Lynn J. Rothschild: Difference between revisions

|name = Lynn Justine Rothschild

|image = Lynn%2C_Death_Valley_2006.jpg

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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|5|11}}

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|nationality = [[United States|American]]

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|field = [[Biology]]

|work_institutions = NASA’s Ames Research Center, Brown, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz |alma_mater = Yale University, Indiana University, Brown University

|known_for = [[Extremophile]]s at NASA

'''Lynn Justine Rothschild''' (born May 11, 1957) is an [[evolutionary biology|evolutionary biologist]] and [[astrobiologist]] at NASA's [[Ames Research Center]],<ref>[https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/to-survive-on-mars-byo-bacteria/ "To Survive on Mars, BYO Bacteria"] ''Science Friday''. Retrieved 2017-03-14.</ref><ref>[http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/directory/profile/845/lynn/ Lynn Rothschild.] NASA 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.</ref> and was a consulting Professor at [[Stanford University]], where she taught [http://www.stanford.edu/group/astrobiology/cgi-bin/ Astrobiology and Space Exploration]. She is an Adjunct Professor at [[Brown University]] and the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]]. 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 [[Great Rift Valley, Kenya|Rift Valley]] of Kenya and the Bolivian Andes, and also in high altitude experiments atop [[Mt. Everest]], in balloon payloads with BioLaunch. Currently she is the principal investigator of a synthetic biology payload on an upcoming satellite mission.

==Research==

Rothschild's research focus is in two main areas: [[astrobiology]] and [[synthetic biology]]. Rothschild has studied [[carbon metabolism]] and [[DNA damage]] and repair in the laboratory setting and on algae, work that has taken her to field sites in such locations as the thermal areas in Yellowstone National Park, New Zealand, Australia, Kenya's Rift Valley, [[hypersaline]] environments in the San Francisco Bay, Baja California and the Bolivian Andes. Her current lab members are actively pursuing topics ranging from a protein-first model to algae and synthetic biology. She has taken to the air in conjunction with the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford and Mavericks Civilian Rocket Foundation, flying experiments up to {{convert|106000|ft|km}} on high altitude balloons. Courtesy of the [[Galathea 3]], she has also had experiments on a Danish oceanographic cruise from South America to Copenhagen.

==Astrobiologist==

Rothschild has been instrumental in developing the field of [[astrobiology]]. She founded and ran the first three Astrobiology Science Conferences (AbSciCon), was the founding co-editor of the International Journal of Astrobiology, and is the former director of the Astrobiology Strategic Analysis and Support Office for NASA. She has been a member of the Astrobiology Institute since its inception.

==Synthetic biology==

Rothschild has served as the NASA representative to the OSTP Working Group on Synthetic Biology and has been the faculty advisor to the award-winning Brown-Stanford 2011 ("“Mars BioTools: Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration”), and Stanford-Brown 2012 (“Synthetic Astrobiology”) and 2013 (“Synthetic BioCommunication”) iGEM teams, and the 2014 Stanford-Brown-Spelman team (“Towards a biodegradable UAV”). Current work ranges from producing one-atom thick wires to a biodegradable UAV, as well as biomining, and a synthetic biology approach to the origin of life.

==Lectures==

Rothschild lectures frequently worldwide, including at the Vatican and Windsor Castle, Mystic Seaport and the Royal Society of London. Rothschild's lecture at the annual Molecular Frontiers Symposium at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, May 2013, "Life in Extreme Environments and the Search for Life in the Universe" can be viewed online.<ref>Life in Extreme Environments and the Search for Life in the Universe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1ErqC-jf4</ref> She appears frequently on radio and television programs, including the BBC, NPR, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, ABC World News Tonight, and the History Channel and most recently on Morgan Freeman’s "Through the Wormhole" on the Science Channel. Rothschild is a Fellow of the [[Linnean Society]] of London, and also a Fellow of the [[California Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Explorers Club]].

== Selected publications ==

* {{cite journal |vauthors=Verseux C, Baqué M, Lehto K, de Vera JP, Rothschild LJ, Billi D |year=2016 |title=Sustainable life support on Mars – the potential roles of cyanobacteria |journal=International Journal of Astrobiology |doi=10.1017/S147355041500021X |volume = 15|pages = 65–92|issue = 1}}

* {{cite journal |author=Horikawa DD, Cumbers J, Sakakibara I, Rogoff D, Leuko S, Harnoto R, Arakawa K, Katayama T, Kunieda T, Toyoda A, Fujiyama A, Rothschild LJ |year=2013 |title=Analysis of DNA repair and protection in the Tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and Hypsibius dujardini after exposure to UVC radiation |journal=PLoS ONE |volume=8 |pages=e64793 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0064793 |pmid=23762256 |issue=6|last2=Cumbers |last3=Sakakibara |last4=Rogoff |last5=Leuko |last6=Harnoto |last7=Arakawa |last8=Katayama |last9=Kunieda |last10=Toyoda |last11=Fujiyama |last12=Rothschild |pmc=3675078 }}

* {{cite journal |author=Rothschild LJ |year=2010 |title=A Powerful Toolkit for Synthetic Biology: over 3.8 billion years of evolution |journal=BioEssays |volume=32 |pages=304–313 |doi=10.1002/bies.200900180 |pmid=20349441 |issue=4}}

* {{cite journal |vauthors=Leuko S, Rothschild LJ, Burns BP |year=2010 |title=Halophilic Archaea and the Search for Extinct and Extant Life on Mars |journal=J. Cosomology |volume=5 |pages=940–50 |url=http://journalofcosmology.com/SearchForLife113.html |bibcode=2010JCos....5..940L}}

* {{cite journal |author=Balk M, Bose M, Ertem G, Rogoff DA, Rothschild LJ, Freund FT |year=2009 |title=Oxidation of Water to Hydrogen Peroxide at the Rock-water Interface due to Stress-activated Electric Currents in Rocks |journal=Earth and Planetary Letters |volume=283 |pages=87–92 |bibcode=2009E&PSL.283...87B |last2=Bose |last3=Ertem |last4=Rogoff |last5=Rothschild |last6=Freund |doi=10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.044}}

* {{cite journal |author=Rothschild LJ |year=2008 |title=The evolution of photosynthesis….again? |journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B]] |volume=363 |pages=2787–2801 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2008.0056 |issue=1504}}

* {{cite journal |author=D’Antoni H, Rothschild L, Schultz C, Burgess S, Skiles JW |year=2007 |title=Extreme environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina |journal=Geophys. Res. Lett. |volume=34 |pages=L.22704 |doi=10.1029/2007GL031096 |issue=22|bibcode = 2007GeoRL..3422704D |last2=Rothschild |last3=Schultz |last4=Burgess |last5=Skiles }}

* {{cite journal |author=Tarter JC, Backus PR, Mancinelli RL, Aurnou JM, Backman DE, Basri GS, Boss AP, Clarke A, Deming D, Doyle LR, Feigelson ED, Freund F, Grinspoon DH, Haberle RM, Hauck SA II, Heath MJ, Henry TJ, Hollingsworth JL, Joshi MM, Kilston S, Liu MC, Meikle E, Reid IN, Rothschild LJ, Scalo JM, Segura A, Tang CM, Tiedje JM, Turnbull MC, Walkowicz LM, Weber AL, Young RE |year=2007 |title=A Re-appraisal of the Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars |journal=Astrobiology |volume=7 |pages=30–65 |bibcode=2007AsBio...7...30T |last2=Backus |last3=Mancinelli |last4=Aurnou |last5=Backman |last6=Basri |last7=Boss |last8=Clarke |last9=Deming |doi=10.1089/ast.2006.0124 |pmid=17407403 |issue=1|arxiv = astro-ph/0609799 |display-authors=8 |last10=Doyle |last11=Feigelson |last12=Freund |last13=Grinspoon |last14=Haberle |last15=Hauck Sa |last16=Heath |last17=Henry |last18=Hollingsworth |last19=Joshi |last20=Kilston |last21=Liu |last22=Meikle |last23=Reid |last24=Rothschild |last25=Scalo |last26=Segura |last27=Tang |last28=Tiedje |last29=Turnbull |last30=Walkowicz }}

* {{cite journal |author=Southam G, Rothschild L, Westall F |year=2007 |title=The Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets: fundamental requirements for life |journal=Space Science Reviews |volume=129 |issue=1–3 |pages=7–34 |doi=10.1007/s11214-007-9148-8|bibcode = 2007SSRv..129....7S |last2=Rothschild |last3=Westall }}

* {{cite journal |author=Foster JS, Singh AK, Rothschild LJ, Sherman LA |year=2006 |title=Growth-Phase Dependent Differential Gene Expression in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 and Regulation by a Group 2 Sigma Factor |doi=10.1007/s00203-006-0193-6 |pmid=17160677 |journal=Archives of Microbiology|volume=187 |issue=4 |pages=265–79 |last2=Singh |last3=Rothschild |last4=Sherman }}

* {{cite journal |vauthors=Rothschild LJ, Mancinelli RL |year=2001 |title=Life in Extreme Environments |journal=Nature |volume=409 |pages=1092–1101 |doi=10.1038/35059215 |pmid=11234023 |issue=6823}}

* {{cite journal |author=Bishop JL, Louris SK, Rogoff DA, Rothschild LJ |year=2006 |title=Iron Oxide: an Early Sunscreen for Photosynthetic Microbes? |journal=Internatl. J. Astrobiology |volume=5 |pages=1–12 |doi=10.1017/S1473550406002886|bibcode = 2006IJAsB...5....1B |last2=Louris |last3=Rogoff |last4=Rothschild }}

* {{cite book |veditors=Rothschild LJ, Lister A |title=Evolution on Planet Earth: The Impact of the Physical Environment |journal=Academic Press |year=2003 |pages=456 |isbn=0-125-98655-6}}

*[http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/profile.cfm?CODE=RothschildL Profile for Solar System Exploration]

*[http://astrobiology.stanford.edu Astrobiology and Space Exploration]

*[http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/directory/profile/845/Lynn/Rothschild/ astrobiology.nasa.gov]

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