The meeting is not open to the public. Scientists from UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center will convene to discuss astrobiology projects on which the two institutions might collaborate. Collaborations exist between astronomers, biologists, and chemists here and at NASA Ames. We'd like to strengthen those ties and extend them into other areas as well. Those areas, he noted, could include evolutionary biology, molecular biology, earth sciences, marine sciences, and physics.
Reporters are welcome to attend the meeting.