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Project Reports

• Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2

• Isotopic and Molecular Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry (The Evolution of Organic Matter)

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

• First-Stage Biofilm Formation Under Extreme Conditions in Ice

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2

• Subsurface Biospheres

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.3

• Bacterial Adaptation to Low Temperatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2

• Benner – Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2

• Evolution in Microbe-Based Ecosystems: Desert Springs as Analogues for the Early Development and Stabilization of Ecological Systems

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Indigenous Bacteria of Arctic and Antarctic Permafrost

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.1

• 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

• Eukaryotic Origins and the Evolution of Cellular Complexity – Eukaryotic rRNA Evolution: Early Diverging Eukaryotes

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3

• Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Permafrost Bacteria

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2

• The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: The Proterozoic Oxidiation of the Earth’s Surface

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 4.2 5.3 6.1

• 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 Microbial Ecosystems

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Theoretical Studies of Hydrothermal Synthesis Reactions

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1

• Ecological Genomics

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1

• Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere – Ohmoto

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – the Life Modules

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 5.3 6.1 7.2

• Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling

  We have developed a simulation model called MBGC (Microbial BioGeoChemistry) to infer effects of major environmental controllers on microbial community structure and function (Decker and Potter, 2002).

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.3 6.1 7.2

• Biological Studies of Hydrothermal Systems

  Task 1. Field Studies and Laboratory Characterization of Hydrothermal Vent Microbes (Baross)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Organic Molecules as Biosignatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Causes and Consequences of the Diversification and Tetinction of Metazoans: Neoproterozoic Variations – Arthur

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 6.1

• Evolution of Biocomplexity From an Ancient Autotrophic Lineage

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.3 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1

• Life Beyond the Planet of Origin

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3 6.2

• Diversity and Physiology of Prokaryotes in Selected Thermophilic and Mesophilic Environments That Might Resemble Early Earth’s Biosphere

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3

• Enzymes of Ancient Metabolic Pathways

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2

• Microbial Mat Communities

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1

• Isolation of Psychrophilic Microorganisms

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2

• Microbe-Mineral Interactions

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Geopulse

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.2

• 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