Institute for Planets and Life

Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture Series

The Planets, Life, and the Universe lecture series brings high-profile speakers to the JHU/STScI campus to discuss current topics of interest in astrobiology and draws a large and steadily increasing audience. The lectures are presented live online and are also available for viewing on the website afterwards.

Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture Series presentations are also webcast live. Webcasts can be viewed at the STScI webcast site during the scheduled presentation, and can be found afterward in the STScI webcast archive along with any presentation notes provided by the speaker.

If you would like to participate in the discussion session following the lecture, please email us at astrobiology@jhu.edu providing your name, affiliation, and phone number at least 24 hours in advance of the lecture.

Series Schedule Series Abstracts | Lecture Locations | Archived Webcasts

Light lunch (provided) starts at 12pm; talk starts at 12:30pm.

Date	Location	Presentation
May 03, 2013 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Habitable Zones and the Frequency of Potential Habitable Planets in Extrasolar Planetary Systems Ravi Kumar Kopparapu (Department of Geosciences, Penn State University)
Apr 05, 2013 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Life Underground Jan Amend (Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California)
Mar 01, 2013 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Follow Your Curiosity: The Search for Habitable Environments on Mars Daniel Glavin (Planetary Environments Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Feb 01, 2013 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	The Real 1%: Volatiles in Planetary Accretion and the Rapid Development of Habitability Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Nov 02, 2012 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	In Quest of the Habitable Zone Planets Around M Dwarfs Suvrath Mahadevan (Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University)
Oct 05, 2012 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Ascent of the Proteome in Ancient Life Aaron Goldman (Princeton University)
May 04, 2012 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	The Phylogenomic Record: Reconstructing the Timing and Mechanisms of Early Life Evolution Greg Fournier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Apr 06, 2012 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	The Deep Biosphere in Igneous Oceanic Crust Katrina Edwards (University of Southern California)
Mar 02, 2012 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Planets in the 'Habitable Zones' of White Dwarfs Eric Agol (University of Washington)
Feb 03, 2012 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Young Giant Planets Travis Barman (Lowell Observatory)
Dec 04, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Origin of Earth's Water Karen Meech (University of Hawaii)
Nov 04, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Exploring New Worlds: The Search for and Characterization of Planets Beyond the Solar System Daniel Apai (University of Arizona)
Oct 07, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	The Search for Life On Mars...A Search for the Origin of Life on Earth? Andrew Steele (Carnegie Institution for Science)
May 06, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	JHU Mudd Hall 101	A Common Origin for Organic Solids in Primitive Solar System Objects: Comets, Interplanetary Dust Particles, and Primitive Chondritic Meteorites George Cody (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Apr 08, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	The Major Transitions In Evolution: A Physiological Perspective Andrew Knoll (Harvard University)
Mar 18, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Mineral Surfaces, Geochemical Complexities, and the Origins of Life Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Feb 04, 2011 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	The Virtual Planetary Laboratory: Modeling Signs of Habitability and Life on Extrasolar Planets Vikki Meadows (University of Washington)
Dec 10, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	How to Find a Habitable Planet James Kasting (Penn State University)
Nov 12, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Did Earth Lose Its Balance Before The First Animals Evolved? Adam Maloof (Princeton University)
Oct 08, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Follow the Elements: An Early Whiff of Oxygen Ariel Anbar (Arizona State University)
Sep 03, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Will Alien Life Resemble Us (and How Could We Possibly Know)? Astrobiology, Evolution and the Amino Acids Stephen Freeland (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)
Jun 18, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	JHU Mudd Hall 101	Astrobiological Factors in Exoplanet Exploration Strategies Wes Traub (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech)
May 07, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Exploring a Nearby Habitable World...Orbiting an M-dwarf Star L. Drake Deming (NASA Goddard Center for Astrobiology)
Apr 09, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Where Next in the Search for Life on Mars? Chris McKay (NASA Ames Research Center)
Mar 05, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Formation of Icy Planetesimals in the Primitive Nebula: Implications for the Composition of Gas Giant Planets, Satellites, and Comets Olivier Mousis (Observatoire de Besançon, France)
Feb 05, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Chemoautotrophically-Based Microbial Communities in an Extreme Subsurface Environment Jill Banfield (University of California, Berkeley)
Jan 08, 2010 12:00p - 2:30p	JHU Mudd Hall 101	Habitability of the Hadean Earth Stephen Mojzsis (University of Colorado)
Dec 04, 2009 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Cometary Amino Acids from the STARDUST Mission Jamie Elsila Cook (GSFC/Goddard Center for Astrobiology)
Nov 06, 2009 12:00p - 2:30p	STScI Bahcall Auditorium	Impacting the Origin of Life: the Case for Phosphorus Matthew Pasek (University of South Florida)

Lecture Series Support

The Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture Series is supported by the NASA Astrobiology Institute, The Space Telescope Science Institute, the Department of Biology and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University, the Space Studies Initiative, and the Ernst Cloos Memorial Scholars Program.

Organizing Committee

J. DiRuggiero (JHU, co-chair)
I. N. Reid (STScI, co-chair)
W. Moos (JHU)
C. Norman (STScI)
H. Weaver (JHU/APL)
C. Neish (NASA GSFC)