Posted byMiki Huynh
July 26, 2017
Feature Story
2017 NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Selections
We are pleased to announce the March 2017 selections for the NASA Astrobiology Program element of the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP):
Peter Conlin
Advisor: Will Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology (Exobiology; Evolution of Advanced Life)
Topic: “Experimentally investigating the origin and consequences of fitness decoupling during the transition to multicellularity”
Juan Rosas Bonilla
Advisor: Jun Korenaga, Yale University (NAI University of California, Riverside team)
Topic: “Early Earth Geodynamics and Continental Evolution”
Jaclyn Saunders
Advisor: Tanja Bosak (NAI Massachusetts Institute of Technology team)
Topic: “Arsenic based metabolisms in the open ocean: an unexplored frontier”
Nicholas Speller
Advisor: Amanda Stockton, Georgia Institute of Technology (PICASSO)
Topic: “Development of a programmable, comprehensive ionic species analyzer (ISA) for fully automated characterization of hydrated salts on the surface of Europa”
Anna Wang
Advisor: Jack Szostak, Harvard University (Exobiology: Prebiotic Evolution)
Project: “Robust protocell growth and division”
Congratulations to our 2017 NPP fellows!
For more information on the NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Program, visit: https://nai.nasa.gov/funding/postdoctoral-fellowship-program/