Meet the Team: Dr. Betül Kaçar

This month we feature Dr. Betül Kaçar, a BMSIS research scientist and postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech. BMSIS: Please tell us a little about yourself Betül:I am a very curious person who wants to understand how nature works. I want to understand how history shaped the biological world that surrounds us: how and why is life the way it is now? I attempt to answer these questions in the laboratory, with the tools drawn from evolutionary, synthetic and molecular biology. […]

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Podcast: Broken Crown Games

May’s edition of “Beer with BMSIS” features a conversation with Tyler Yohe, founder of Broken Crown Games, titled Broken Crown Games – the Indiana Jones of Space Outreach: Engaging & Inspiring New Audiences through Entertainment. Tyler discusses his journey as his interests shifted from a career in science to one of video game development. Recognizing that the goal of video games is to entertain, Tyler is developing a science-based game set in a futuristic world that allows players to immerse […]

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Happening @ S.A.G.A.N. – Happy Birthday S.A.G.A.N.!

Happy 1st Birthday S.A.G.A.N.! We’ve hit a landmark with our community, celebrating a successful first year on April 12th 2013! We are celebrating over at S.A.G.A.N. with lots of new activities and events including a themed “Mars Month” coming in May 2013 – check out what’s new by logging into the site at www.saganet.org !

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Podcast: Dr. David Grinspoon on the Anthropocene

April’s “Beer with BMSIS” podcast features a conversation with Dr. David Grinspoon on The Human Role in Earth Evolution: Will the Anthropocene be an Event, An Epoch or a Transition? Dr. Grinspoon describes how the activities of human civilization have grown to such a scale that they are beginning to have an impact on the planetary system and the geologic record. He considers the implications of this notion of the “Anthropocene” and some possible directions for the future of humanity. […]

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Podcast: Chemistry of the Possible

March’s edition of “Beer with BMSIS” features a conversation with Dr. Jim Cleaves titled The Chemistry of the Possible. Dr. Cleaves discusses his calculations of the number of biologically possible molecules, and speculates as to the reasons that Earth life uses only a small subset of these molecules. Should we expect life elsewhere to use the same set of amino acids as Earth life, or would extraterrestrial life be based on a notably different set of molecules? These questions will […]

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Welcome to Happening @ S.A.G.A.N.!

Welcome to Happening @ S.A.G.A.N.! We’ll be posting here regularly about some of the exciting events and activities happening on S.A.G.A.N. (Social Action for a Grassroots Astrobiology Network)! If you haven’t logged in, and are interested in astrobiology, space exploration, or science in general you definitely want to check it out – S.A.G.A.N. is an educational initiative of Blue Marble Space that provides a collaborative web-platform for scientists and the public alike! Next week you can catch the Arizona State University Astrobiology Coffee […]

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Meet the team: Zach Adam

Every month, we’ll highlight a BMSIS scientist and feature them on this page. This month, Zach Adam answers our questions: BMSIS: Please tell us a little about yourself Zach Adam: I’m a PhD student studying geology at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, but before that I worked as an aerospace engineer for about 3 years. Each week, as I saw that more and more planets were being found outside our solar system by the Kepler spacecraft, I felt that my day-to-day […]

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