Lab News & Updates
Congratulations to our PI Merve for securing fundings for a New Dynamic Vapor Sorption Instrument!
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!!
Paper Alert! Our PI Merve’s New Publication on Ca-Sulfate Dehydration Pathways on Mars
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.
Big Congratulations to Frida for a wonderful Bachelor project!
Congratulations Frida for a wonderful Bachelor work on survivability of polyextremophiles under Mars-like conditions!
We are welcoming to our new Kempe Postdoctoral Fellow, Alef Dos Santos!
We are thrilled to welcome Alef Dos Santos into our team!
We are welcoming to our new Carl Trygger Postdoctoral Fellow, Surendra Vikram Singh!
We are very happy to welcoming Surendra Vikram Singh!
Big Congratulations to our hardworking Bachelor Students, Amanda and Juliette!
Houston, we have exciting news about Moon and Mars!!!
Yeşilbaş Lab attended the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in the Woodlands, TX!
Yesilbas Lab took the stage at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Woodlands, Texas.
YESILBAS LAB IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Our group’s research is featured in the Kemisk Tidskrift!
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.
Our PI Merve and her Moon and Mars research collaboration in Grenoble was featured in the SETI Institute’s press release!
We are very excited to present our results in upcoming Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas this March!
Fully-funded 2 Postdoctoral fellowships are available in the Yeşilbaş Lab
Looking for the new Martians!! 🚀 Application deadline is March 1, 2024.
Yesilbas Lab attended the 36th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting (NGWM) in Gothenburg!
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!
Yeșilbaș Lab awarded with a new Kempestiftelsen Grant!
PI Dr. Yesilbas and co-PI Prof. Agneta Andersson (Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Umeå Marine Sciences Center) was awarded with the Kempestiftelsen Grant to hire a fully-funded postdoctoral fellow for 2 years.
The Carl Trygger Foundation funds our new project for biosignature detection on Mars
PI Dr. Yesilbas was awarded with a prestigious The Carl Trygger grant for a project on “Uncovering the potential for organics identification on Mars: Spectral features of RNA building blocks using Cryogenic-IR and Raman spectroscopy in Martian-like environments” for 2 years.
Public Outreach: Our group leader Merve was invited to give a Mars talk in the Kunskapveckan at Umeå University!
Our group leader Merve was invited to give a Mars talk at the Kunskapveckan in Umeå University on November 1.
Public Outreach: Yesilbas Lab in ForskarFredag Event at Curiosum Center
Yesilbas Lab took the stage in the ForskarFredag Event in Curiosum Center on September 29!
Public Outreach: Our group leader Merve was the special guest of the Astronomy Days and Nights Event in Curiosum
Our group leader Merve was the special guest of the Astronomy Days and Nights Event in Curiosum.
Francisca Emel Tuzcuoglu successfully completed her internship!
Congratulations Emel!! Emel successfully completed her internship for lunar project!
Ann-Cathrin Krause succesfully completed her Master project!
Our dearest and brilliant MSc student, Ann-Cathrin, successfully completed her Master project. She studied complex sulphate-Cl salt mixture formation in Martian analogue Fe-rich nontronite clay minerals at Mars-like temperatures using Raman spectroscopy.
Setting up a new destination: European Science Foundation awarded the Yeşilbaş Lab for Moon research!
Europlanet2024-Research Infrastructure awarded our new Moon research collaboration!
NASA grant awarded for our Mars research collaboration!
PI Dr. Yesilbas will take place as co-I in this project. We will perform the cryogenic-IR measurements of the low hydrated Fe- and Mg-sulphates and collaborate with awesome teams in SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center and University of Vienna.