2001 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 6.0 Reports Reporting | JUL 2000 – JUN 2001
Roadmap Objective 6.0—Define how ecophysiological processes structure microbial communities, influence their adaptation and evolution, and affect their detection on other planets.
Project Reports
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Astronomical Detection of Biosignatures From Extrasolar Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 12.0 13.0 14.0 -
Astrobiology at UCLA: An Intergrated Multidisciplinary Approach to Research and Education
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 -
Microbe-Mineral Interactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
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 -
Mineral Biomarkers
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 8.0 17.0 -
Subsurface Biospheres
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 13.0 15.0 -
Biochemistry of Archaea and Bacteria: Biochemistry of Psychrophilic Organisms
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 7.0 8.0 12.0 16.0 -
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 -
Carbonate Globules in Igneous Rocks
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 8.0 12.0 17.0 -
Eukaryotic rRNA Evolution: Origins of “Crown Group Taxa”
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 5.0 6.0 -
Early Microbial Ecosystems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 13.0 -
Origin and Early Evolution of Photosynthesis
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 -
Diversity of Eukaryotes in Thermophilic and Mesophilic Environments That Might Resemble Early Earth’s Biosphere
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 6.0 7.0 -
The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Molecular and Isotopic Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 5.0 6.0 13.0 -
Hematite on Mars: Possible Biogenic Origin
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 8.0 14.0 -
Toward a Molecular Phylogeny of a Metabolic Enzyme, Maleylacetoacetate Isomerase
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 6.0 -
Microbial Fossilization Processes in Extreme Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
Eukaryotic Diversity in the Rio Tinto: Spain’s Acidic/High Metal Extreme Environment
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
Life Beyond the Planet of Origin
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 15.0 16.0 17.0 -
JPL a New Molecular Recognition Instrument for Astrobiological Applications
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 6.0 9.0 -
Symbiosis and the Origin of Multicellularity in Photosynthetic Organisms
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 6.0 10.0 -
New Technique Development and Application
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 6.0 8.0 17.0 -
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 -
Rock Varnish and Microbes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 7.0 8.0 17.0 -
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 -
Protist Diversity in Extreme Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 7.0 -
GEOPULSE (Gene Expression of Observations for Planetary Life Study)
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 5.0 6.0 8.0 -
Evolution in Microbe-Based Ecosystems: Desert Springs as Analogues for the Early Development and Stabilization of Ecological Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 14.0 -
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 -
MILDI Development
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 17.0 -
Micro*scope (http://www.mbl.edu/microscope) — New Internet Resources for Microbial Biodiversity
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 6.0 -
Morphologic Biomarkers and Microbial Ecology
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 17.0 -
Development of Life Detection Methodology and Technology
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 17.0 -
Diversity and Physiology of Prokaryotes in Selected Thermophilic and Mesophilic Environments That Might Resemble Early Earth’s Biosphere
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 6.0 7.0 -
Biogenic Mineral Weathering
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 8.0 -
Genes That Regulate Photosymbiotic Interactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 6.0 -
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 -
Organic Molecules as Biosignatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
Biogeochemical and Environmental Influences on the Composition of Late Archaean Kerogens and Extracts
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0