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  1. Michigan State University

    PI Michael Thomashow
    Members 0 (Inactive)
    Active Dates 7/2001 - 6/2006
    Team Website http://astrobiology.msu.edu/index.html

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    Project Reports

    Genetic Systems for Psychrobacter

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 5, 6

    Genomes of Permafrost Bacteria: Psychrobacter isolates

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 5, 6

    Genomics of the Permafrost Isolate Exigubacterium sibiricum

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 5

    Indigenous Bacteria of Arctic and Antarctic Permafrost

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 5, 6

    Proteomes of Permafrost Bacteria

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 6

    Transcriptomes of Permafrost Bacteria

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 5, 7

    Understanding how Psychrobacter sp. 273-4 is able to live in Siberian permafrost

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5, 5

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  • 1 Determine whether the atmosphere of the early Earth, hydrothermal or exogenous matter were significant sources of organic matter.
  • 2 Develop and test plausible pathways by which ancient counterparts of membrane systems, proteins and nucleic acid were synthesized from simpler precursors and assembled into protocells.
  • 3 Replicating, catalytic systems capable of evolution, and construct laboratory models of metabolism in primitive living systems.
  • 4 Expand and interpret the genomic database of a select group of key microorganisms in order to reveal the history and dynamics of evolution.
  • 5 Describe the sequences of causes and effects associated with the development of Earth's early biosphere and the global environment.
  • 6 Define how ecophysiological processes structure microbial communities, influence their adaptation and evolution, and affect their detection on other planets.
  • 7 Identify the environmental limits for by examining biological adaptations to extremes in environmental conditions.

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