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LIFE AS IT COULD BE: ASTROBIOLOGY, SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF LIFE, Sept 28, 2017, Library of Congress, DC, 9:00am-6:00pm ET
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The John W Kluge Center of the Library of Congress will hold a day-long seminar on September 28, 2017 on “Life as it Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life.” Luis Campos, the 2016-2017 Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, will host the event, which will take place from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm ET in Room 119 of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson building on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be filmed and a video placed on the Kluge Center website and YouTube playlist.
Participants are:
- Luis Campos – Associate Professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico and current Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology
- Mary Voytek – Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA
- Nicola Twilley – Contributing Writer, newyorker.com
- Giada Arney – NASA Goddard
- Betul Kacar – University of Arizona
- Jason Kelly – Ginkgo Bioworks
- Valerie Thompson – Book Review Editor, Science Magazine
- Jennifer Joy and Benumerata Muhammad
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg – Royal College of Art
- Andy Gracie – Digital Artist
- Joe Davis – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Stefan Helmreich – Anthropologist of Science, MIT
- Antonio Regalado – Senior Editor MIT Technology Review
- Markus Schmidt – CEO and founder, Biofaction