Events & Seminars
(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
and
“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
April 3, 2023 | 1:00PM
The Chemosynthetic Microbiome of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents across Time and Space
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 940 5188 7483
Password: 810855
In-person location: Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences, Alampi Room
Speaker: Costantino Vetriani, Professor, Biochemistry & Microbiology, Rutgers University
March 20, 2023 | 1:00PM
Deep Learning Approaches for Exploring the Origin of Oxidoreductases
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 960 2156 6344
Password: 256494
In-person location: Rutgers Marine & Coastal Sciences, Alampi Room
Speaker: Brian J. Stockman| Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Adelphi University
March 6, 2023 | 1:00PM
Harnessing Conformational Dynamics and Computational Design to Generate Novel Enzymes
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 959 1401 0698
Password: 140982
Speaker: Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin | Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
February 20, 2023 | 1:00PM
Evolution of Nutrient Colimitation in Microbial Communities
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 954 4827 5284
Password: 762133
In-person location CABM, Room 010 .
Speaker: Michael Manhart | Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, Rutgers University
February 15, 2023 | 12:00PM
ENIGMA/CABM Joint Seminar
Chemical Manipulation of Iron Sulfur Cofactors
Location: HYBRID. Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 915 7365 0061
Password: 446089
In-person location CABM, Room 010 .
Speaker: Daniel Suess | Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Vikas Nanda, ENIGMA Program and Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
February 6, 2023 | 1:00PM
Utilizing Dynamical Attributes to Parse Ferredoxin Structural Domains
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 994 6878 3727
Password: 217732
In-person location CABM, Room 010 .
Speaker: Jan Siess | Graduate Fellow, Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
December 12, 2022 | 1:00PM
Sustaining Life with Genes and Proteins Designed De Novo
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. You can view the seminar here.
Meeting ID: 997 4385 5142, Password: enigma
In-person location CABM, Room 010
Speaker: Michael Hecht, Professor of Chemistry | Princeton University
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
November 28, 2022 | 1:00PM
Life as we don’t know it” at the very beginning? (bioenergetics’ take on emergence-of-life research)
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. You can view the seminar here.
Meeting ID: 944 4402 7263, Password: enigma
Speaker: Wolfgang Nitschke, Director of Research | Bioenergetics & Protein Engineering, CNRS
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
November 16, 2022 | 4:00PM
Aaron J. Shatkin Memorial Lecture
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Location: Main Lecture Hall – RWJMS (Reception to follow in Great Hall)
Speaker: Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor | Departments of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering & Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
Host: Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
November 14, 2022 | 1:00PM
Reinterpreting the Sedimentary Carbon and Sulfur Isotope Records in Light of Links between Earth’s Surface and Iinterior Carbon and Sulfur Cycles
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. You can view the seminar here.
Meeting ID: 981 6907 0267
Password: enigma
In-person location CABM, Room 010 .
Speaker: James Eguchi | Post-doctoral Researcher, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
November 7, 2022 | 1:00PM
Mineral Photoelectron Energy for Prebiotic Synthesis and Microbial Metabolism
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. You can view the seminar here.
Meeting ID: 985 9749 1641, Password: enigma
Speaker: Anhuai Lu, Professor | School of Earth & Space Sciences, Peking University
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
November 1, 2022 | 11:00AM
Dinitrogen Fixation: Mo complexes and beyond
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 914 7700 9716 Password: 699735
Speaker: Nicolas Mezailles | University of Toulouse
Host: Rutgers Chemistry & Chemical Biology Colloquium Series
October 31, 2022 | 1:00PM
CryoEM Structures of the Nitrogenase Complex during Catalytic Turnover
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 922 5495 721 Password: 621562
Speaker: Hannah Rutledge, Post-doctoral Researcher | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
October 19, 2022 | 1:00PM
Tightening the (Neural) Net
Location: Presentation will be Hybrid.
In-Person location:
Institute for Food Nutrition & Health (IFNH) – Room 101
61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, 08901
Hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.Meeting ID: 946 9871 5874 Password: 232437
Speaker: Yana Bromberg, Professor | Dept.of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University
Host: Rutgers Biochemistry and Microbiology Department Fermentation Club Seminar
October 18, 2022 | 5:30PM
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Origins of Life
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. In-person location Physics, Room 303W for Weekly Seminars.
Speaker: Paul Falkowski | Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Rutgers Physics & Astronomy Seminar
October 17, 2022 | 1:00PM
Exploring Ocean Worlds: Ocean System Science to Support the Search for Life
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 935 6425 0380, Password: enigma
Speaker: Chris German, Senior Scientist | Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
October 3, 2022 | 1:00PM
The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity(CISS) Effect
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom. Find recording here.
Speaker: Yossi Paltiel, Professor | Dept. of Applied Physics and the Center for Nano science and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
September 14, 2022 | 11:30AM
Mineral Informatics: The next frontier in Earth and planetary science
Location: Wright Reiman Auditorium. Presentation will be hosted in-person and on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Shaunna Morrison, Carnegie Research Scientist | Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host: Rutgers EPS Colloquium
June 21, 2022 | 2:00PM
On the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: A Mineral Evolution Perspective
Location: Presentation will be hosted by NASA-Ames. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: (access code): 2764 024 7080. Password: 9miMiTJz@72
Speaker: Bob Hazen | Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science and Robinson Professor of Earth Science, Emeritus, at George Mason University.
Host: 2022 NASA-Ames Summer Series.
June 9, 2022 | 1:00PM
Mineral Informatics: A Mineralogist’s Perspective
Location: Presentation will be hosted by PCE3. Register here.
Speaker: Shaunna Morrison | Research Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host: PCE3 Seminar Series #14. Visit the PCE3 Seminar Series website for previous sessions.
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
June 9, 2022 | 1:00PM
Mineral Informatics: A Data Scientist’s Perspective
Location: Presentation will be hosted by PCE3. Register here
Speaker: Anirudh Prabhu | Geo-Informatics Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host: PCE3 Seminar Series #14. Visit the PCE3 Seminar Series website for previous sessions.
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
Date: Tuesday, May 10
Time: 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Date: Wednesday, May 11
Time: 9:00AM – 3:00PM EDT
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Recording of 2022 Symposium can be found on ENIGMA YouTube Channel here
March 7, 2022 | 1:00PM
Exploring Aggregation Prone Regions in Human Proteome: Insights from Proteome-wide in silico Analyses
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Prabakaran Ramakrishnan | Research Scholar, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras, India
February 21, 2022 | 1:00PM
Unraveling the Primary Reactions in Photosynthesis- Photosystem I (PSI) and PSI-ferredoxin Co-complex
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Jyotirmoy Mondal | Graduate Research Assistant, Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
February 21, 2022 | 3:30PM
Geomicrobiology of Assimilatory Sulfate Reduction
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Nathan Yee, Professor | Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Dept. of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
February 7, 2022 | 1:00PM
Small Peptide Catalysts and How to Find Them
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here. Meeting ID: 999 4411 4093
Password: enigma
Speaker: Jennifer Timm | Post-doctoral Researcher, Rutgers University
January 24, 2022 | 1:00PM
Evaluating Mineral Lattices as Evolutionary Proxies for Metalloprotein Evolution
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Kenneth McGuinness | Post-doctoral Researcher, Rutgers University
December 6, 2021 | 1:00PM
The Formation and Stability of Potentially Prebiotic Iron-sulfur Peptides and Protocells
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Sheref Mansy, Professor of Chemistry | University of Alberta
November 22, 2021 | 1:00PM
The Building Blocks of the Solar System and Earth
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here. Meeting ID: 985 4260 3152 Password: enigma
Speaker: Katherine Bermingham, Assistant Professor | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
November 15, 2021 | 1:00 PM
Pushing the Boundaries with (and of)…Data Science
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Anirudh Prabhu | Geo-informatics Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
November 8, 2021 | 1:00 PM
Deep Time Evolutionary Inference using both Sequence and Structural Information of the Protein
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Saroj Poudel | NASA Post-doctoral Program Fellow, Rutgers University
October 27, 2021 | 1:30PM
Biological Regulation of Earth’s Early Atmosphere and Potential Bioinorganic Feedbacks
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Aubrey Zerkle | Reader, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews
October 11, 2021 | 1:00PM
The Origin(s) of Viruses
Location: Presentations hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Jason T. Kaelber | Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University
October 6, 2021 | 7:00PM
From Apollo to Artemis and Beyond: A future as bright as the Moon
Location: Presentations hosted on Webex. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Juliane Gross | Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University and NASA Deputy Apollo Sample Curator
Host: Rutgers EPS Colloquium
September 20, 2021 | 1:00PM
Empowering AI-Driven Insights into Biologicial Complexity – for life on Earth, in space, and in our search for life on other planets
Location: Presentations hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Adrienne Hoarfrost | NASA Post-doctoral Program Fellow, Rutgers University
September 15, 2021 | 10:45AM
Light to Life on Earth
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Find recording here.
Speaker: Paul Falkowski | Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Rutgers Mathematical Physics Seminar
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
July 15, 2021 | 1:00PM
On the Brink of Stability: Redox Dependent Conformational Changes of the Nitrogenase P-Cluster
Location: Presentation hosted on Zoom. Find recording here (talk starts at 28:30)
Speaker: Hannah Rutledge | UCSD Graduate Student
Host: PCE3 Seminar Series
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
RUTGERS 4th ANNUAL ENIGMA
ASTROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Time: 11:00AM – 3:00PM EDT
May 26, 2021 | 1:30PM
Are there Biophysical, Physiological, and Coding Constraints to Genome and Proteome Stoichiometries?
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here. Meeting ID: 952 3835 2494. Password: enigma
Speaker: Ignacio Sanchez, Researcher | Univ. of Buenos Aires
May 19, 2021
Professional Development Workshop for K12 teachers on integrating Astrobiology in the Classroom
Featuring: Rutgers scientists Dr. Vik Nanda and Dr. Corday Selden.
This virtual workshop is FREE and open to ALL K12 teachers nationwide.
Register here.
May 12, 2021 | 1:30PM
N2 Fixation in the Modern Ocean: Recent Insights
Stable Isotope Metallomics: Developing Tools to Explore Biological Metal use Through Time
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom.
Speaker:Corday Selden | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
April 28, 2021 | 1:30PM
On the Importance/Design of Metal Selectivity in Protein Scaffolds
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Akif Tezcan, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry | UC San Diego
April 14, 2021 | 1:30PM
A Gap between Catalysis and Autocatalysis
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom.
Speaker: Vikas Nanda, Professor | Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University
March 31, 2021 | 1:30PM
Quantifying Structural Relationships of Metal Binding Sites Suggests Origins of Biological Electron Transfer
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Yana Bromberg, Associate Professor | Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University
RUTGERS-NASA ENIGMA
ONE DAY BIOINFORMATICS BOOT CAMP
March 3, 2021 | 1:30PM
A Sulfate Story: From Continental Weathering to Assimilation by Microbial Life
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here. Meeting ID: 989 6405 1286, Password: enigma
Speaker: Nathan Yee, Professor | Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
February 17, 2021 | 1:30PM
Can an Early Hot Mars Resolve the Faint Young Sun Paradox?
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here. Meeting ID: 951 4595 5230, Password: 552905. Find recording here.
Speaker: Lujendra Ojha, Assistant Professor | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
February 3, 2021 | 1:30PM
Decoding Traces of Early Life in the Rock Record
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Mirna Daye | Post-doctoral Researcher
January 27, 2021 | 12:30PM
Metalloproteins at the Crossroads of Design and Nature
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Webex. Join seminar here. Meeting number (access code): 120 282 0326 Meeting password: GpSK9U2u2Gd
Speakers: Keynote speaker Hannah Shafaat | Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University and Ph.D. and Post-docs researchers. Organized by Bhanu Jagilinki, Rutgers University. Contact for more information – bhanu.jagilinki@rutgers.edu
See agenda here.
See abstract here.
January 20, 2021 | 1:30PM
Recent Advances in the Designing of Helical Bundles with Metal Binding Centers
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Bhanu Prakash Jagilinki| Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
December 7, 2020 | 1:00PM
Utilizing Disorder in Natural and Designed Proteins and Enzymes
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Ron Koder | Associate Professor, Depts. of Physics and Chemistry & Biochemistry Biology, City College of New York.
RUTGERS-NASA ENIGMA
ONE DAY GEOLOGY BOOT CAMP
November 9, 2020 | 1:00PM
Reconstructing a Primordial Hydrogenase
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here. (This talk will be an in-depth presentation building on previous Oct. 19th talk)
Speaker: Jennifer Timm | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
October 26, 2020 | 1:00PM
Structural Analysis of Ancient Metalloproteins: Finding Recurrent Repetitive Elements
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Diego Ferreiro | Professor, Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires
October 21, 2020 | 11:30AM
Star Dust
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Katherine Bermingham, Assistant Professor | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium
Abstract here
October 19, 2020 | 3:40PM
Towards Reconstruction of a Primordial Hydrogenase
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here. Meeting number/access code: 120 972 9636, Meeting Password: dmcs2020. Find recording here.
Speaker: Jennifer Timm | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
Host: Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences
October 14, 2020 | 9:00AM
The Origin and Emergence of Global Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom by iFast: The International Forum on Advanced Environmental Sciences and Technology. Find recording here.
Speaker: Paul Falkowski | Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Institute for Environmental Genomics, The University of Oklahoma and Central South University, China
Flyer here
October 12, 2020 | 3:40PM
Cycling Phosphorus in Planetary Ocean Waters: Early Earth and Enceladus
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here Meeting number/access code: 120 972 9636, Meeting Password: dmcs2020
Speaker: Jihua Hao | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
Host: Dept. of Marine and Coastal Sciences
October 12, 2020 | 1:00PM
Multiproxy Records of the End-Devonian Hangenberg Crisis in the Appalachian Basin, USA
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Aaron Martinez | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
September 28, 2020 | 1:00PM
Toward Completing the Earth’s Electron Transport System
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here.
Speaker: Kenneth McGuinness | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
September 17, 2020 | 1:00PM
On the Nature of Europa’s Surface Chemistry and the Possibility of a Radiolytic Redox Cycling
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here. Find recording here.
Speaker: Kevin Peter Hand | Deputy Project Scientist, Europa, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
August 14, 2020 | 2.00 - 14:00 PT / 15:00 - 16:00 ET / 20:00 - 22:00 BST
Frontier Development Lab US 2020 Virtual Showcase – Space Science & AI Showcase
Of Special Note: Presentation by ENIGMA post-doctoral fellow Adrienne Hoarfrost as member of Astronaut Health team. Find recording here with talk by Astronaut Health team starting at 47:11.
Location: Find event information here. Registration here.
Host: Frontier Development Lab in partnership with NASA and the SETI Institute
July 29, 2020 | 11:30AM
Enigma Breakthroughs: Results from the Field
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Join seminar here. Find recording here.
Speaker: Paul Falkowski, Distinguished Professor | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences Summer Science Series
Recorded talk can be found under Presentations menu.
June 24, 2020 | 11:30AM
Recent Missions to Mars
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Find recording here
Speaker: Lujendra Ojha, Professor | Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences Summer Science Series
RUTGERS 3RD ANNUAL ENIGMA ASTROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Date: Tuesday, June 16-Wednesday, June 17
Time: 12:00noon to 16:15 EST both days
Location: Symposium will be virtually hosted on WebEx
Find recording on our ENIGMA YouTube Channel here.
May 18, 2020 | 1:00PM
Why Should Life Maintain Chirality
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. Join seminar here.
Meeting ID: 938 9025 0750, Password: 490725
Speaker: Yossi Paltiel, Professor | Dept. of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 4, 2020 | 1:00PM
Chemical Composition of Enceladus Seawater and its Implications to Habitability
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Meeting number (access code): 191 273 998 Meeting password: DrYGumhA899 (Join Seminar Here)
Speaker: Jihua Hao | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
April 29, 2020 | 1:00PM
Photosynthetic Life in Extreme Environments: How Desert Sand Crust Cyanobacteria Survive Hydration/Desiccation Cycles
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. (Join Seminar Here)
Speaker: Nir Keren | Dept. of Environmental Plant Physiology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Host: Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology Fermentation Webinar
April 22, 2020 | 1:00PM
From Structure to Function of Primordial Events
Location: Presentation will be hosted by the Building Worlds Seminar Series. (Join Seminar Here)
Speaker: Douglas Pike | Rutgers University Research Scientist
April 22, 2020 | 1:00PM
Subsurface Biosphere Diversity Tracks Deep Plate Processes in a Subduction Zone
Location: Presentation will be hosted on Zoom. (Join Seminar Here)
Speaker: Donato Giovannelli | Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology of the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
Host: Dr. Tamar Barkay, Dept. of Biochemistry & Microbiology
April 20, 2020 | 1:00PM
Data Science Approaches Reveal Environmental Drivers Behind Microbial Oxidoreductase Abundance in Volcanic Ecosystems
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Meeting number (access code): 795 656 905, Meeting password: Vs49pAMcdP3 (Join Seminar Here)
Speaker: Joy Buongiorno | Carnegie Institution for Science · Geophysical Laboratory Post-doctoral Researcher
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Prediction of Metal-binding Proteins from Protein Sequences
Speaker: Ariel Aptekmann | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
April 6, 2020 | 1:00PM
Mimicking Metalloprotein Evolution by Combination Metal Binding Motifs and Continuous Evolution
Location: Presentation will be hosted on WebEx. Meeting number (access code): 795 738 133 , Meeting password: DAqVAvKj (Join Seminar Here).
Speaker: Julian Esselborn | University of Southern California, San Diego Post-doctoral Researcher
March 23, 2020 | 1:00PM
Understanding the Origins of Bacterial Ferredoxins
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, via WebEx only.
Speaker: Bhanu Jagilinki | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
March 9, 2020 | 1:00PM
Preservation of Organic Carbon in Dolomitized Cambrian Stromatolites
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Ashley Murphy | Rutgers University Graduate Student
March 4, 2020 | 12:00PM Noon
Voyage from the Gates of the Hadean
Location: CABM 010 Seminar Room 679 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, New Jersey
Speaker: Loren Williams | Institute for Bioengineering & Biological Sciences
Please call (848) 445-9787 for additional information.
February 28, 2020 | 1:00PM
Modelling Dynamics in Solids: From Origin of Life to Modern Challenges
Location: Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences Bldg. Room 223, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ
Speaker: Valentina Erastova | University of Edinburgh, UK, School of Chemistry
Host: Dr. Nathan Yee, nyee@envsci.rutgers.edu 848-932-5714
February 24, 2020 | 1:00PM
Reinventing the First Hydrogenases
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Joshua Mancini | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
February 10, 2020 | 1:00PM
Investigating the Proteins involved in CODH Maturation
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Jennifer Timm | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
December 9, 2019 | 1:00PM
Design to Distribution: The History of Nitrogenase
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Saroj Poudel | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
November 18, 2019 | 1:00PM
Cycling Phosphorus on the Early Earth and Enceladus
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Jihua Hao | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
November 4, 2019 | 1:00PM
Evolutionary Relationships Between Low Potential Ferredoxin and Flavodoxin Electron Carriers
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Ian Campbell | Rice University PhD student
October 21, 2019 | 1:00PM
Dimensionality Reduction of Protein Structure for Phylogenetic Analysis and Design of Putative Ancestral Proteins
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Douglas Pike | Rutgers University Laboratory Researcher
September 30, 2019 | 1:00PM
Learning the Language of Life
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Adrienne Hoarfrost | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
September 16, 2019 | 1:00PM
Prediction of Metal-binding Proteins from Sequence
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Ariel Aptekmann | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
May 7, 2019 | May 8, 2019
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
RUTGERS ANNUAL ENIGMA ASTROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Location: Rutgers-New Brunswick Cook Campus, 61 Dudley Road, Institute for Food, Nutrition, & Health – Room 101
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May 2, 2019 | 12:30 PM
Rewiring Photosynthesis: Fusion of Hydrogenase to Photosystem I to improve in Vivo Algal Hydrogen
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Kevin Redding, PhD | Arizona State University Professor, School of Molecular Sciences
April 5, 2019 | 1:00 PM
Probing Multinuclear Iron-sulfur Protein Biogenesis with a De Novo designed Protein
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Bhanu Prakash Jagilinki | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
February 15, 2019 | 12:00 PM
The Quest for Smart(er) Avidins: Old Dog – New Tricks
Location: Rutgers, CABM, Room 010, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway
Speaker: Oded Livnah, PhD | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Chairman, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences
February 1, 2019 | 12:00 PM
Investigating Vanadium’s Evolving Redox Chemistry and the Expanding Total Mineral Network
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Road
Speakers:
Eli Moore, PhD | Rowan University Assistant Professor, Environmental Science
Stephanie Spielman | Rowan University Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
January 30, 2019 | 3:00 PM
Seminar Series: Evolution of metalloproteins inferred through structurally constrained sequence alignments
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Kenneth McGuinness | Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
January 15, 2019 | 3:00 PM
Advanced Analytics and Visualization Applications in Earth and Planetary Science
Location: Rutgers, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Wright-Rieman, 610 Taylor Road
Speaker: Shaunna Morrison, Carnegie Institute Post-doctoral Researcher
December 21, 2019 | 3:00 PM
NAI Seminar Series: Assembling Minimal Protein Scaffolds that are Catalytically Active using Abundant Metals on an Early Earth
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Joshua Mancini, Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
November 20, 2018 | 4:00 PM
The Influence of the Great Oxygenation Event on the Structure and Function of Type | Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
Location: Rutgers, CABM, Room 010, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway
Speaker: John Goldbeck, PhD | The Pennsylvania State University, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics , Professor of Chemistry
November 16, 2018 | 4:00 PM
STEMcosR: STEM Community Outreach Symposium at Rutgers
Keynote lecture: Light to Life
Location: Rutgers, Chemistry Building, Auditorium, 610 Taylor Road
Speaker: Paul Falkowski, Rutgers, Distinguished Professor, Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources
November 09, 2018 | 4:00 PM
NAI Seminar Series: Ferredoxin Scaffoldss
Location: Rutgers, Marine & Coastal Sciences, Room 203, 71 Dudley Road
Speaker: Andrew Mutter, Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
October 26, 2018 | 4:00 PM
NAI Seminar Series: Origin and Evolution of Biological Catalysts
Location: Rutgers, CABM, Room 010, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway
Speaker: Saroj Poudel, Rutgers University Post-doctoral Researcher
October 25, 2018 | 4:00 PM
Evolution and Engineering of Protein Electron Transfer
Location: Princeton University, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Lecture Hall A32
Speaker: Vikas Nanda, Rutgers, Professor, Department of Biochemistry
October 12, 2018 | 4:00 PM
NAI Seminar Series: Bio-inspired Design of Minimalistic Electron Transfer Proteins
Location: Rutgers, CABM, Room 010, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway
Speaker: Douglas Pike, Rutgers University Graduate Student