NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

Marine Biological Laboratory

Executive Summary

MBL Executive Summary

Project Reports

Describing the anaerobic thermophilic microbial community: A metagenomic strategy

Genome-Genome Integration: Symbiosis, genetic assimilation, and evolutionary innovation

Iron Oxidation - Shaping the Past and Present Environments

Microbial Communities and Activities in the Deep Marine Subsurface

Microbial diversity and population structure studies in the Rio Tinto

Molecular and Isotopic Microbial Community Analysis of Deep Subsurface Sediments

Recognition of Theoretical Environments on Mars

EPO Reports

Planetary Protection: Policies and Practices Course

Examining Life in Extreme Environments Graduate Course for Teachers

Living in the Microbial World Teachers Workshop

Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project

Brown University Courses

MicrobeWorld and NPR Radio

MIT Summer Research Program Visit

Falmouth Public Schools Kids Global Climate Change Institute

Woods Hole Science & Technology Education Partnership

micro*scope

Microbial Diversity summer course at MBL

STEM in Adult Basic Education

MA Space Grant

Amaral Zettler Website

MBL Catalyst

DePaul Astrobiology course for teachers

Montana Science Teachers Association Conference

National Science Teachers Association Conference

MA Marine Educators in Woods Hiole

Project Reports

Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective

Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System

• Objective 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. (1 reports)

Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors

• Objective 3: Replicating, catalytic systems capable of evolution, and construct laboratory models of metabolism in primitive living systems. (1 reports)

Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment

• Objective 4: Expand and interpret the genomic database of a select group of key microorganisms in order to reveal the history and dynamics of evolution. (1 reports)

Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life

• Objective 5: Describe the sequences of causes and effects associated with the development of Earth's early biosphere and the global environment. (11 reports)

Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond

• Objective 6: Define how ecophysiological processes structure microbial communities, influence their adaptation and evolution, and affect their detection on other planets. (5 reports)

Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth

• Objective 7: Identify the environmental limits for by examining biological adaptations to extremes in environmental conditions. (1 reports)