2001 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 7.0 Reports Reporting | JUL 2000 – JUN 2001
Roadmap Objective 7.0—Identify the environmental limits for life by examining biological adaptations to extremes in environmental conditions.
Project Reports
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Theoretical Studies of Hydrothermal Synthesis Reactions
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 5.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 -
Eukaryotic Origins and the Evolution of Cellular Complexity — Eukaryotic rRNA Evolution: Early Diverging Eukaryotes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 7.0 -
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 -
Center for Genomic and Evolutionary Studies on Microbial Life at Low Temperature
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.0 5.0 7.0 16.0 -
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 -
Subsurface Biospheres
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 13.0 15.0 -
Fractionation of Transition Metal Isotopes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 7.0 8.0 -
Organic Synthesis at High Temperatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 7.0 9.0 -
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 -
Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and the Terrestrial Biosphere
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 7.0 11.0 12.0 14.0 -
Cold Regions: Microbial Ecology and Biomarkers
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.0 8.0 -
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 -
Microbial Fossilization Processes in Extreme Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 11.0 13.0 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Eukaryotic Diversity in the Rio Tinto: Spain’s Acidic/High Metal Extreme Environment
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
Rock Varnish and Microbes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 7.0 8.0 17.0 -
Protist Diversity in Extreme Environments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.0 7.0 -
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 -
MILDI Development
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 17.0 -
Setting the Stage for the Origin of Life on Earth
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 3.0 5.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 12.0 13.0 -
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 -
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 -
Organic Molecules as Biosignatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 -
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