A partnership between UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley to foster collaboration, innovation, and research among our Affiliates at the intersection of academia, government, and industry. Our Affiliates conduct and leverage collaborative research in one or more of these three centers of excellence:
  • Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology (SynBio), Space Biosciences
  • Sensors and Networks
  • Energy and Sustainability Solutions
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Fostering Collaborations

In today's increasingly dynamic and interdisciplinary world, working in cross-functional teams is critical to success. The ASL is an anchor by which to foster collaborative environments and opportunities where ASL Affiliates can focus on the core research areas of the ASL.

Innovating Research

Innovation is the foundation of a successful economy, through which new opportunities and knowledge are generated. The ASL supports the research activities of ASL Affiliates and fosters the collaborative environment for addressing today's challenges with innovative solutions and discoveries.

Inspiring Education

An educated and well-trained workforce is the foundation for our future society. In order to aspire for a better tomorrow, we must inspire the educational efforts of today. The ASL inspires educational activities for Students and Postdocs, in addition to Teachers, Professors, and Researcher Mentors.

Welcome to the ASL

The Advanced Studies Laboratory (ASL) provides a partnership between NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Supported by a Space Act Agreement between the partners and directed from UCSC's Silicon Valley Initiatives, ASL is making innovation practical by creating a shared research space at NASA ARC operated by UCSC.

Vatican Observatory's Guy Consolmagno to Present a Seminar "Is Vesta an Intact Protoplanet? (Probably not!)" Feb 20th at the ASL

Events

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation and an astronomer and meteoriticist at the Vatican Observatory, will present a seminar, "Is Vesta an Intact Protoplanet? (Probably not!)"​, at the ASL on February 20th as part of the ASL and Ames Bio and Syn Bio Talks Seminar Series. The event will be held in Building N239, Room B39 from 12:00-1:00pm. 

Dr. Daisuke Kiga to present "Simplification of the Genetic Code: Restricted Diversity of Genetically Encoded Amino Acids" at the ASL on Feb. 17

Events

Daisuke Kiga, Associate Professor of computational intelligence and systems science and faculty member of the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, will present a seminar, "Simplification of the Genetic Code: Restricted Diversity of Genetically Encoded Amino Acids"​, at the ASL on February 17th as part of the ASL and Ames Bio and Syn Bio Talks Seminar Series. The event will be held in Building N239, Room B39 from 12:00-1:00pm. 

Overcoming Fundamental Limitations of In Vitro Diagnostics Using NanoPlasmonic BioNEMS and Optofluidic Metasurfaces with Ali Yanik at ASL on Decebmer 11th

Events

Ali Yanik, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, will present a seminar, "NanoPlasmonic BioNEMS and Optofluidic Metasurfaces​", at the ASL on Thursday, December 11th. The event will be held in Building N239, Room #B39 from 1:00-2:00pm.

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