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Project Reports

• Chemical Building Blocks

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2

• Archean Biosignatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.4 4.1

• Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems, Ecogenomics

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Ellington – Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry

  During the past year the Ellington Lab has focused on the design of self-evolving nucleic acid enzymes. We have designed a cross-catalytic amplification system based on the fast and efficient 10-23 deoxyribozyme (Ellington and Levy, 2003)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.2 6.2

• Genomic Evolution and the Tree of Life

  Horizontal gene transfer greatly accelerates genome evolution and Innovation. We are comparing the genomes of eight prokaryotes and related horizontal gene transfer (HGT) to environmental and genomic properties of the organisms and their habitats.

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3

• Early Metabolic Pathways

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4

• Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell: Implications From Bacterial Tubulin in the Division Verrucomicrobia

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.2

• Evolution of Proteins

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 5.1

• Isolation of Psychrophilic Microorganisms

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2

• A Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth – Hedges

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2 2.1 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.2 5.3 7.1 7.2

• A Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth – Nei

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2 2.1 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.2 5.3 7.1 7.2