CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS of Prof. JOSEPH SECKBACH
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International meetings, visits and suppoet from scientific foundations
ATTENDING INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS:
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES: AWARDS TO PARTICIPATE IN MEETINGS, PRESENTING LECTURES, SEMINARS (1980 to Present)
1980 – 1990
New York Academy of Sciences (N.Y.Ac.Sci.) ‑ Organelle Evolution 1980;
Provo (Utah) international. Meeting of Iron in Plants-1981;
Tübingen (F.R.G.) Intl. Soc. Endocytobiology II-1983;
N.Y.Ac.Sc. [Intl. Soc. Endocytobiol. III]-1986; Berkeley (USA) ‑Intl. Soc. Stud.Orig.Life [ISSOL]-1986;
Berlin‑Intl.Bot.Congress - 1987;
Naples Univ. & Bot.Garden-1987/88;
Kobe and Tokyo (Jap.Soc.Orig.& Evol. of Life)- 1988;
Received Fellowship from the spent 3 months in Tüebingen, Germany (Fall. 1988)
Intl. Soc. Endocytobiology - Lyon, FR. [ISE‑IV] 1989;
Sabbatocal year at UCLA (c/o Professor David Chpman): Dept. of Bot. North Carolina State U. Raleigh, USA-1990; College Park, Md. USA, Ann.Meet.Amer.Soc. Phycology -1990; Planetary Biol. NASA, Ames Res. Center at Moffett Field, CA.-1990;
1992 - 2000
Uji (Kyoto, Japan) Endocytobiology V-1992; Seminar at Nara Women U. and at U. of Tokyo (summer 1992);
Guest speaker & chairperson, Conference on The structure and Model of the First Cell (UNESCO) Trieste, Italy (Aug-Sept. 1994).
Seminar on The First Eukaryotic Cells in hot-springs, presented at the U.of Vermont, Burlington, VT. USA. (Nov. 1994);
Trieste (Italy) Intl. Conferences (Sept. 1995).
Regensburg, Germany, International Chlamydomonas Conference (May 27-June 1, 1996). Seminar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried near München (June 1996).
International Conference on Bioastronomy, Capri, Italy, (July 1996).
Seminar on Evolution and phylogeny of hot spring thermoacidophilic algae, University of Rome, Tor Vergata (Biology Dept.) Rome (July 1996). Seminar on Pathways of Eukaryogenesis via hot spring Algae, at the University of Torino Italy (July 1996).
European Phycological Congress #1 at KÖLN, Germany (August 1996).
Presented seminars on Eukaryotic evolution in various German Institutions; Max Planck Inst. Mainz, Uni. of Tübingen, Leipzig and in Braunschweig (August 1996).
Special Seminar on Biolog. Of Thermophilic Algae, at Lehman College, Bronx, NY (Nov. 1996).
2nd Congress of Symbiosis in Woods Hole MA (April, 1997).
Hypersaline International Workshop, Jerusalem (June 1997).
Chemical Evolution and Exobilolgy, Trieste Italy, Invited as Guest Speaker and Chairperson (Sept. 1997).
Main Organizer, chairperson and presenting a paper to JF Fredrick Memorial Symposium at the Endocytobiology VII Internaltional Conference in Freiburg Germany, (April 1998). Co-editor of the proceedings (1999). See
http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00060069
http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00059795
The 7th International Colloquium on Endocytobiology and Symbiosis
AstroBiology meeting in San Diego, CA., presenting an invited paper and a poster presentation (July 1998).
Program Committee member and give an Oral presentation and showing a poster in the Astrobiology II Internatioal Meeting (Denver, CO.) 7-1999
Receiving support for attending the Bioastronomy (Kona, Big Island in Hawaii) (Aug. 1999).
Conference on the Frontiers of life (Blois, France) 25-30 June 2000 (receiving full support for attending as a guest speaker) (June 2000)
Presented a seminar at the Botanical Institute in Hamburg (Sept. 2000)
Attended the 3rd Congress on Extremophiles (Harburg, Germany) (Sept. 2000).
Conference on Algae and Extreme Environments (Trebon, Cz Repblic) invited to present the Inauguration talk, appointed to the editorial committee for the Proceeding of the meeting. http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/books/bo/novahedwig-051012300-desc.ht (Sept. 2000)
International Conference on the Chemical and Biological Origin and Evolution (Trieste, It) presented an oral talk, and served as a chair person (September, 2000).
2001-2010
Invited speaker to the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Workshop: Fossil and Recent Biofilms: A natural History of the impact of Life on Planet Earth. At Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany (February 2001)
Invited to the International first Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology in Frascati, IT.(May 2001).
Presented a seminar at the University of Rome (Tor Vergata) on Extremophiles and Astrobiology (May 23, 2001).
Invited to the Netherlands-Israel BioInformatics Conference, The Hague (NL) (Oct. 2001).
Invited by the Indian Academy of Sciences to the International Conference on Thermophiles, in New Delhi (India) presented there a couple of papers and served as a chair person of session. Topic of lectures: Origin and Extremophiles and on thermo-acidophilic algae (December 2001).
Invited to a workshop on Water in the Upper Martian Surface (April 17-19, 2002) in Potsdam (Germany) to present a paper on “Extremophiles: from Psychrophiles to Martian Life.” (April 2002).
Invited [with financial support] to attend ISSOL (International Society for Study Origin of Life) meeting in Oaxaca Mexico (June 30 till July 6th 2002).
Invited to attend Bioastronomy workshop in Hamilton Island (Australia) July 7th – 12th July (2002) have not attended in spite of their financial support.
Invited to attend The Gordon Research Conference in Lewiston ME (13-18/ 7 /2003).
Invited to attend The Life in the Universe. The International Conference in Trieste, IT. Delivered an oral presentation and served as a chair for a session. Chosen to be on the chief Editor for the publishing the proceedings and incorporate it into Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE) (Sept. 2003) .
Invited for presenting a talk on “Extremophilic Microbes on Earth and Beyond” for the 17th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Study of the Origin of Life (ILSOL), Rechovot at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture (21-Dec 2003).
Inivited to the Memorial Symposium of Professor Laurie Bogorad in Harvard University (May 4th 2004).
Presented an Invited Colloquium at the Center of Astrobiology at Madrid (June 25, 2004). Host Perez Mercader Juan.
Presented an oral paper on “Terrestrial Extremophiles as Models for Celestial Life” to the Bioastronomy 2004 meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, see: Astrobiology J. 4 (2) 293 (July 2004) see on pg. 293 of the following Abstract brochure at:
Attended as a guest speaker the Halophile meeting in Ljubljana (Slovenia); gave an oral presentation (September 5-9, 2004)
.Attended (presented a Poster) the Origin of Life with the Gordon Research Conference in Ventura California (January, 16-21, 2005).
Spending some library research time in the Botanical Garden and Museum, Berlin. Meeings with potential authors for COLE book series (February- March, 2005).
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Meeting in Springer Publiser [Dordercht, the NL] with the connecting people to discuss future plans in our book COLE series. (November 2005)
Attending International Conference in New Delhi, India (Biotechnology of Algae-cyanobacteria and their ecology). Presenting seminars in University of Delhi and in BARC at Mumbai on Extremophiles and Astrobiology. This visit was partial supported from the Israel and Indian Academies of Science. (February 2006)
Attended International Workshop on microalgae culture collections in Izmir Turkey. Presented 2 oral talks there. (May, 2006), Meet with 3 potential authors for DINA in Istanbul (Tk) May 2006
Spending in Munich 3 months under the Fellowship from DAAD (Host is Professor Wlady Altermann, Dpt of Geology, Uni Munich (September à December 2006).
Professor Joseph Seckbach
c/o Prof. Dr. Wladyslaw Altermann
Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
Geologie, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität
Muenchen, Luisenstr. 37
Phone: + 49 089 210 6560 (and in Res: 089-750 75641)
D-80333 Muenchen, GERMANY
Meetings (June 2007) Professor Martin Grube in Graz (AT) and Professor Andreas Weber in Düsseldorf (Germany) for discussion the two new Springer’s books (Cooperation and Stress in Biology, and Thermo-Acidophilic and Mesophilic Red Algae in the Genomics Age).
Invitation for presenting a seminar [From Extremophiles to Astrobiology]at the University of Salzburg (AT) Host Professor Helga Stan-Lotter (June 2007).
Invitation (August 2007) speaker (Extremophiles as candidates for Astrobiology), chair and member of the panel in the Astrobiology Conference (via SPIE) meeting in San Diego CA. (Aug. 2007)
Invitation (December 2007) as a chair and a Keynote speaker at The Seventh Miami International Torah & Science Conference, at Shul in Surfside, FL. USA (Dec. 2007).
Invited [Sept. 2008] to attend the Diatom International conference at Dubrovnik. Croatia. Presented an oral talk on the title “from Extremophiles to Astrobiology”. (Sept 2008).
Invited [Sept. 2008] to attend the “European Planetary Science Congress 2008” at Münster, Germany. Sumitted an oral presentation. from Extremophiles to Astrobiology (Sept 21-26, 2008).
Visit MUNICH, Germany, [2008] for future cooperation with Professor Wlady Altermann [LMU - Geology] and recruited new candidates for CELLULAR ORIGIN, LIFE IN EXTREME HABITATS AND ASTROBIOLOGY series (October. 2008).
Invited to present a seminar at the Astrophysics Department in GRAZ, Austria: [2008] Topic “From Extremophiles to Astrobiology” c/o Dr. Helmut Lammer –Professor Arnold Hanslmeier. (Mutual working on the new book of Stress Symbioses with Professor Martin Grube [my host at Graz] in the University of Graz, Department of Botany. October. 2008).
Invited to Vienna University (Austria) [2008] for presenting a seminar and colloquium with the graduate strudents. Topic “The extremophiles as analogs to Astrobiology.” host Professor Matthias Horn Recruiting new candidates for Stress Symbioses & All Flesh is Grass: Plant – Animal Relations books. (Nov. 3, 2008).
Astrobiology for the Development of Science and Civilization, Budapest [Hungary] [AUG. 2009]. My topic of conference was: From Extremophiles on Earth to Extraterrest-Rial Life: The Astrobiological Cases of Mars and Europa. See:
http://www.konkoly.hu/AC2009/abstracts.pdf; full support from the Israeli and Hungary Academies of Science. August 2009.
Invitation by the Eurp. Science Foundation to Join the workshop on Observation, Characterization and Evolution of Habitable Exoplanets and their Host Stars. At Bairisch Kölldorf [near Graz, AT; organized by Professor Arnold Hanslmeier] 29 Nov. 2009 – 1st Dec. 2009.
Meeting with Prof. Martin Grube for finishing the Symbioses and Stress volume. [2009].
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Meeting in Springer team [Dordercht, the NL] with Dr. Maryse Walsh & Ms. Melanie vanOverbeek) to discuss current and future plans in our book COLE series. (November 2009)
Invitation by the Professor Helga Stan – Lotter to present a lecture [on Life at the Edge of Earth and Beyond] at the Salzburg [Austria] University. Presented on May 27 2010.
Invitation by the Professor Alex Altenbach (University LMU) to give a talk on Live in Extreme Environments and Astrobiology. Given in Munich [Gemany] May 31, 2010.
Invited to the International Diatom Symposium in St. Paul Minnesota, USA.presented an oral talk (29 August to 3 Sept. 2010).
2011 - 2015
Attending Berlin Biosystematics Congress at the Free University of Berlin and the Botanical Garden-Berlin – present a talk on Extremophiles-Astrobiology, see abstract (20 to 26 Feb-2011) see abstract.
Presented lecture at Leipzig (Host Professor Werner Reisser) on 24-2-2011.
Presented Seminar at Potsdam, Fraunhofer Ibmt ( Host Dr. Thomas Leya) see abstract (25-2-2011),
Presented seminar at DLR (Host Dr. Jean-Peirre DeVera) Astrobiology -Berlin (28- 2-2011)
Attended the EGU international congress in Vienna (April 3-6) presenting an oral talk (see abstract of Joseph Seckbach & Julian Chela-Flores. With support of the Israeli and Austrian academy of sciences. April 2011.
Attended SPIE - Instrumentations and Astrobiology conference at San Diego, presented 2 oral talks (js-jcf and of jcf - js. [Julian Chela-Flores=jcf] served as a Session Chair (Aug. 22-24, 2011) see abstracts.
Attended Algal Summit in New Delhi. Chairing the poster section and gave an oral presentation entitled: “Algae, cyanobacteria and other microbes as Extremophiles: Implications for Astrobiology. Supported by the Indian and Israeli Academies of Sciences (Feb. 21-22, 2012)
Attending the Symbiosis congress in Krakow Poland. Delivering the an oral presentation on the topic of Polyextremophiles: Life under multiple forms of Stress and Astrobiology (with a movie on Tardigrade movement). (July 22-28, 2012).
Gave a presentation in the Jewish Center of Krakow on Life in the Edge of Life (July 23, 2012)
Presenting a seminar on Polyextremophiles: Life under multiple forms of Stress and Astrobiology, in Potsdam (Nov. 19. 2012).
In Berlin (DLR) sitting with Jean-Pierre de Vera on Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites to finish the final steps of this volume 27 of Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. [Nov. 20-24, Nov. 2012)
invited to Poprad – Slovakia, at Catholic University (April 29-May 1, 2014) presented a talk over Origin of Life, Extremophiles and Astrobiology. to “The Social message of John Paul II for Today’s World. The University as a Place of Dialogue”. Flight via Vienna-bus to Bratislava-train to Poprad. Support to The Israel Academy of Sciences & Slovakia academy all expenses (air tickets, trains and acumination). [2014]
to Japan – train to TSUKUBA (My talk in the Agriculture Institute) then with the bullet train to Kyoto & Nara [conference of Origin – 2014]. My presentation in the Nara Women University [NWU] and ISSOL in Nara and attending the Origin of Life congress in Nara (July 2014).
to Brazil – Sao Paulo - Phycological Sciety (member of round table over Algae in extremophilic habitats. In Pao Lourenco BR. To present seminar and sit in the round table about Extremophiles – 14 - 22nd September 2014.
To Reykjavik Iceland – see Abstract [introduction to pwp show] – presentation of thermophilic microorganisms and all information – Feb. 2015
to San Diego CA. Astrobiology - see Abstract and information – presentation, chair of session, round table discussion member. Aug. 2015
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LONGER VISITS:
1988 - Exchange Scientist Fellow in Germany, (DAAD) 3 Months -based in Tübingen, Fall '88.
1989/90 - Visiting Professor, Dept. Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.90024‑1606. (Host, Professor David J. Chapman).
1994 - (autumn) Visiting Scholar, Harvard U. Cambridge, MA in Biological. Laboratories (Host Professor. L. Bogorad).
1997/8 - Professor and John P. Laborde Chair in the Louisiana Sea Grant Development, State University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Biological Sciences, Life Sci. Building, LSU at BTR (Nov. 1997 to end of May 1998).
2006 Exchange Scientist Fellow in Germany, (DAAD) 3 Months -based in Department of Geology at LMU, Munich Germany, Fall ‘2006
SUPPORT FROM THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES AND FROM OTHER SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS:
1988 – DAAD, for reaching in Tübingen Germany 3 months, host Professor H. Schenk.
2001 & 2006 – Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and the Indian Academy of sciences. – New Delhi, Mumbay.
DAAD [German Scholars exchange services] in Munich, 3 months (host Professor Wlady Altermann) (September à December 2006).
2007 & 2008. Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and the German DFG. visiting in Düsseldorf (2007) and in Münster, Munich (2008).
2007 & 2008. Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and the Austrian Academy of Science. visited Graz, Salzburg (2007) and Graz, Vienna (2008).
2009- Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and Hungarian Academy- visit in Budatpest. (Aug. 2009)
2010 Israel Academy of Sciences – Assistance in visiting LMU (discussion project with Professor Alex V. Altenbach and presenting a seminar On Extremophiles and Astrobiology. (May-June 2010).
2011 - Israel Academy of Sciences – supported 50% cost of air ticket for my attendance in EGU in Vienna. April 2011
2012 – support by The Israel Academy of Sciences and Indian Science Academy during Algal Summit in New Delhi.