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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology

    PI Loren Williams
    Members 27 (See)
    Active Dates 1/2009 - 1/2014
    Team Website http://astrobiology.gatech.edu/

    Executive Summary

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Project Reports

    Experimental Model System - An Ancestral Magnesium-RNA-Peptide Complex

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    Extremophile Ribosomes

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3

    High Level Theory - the Role of Mg2+ in Ribosome Assembly

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 5.3

    Molecular Resurrection of the Ancestral Peptidyl Transferase Center

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    Reverse-Evolution of an RNA-based RNA polymerase

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    Ribosome Paleontology

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    RNA Folding and Assembly

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 5.3

    EPO Reports

    Life on the Edge: Astrobiology

    Astrobiology and the NASA Electronic Professional Development Network

    Project Reports

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  • 1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
  • 1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
  • 2.1 Mars exploration
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  • 3.1 Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
  • 3.2 Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules
  • 3.3 Origins of energy transduction
  • 3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
  • 4.1 Earth's early biosphere
  • 4.2 Foundations of complex life
  • 5.1 Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
  • 5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities
  • 5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
  • 6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems
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