ACL: Advent of Complex Life - MIT Astrobiology Team

Check out ACL's Dimitar Sasselov's TED talk on finding potentially habitable worlds here

July 21st, 2010

Wondering what the heck the Complex Life Astrobiology group actually does all day? Check out our 2009 annual report. 2010 in the works!

July 15th, 2010:

EPO team Peter Mangiafico and Phoebe Cohen have set up a YouTube channel showcasing some of the videos taken during the Flinders Ranges NAI Astrobiology trip in April, 2010. Check out the videos, which explore aspects of the Ediacaran time period and the famous Ediacaran fossils. Find us on YouTube at AdventOfComplexLife.

June 20th, 2010

We're on twitter! Follow news, events, and updates from the team on Twitter @ComplexLifeNAI.

August 31 - September 3, 2009 

Mistaken Point Excursion and Field Work, Newfoundland

A group meeting of the MIT Astrobiology Institute Team in Newfoundland

November 24, 2008 11:00 AM Pacific:
The Great Mass Extinction - a Sudden Event or a Slow Moving Train-Wreck?
(On-line seminar by Roger Summons)
A great mass extinction took place 252 million years ago when approximately 90% of the existing marine taxa were lost. Both the magnitude of the extinction and the slowness of the subsequent faunal radiation are enigmatic...

November 11, 2008:

2009 International Choanoflagellate Workshop, June 11 - 14, 2009, University of California, Berkeley
Over the past several years, the study of choanoflagellates has yielded important advances in fields as diverse as ecology, evolution, biomechanics, cell biology, genomics, and taxonomy. By bringing together researchers from these disparate fields, we hope to establish choanoflagellates as a powerful new model system and contribute to the growth of an interactive and dynamic scientific community.

July 8, 2008:
All initial team content is posted.

June 7, 2008:
The first development version of Web site is released.

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