Kacar is interested in how we can understand the molecular mechanisms of evolution. She was award a NASA postdoctoral fellowship, followed by an Early Career Fellowship and funding from the NASA Astrobiology Institute and Exobiology Branch.[1] She was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010.[3] In 2011 she became a member of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science.[4]
She joined Harvard University in 2012, where worked in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.[5][6] Here she looked to identify how to reconstruct historical enzymatic intermediates between global geochemical reservoirs and biological activity.[7][8] She appeared on the Science for the Public, where she spoke about trying to reconstruct ancient genes about how they developed over millions of years.[9] At Harvard, Kacar managed to revive an ancient protein and managed to get it to evolve inside an Escherichia coli.[9][10][11][12][13] She is a member of the Harvard Origins Initiative.[14]
In 2017 Kacar was appointed to University of Arizona, where she is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Molecular and Cell Biology.[15] She is also an Associate Professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.[16][17] She has been described as a "prominent member" of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.[18][19] She has received over $2 million of grant funding.[20]
Kacar is interested in public engagement and outreach.[21][22][23] During her PhD she began to translate articles about evolution into other languages.[18] In 2012 she co-founded SAGANet, an astrobiology social network.[24][25] She is on the Board of Advisory Committee of the MIT BioBuilder Foundation.[26] In 2016 she was named Way Cool Scientist by the Science Club for Girls.[27] Her work has featured on PBS.[28] She was interviewed in the magazine Turk of America.
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