025 at 11:59pm ET.
Image Credit: Artist’s concept image of a spacecraft lander with a robot arm on the surface of Europa.
NASA/JPL – Caltech
Read MoreOn June 10th, 2025, at 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN will be excited to introduce Dr. Rogier Braakman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct scientist at The Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory!
Meeting Link:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96506145424
Read MoreWe are so excited to announce that the LIFE RCN Seminar Series is making its return! The series will be held monthly on the second Tuesday of every month (subject to change for speaker availability). The first seminar will take place on June 10th at 8AM PDT/11AM EDT. Stay tuned for more details!
Read MoreAbGradCon 2025 is going to be from June 10th-June 13th this year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO! See application details inside.
Read MoreNext April 22, 2024, LIFE-RCN will be pleased to introduce Dr. Aude Picard (a professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas), who will provide the seminar titled “Microbe-mineral interactions on modern Earth.”
Registration: go.wisc.edu/453g11
Livestream: https://go.wisc.edu/5n3qkq
Next 4th, March 2024, LIFE-RCN will be pleased to introduce Dr. Philip Donoghue (professor at the University of Bristol) and his seminar: “The nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system”. Livestream at: https://go.wisc.edu/72uniz
Read MoreOn October 18th and 20th of October, 2023, the LIFE-RCN celebrated its first workshop. Hosted by Prof. Benjamin Johnson (Iowa State University), we visited the Nitrogen cycle from different perspectives through a set of amazing speakers.
Now, we are releasing the video links for those who could not join this workshop
Join us for the last seminar of the year this 4th December, with Dr. Maxwell Etche (McGill University) and his seminar titled: ”Did early eukaryotes inhabit oxygenated environments? Constraints from the geological record”.
Registration: go.wisc.edu/453g11
Livestream: go.wisc.edu/xiblkk
Next 6th November, LIFE-RCN will have the pleasure of introducing Dr. Antohony Burnetti (Georgia Intitute of Technology) and his seminar: “Major molecular innovations circumvent the iron grip of oxygen limitations”.
Livestream at:: go.wisc.edu/9sds9u
Register at: go.wisc.edu/453g11
This 2nd October, we will enjoy a seminar by Dr. Patricia Sánchez Baracalado (professor at the University of Bristol) titled “Origin of multicellularity in Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event”. This time, it will take place one hour earlier than our previous seminars.
Livestream at: go.wisc.edu/f6fhe8
Register at: go.wisc.edu/453g11
Next 18th September, LIFE-RCN will have the pleasure of introducing Dr. Steven Vance (JPL) and his seminar: “Geophysical investigations of habitability in icy ocean worlds”.
Livestream at: go.wisc.edu/50696e
Register at: go.wisc.edu/453g11
Join us this 10th July in our next LIFE-RCN seminar, “Membrane Biosynthesis in Archaea”, presented by Dr. Paula V. Welander, associate professor at the University of Stanford
Livestream at https://go.wisc.edu/60k0g0
Register at: https://go.wisc.edu/453g11
Read MoreWe are proud to announce our second LIFE-RCN seminar, “Innovations and constraints: evolution of metabolic rules and their ecological relevance”, presented by UC Irvine Assistant Professor María Rebolleda Gómez.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the first LIFE-RCN seminar, “The Metabolic Rate of the Biosphere and its Components”, presented by NASA Researcher Tori Hoehler.
Livestream at go.wisc.edu/ksjnr5
Register at: go.wisc.edu/453g11
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