Meetings
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First announcement IAU Symposium N280 "The Molecular Universe"
The Molecular Universe
May 30 - June 3, 2011 Toledo, Spain
Announcing details
For more details
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"For the next annual workshop of EANA, EANA'10,
to be held in Pushchino,
Russia from September 6 to 8, 2010,
the Deadline for submitting abstracts,
and applications for travel funds and visas is approaching:
June 4, 2010.
For more details
This will be the 10th anniversary of EANA workshops and should be celebrated
by a high number of attendants. Although there have been already many
international astrobiology meetings this year, you are strongly encouraged
to consider participating in EANA'10. It is a tradition of EANA, to provide
an ideal platform for presentations by young scientists (graduate students,
PhD students and Postdocs). We are also in the position to provide modest
travel support to this group.
Looking forward to meeting you in Pushchino in September
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THE ROYAL ACADEMIES FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS OF BELGIUM
Belgian National Committee on Antarctic Research
BELGIAN IPY SYMPOSIUM
“Past, Present and Future Changes in Polar Regions"
Announcing details
Registration Form
Poster
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The deadline for abstracts for the International Astronautical Congress in
Prague, 27 September - 1 October 2010 is approaching March 5.
Announcing details
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This message announces several meetings/calls
Announcing details
Workshop on Astrobiology, to be held from Sept. 6-8 2010 in Pushchino,Russia
38th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR),
18-25 July 2010 in Bremen, Germany
June 14-18, Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon), Tällberg,
Sweden
The 7th Annual General Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society will take place in
Hyderabad, India, on 05-09 July 2010.
Announcing details
CAREX is opening a call for its summer school that will be held from June 28 to July 3rd, 2010 in Pieve Tesino (Italian Alps).
Announcing details
Call for Applications
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Hereby we would like to remind you of the quickly approaching deadline, Feb 28th, to submit
abstracts for the AbGradCon2010,
organized as the foremost astrobiology meeting for early-career researchers in Tällberg, Sweden (June 14-18).
This conference aims to create an ispiring comfortable environment for early career scientists to present and learn about the
latest developments in astrobiology, to create networks and to forge new collaborations worldwide. The conference will comprise
oral and poster presentations, half-day workshops and a one-day field trip to geologically instructive sites in the
astrobiologically interesting Siljan impact crater.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
For graduate students and early career scientists (up to 5 years after first Ph. D.)
that are selected talk and poster presentations full funding for accomodation and meals as well as trave bursaries are available.
More information on the conference, as well as the abstract submission can be found on the
event's website
traces of the early biosphere
Please forward this announcement to everyone interested in the wide field of Astrobiology, from planetary sciences to biochemistry,
especially to graduate students and early career astrobiologists.
The forthcoming deadlines are:
28th February 2010 23:59 GMT - Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts
1st May 2010 - Deadline for registration.
Please do not hesitate to contact us concerning any questions or queries. They should be addressed to:
We are looking forward meeting you in Tällberg!
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The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is organizing
the 2010 Meeting of the Americas in Foz de Iguassu, Brazil, 8-13 August 2010.
I am happy to tell that AGU has accepted the proposed session 'Astrobiology and prebiotic chemistry' to be included in the program of the meeting.
I and Dr. Dimas Zaia of the Universidade Estadual de Londrina in Paraná, Brazil, will be co-conveners of the session.
The web page is now open for submission
of abstracts and soon for registrations a well.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31, 2010.
Dr. Zaia and I wish you welcome to the 2010 Meeting of the Americas and the spectacular area around Foz de Iguassu!
Sincerely,
Nils Holm
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The General Assembly 2010 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria,
from 02 – 07 May 2010.
We invite you to participate to our session BG8.1
traces of the early biosphere
The deadline for the receipt of Abstracts is 18 Jan 2010.
In case you would like to apply for support
please submit no later than 04 Dec 2009.
BG8.1 traces of the early biosphere
Conveners: Emmanuelle J. Javaux and Abigail Allwood
we are looking forward to a great exciting session, thanks to your contribution!
please forward this invitation to other potentially interested colleagues and students about this session.
Union Symposium 5 "Early Earth and early biosphere"
(by invitation only)
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/3318
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Message to the astrobiology community: Nicolas Glansdorff Orbituary
"A few weeks ago, Nicolas Glansdorff, accidentally passed away while hiking alone through Norwegian Lapland. Hiking was a pastime he had loved throughout his life, and he had a passionate interest in the Arctic region, having traveled from Alaska to Siberia. Nicolas was fond of places such as this where humans are confronted with the harshness of nature, and he especially enjoyed living this experience as a solitary hiker.
He was Professor Emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Originally trained as a botanist, he soon switched to bacterial genetics, and later to the microbiology of extreme environments.
To his students, colleagues and friends, he was the essence of a learned man, one who inspired trust. With his charm and wit, in his teaching, he brought to life the mechanisms of evolution and theories on the origin of life. An expert at combining poetry and philosophy with extreme scientific rigor, he led his audience to profoundly contemplate the mechanisms that sustain life on our planet and possibly elsewhere! He will be deeply missed by microbiologists around the world."
Ariane Toussaint
Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Genomes et des Reseaux, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Francoise van Vliet
Institut de Recherches Microbiologiques Jean-Marie Wiame,Campus CERIA, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium
Max Mergeay
SCK-CEN, B2400 Mol, Belgium
Pierre Thuriaux
Service de Biologie Integrative et Genetique Moleculaire,Gif-sur-Yvette 91191 cedex, France
Please have a look at the two attached files, provided by Dr Paul Janssen, SCK-CEN, B2400 Mol, Belgium.
One is a
text called "Reflexions"
presented by Nicolas Glansdorff during a special meeting held for his retirement.
The second file is the
poster announcing this meeting
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colloque "Evolution de la matière et de la vie"
Vous êtes tous et toutes bienvenu(e)s au colloque annuel de la Société Royale des sciences de Liège qui se tiendra
Vendredi 20 novembre 2009
de 9h à 17h
à l'Institut de Mathématique (B37,parking 32)
Amphithéâtre A01
sur le thème "Evolution de la matière et de la vie"
Programme
09h00 Ouverture par le modérateur, le professeur E. Poty (ULg)
09h10 La longue histoire de la matière (Professeur J. Reisse, ULB)
10h10 Pause
10h30 Evolution de la vie durant les 4 premiers milliards d'années (Professeur E. Javaux, ULg)
11h30 Théories de l'évolution: aspects historiques - Darwin et Wallace (Professeur M. Morange, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
12h30 Déjeuner (libre)
14h30 Darwin en Antarctique: diversité et phylogénie (Dr A. Wilmotte, FRS-FNRS, ULg)
15h30 Pause
16h00 Evolution de la coopération et de la socialité dans le règne animal. Sélection de la parentèle et expression génétique (Dr S. Aron, FRS-FNRS, ULB)
17h00 Fin du colloque
Entrée libre
Une brochure contenant les textes envoyés par les orateurs sera disponible, à l'entrée de l'amphithéâtre.
Prière de bien vouloir s'inscrire - pour que nous sachions combien vous serez - auprès du Secrétariat de la Société (tél 04 366 93 71, srsl@guest.ulg.ac.be) ou de Jacques Aghion (tél 04 366 38 41, jaghion@ulg.ac. be).
J. AGHION, Secr. Général de la Société
E. JAVAUX, Présidente de la Société
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9th European Workshop on Astrobiology "EANA'09"
This workshop will be held on 12-14 October 2009
Invited lecture
"Darwin's warm little pond:
the origin and early evolution of life"
Antonio Lazcano
Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
Salle du Trône
Palais des Académies
Rue Ducale 1, B-1000 Bruxelles
Information
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Survival strategies in desert cyanobacteria: from Anhydrobiosis to Astrobiology
Prof. Daniela Bili
Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Dip. Biologia
Vendredi 16 octobre 2009, 16H
Salle 1.75 (Batiment B6c), Institut de Chimie
Allée du 6 Août, 13
Sart Tilman
4000 Liège
acces plans
Info : Dr Annick Wilmotte, 04/366 33 87
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Workshop on Methane on Mars:
This joint ESA-ASI workshop will be held on 25 - 27 November 2009, at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy.
website
Information
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The 9th European Workshop on Astrobiology
will take place on October 12th -14th 2009
Lippens auditorium, Royal Library, Brussels
Please consider submitting an abstract and encourage your students to participate!
Abstract deadline : June 30th
website
Information
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PATHWAYS TOWARDS HABITABLE PLANETS
14-18 september 2009
Barcelona, Spain
Third announcement
New deadline for proposing a satellite meeting: June 15th.
website
Information
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Information Session with ESA for
the Potential Belgian Scientific Community
on the EXOMARS and Cosmic Vision Missions
March 31, 2009 - Brussels at the Residence Palace from 11:00 till 13:30
Programme, Practical information and Registration (reply before March 24, 2009)on :
website
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EANA letter to members of EANA EC and associated members
EANA letter 1 in 2009
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We kindly remind you that March 2nd is the deadline for the abstract submission of the International
Conference on Comparative Planetology Venus-Earth-Mars,
from 11-15 May 2009 at ESTEC - Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Authors are kindly invited to submit their abstracts by using the abstract submission form,
posted on the
conference website
From today, it is possible to register through the online registration form, also available at above mentioned conference website.
We are looking forward to your participation and to welcoming you at ESTEC, Noordwijk.
With kind regards,
On behalf of the organiser,
ESA Conference Bureau
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Collège Belgique Cours-conférences 2009 " Astrobiologie "
Académie Royale des Sciences, des lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,
Palais des Académies, 1 rue Ducale, 1000 Bruxelles,
à partir de 16 heures
- Logique floue et chimie prébiotique. Jacques Reisse. 5-févr-09
- Évolution de la Terre et de la vie pendant les quatre premiers milliards d'années. Philippe Claeys et Emmanuelle Javaux. 5-mars-09
- Diversité et limites de la vie. Annick Wilmotte et Emmanuelle Javaux. 30-avr-09
- Habitabilité planétaire. Véronique Dehant. 1-oct-09
- Recherche de vie dans les systèmes extrasolaires. Yaël Nazé. 29-oct-09
Information
website
Traces of life from cells to planets
European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2009,
Vienna, Austria, 19 - 24 April 2009
Information
website
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NASA- Nordic Summer school “Water, ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe” in Iceland.
The NASA Astrobiology Institute and the Nordic Astrobiology Network will organise a
summer school with the above
–mentioned theme in Iceland from 29 June to 13 July 2009
for students and post-docs from astrobiology-related subjects (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geosciences etc.)
Information
Further information about the summer school and instructions about the application procedure are available on its
website
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The International Conference on Comparative Planetology: Venus-Earth-Mars
will take place on 11-15 May 2009 at ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
The abstract submission deadline for this ESLAB-09 conference is 02 March 2009.
Information
Further information on the scientific content, as well as on practical aspects, is
available on the
conference website
We are looking forward your enthusiastic participation.
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You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to our session BG7.1 Traces of life from cells to planets in the
General Assembly 2009 (EGU2009),
19 Apr 2009 - 24 Apr 2009, Vienna, Austria.
Information :
Website
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the eighth European Mars Conference
organised by the Mars Society in Antwerp next week
(Friday 17/10/2008 and Saturday 18/10/2008)
The Mars Society is a society of amateur and professionals sharing a common enthusiasm
for the manned exploration of Mars and its preparatory phases.
Information :
Website
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"Les stromatolites archéens sont-ils biogéniques ? Etude nanoscopique de la formation de Tumbiana (Australie Occidentale), 2.7 Ga"
le 21 octobre 2008 à 16h
campus du Sart-Tilman, département de géologie (B18, local R122)
Université de Liège
Information :
Website - acces plan
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Les Nouveaux Mondes du Cosmos
lundi 8 décembre 2008, 19h
Campus du Solbosch, Avenue Héger, Auditoire Lameere,
Information :
Website
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PATHWAYS TOWARDS HABITABLE PLANETS
September 14th-18th, 2009
Barcelona , Spain
Information :
Website
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La 3e edition de nos
"Rencontres Exobio pour Doctorants" RED'09,
aura lieu du 11 au 17 janvier 2009 au Parc Ornithologique du Teich
Date limite d'inscription: 5 decembre 2008
Formulaire et modalités d'inscription, pdf
Formulaire et modalités d'inscription, Word
Poster
Programme détaillé :
Website
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The FNRS contact group “Astrobiology” invites you to participate to its 2nd workshop
“WATER AND HABITABILITY "
on November 20th 2008, at the Planetarium of the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Plenary speaker: Dr Helmut Lammer (Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences) “What makes a planet habitable?”
All contributions related to astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe, are welcome.
Abstracts should be submitted to
V.Dehant
and
E.Javaux
before November 1st 2008.
All information/Download/View Poster
Theme
Website
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Final announcement for the ESA meeting
"Cosmic Cataclysms and Life"
10 - 14 November 2008 ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Abstract submission deadline: 17 July 2008
All information
Download Poster
Website
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A cross-disciplinary Conference entitled “Complex Systems and Changes: Water and Life”
to be held on 29-31 October 2008, in Taormina, Sicily (Italy).
All information
Download Flyer
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ISSOL , the International Astrobiology Society
invites you to participate to the
15th International Conference on the
Origin of Life scheduled to take place in Florence, Italy, from 24 to 29 August, 2008
early-bird registration and abstract deadline: May 31st
All information
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Microevolution in cyanobacteria
Prof. Lucas Stal
Department of Marine Microbiology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW
and
Department of Aquatic Microbiology, IBED, University of Amsterdam
Thursday 22 May, 14 H
Room A3, Galerie des Arts Building B7b
Campus Sart Tilman
University of Liège
Access
Info: A.Wilmotte, Centre for Protein Engineering (CIP) , 04/3663387
Announcement
poster
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LIFE IN SPACE FOR LIFE ON EARTH
22-27 June, Angers, France
All information
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upcoming 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly,
Montreal, Canada , 13-20 July 2008
http://www.cospar-assembly.org/
here the DL for submitting abstracts is:
February 17, 2008 at 23:59 CET;
there are several sessions of interest to
astrobiology, either under B: Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System,
Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System; or under F: Life Sciences as
Related to Space with 4 sessions under F3 that are directly related to
astrobiology.
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Astrobiology Society of Britain Conference
July 1st - 4th 2008
all info
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European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008 in
Vienna, Austria, 13 to 18 April 2008
Several sessions related to astrobiology are open for abstract submission (before January 14th)
all
info
, description
and registration
EGU website
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RED'08 : Rencontres Exobio pour Doctorants
Parc Ornithologique du Teich- 3 au 9 Février 2008
Early registration deadline: 7 janvier 2008
Formulaire et modalités d'inscription, programme détaillé :
Website
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First Meeting Astrobiology Contact Group
All the presentations of this meeting are now available
Programme Participants Abstracts (program and organization)
Acces Plan
2nd announcement
Announcement
poster
1st announcement
All info and registration form
The workshop takes place on
on June 12th 2007,
at the"Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique" (1, rue Ducale, Bruxelles).
- This is the first announcement for the
7th European Workshop on Astrobiology.
The workshop takes place on the 22nd to the 24th of October, 2007,
at the University of Turku, in Turku, Finland.
EANA website and
all info and registration
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Investigations on Microbial Habitats in Impact Craters
Friday 16 March 2007 11h Auditorium SCKoCEN
Information
SCKoCEN website
c.s.cockell website
- The First Announcement of the
European Mars Science and Exploration Conference (EMSEC):
Mars Express and ExoMars is now available
on line
12-16 November 2007 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
Information
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Astrobiology and the Search for Life in Extreme Mars Analogue Environments
University of Leeds, UK: February 15 to 17, 2007 .
Registration deadline: Jan 31st 2007.
Information
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Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes, and Extraterrestrial Life
San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 16-20,2007.
Early registration deadline: January 15, 2007.
Information and
Website
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RED'07 : Rencontres Exobio pour Doctorants
Parc Ornithologique du Teich- 4 au 10 Février 2007
Early registration deadline: 20 décembre 2006
Information / Registration
Website
- Astrobiology 2007
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2007
Vienna, Austria, 15 20 April 2007
Announcement
EGU website
- Astrobiology workshop 2006
Astrobiology and habitability
June 13th 2006
Program
Abstracts/Presentations
Participants
