Astrobiology Graduates in Europe (AbGradE) will hold TWO major events in 2020! Are you excited? We're excited! 🙂🥳🙃🥳🙂 #AbGradE2020

Mercury transits are relatively rare — the next one isn't until 2032! Watch Mercury make its trek across the Sun today at mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov 🛰⚫️☀️

A Memorandum of Cooperation to strengthen cooperation in #SpaceResources and #innovation was signed today by Luxembourg’s Dep. Prime Minister Etienne Schneider and #ESA Director General ESA Jan Wörner 👉 esa.int/About_Us/Corpo… #Space19plus Luxembourg Space Agency SpaceResources.lu

ELSI is bringing the annual Astrobiology Graduate Conference Astrobiology Graduate Conference to Japan in 2020! With a focus on International Research Collaboration, the #AbGradCon2020 will include #SciComm training and Proposal Writing Retreat. abgradcon.org #SaveTheDate September 14-18

The application for #AbGradCon2020 at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) 地球生命研究所 (Sep 14-18,2020) is now open! The abstract submission deadline is March 15, 2020 (Japan Time). Graduate Students, Postdocs, and senior undergraduates encouraged to apply today! Travel grants available! abgradcon.org/applications

From 17-19 April 2020 there will be a joint symposium/workshop of Astrobiology Graduates in Europe with the Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Network. See eana-net.eu/index.php?page…… for details. There will be bursaries for students and early career scientists to attend the event.

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions phys.org/news/2019-12-m… via Phys.org

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Our last work has been published 🪐🍄🔬

#CountdownToMars is nearly over! Only a week left before the NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover reaches the Martian surface. To follow the landing, tune in to the NASA live broadcast next 18th February! 🪐

Congratulations to our colleague Alessia Cassaro for the successful defense of her PhD thesis "The resistance of the Antarctic black fungus and stability of fungal biomolecules: a support for habitability and biosignatures detection beyond Earth." #Mars #Astrobiology #PhD

We are pleased to introduce Dr. Alessia Cassaro (Alessia Cassaro), our new group member! In 2022 she was a Post-Doc fellow at the University of Tuscia in the ASI-funded Life in Space Project, and now she started her 2nd postdoc fellowship at UNIBO. Welcome aboard, Alessia! 🥳🔬🧬

The "Life in space" project, supported by Agenzia Spaziale ITA, has concluded. We would like to thank all the research teams who participated and advanced science. See you on Mars! 🪐🚀 #workshopvitanellospazio2023 #italianspaceagency