A highly-prestigious Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA) research fund has been awarded to our PI Merve, strengthening international collaborations with NASA Johnson and NASA Ames Research Centers and SETI Institute, as well as Umeå University colleagues.

New Mars paper alert!! Our latest JACS Au publication uncovers how life can chemically reshape Martian minerals, creating detectable fingerprints of habitability. The study was led by our Kempe postdoc Alef and PI Merve as corresponding authors.

Our PI was recently interviewed by Jonas Enander for Forskning & Framsteg to share her insights on NASA’s exciting new discovery from Mars, revealed by the Perseverance rover.

We are honored to be recently featured in Umeå University news, where we talk about our current research directions and the kind of academic environment we are striving to build: curious, supportive, and ethically grounded.

New Mars paper in the Nature Communications revealed a new ferric hydroxysulfate mineral that can only exist under Mars conditions!!

Thanks to all my wonderful team members, especially grateful for the openness, trust, support, and thoughtful energy each of you brings to the lab!

Our PI Merve was interviewed about her recent research on gypsum transformations under Martian conditions that featured in Spectroscopy Magazine under “National Space Day” theme!

We are thrilled to welcome our new PhD student Zoe Asimaki into our team!

Congratulations to our Kempe postdoc fellow Dr. Santos for a wonderful interview that published in Umea University!

Congratulations to our PI Merve for receiving fundings for Advanced DVS Instrument from the Kempe Foundation and Faculty of Science and Technology at Umea University!!

New Mars paper Alert!! Our PI Merve’s paper on geochemical transformations of Ca-sulfate hydrates and their detections on Mars was published in the ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.

Congratulations Frida for a wonderful Bachelor work on survivability of polyextremophiles under Mars-like conditions!

We are thrilled to welcome Alef Dos Santos into our team!

We are very happy to welcoming Surendra Vikram Singh!

Houston, we have exciting news about Moon and Mars!!!

Yesilbas Lab took the stage at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Woodlands, Texas.

Our group leader Merve wrote an article in the latest published Kemisk Tidskrift Magazine to present ongoing research in the Yeşilbaş Lab and how our research is very strategic and correlated for the latest explorations from Mars.

We are very excited to present our results in upcoming Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas this March!

Looking for the new Martians!! 🚀 Application deadline is March 1, 2024.

Yesilbas Lab took the stage in the Planetary Geosciences session, where our PI was one of the conveners of this session at the 36th NGWM in Gothenburg!