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🍾Huge congrats to HF awardee Betul Kacar for her recent Keck Foundation grant! 🥳 We're thrilled for her to continue to build upon her work on ancient enzymes, and are proud to have been an early supporter of this transformative research! Betül, we're celebrating with you!

What if we could harness the past as a tool for survival and adaptation? Dr. Betül Kaçar (Betul Kacar) is resurrecting ancient versions of nitrogenase, the only enzyme that allows life to use nitrogen.

Betul Kacar Read the full article from Jasna Hodžić: bigthink.com/life/the-lab-r…

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The origins and evolution of translation factors dlvr.it/TJkyL8

🚨New paper!🚨 A comprehensive take on the origins and evolution of translation factors & how these essential players evolved across the tree of life. 🌍🧬 Led by Evrim Fer Microbiology Doctoral Training Program grad student! 👏 Free access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Trends in Genetics

Knowledge grows when you ask stupid questions. Stupidity grows when you don't ask anything.

"We don’t want other worlds. We want mirrors." — Stanisław Lem, Solaris

Constant gardening.

We’re proud to introduce "The Leap," a 10-part audio series on scientists who took bold risks in pursuit of discovery. Listen every week on the SciFri podcast starting Monday, May 12. Produced by the Hypothesis Fund, brought to you by Science Friday. sciencefriday.com/theleap

A Cookbook of Life: How Chemistry Might Explain Life on Other Planets x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

#ICYMI: Betul Kacar explains why understanding the origin of life is complicated, even though we know some things about what life needs -- including cells. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/hLw4olNyB…

From studying enzymes in zebrafish to leading efforts to resurrect ancient proteins, Betül Kaçar has taken a truly unique career path. Hear the story of this pioneer in molecular paleobiology in Ep. 3 of “The Leap,” with Hypothesis Fund. pod.link/73329284/episo…

Forget Jurassic Park 🦖-- @HypothesisFund Awardee Betul Kacar is resurrecting lifeforms that are way, way older. 🦠 Listen now on The Leap! ⬇️

"When you're trying to understand life and its origins and how it all happened, you're really exploring you. It is an exploration of ourselves." A remarkable person and some amazing #UWMadison science.

“You always have that thing in the back of your head: what would you rather be doing? And I was like, I wish I had thought of this experiment.” --#HFScout Harmit S. Malik on Betul Kacar’s work to resurrect 🌎's oldest lifeforms. From @HypothesisFund + @SciFri: sciencefriday.com/segments/the-l…

New work: Eukaryotic origins! 🥁 We propose that iron -not oxygen- delayed the rise of complex life. Our model reframes the “oxygen delay” puzzle: the gap between atmospheric O2 and early eukaryotic fossils may reflect iron (not O2)-mediated stress: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share a new Big Think + John Templeton Foundation interview featuring work from our lab: “Meet the survivors of Earth’s worst days.” Betul Kacar unpacks how life persisted through catastrophe! Big Think John Templeton Foundation Watch here: bigthink.com/the-well/earth…