On February 11th, 8AM Pacific/11AM Eastern, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Dr. Martina Preiner, head of a Max Planck research group at the Microcosm Earth Center, and Oskari Lehtinen, PhD candidate at the Microcosm Earth Center.
The zoom link can be found here.
The recording of the first talk can be found here.
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On January 6th at 8AM Pacific/11AM Eastern, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Dr. Ilya Bobrovskiy and Dr. Tharika Liyanage. Dr. Ilya Bobrovskiy leads a research group at MARUM that seeks to deconvolve the early record of eukaryotic evolution using organic geochemistry. Dr. Tharika Liyanage is a geobiologist focusing on the missing links between the evolution of microbial life and their fossilized lipid biomolecules in the geological record.
The meeting link can be found here.
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On December 9th, 4PM PST/7PM EST, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Prof. Gergely Szöllősi, who leads the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), and Dr. Kai Tong, who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Boston University.
The meeting room can be found here.
The recording can be found here.
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On November 4th, 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Dr. Michael Kipp, an Assistant Professor of Geochemistry in the Division of Earth & Climate Sciences at Duke University, and Dr. Chenyi Tu, a postdoctoral fellow of the NASA Postdoctoral Program at Duke University.
Meeting Link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96506145424
Recording: https://youtu.be/IbeJo5eOC_Q
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On October 8th, 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Dr. Greg Fournier, Associate Professor of Geobiology at MIT. He studies the deep evolutionary history of life, applying molecular clocks and phylogenetics to uncover how Earth’s earliest organisms emerged, evolved, and reshaped the planet over billions of years.
Meeting Link:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96506145424
The link to the recording of his talk can be found here.
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On September 11th, 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Dr. Jennifer Macalady, professor in the Department of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and director of the International Geobiology Course, and Dr. Alta Howells, a Research Associate in the Department of Geological Sciences at University of Colorado, Boulder and a staff scientist with Blue Marble Space Institute of Sciences.
Meeting Link:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96506145424
The recording of Dr. Macalady’s talk can be found here.
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On August 5th, 8am PDT/11am EDT, the LIFE RCN is excited to welcome Dr. James Sáenz, a microbiologist, synthetic biologist and Group Leader of the B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering at Technical University Dresden, and Dr. Srishti Kashyap, a geomicrobiologist currently working as a Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Meeting Link:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96506145424
The link to the recording of Dr. Sáenz’s talk can be found here.
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On July 8th, 8am PDT/11am EDT, the LIFE RCN will be excited to host Dr. Eloi Camprubi, an Assistant Professor of Astrobiochemistry at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), and Myrine Barreiro-Arevalo, a 4th year PhD candidate at UTRGV in the Mathematics and Statistics with Interdisciplinary Applications degree program.
Meeting Link:https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96506145424
The link to a recording of Dr. Camprubi’s talk can be found here.
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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!
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The 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
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On 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
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We 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!
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AbGradCon 2025 is going to be from June 10th-June 13th this year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO! See application details inside.
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Next 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
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On 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