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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 1, 2011
Dr. Kacar, a postdoctoral fellow in Eric Gaucher's Lab is selected as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Astrobiology Fellow with her project titled "The Role of Chance and Necessity in Evolution: An Experimental Model to Discover Life's Solutions".
Dr. Kacar will continue her research that combines paleogenetics (reconstructing ancestral states of genes based on phylogenetics) with experimental evolution (monitoring evolution in action) in bacteria. The NASA Astrobiology Program, element of the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), provides opportunities for Ph.D. scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability to perform research on problems largely of their own choosing, yet compatible with the research interests of the NASA Astrobiology Program. For more info: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/funding/nai-postdoctoral-fellowship-program/
