Weekly Space Hangout - Looking for Microbial Life in Space With Dr. Jay L. Nadeau

<p class="p1"><a href= "https://youtu.be/wADm5xRgLNc">https://youtu.be/wADm5xRgLNc</a></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Host:</strong> Fraser Cain ( <a href="https://twitter.com/fcain">@fcain</a> )</span><span class= "s2"><br /></span><span class="s1"><strong>Special Guest:</strong></span> This week we welcome Dr. Jay L. Nadeau to the Weekly Space Hangout. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Physics department at Portland State University and the founder of the Nadeau Lab (<a href= "https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0QwbzVOVnFBaUJwVGNoTlRPTnY5QXBCZEFHQXxBQ3Jtc0tucUpydDFuV2FRQVZ5N08xeXJuZkRSNjJuYldaRjNCTXIwTDNMSEJWSEV1Y2hzUk5TaUZkaWU0SW9iQVMyalp4MjJ1MjJlV1VaalF4ZXJ0ZmluamVOd3JkOUNtNW5saFQ0UERBSXc2ckRacUp3LVF0dw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmotility.research.pdx.edu%2Findex.html">https://motility.research.pdx.edu/ind...</a>​) where they research nanoparticles, fluorescence imaging, and develop instrumentation for the detection of life elsewhere in the solar system.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Prior to PSU, she was associate professor of biomedical engineering and physics at McGill University (2004–2015) and a Research Professor at Caltech (2015-2017). Before McGill, she was a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Life Detection, and previous to that a Burroughs-Wellcome postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Henry A. Lester at Caltech. She received her PhD in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1996.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">The Nadeau Lab receives funding from NASA, the NSF, private foundations, and industry. The group features chemists, microbiologists, roboticists, physicists, and physician-scientists, all learning from each other and hoping to speak each other’s language. A believer in bringing biology to physicists as well as physics to biologists, Jay teaches upper-division courses in Biophysics, Statistical Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics. She also teaches Radiation Physics in the OHSU Medical Physics program. She is