Life is around four billion years old. This means four billion years of living experience of biomolecular tinkering. We reconcile the evolution of ancient protein functionality with global change within the context of planetary biology.
Søren Kierkegaard
Some of Earth’s greatest problem solvers are extinct (through no fault of their own!). We study ancient innovations and find solutions to modern and future challenges.
The Kaçar Lab partners with MUSE, a NASA-funded astrobiology consortium focused on the evolution of metal use on Earth. The project retraces the path of element selection during Earth’s evolution to try to better understand Earth’s unique form of life, and how we look for traces of life beyond Earth
We are a supportive and hard-working team of researchers, from across the biological and astronomical spectra. We are united on a quest for understanding how life began, how life evolved, and whether there is life in the universe somewhere.
