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Job Opportunities in Astrobiology
Research England has recently awarded the Open University Astrobiology Research Group an Expanding Excellence in England grant worth £6.7 million. This will allow the Group to expand to bring together expertise in technology, international development and governance to address...
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Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives
The meeting ‘Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives’ on the societal impacts of astrobiology, big history, and cosmic perspectives will be held on 19-20 September at Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London. The meeting is now...
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Call for Abstracts – The First Billion Years: Habitability
The First Billion Years: Habitability conference will be held in Big Sky, Montana from September 8 – 12. The conference focuses on habitability, producing conditions conducive to life, the emergence of life on Earth, the potential for the emergence of life on other solar system...
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Big History & Astrobiology
A special issue of the Journal of Big History on the relationships between astrobiology and big history is now available at: https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/ Edited by Ian Crawford (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), this...
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Conference Announcement: EANA 2019
The 19th European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA) Conference will be held in the historical centre of Orléans, France on 3-6 September 2019. EANA joins together people interested in the origins of life and the search for extraterrestrial life in the Solar System and...
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About us
The Astrobiology Society of Britain is a learned society for people interested in the relationship between life and its cosmic environment. This covers a vast diversity of topics and research methodologies, encompassing observational astronomy, theoretical astrophysics, geological expeditions and laboratory-based microbiology and prebiotic chemistry.
The ASB is affiliated with the journal Life (ISSN 2075-1729, CiteScore: 3.16 (2016)), an international open access journal published quarterly online by MDPI. It publishes scientific studies related to fundamental themes in life sciences, especially those concerned with the origins of life and evolution of biosystems. Other areas of interest include synthetic biology and astrobiology.
Upcoming conferences
Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, Spain 18-23 August, 2019
AbGradE 2019, Orléans, France, 2 September, 2019
EANA 2019, Orléans, France, 3-6 September, 2019
The First Billion Years: Habitability, Big Sky, Montana, 8-12 September, 2019
Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives, Birkbeck, University of London, 19-20 September, 2019
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