“UMBC’s Steve Freeland co-leads $1.8 million research grant to predict the biochemical foundations of life beyond Earth” (UMBC News)
January 2024
Sean Brown presented research at the ELSI Joint World Conference 2024 in Tokyo, Japan
November 2023
Sean Brown, Christopher Mayer-Bacon, and Stephen Freeland published review “Xeno Amino Acids: A look into biochemistry as we don’t know it.” in Life
October 2023
Sean Brown, Christopher Mayer-Bacon, and Stephen Freeland publish review preprint “Xeno Amino Acids: A look into biochemistry as we don’t know it.”
September 2023
Stephen Freeland gives guest lecture MYER 020
August 2023
UMBC celebrates Stephen Freeland’s co-lead on $1.8 million dollar collaborative HSFP research grant
Sean Brown participated in the NASA Astrobiology Mission Ideas Lab at NASA Goddard
July 2023
Stephen Freeland, Klara Hlouchova (Charles University, Czech Republic), Stephen Fried (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA),& Kosuke Fujishima (Earth-Life Science Institute, Japan) are selected for a $1.8 million dollar collaborative research grant through the Human Frontiers Science Program (HSFP) titled “Exploration of the structure-function space of prebiotic to biological proteins”
June 2023
Sean Brown gives invited seminar “Xeno Amino Acids: A look into Biochemistry as We Don’t Know It” at Charles University, CZ
Sean Brown traveled to Charles University, CZ for a collaborative research stay with the Rulíšek & Hlouchova research groups
May 2023
Sean Brown presented recent work at the NASA Astrobiology Graduate Conference 2023 at Scripps Institute, San Diego, CA
April 2023
Sean Brown published “What Would an Alien Amino Acid Alphabet Look Like and Why?” in Astrobiology
March 2023
Christopher Mayer-Bacon successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Non-Random Distributions of the Canonical Amino Acids in Chemistry Space.”
October 2022
Sean Brown passes his preliminary exam to advance to doctoral candidacy
April 2022
Christopher Mayer-Bacon published “Curation of Computational Chemical Libraries Demonstrated with Alpha-Amino Acids” in JoVE
March 2022
Christopher Mayer-Bacon & Sean Brown presented research at the AGU Astrobiology Science Conference 2022 in Atlanta, GA