#  Sasselov Lab & Group 

 



##  Prebiotic photochemistry 

Exploring the origins of life's building blocks with photochemical and photodynamic experiments.



 

 

 

       ![Artist Impression Origins of Life Early Earth](/sites/g/files/omnuum1451/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/sasselovlab/files/ool.png?itok=Vzs-VPAp) 

 

 



 

 



 

 ### Photochemistry

 

   ![Photochemistry](/sites/g/files/omnuum1451/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sasselovlab/files/logo_02.png?h=23f5ecc7&itok=zT6mhDXG) 

 

 

 

 ### Exoplanet Astronomy

 

   ![Exoplanet Astronomy](/sites/g/files/omnuum1451/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sasselovlab/files/all-about-exoplanets1.en_.png?itok=2NxKrEvJ) 

 

 

 

 ### Planetary Environments

 

   ![Planetary Environments](/sites/g/files/omnuum1451/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sasselovlab/files/hl_tau_protoplanetary_disk.jpg?h=21980548&itok=xr0W2tH0) 

 

 

 

 ### Physics of Chiral Systems

 

   ![Physics of Chiral Systems](/sites/g/files/omnuum1451/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sasselovlab/files/chirality_with_hands.jpg?h=038be434&itok=s3u28KdN) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 

## Reading Materials

[   ![Prebiotic Chemistry formation diagram](/sites/g/files/omnuum1451/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/sasselovlab/files/prebiotic_chemistry.png?itok=YrdDPCT2) 

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**Photo Acknowledgments:**

Cover Photo/Scientific Illustration: The Archean World / Peter Sawyer  
Photochemistry: Data from Sasselov Lab by Corinna Kufner  
Exoplanet Astronomy: An artist's representation of Kepler-11, a small, cool star around which six planets orbit. [Credit: NASA/Tim Pyle](https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-exoplanets/en/)  
Protoplanetary disk: Imaged by ALMA array telescope - [Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF](https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-release/revolutionary-alma-image-reveals-planetary-genesis/)  
Amino Acid Chirality chirality with hands: from [http://www.nai.arc.nasa.gov/&nbsp](http://www.nai.arc.nasa.gov/&nbsp); - [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chirality_with_hands.jpg)