Each Undergraduate Research Associate in Astrobiology conducts intensive state-of-the-art research with an individual scientist-mentor. Please join us as the fruits of these efforts are presented by the Class of 2013 to NASA’s Astrobiology Institute in a distributed seminar presented over the internet.
Presenters:
Meghan McCarthy (Harvard University)
Mentor: Natasha M. Johnson
The Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecules on Nebular Dusts
Sean Hoyt (Rowan University)
Mentor: Geronimo L. Villanueva
The Primordial Composition of Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) revealed through High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy
Jolie Carlisle (UC Berkeley)
Mentor: Jose C. Aponte
Method Development for Meteoritic Amine Analysis
Cameron Trefny (Ohio State University)
Mentor: Jennifer C. Stern
Understanding the In Situ Thermal Analysis of Mars Materials
Jordan Gulli (Duke University)
Mentor: Alexander A. Pavlov
The Effects of Mars-Like Conditions on a Halophilic Archaeon: Implications for Life on Mars
Luke Hecht (University of Edinburgh)
Mentor: Timothy A. Stephenson
Techniques for the Detection of Nucleic Acid on Mars