Events & Seminars
April 25, 2025 | 2:00-3:00PM
Volatile Transport in Planetesimals and Implications for the Early Solar System
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, WL-142.
Speaker: Zhongtian Zhang, Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth & Planets Laboratory| Carnegie Science
Host: EPS Cosmos Café
April 16, 2025 | 6:00PM
The NASA Psyche Mission: First Visit to an Unknown World
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, Wright Auditorium
Speaker: Linda Elkins-Tanton, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Principal Investigator (PI) of the Psyche mission | Arizona State University
Host: EPS Public Seminar
April 16, 2025 | 3:30-4:30PM
Adventures of a Media Dinosaur in the New World – Confessions of the Cosmic Affairs Correspondent
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, Physics & Astronomy Building, 330W.
Speaker: Dennis Overbye, | New York Times (ret.)
April 16, 2025 | 11:30AM - 12:30PM
The NASA Psyche mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, Wright Auditorium<
Speaker: Linda Elkins-Tanton, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Principal Investigator (PI) of the Psyche mission | Arizona State University
Host: EPS Colloquium
April 11, 2025 | 2:00-3:00PM
Volatile Resorption as Driver for Early Eruption Onset: Insights from the Aso-4 Super-Eruption
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, WL-142.
Speaker: Franzi Keller, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences | Lehigh University
Host: EPS Cosmos Café
March 28, 2025 | 2:00-3:00PM
Tidal Deformation in Icy Moon Micromaterials
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 965 6824 6240
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, WL-142.
Speaker: Cassandra Seltzer, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)| Columbia UniversityHost: EPS Cosmos Café
March 27, 2025 | 1:00-2:00PM
Quantitative Relationships between Environments and Genome
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 972 1139 1866
Password: 734523
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, CABM, rm 010
Speaker: Avi I. Flamholz, Assistant Professor | Rockefeller University
March 14, 2025 | 2:00-3:00PM
Probing Subduction-zone Processes using Rocks and Lab Experiments
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, WL-142.
Speaker: Emmanuel Codillo, Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth & Planets Laboratory| Carnegie Science
Host: EPS Cosmos Café
March 5, 2025 | 11:30AM - 12:30PM
Ice Shells as a Lens into the Chemistry and Habitability of Ocean Worlds
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 960 6178 8976
Passcode: 170579
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, Wright Reiman Auditorium
Speaker: Kevin Peter Hand , Planetary Scientist at JPL, Director Ocean Worlds Lab |University of Hawaii
Host: EPS Colloquium
February 28, 2025 | 2:00-3:00PM
Cosmos Café/PICo: Computer Simulations of Chemistry on Titan’s Surface
In-person Location: Rutgers, Busch, WL-142.
Speaker: Rick Remsing, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Rutgers University
Host: EPS Cosmos Café
February 14, 2025 | 2:00-3:00PM
Cosmos Café/PICo: A Journey to Jupiter and its Moons
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 992 5100 0021
Password: 093461
Speaker: Emeritus Professor Michel Blanc, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), CNRS-Université Toulouse III | CNES, Toulouse France.
Host: EPS Cosmos Café
(Detailed information on speakers and program virtual links will be posted separately below as the information becomes available)
November 11, 2024 | 1:00-2:00PM
A Self-Assembly Approach to Identifying Possible Ancestors of RNA
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 981 3110 0789
Password: 258095
Speaker: Nicholas Hud, Co-Director, Center for Fundamental and Applied Molecular Evolution (FAME), School of Chemistry & Biochemistry |Georgia Institute of Technology
October 30, 2024 | 11:30AM - 12:30PM
An Informational Perspective of Life
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
In-person location: Rutgers, Busch, Wright Lab Auditorium
Speaker: Michael Wong, (NHFP) Sagan Fellow |Carnegie Institution of Science
Host: EPS Colloquium
October 28, 2024 | 1:00-2:00PM
What we Learned from Clustering 20 billion Protein Sequences across the Tree of Life
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 921 9513 8555
Password: 654904
Speaker: Hajk-Georg Drost, Associate Professor, Digital Biology – Division of Computational Biology, College of Life Sciences | University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
October 15, 2024 | 2:00-3:00PM
Hidden Repeat Architectures in Proteins
Location: HYBRID Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
In-person location CABM, Room 241 .
Meeting ID: 914 7382 1899
Password: 12345
Speaker: Matthew Merski, Visiting Scientist at the i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde | Universidade in Porto, Portugal
Host: CABM Seminar, hosted by Vikas Nanda
October 14, 2024 | 1:00-2:00PM
Solvent Constraints for Biopolymer Folding and Evolution in Extraterrestrial Environments
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 943 3619 7574
Password: 326989
Speaker: Diego Ferreiro, Co-Director, Protein Physiology Lab, Department of Biological Chemistry Sciences | University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 30, 2024 | 1:00-2:00PM
Disentangling the Origins of Alpha and Beta Carboxysomes in Cyanobacteria
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Carolina Martinez-Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, Early Life & Microbial Evolution Lab| UC Santa Barbara
April 30, 2024 | 12:00-2:00PM
ONLINE CRASH COURSE – A Deep Dive into Computed Structure Model Exploration at RCSB.org
Register by April 29 at go.rutgers.edu/1ztidbcw. Registration is required for the Zoom meeting information, but attendance is at no charge.
Join as we demonstrate how RCSB.org serves as your gateway to structural data exploration. This event will equip you with the knowledge of how to use RCSB.org features to navigate 3D predicted protein structures in the context of experimentally-determined PDB structures. Questions? Please contact info@rcsb.org
Learn more at RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) https://www.rcsb.org/
April 15, 2024 | 4:00PM
A Major Transition in Evolution: The Rise of Folded Matter
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Liam Longo, Associate Research Scientist| Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
April 10, 2024 | 5:30 - 7:30PM
Rutgers Science Cafe: Exploring the Origins of Life
(must register by April 3rd)
Location: Harvest Moon, 392 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ
Speaker: Vikas Nanda, Professor | Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University
April 1, 2024 | 1:00PM
Transition from Prebiotic Chemistry to Protobiology?
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Ram Krishnamurthy, Professor of Chemistry | Scripps Research Institute
March 18, 2024 | 1:00PM
Folding as a Rule System with Information Agency, and Emergence at the Big Bang of Protein Folds
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: D. Eric Smith, External Professor | Santa Fe Institute
March 4, 2024 | 1:00PM
Mineral Evolution: A Case Study Of A New Natural Law
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Robert M. Hazen, Senior Staff Scientist | Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
February 26, 2024 | 3:45PM
Revisiting the Composition of Earth’s Late-Stage Building Blocks
Location:Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Alampi Room, 71 Dudley
Speaker: Katherine Bermingham, Assistant Professor | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: DMCS Seminar Series
February 4, 2024 | 1:00PM
Searching for Signs of Life and its Origin on Other Planets
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Laurie Barge, Research Scientist | Planetary Chemistry and Astrobiology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
December 4, 2023 | 1:00PM
Environments on Early Mars from the Curiosity Rover and Terrestrial Analogue Studies
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 923 1490 7311
Password: 291001
Speaker: Elizabeth Rampe, Scientist, Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science (ARES), NASA
November 20, 2023 | 1:00PM
Electrochemical Insights on Hydrothermal Organic Chemistry – Next Steps in Electron-Transfer Reactions of Carboxylic Acids
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 948 0455 3513
Password: 477334
Speaker: Kristin N. Johnson-Finn, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
November 6, 2023 | 1:00PM
“Light to Life”: Important Roles of Photogeochemistry in Regulating the Availability of Nutrients on the Early Earth.
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 970 4489 8165
Password: 436993
Speaker: Jihua Hao, Senior Research Scientist, Geochemistry & Environmental Science, University of Science & Technology of China
October 25, 2023 | 2:30PM
Seeking Signs of Ancient Life in Jezero Crater, Mars
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Ashley Murphy, Postdoctoral Researcher, Planetary Sciences Institute and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 23, 2023 | 1:00PM
Learning the Language of Metagenomes to understand Molecular Function
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 948 0951 5300
Password: 614575
Speaker: Prabakaran Ramakrishnan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology & Computer Science, Emory University
October 10, 2023 | 1:00PM
Exploring Unknown Regions of Protein Fold Space
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 966 1556 7756
Password: 594462
Speaker: Lauren Porter, Stadtman Investigator, NIH, National Library of Medicine
September 13, 2023 | 12:00PM
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulators of Choanoflagellate Cell Biology
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Ζoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92474132812?pwd=RDJYcDl
Meeting ID: 92474132812
Password: 517427
Speakers: Nicole Kin, Investigator – Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor – Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Host: CABM Seminar Series, hosted by Vikas Nanda
May 19, 2023 | 5:00PM
“Nickelback – a possible hydrogenase on early Earth and implications for early peptide catalysts at the origins of life” presented by Jennifer Timm
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“Utilizing dynamical attributes to parse ferredoxin structural domains” presented by Jan Siess
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 913 7403 7268
Speakers: Jennifer Timm, Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University and Jan Siess, Graduate Student, Center for the Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University. Find abstracts here.
Host: PCE3 Seminar Series