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Join the next LIFE RCN seminar! Wednesday February 11, 8AM PDT / 11AM EDT
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The Genesis Project On The Origin Of Life Becomes A National Centre Of Competence In Research
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The 6th ISSOL online seminar will be held Thursday, February 5th, at 14:00 UTC. If you are a member or in the PCE3 mailing list, follow the link you received to attend, or consider subscribing to ISSOL! Annual membership fees start at $20 for students. issol.org/membership/
02.02.2026 20:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Are you a PhD student in geobiology or related disciplines? Consider applying for the 2026 International Geobiology Course! The course will be held between June 6th and July 10th in ITALY and at PennState.
Deadline for applications is FEBRUARY 2nd, 2026
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ROSES-2026 to be released July 2026. ROSES-2025 Amendment 39 extends due dates for three program elements: 1) submissions to C.2 Solar System Science to August 1, 2026, and 2) proposals to A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science and A.10 INNOVATE to August 31, 2026
22.01.2026 20:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 093 - The Messy Chemistry of Planetary Environments: Prebiotic Chemistry Experiments of Planetary Analogues
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31 - The Last Universal Common Ancestor and the Origins of Translation
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28 - Origins of Life in Planetary Context
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10 - Deciphering planetary organic inventories across the abiotic - prebiotic - biotic spectrum: uncovering the signs of life as we might not know it
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02 - AI-Driven Autonomous Exploration of Prebiotic Chemistry and Planetary Environments:
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Submitting an abstract to AbSciCon? Check out the comments for a list of PCE3 related session!
12.01.2026 20:45 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 5 π 0New OoL digest is out! π𧬠32 new papers, ft. Europaβs seafloor activity, Enceladus exploration roadmaps, prebiotic nickel catalysis, multicellularity switches in yeast, and liquid water scenarios on ancient Mars.
#OriginOfLife #Astrobiology
A new study that looked at isotopes in plagioclase crystals within 3.7 Ga anorthosite rocks suggests that continent formation may have not started until ~3.5 Ga. Could Earth have been mostly a landless ocean world for its first billion years? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
05.01.2026 21:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sugars including ribose and glucose were found in Bennu samples, which indicates that the asteroid has a complete set of the essential building blocks of life! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
02.01.2026 21:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reminder to get your AbSciCon abstracts in by Jan 14! While you are at it, consider submitting to the session: "Deciphering planetary organic inventories across the abiotic -prebiotic- biotic spectrum: uncovering the signs of life as we might not know it" agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon...
31.12.2025 05:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For our next episode of "Ask an Author", we asked our own PCE3 member Dr. Laura Rodriguez about her new paper just out in JGR - Planets.
Great work Laura!
Excuse the typo.
22.12.2025 15:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As AbSciCon 2026 abstract deadline approaches, conveners Davila, Shkoylar, and Hoehler invite you to submission to their great session: "The Abiotic Background: Challenges and Opportunities for Life Detection"
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Deadline is January 14th, 2026!
Extended Deadline to January 2nd, 2026!
Submit your nominations for ISSOL Awards at the links below. π
Job opportunity alert:
The Life in the Universe Center at the University of Geneva is looking to fill a prebiotic chemistry professor position at the full, associate, or assistant level.
Deadline for application is March 15, 2026.
Details here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Fresh off the press! a new study by Rodriguez et al. introducing a novel framework to characterize the organic state of a planetary body and facilitate missions to test origin of life hypotheses beyond inventorying biologically relevant compounds
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2026 ISSOL Awards: The deadline to nominate someone for the Oparin medal, ISSOL Fellow, or the Stanley Miller Award is approaching!
Submit your nominations by December 19th. Full instructions here:
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AGU attendees: the NASA astrobiology program will be hosting a NASA-DARES community update on Thursday, Dec. 18th, from 6 to 8 PM CST at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. A recording of the meeting will be posted on the NASA-DARES webpage after AGU.
12.12.2025 21:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Extraterrestrial Photosynthesis Workshop
A NASA Exoplanets System Science (NExSS) workshop taking place May 15-17, 2026, in Green Lake, Wisconsin, just before AbSciCon 2026.
Learn more here:
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NASA's Planetary Research Year in Review Webinar will take place on Dec. 10th at 1 PM Eastern. You can submit any questions at the following link: nasa.cnf.io/sessions/zg8...
Join link: nasaevents.webex.com/wbxmjs/joins...
Here are a few reminders for approaching conference abstract deadlines!
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 16-20, 2026) - Deadline of Jan. 6th, 2026 #LPSC2026
Astrobiology Science Conference (May 17-20, 2026) - Deadline of Jan. 14th, 2026 #AbSciCon26
Applications due for the Extraterrestrial Materials Academy are due Jan. 16, 2026. The academy is scheduled for June 8th to Aug. 15th, 2026, at LPI in Houston, and is designed for undergraduates not studying at R1 institutions.
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Registration is open for the AAS Exoplanet Atmospheres 2026 meeting, taking place in Denver from March 16-20, 2026. Abstracts are due Dec. 19th, 2025.
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Check out this recent paper published in Nature Communications titled "Abiotic N2 reduction in submarine hydrothermal systems could quickly fertilize prebiotic oceans"
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The 5th ISSOL online seminar will be held tomorrow, November 18th, at 13.00 UTC.
If you are a member, follow the link you received in your email to attend, or consider subscribing! Annual membership fees start at $20 for students. issol.org/membership/