PhD Candidate @OsburnLab @NorthwesternU // Visiting Scholar @BlueMarbleSpace // Chief Emoji Officer on Slack workspaces #astrobiology #geobiology
Chicago, USA
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I am delighted to announce that I have accepted the offer, and I am headed to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences @NorthwesternU this fall for my PhD.
I am joining Prof. Magdalena Osburn's research group to explore #geobiology & #astrobiology.
This a dream come true!
ALT Northwestern University
My microbe sci-fi story got featured in the @abgradcon special issue of @birdymagazine . This is my first time being published in print – so quite special!
Do check out the online version (page 25)
publizr.com/birdymagazine/ab…
#astrobiology #scifi #microbes
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Many months back @strayologist got some tardigrades from @SandeepME_IISc's lab and put them in our MARS chamber (good name? :D) and then was able to wake them up to perfect health a few days later. See video taken under a microscope.
Humans may not survive Mars but they might
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"Microscopic animals glow in the dark to survive radiation" - amazing work from @SandeepME_IISc which was published a few years ago. Now some of these microscopic beasts are heading to ISS
sciworthy.com/microscopic-an…
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SpaDeX Docking Update:
🌟Docking Success
Spacecraft docking successfully completed! A historic moment.
Let’s walk through the SpaDeX docking process:
Manoeuvre from 15m to 3m hold point completed. Docking initiated with precision, leading to successful spacecraft capture. Retraction completed smoothly, followed by rigidisation for stability. Docking successfully completed.
India became the 4th country to achieve successful Space Docking.
Congratulations to the entire team! Congratulations to India!
🛰️🛰️
#SPADEX #ISRO
India has entered the #SpaceBiology chat.
Life sprouts in space! 🌱 VSSC's CROPS (Compact Research Module for Orbital Plant Studies) experiment onboard PSLV-C60 POEM-4 successfully sprouted cowpea seeds in 4 days. Leaves expected soon.
#ISRO #BiologyInSpace
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Here's a paper I wrote for Space Policy on planetary parks. I think they would solve a lot of problems by bringing diverse protection motivations (scientific, heritage, aesthetic, etc) under a single structure - and free up everywhere else.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar….
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Any goescience/biology students looking for an exciting PhD, consider applying for this with @ASprae and myself. Impact hydrothermal studies. Deadline early January 6th 2025 deadline.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super…
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🧬🚀Thrilled to share our new paper on Neobacillus driksii—a fascinating bacterial strain discovered in the Mars 2020 spacecraft assembly facility, with unique lasso peptide production potential!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
@IBSE_IITM @WSAI_IITM @iitmbt @iitmadras
#Microbiology
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Join us tomorrow for an all new Ask an Astrobiologist, featuring Dr. Penny Boston!
We're gonna talk about caves, life, art, science, and far more 🚀
youtube.com/watch?v=lzuBEite…
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Helping define the United States’ scientific strategy for human exploration of Mars! ❤️
🚀🔴 #JaguarSpace is proud to contribute to NASEM’s "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars" panel, helping define key science priorities for NASA's first crewed missions to Mars.
Visit jaguarspace.net or send us a message to connect with us and learn more
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📢 New review paper, out in advance @AnnualReviews
➡️ Reconstructing ancient metabolisms:
annualreviews.org/content/jo…
#AnnualReviews #Microbiology #Paleobiology #EarlyLife
ALT Figure summarizing the highlights of the paper through Earth-life history.
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I had never thought what goes into proposing a cover art for a science journal.
Having gone through it now, I wrote a blog post to share my experience as a scientist and to describe the beauties of working with a good idea & a talented graphics designer: merenlab.org/2024/09/22/evol…
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Our home planet has some extreme environments! Studying those places can help inform our missions searching for life elsewhere.
From the lava fields of Iceland to the undersea volcanoes of Santorini, follow NASA scientists as they explore Our Alien Earth: go.nasa.gov/3Xlg2bE
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It's going down! Astrobiology friends, please watch, share, like, email your governor, and call your mom to tell them about Our Alien Earth, my new #astrobiology fieldwork documentary series, now streaming on #NASA+!
⛓️plus.nasa.gov/series/our-ali…
Our Alien Earth: A NASA Astrobiology Documentary Series – now streaming on NASA+
Join scientists on expeditions to our planet's most extreme environments & get a front-row seat to how research on Earth is shaping missions to search for life in the cosmos: go.nasa.gov/OAE-Greece
Nothing compares to the joy of reading classic/old molecular biology papers and admiring the experimental designs. Simply elegant!
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Tardigrades, the seemingly indestructible "water bears," have earned the title of "toughest animals on Earth." But are they tough enough to survive on Mars? New article by @earthlifespace
sciworthy.com/could-tardigra…
ALT Tardigrade, by Rebekah Smith via Wikimedia Commons
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In the most recent Astrobiology Revealed, Dr. Aubrey Zerkle spoke with Dr. Nita Sahai about her paper “Bioenergetics of iron snow fueling life on Europa.”
saganet.org/articles/astrobi…
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We've had a slight break in #AskAstrobio programming, but will be coming back soon with more astrobiologists and more awesome episodes for all of you!
