2001 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 2.0 Reports Reporting | JUL 2000 – JUN 2001
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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Chemical Building Blocks
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 11.0 13.0 -
Eukaryotic Origins and the Evolution of Cellular Complexity — Eukaryotic rRNA Evolution: Early Diverging Eukaryotes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 7.0 -
Self-Reproducing (SL) Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry – Switzer’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 9.0 -
Theoretical Studies of Hydrothermal Synthesis Reactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 5.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 -
Habitable Planets and Evolution of Bio-Complexity
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 11.0 12.0 14.0 -
Self-Replicating (BL) Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry – Benner’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 12.0 13.0 15.0 16.0 17.0 -
Eukaryotic Origins and the Evolution of Cellular Complexity — Evolution of Tubulins
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 -
Self-Reproducing (EL) Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry – Ellington’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 4.0 8.0 9.0 16.0 -
Self-Reproducing (GL) Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry – Ghadiri’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 9.0 -
Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 11.0 13.0 -
Early Metabolic Pathways
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 -
Biochemistry of Archaea and Bacteria: Enzymes of Ancient Metabolic Pathways
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 -
Self Reproducing (RL) Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry —Rebek’s Laboratory
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 -
Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth: Molecular Evolution Approach – S. Blair Hedges
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 5.0 7.0 8.0 11.0 12.0 14.0 -
Biological Studies of Hydrothermal Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 12.0 14.0 -
JPL a New Molecular Recognition Instrument for Astrobiological Applications
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 6.0 9.0 -
Molecular Analysis of Microbial Ecosystems in Extreme Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 10.0 14.0 16.0 17.0 -
CIW a New Molecular Recognition Instrument for Astrobiological Applications
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 6.0 9.0 -
Coevolution of Life and Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 14.0 17.0 -
Micro*scope (http://www.mbl.edu/microscope) — New Internet Resources for Microbial Biodiversity
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 6.0 -
Environment of Prebiotic Earth and the Origin of Life: Prebiotic Chemistry of Hydrogen Cyanide
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 9.0 -
Genes That Regulate Photosymbiotic Interactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 6.0 -
RNA World and Origin of Life
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 3.0 17.0 -
Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and the Terrestrial Biosphere – H. Ohmoto
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 15.0 -
Origin of Life: Evolution of Proteins
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0