02
Jan 2012

It’s the first countdown of the year, hear:

 POSTED BY: BETüL KACAR
 

3 days to go:

Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on the Origin of Life will be held in Galveston, TX. I will be missing this exciting conference so I will be looking out for some post-conference notes (organizers & attendees, hear me out please).

2 evolutionary biology conferences in Europe:

Mark your calendars, people:

The infamous SMBE conference will be held in Dublin this April.

16th Evolutionary Biology conference will be in Marseilles, in September.

1 important paper:

Published by Jeff Hasty’s group, a paper in this week’s issue of Nature reports a designed bacteria that can sense arsenic. Hats off to synthetic biology! What could be the significance / applications of a microbe that can “detect” heavy metals, for astrobiology you guys? I have a few in mind but I would like to hear the ideas first, anyone?

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  • Josh Borchardt

    Heavy metals detection by a directly designed microbe would be very interesting. My previous research was in uptake of heavy metals (and ecotoxins) by wetland plants, and if some of the same behaviors associated with heavy metal uptake in plants could be mimicked in microbes (some are), then it could drastically help environmental disaster clean up like mine tailings, etc.

    But if there were large heavy metal deposits on other celestial bodies with microbes living on them, it could make it easier for detection by orbital spacecraft. Very cool concept
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