NAI
2000 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 2.0 Reports Reporting | JUL 1999 – JUN 2000
Roadmap Objective 2.0—Develop and test plausible pathways by which ancient counterparts of membrane systems, proteins and nucleic acids were synthesized from simpler precursors and assembled into protocells.
Project Reports
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Ghadiri’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 4.0 -
Exploring the Living Universe: Origin, Evolution and Distribution of Life in the Solar System
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 12.0 -
The RNA World and the Origin of Life
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 -
Education and Public Outreach Activities
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 6.0 7.0 10.0 -
The Environment of Prebiotic Earth and the Origin of Life: Experimental Approach
Our group at SUNY-Stony Brook has focussed on two research projects: a) rate of CO hydration and stability of formate and b) reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia catalyzed by minerals.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 5.0 7.0 12.0 -
Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 11.0 13.0 -
Eukaryote Origins and the Evolution of Cellular Complexity – Eukaryotic rRNA Evolution
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 6.0 7.0 -
The Prebiotic Chemistry of Hydrogen Cyanide
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 9.0 -
Ellington’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 -
Eukaryote Origins and the Evolution of Cellular Complexity – Evolution of Tubulins
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 -
Rebek’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 -
Chemical Building Blocks
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 11.0 13.0 -
Ancestry of the Earliest Proteins
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 -
Enzymes of Ancient Metabolic Pathways – Ferry 1
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 -
Switzer’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 -
Early Metabolic Pathways
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 -
Molecular Analysis of Microbial Ecosystems in Extreme Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 14.0 16.0 17.0 -
Biochemistry of Physhrophilic Organisms
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 -
Eukaryote Biodiversity and Physiology at Acidic Extremes: Spain’s Tinto River
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
Genes That Regulate Photosymbiotic Relationships
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 -
Astrobiology Education and Public Outreach
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 14.0 15.0