2005 Annual Science Report
Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.4 Reports Reporting | JUL 2004 – JUN 2005
Roadmap Objective 3.4—Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
Project Reports
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Establishment of the Goddard Analytical Astrobiology Laboratory
This year Dworkin finalized construction of the laboratory infrastructure in Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) building 2, room W109.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.3 3.4 -
Bacterial Tubulin and the Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell; Sea Ice Bacteria
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.2 5.3 6.1 -
Genome Evolution and Innovation
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2 -
Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2 -
Project 4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization
Studies in molecular self-organization focused on two types of amphiphilic molecules, which are molecules that possess both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions. These molecules tend to self-organize spontaneously in an aqueous environment.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 3.4 4.1 7.1 -
Prebiotic Organics From Space
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2 -
Genome-Genome Integration: Symbiosis, Genetic Assimilation, and Evolutionary Innovation
This project aims to elucidate genetic changes that catalyze the establishment and diversification of genome-genome interactions.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4 4.2 5.2 6.2 -
Darwinian Chemistry
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.1 -
Early Metabolic Pathways
In order to generate laboratory models of protocellular protein catalysts, we have designed a novel, partially random protein library based on the DNA-binding domain of the human retinoid-X-receptor.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4