Lynn Justine Rothschild

FLS[1]
Born (1957-05-11) May 11, 1957
New York, New York, United States of America
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University, Indiana University, Brown University
Known forExtremophiles at NASA, and founding the synthetic biology program for NASA
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
InstitutionsNASA’s Ames Research Center, Brown, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz

Lynn Justine Rothschild FLS (born May 11, 1957) is an evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center,[2][3] and was a consulting Professor at Stanford University, where she taught Astrobiology and Space Exploration. She is an adjunct professor at Brown University. At Ames, her research has focused on how life, particularly microbes, has evolved in the context of the physical environment, both on Earth and potentially beyond our planet's boundaries. Since 2007 she has studied the effect of UV radiation on DNA synthesis, carbon metabolism and mutation/DNA repair in the Rift Valley of Kenya and the Bolivian Andes, and also in high altitude experiments atop Mount Everest, in balloon payloads with BioLaunch. She was the principal investigator of the first free-flyer synthetic biology payload which flew on the DLR EuCROPIS mission.

Filmography

Rothschild appeared on the 5th episode of the Youtube Original "The Age of A.I." in the episode called "How A.I. is searching for Aliens", released on January 15, 2020. She is credited as "Evolutionary and Synthetic Biology, NASA".[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Address Book". Linnean Society. Burlington House, London: Linnean Society. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  2. ↑ "To Survive on Mars, BYO Bacteria" Science Friday. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  3. ↑ Lynn Rothschild. Archived 2011-09-09 at the Wayback Machine NASA 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  4. ↑ How A.I. is searching for Aliens | The Age of A.I., retrieved 2020-01-17
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