ASAP Astrobiology Webinar Series

Overview

As a way to promote inter-region discussion and collaboration amongst Asia and Oceania astrobiology researchers, the ASAP Astrobiology Webinar Series will be launched in collaboration with the Astrobiology Society of Asia-Pacific (ASAP). The weekly series will span over the three northern hemisphere summer months with weekly online seminars featuring researchers from a variety of institutions in Asia and Oceania and astrobiology-related fields. The webinars are open for students and researchers who are interested in the topics in astrobiology and will be held in English.

ASAP Astrobiology Webinar Series Organizing Team

André Antunes, Macau University of Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, (MUST-SKLPlanets) Macau SAR, China
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, (IDSSE, CAS), China
Henry Sun, Desert Research Institute (DRI), USA
Thilina Heenatigala, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Japan
Tony Z Jia, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Japan

Schedule

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Day and Time	Speaker and Title
Friday, June 26 0630 GMT/1530 JST (UTC+9)	Tony Z Jia (ELSI, BMSIS) Primitive Compartments on Early Earth Assembled through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Phenomena
Wednesday, July 1 0330 GMT/1130 CST (UTC+8)	André Antunes (MUST-SKLPlanets) New Frontiers in Microbiology: Brines, Biominerals, and Exooceans
Friday, July 10 0330 GMT/0900 IST (UTC+5:30)	Siddharth Pandey (ACoeA) Overview of Astrobiology Activities in India
Wednesday, July 15 0330 GMT/1330 AEST (UTC+10)	Albert Fahrenbach and Anna Wang (Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney) From A Continuous Reaction Network that Produces RNA Precursors to Unusual Properties of Primitive Membranes
Thursday, July 23 0330 GMT/1130 CST (UTC+8)	Maggie C.Y. Lau Vetter (IDSSE, CAS) Astrobiology through the lens of Geomicrobiology
Friday, July 31 0300 GMT/1100 CST (UTC+8)	Henry Sun (DRI) D-Amino Acid Metabolism in L-Life
Friday, August 7 0630 GMT/1530 JST (UTC+9)	Matthieu Laneuville (ELSI) Planetary Diversity: from the Solar System to Exoplanets and Back
Thursday, August 13 0700 GMT/1500 CST (UTC+8)	David C. Fernandez-Remolar (MUST-SKLPlanets) Biosignature Preservation in Extreme Terrestrial Analogs of Ancient Mars Environments
Tuesday, August 18 0530 GMT/1530 AEST (UTC+10)	Bonnie Teece and Luke Steller (Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney) Praxical: Learn by Doing
Thursday, August 27 0700 GMT/1100 UAEST (UTC+8)	Dimitra Atri (NNew York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) Life in Astrophysical Context: Role of Ionizing Radiation
Thursday, September 3 0630 GMT/1430 CST (UTC+8)	Bhala Sivaraman (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India) Complex molecules in astrochemical impact induced shock conditions
(Week of September 7) TBA	No lecture (Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2020, https://www.aam2020.org/)
Thursday, September 17 0300 GMT/1100 CST (UTC+8)	Huapei Wang (China University of Geosciences) Magnetic fields in our solar system and habitability of planets
Friday, September 25 0630 GMT/1530 JST (UTC+9)	Hikaru Yabuta (Hiroshima University) Chemical History of Organic Macromolecules in the Early Solar System: Scientific Strategy and Expected Insights from Asteroid Ryugu