The NASA Astrobiology Program is pleased to welcome four new Fellows to the NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (NPP). They are:

Ashleigh Hood ”Integrated geochemical-petrographic insights on Earth’s oxygenation from Precambrian carbonates”
Advisor: Noah Planavsky (NAI University of California, Riverside Team, Yale University)

Nagayasu Nakanishi ”Investigating the early evolution of neuronal signaling mechanisms in animals”
Advisor: Mark Martindale (Exobiology, University of Florida)

Stephanie Weldon ”Swapping partners mid-dance: Symbiotic replacement in a tightly integrated intrabacterial, intracellular nested mutualism”
Advisor: John McCutcheon (NAI University of Montana, Missoula team)

Kristin Woycheese ”Methane and sulfur isotope biogeochemistry of terrestrial serpentinizing fluid seeps in the Zambales ophiolite complex”
Advisor: Shuhei Ono (NAI University of Colorado, Boulder team, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Congrats to our new Fellows! More information about the NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Program is available at: http://nai.nasa.gov/funding/postdoctoral-fellowship-program/.