Assistant Professor of Biology, was selected as a 2020 Scialog Fellow for a new Scialog Initiative on Signatures of Life in the Universe. Scialog Fellows are promising early career scientists selected to work in interdisciplinary teams to tackle big-picture problems. Signatures of Life in the Universe will bring together scientists from across astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology to generate projects to gain fundamental understanding of habitability of planets, detection of life beyond Earth, and life in extreme environments on Earth or in Earth’s distant past.