NAI
2004 Annual Science Report
Michigan State University
Reporting | JUL 2003 – JUN 2004
Executive Summary
Low temperature is a predominant environmental characteristic of interstellar space, asteroids, comets, and of course, our solar system, including most of the planets and their satellites. An understanding of the impacts that low temperature has on the responses and evolution of biological organisms is, therefore, integral to our knowledge of Astrobiology. Toward this end, we are exploring multiple aspects of microbial adaptation to low temperature. The basic objectives of one line of investigation—Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Permafrost Bacteria—include identifying genes and proteins that enable Arctic and Antarctic permafrost bacteria to inhabit subfreezing environments and determining how gene expression in the permafrost bacteria is affected by low temperature and other environmental conditions associated with the permafrost. We are also interested in conditions that “hitchhiker” bacteria might encounter during travel through space on natural objects or spacecraft. In a second line of investigation—Bacterial Adaptation to Low ... Continue reading.
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Michael Thomashow
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
7/2001 - 6/2006 CAN 2 -
Members:
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Project Reports
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Bacterial Adaptation to Low Temperatures
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.2 -
Ecology and Physiology of Permafrost Bacteria
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2 5.3 6.2 -
Genetics of Permafrost Bacteria
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2 -
Genomes of Permafrost Bacteria
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2 -
Indigenous Bateria of Arctic and Antarctic Permafrost
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2 -
Protenomes of Permafrost Bateria
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2 -
Transcriptomes of Permafrost Bacteria
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.2
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2004 annual report.
2004 Teams
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Arizona State University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Harvard University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Marine Biological Laboratory
Michigan State University
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Johnson Space Center
Pennsylvania State University
SETI Institute
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Hawaii, Manoa
University of Rhode Island
University of Washington
Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)