Welcome to the Spring 2025 Astrobiology Colloquium Series! Tuesdays, Location PAA 216 at 3:00pm.
UWAB hosts a biannual colloquium series every spring and fall, featuring speakers from both UW and other institutions presenting on a wide range of astrobiology related topics. Here, you can find the schedule for upcoming colloquia and seminars, as well as an archive of abstracts and live recordings of past events.
If you would like to be notified about upcoming events, you can request to be added to our events mailing list.
We are planning for in-person presentations, meetings, and receptions held on campus. **Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we will simultaneously live stream the presentations via Zoom and (when permitted by the speaker) record and post to our YouTube channel**
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 4/8/2025 | Eryn Cangi (U. Colorado - Boulder) | There’s more than one way to parch a planet: secondary atmospheric escape at Mars and Venus and implications for exo/planetary habitability |
| 4/15/2025 | Hazel Barton (U. of Alabama) | Dark Life: The Strange Chemistries of Cave Geomicrobiology. |
| 4/22/2025 | Loren Williams (Georgia Tech) | The Origins of Life on Earth and in the Universe |
| 4/29/2025 | Jake Lustig-Yaeger (Johns Hopkins - Applied Physics Laboratory) | Charting the Cosmic Shoreline: Constraining the prevalence of rocky exoplanet atmospheres in M dwarf systems with JWST |
| 5/6/2025 | Billy Brazelton (U. of Utah) | Weird metabolic strategies shared by microbial residents of the Lost City's basement |
| 5/13/2025 | Ken Williford | Exploring and sampling carbonated ultramafic rocks in Jezero crater with the Perseverance rover |
| 5/20/2025 | Astrobiology Research Rotations: Sabrina Kainz + Kim Sinclair | Sabrina: The rise of complex algae after the End Permian Mass Extinction through lipid biomarkers Kim: The Effect of Lipid Composition on Liposomal System Encapsulation Induced by Freeze-Thaw |
| 6/3/2025 | David Grinspoon (NASA Headquarters) | TBD |
Live Streaming Presentations:
Beginning in Spring 2020 we have resumed live streaming of the UW Astrobiology Colloquium presentations! To access the live stream each week in the Spring 2025 series, use this link:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/91767967592
Please be aware that the talks in our colloquium series are scientific presentations geared towards the Astrobiology Community. Members of public are welcome to join us, but we will not ask our speakers to go out of their way to make their presentations accessible, or easy to understand, to the non-scientific community.
Archived Presentations:
Missed a video in the last seminar series? See our archive for abstracts and video recordings of past talks from 2003 – 2018, and our YouTube channel for all recorded presentations since then!