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Lynn Rothschild

MS: 239-20
650-604-6525
Lynn.J.Rothschild@nasa.gov
Education:

National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
NASA Ames Research Center, 1987-90

Post doctoral Fellow
Brown University, 1985-87

Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology, 1985
Brown University

M.A., Zoology
Indianna University, Bloomington

Visiting Graduate Student, Dept. of Zoology
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 1979

B.S., Biology, 1978
Yale University

Professional Experience :  
2008-present Professor (Adjunct), Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University
2007-present Professor (Consulting),Human Biology, Stanford University
2005-7 Director, Astrobiology Strategic Analysis and Support Office
2003-2007 Associate Professor (Consulting), Human Biology, Stanford University
1997-present Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
1990-1997 Research Scientist, Johnson Controls World Services
1977 Research Associate, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Cambridge
Honors:  
2010 Distinguished Planetary Science Lecture, Univ. of Western Onatario (Canada)
2009 Tim Mutch Memorial Lecturer, Brown University
2005 Elected Corresponding Member, International Academy of Astronautics (Life Sciences)
2004 Elected Fellow, California Academy of Sciences
2004 Elected Fellow, The Explorer's Club
2004 NASA Outstanding Achievement Award
2002 Keynote Speaker: The Vatican and Windsor Castle
2002-3 President, Society of Protozoologists
2001 Auger Fellow, Hotchkiss School
2000 NASA Group Achievement Award, Astrobiology Team
1999 Elected Fellow, Linnean Society of London
1990, 1998 Jack N. Nielson Award, NASA Ames Research Center
1987-90 National Academy of Sciences NRC Research Associate
1987 National Research Council Fellowship, Canada
1979 University Fellowship, Indiana University
   
Professional Activities:  
Journals and Societies  
2001-2005 Founding co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Astrobiology
2004-5 Executive Council, International Society of Protistology
2001-4 Executive Council, Society of Protozoologists
1998-2002 Editorial Board, Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere
1995-1998 Grants and Fellowship Committee, Phycological Society of America
1995-2000 Board of Reviewers, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
1994-2000 Elected Secretary (3 terms), International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
2000-2002 North American Councilor, International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
1994-5 Elected Chairman of Nominating Committee, Society of Protozoologists
1993 Member, Global Emiliania Modelling Initiative
1992; 2000 Elected to Nominating Committee, Society of Protozoologists
1990-4 Executive Council, International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
   
Meetings Organized:  
2005 Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets, International Space Studies Institute, Bern
2004 Third Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center
2002 Second Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center
2001 NASA Astrobiology Institute/NIH joint conference, NIH, Bethesda, MD
2000 First Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center
1999

Evolution on Planet Earth, The Impact of the Physical Environment, Linnean Society, London

1999 Evolution of the carbon cycle (International Botanical Congress)
1997 Responses of photosynthetic organisms to global changes in CO2, Silwood Park, UK
1988 Evolution of symbiosis (International Society for Evolutionary Protistology)
   

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