Lynn J. Rothschild
Academic
1957 –
Who is Lynn J. Rothschild?
Lynn Justine Rothschild is an evolutionary biologist, astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, and a consulting Professor at Stanford University, where she teaches Astrobiology and Space Exploration. She is also 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 Atacama desert of Bolivia, and also in high altitude experiments atop Mt. Everest, in balloon payloads with BioLaunch and in collaboration with Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation.
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- Born
- May 11, 1957
New York - Also known as
- Lynn Rothschild
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Brown University
- Yale University
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on July 23, 2013
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