Bringing the minds of astrobiology in Asia and Oceania together, a weekly seminar series will be launched. The ASAP Astrobiology Webinar Series will promote inter-region discussion and collaboration by featuring astrobiology researchers in Asia and Oceania. The seminar series is organised by researchers from various institutes, including the Astrobiology Society of Asia-Pacific (ASAP), State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences (Macau), Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Amity Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology (India), Desert Research Institute (USA), and Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI, Tokyo).
The seminars are open for students and researchers who are interested in the topics in astrobiology and will be held in English, weekly.
Organisers:
ASAP Astrobiology Webinar Series Team
André Antunes, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), Macau
Anna Wang, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
Siddharth Pandey, Amity Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology (ACoeA), India
Maggie Lau, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Henry Sun, Desert Research Institute, USA
Thilina Heenatigala, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Japan
Tony Z Jia, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Japan
Initial Schedule:
Date/Time: Friday, June 26. 0630 GMT/1530 JST (UTC+9)
Speaker: Tony Z Jia (ELSI, BMSIS)
Title: Primitive Compartments on Early Earth Assembled through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Phenomena
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 1. 0330 GMT/1130 CST (UTC+8)
Speaker: André Antunes (MUST-SKLPlanets)
Title: New Frontiers in Microbiology: Brines, Biominerals, and Exooceans
Date/Time: Friday, July 10. 0330 GMT/0900 IST (UTC+5:30)
Speaker: Siddharth Pandey (ACoeA)
Title: Overview of Astrobiology Activities in India
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 15. 0330 GMT/1330 AEST (UTC+10)
Speaker: Anna Wang (UNSW)
Title: TBD
ASAP Website: https://www.astrobiology.asia/
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