Astrobiology

Lecture log

Academic year 2023/2024
Lecturer Francesco Raimondi, Simona Gallerani, Giuseppe Brancato

Lecture

  • 24 Nov 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Prima lezione: Timeliness of Astrobiology: Astrophysical and Space technology progress

  • 28 Nov 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Seconda lezione: Star formation I: The virial theorem and the Jeans mass

  • 01 Dec 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Terza lezione: Star formation II: the effects of angular momentum and magnetic field on the SF process

  • 05 Dec 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Quarta lezione: Planet formation (planets in our solar system, gravitational focussing) A causa del malfunzionamento dell'impianto di riscaldamento la lezione è stata svolta in modalità a distanza

  • 15 Dec 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Quinta lezione: Gravitational focussing; Stages of growth; Size distributions; The Hill radius and the isolation mass; Mass distribution in the solar system. A causa del malfunzionamento dell'impianto di riscaldamento la lezione è stata svolta in modalità a distanza

  • 19 Dec 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Sesta lezione: Temperature structure of protoplanetary disks; Planet migration; Final stages of planet formation. A causa del malfunzionamento dell'impianto di riscaldamento la lezione è stata svolta in modalità a distanza

  • 22 Dec 2023 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Settima lezione: Techniques for detecting extra-solar planets: Transit, radial velocity measurement, gravitational lensing methods. A causa del malfunzionamento dell'impianto di riscaldamento la lezione è stata svolta in modalità a distanza

  • 09 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Ottava Lezione: Origine dell'acqua sulla Terra

  • 12 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Nona lezione: Definition of circum-stellar habitable zones; The Carbon-Silicate cycle; The faint young Sun paradox

  • 16 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Online

    Decima Lezione: Modelling habitability; Habitability around low mass stars; Tidal locking and locking time

  • 19 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    11 lezione: Impacts' effect on the habitability of an exoplanet; Galactic Habitable zone

  • 23 Jan 2024 (2h 00m)

    Simona Gallerani - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Dodicesima lezione: Drake equation; Fermi paradox; TRAPPIST-1 system

  • 21 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

    Francesco Raimondi - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Introduction; the molecular basis of life on earth

  • 28 Feb 2024 (2h 00m)

    Francesco Raimondi - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Biological sequence alignments

  • 06 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Francesco Raimondi - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Molecular phylogenetics and the tree of life

  • 13 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Francesco Raimondi - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    The last universal common ancestor

  • 20 Mar 2024 (2h 00m)

    Francesco Raimondi - Course (teaching activity) - Both face to face and online

    Origin of life hypothesis: the RNA world, protein-RNA coevolution

  • 17 May 2024 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduction to protein structure, properties and function

  • 24 May 2024 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Amino acids chemical structure and properties. Peptide bond. Elements of primary structure.

  • 03 Jun 2024 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Protein secondary structure: alpha-helix, beta sheets, loops, turns.

  • 07 Jun 2024 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Introduction to nucleic acids. Chemical nature and structure of nucleotides. Phosphate bonds. DNA single and double strand.

  • 11 Jun 2024 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Free energy, enthalpy and entropy. Free energy change of a chemical transformation. Reaction free energy.

  • 14 Jul 2024 (2h 00m)

    Giuseppe Brancato - Course (teaching activity) - Face to face

    Historical and recent experiments about DNA and aminoacid synthesis and polymerization in a prebiotic era