The rooted Net of Life and molecular evolution before LUCA
J. Peter Gogarten, Molecular and Cell Biology , University of Connecticut, Storrs , CT;
G. Fournier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;
C.P. Andam, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;
Linking Microbial Ecosystem Biosignatures to the Geologic Record of Early Earth and Mars
Polar lipid biomarkers of streamer biofilm communities in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park and their preservation potential in adjacent sinters
Florence Schubotz, A. Gillespie, R. Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;
L. Hays, Harvard University, Cambdrige, MA;
G. Boyer, E.L. Shock, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ;
D.R. Meyer Dombard, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL;
Carbonate precipitation in acidic environments, a potential biosignature for searching life on Mars
Mónica Sánchez-Román, D. Fernandez Remolar, M. Oggerin, N. Rodriguez, O. Prieto-Ballesteros, Centro de Astrobiologia (INTA-CSIC), Torrejon de Ardoz, SPAIN;
N. Sanchez-Navas, F. Nieto, Departamento de Mineralogia y Petrologia, Granada, Granada, SPAIN;
N. Romanek, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;
T. Schmid, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND;
L. Preston, M.R. Izawa, G. Southam, N. Banerjee, G. Osinski, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Ontario, CANADA;
D. Dyar, Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA, Massachusettes, MA;
D. Gomez-Ortiz, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN;
R. Amils, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN;
Growth of Conical Stromatolites Through Microbial Trapping and Binding of Sediment
Dawn Sumner, Geology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA;
D.A. Andersen, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA;
I. Hawes, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND;
In situ carbon isotope analysis of microbial fossils
Kenneth H. Williford, T. Ushikubo, K. Lepot, K. Kitajima, J.W. Valley, Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;
J.W. Schopf, University of California, Los Angeles, CA;
Structural and chemical characterisation of ‘biogenic’ and abiotic jarosite: Implications for the search for life on Mars
Liane Loiselle, M.A. Craig, S.R. Shieh, G. Southam, University of Western Ontario , London, Ontario, CANADA;
E.A. Cloutis, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA;
R. Leveille, A. Koujelev, S. Lui, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, CANADA;
P.L. King, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AUSTRALIA;
M.D. Dyar, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA;
Characterization of putative ichnofossils in impact glass using STXM
Haley M. Sapers, N.R. Banerjee, G.R. Osinski, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA;
D. Schumann, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA;
Astrobiology Field Analog Research, Education, and Conservation at the Ubehebe Volcanic Field (Death Valley National Park, California): Discovery and Awareness for a possible tomorrow
Rosalba M. Bonaccorsi, L. Coe, C. McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA;
R.M. Bonaccorsi, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA;
S. Kyriazis, Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, CA;
The Merapi Terraforming Project: Bringing Life and Art back to a Volcanic Disaster Zone
Angelo Vermeulen, Participatory Systems Initiative, Delft University of Technology, Delft, NETHERLANDS;
A. Vermeulen, Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Ghent, BELGIUM;
A. Vermeulen, SEAD (Space Ecologies Art and Design), Sint-Niklaas, BELGIUM;
Estimating the timing of eukaryotic diversification
Laura Wegener Parfrey, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;
L. Wegener Parfrey, D. Lahr, L.A. Katz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;
L. Wegener Parfrey, D. Lahr, L.A. Katz, Smith College, Northampton, MA;
A calibration-free molecular clock method to estimate relative divergence times among organisms and test the influence of calibrations on absolute times
K. Tamura, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, JAPAN;
Fabia Ursula Battistuzzi, P. Billing-Ross, S. Kumar, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ;
The evolutionary history of protein domain structures and proteomes defines the functional make up of the last universal cellular ancestor and confirms the very early appearance of Archaea
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, K.M. Kim, Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
Extremeomics: The Biology and Metabolism of Weird Life
Absence of arsenate in DNA from arsenate-grown GFAJ-1 cells
Marshall Louis Reaves, J.D. Rabinowitz, L. Kruglyak, Molecular Biology, Princeton, Princeton, NJ;
S. Sinha, R.J. Redfield, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA;
Assessing the nature of virus-host coevolution in hydrothermal vent systems through metagenomics
Rika Anderson, W.J. Brazelton, J.A. Baross, School of Oceanography and Astrobiology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
W.J. Brazelton, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC;
Addressing Lake Vida cryobrine microbial community lifestyle: ‘Omics’ approaches to survey biogeochemical processes of a salty-freezing-ice-sealed ecosystem
Emanuele Kuhn, A.E. Murray, C.H. Fritsen, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV;
E. Kuhn, A.E. Murray, C.H. Fritsen, University of Nevada, Reno, NV;
F.E. Loeffler, University of Tennessee , Knoxville, TN;
P. Doran, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL;
Elucidating genomic adaptations involved in Bacillus subtilis evolution to hypobaric growth: low pressure as an environmental constraint on terrestrial biological processes
Samantha M. Waters, W.L. Nicholson, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;
S.M. Waters, W.L. Nicholson, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL;
Are spacecraft assembly facilities ‘breeding’ grounds that help Bacillus sp evolve to produce “hardened” spores ?
M.R. Tirumalai , University of Houston, Houston, TX;
G.E. Fox, University of Houston, Houston, TX;
S. Allen, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX;
K. Venkateswaran, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Caltech, Pasadena, CA;
Icy Worlds: Niches for Biological, Pre-Biological, and Abiological Chemistry
The case for habitable moons in the outer solar system from the study of the atmospheres and surfaces of Titan, Enceladus and Europa
Athena Coustenis, G. Bampasidis, A. Solomonidou, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, FRANCE;
G. Bampasidis, A. Solomonidou, Univ. Athens, Faculty of Phys., Panepistimiopolis, Athens, GREECE;
F. Raulin, LISA, Université Paris Est Créteil et Université Paris Diderot,, Creteil, FRANCE;
JUICE (JUpiter and ICy moons Explorer): A MISSION DEVOTED TO EXPLORE THE HABITABILITY OF THE JUPITER SYSTEM
Olga Prieto Ballesteros, Habitability and Planetology, Centro de Astrobiologia-INTA-CSIC, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, SPAIN;
M. Dougherty, Imperial College, London, UNITED KINGDOM;
O. Grasset, University of Nantes, Nantes, FRANCE;
E. Bunce, Leicester University, Leicester, UNITED KINGDOM;
A. Coustenis, Paris-Meudon Observatory, Paris, FRANCE;
M. Blanc, Ecole Polytechnique, Toulouse, FRANCE;
A. Coates, University College of London, London, UNITED KINGDOM;
P. Drossart, LESIA/Observatory of Paris, Paris, FRANCE;
L. Fletcher, Oxford University, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM;
H. Hussman, R. Jaumann, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Berlin, GERMANY;
N. Krupp, MPI for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, GERMANY;
P. Tortora, University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY;
F. Tosi, Institute for Interplanetary Space Physics, Roma, ITALY;
T. Van Hoolst, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Uccle, BELGIUM;
D. Titov, C. Erd, A. Wielders, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, NETHERLANDS;
Ionization of Organic Impurities in Interstellar and Cometary Ices
Murthy S. Gudipati, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;
M.S. Gudipati, University of Maryland, College Park, MD;
A. Lignell, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;
Honoring Those We Have Lost: Science and Reflections
Commemorating the life and work of Baruch Blumberg/Barry Blumberg, Mike Drake, David Gilachinsky, Ron Greeley, Lynn Margulis, Susan Niebur, Elisabetta Pierazzo, James Scott, Robert Shapiro.
Photochemical Flow Reactor: A Laboratory Investigation of the Photochemical Reactions in Titan’s Atmosphere.
Buu N. Tran, M. Force, R.G. Briggs, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health , Albany, NY;
J.C. Joseph, P.D. Persans, J.P. Ferris, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;
V. Vuitton, Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble, Grenoble, FRANCE;
J.J. Chera, GE Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY;
RNA OLIGOMERIZATION: POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENTS, MATERIALS, AND PROCESSES
John Delano, Atmos. & Environ. Sci., University at Albany, Albany, NY;
P.C. Joshi, M.F. Aldersley, J.P. Ferris, N.D. Tailby, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;
Ravikumar Kopparapu, R.M. Ramirez, J.F. Kasting, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;
R. Kopparapu, J.F. Kasting, Virtual Planetary Laboratory, University Park, PA;
The Habitability Limits of Our Earth and Other Earths.
C.H. Lineweaver, A. Chopra, Planetary Science Institute, Research School of Earth Sciences and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, AUSTRALIA;
Measuring Atmospheric Pressure on Earth-like Exoplanets
Amit Misra, V. Meadows, Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
D. Crisp, JPL, Pasadena, CA;
M. Claire, Univ. East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UNITED KINGDOM;
Migration & Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets: Watering the Planets
Jade Carter-Bond, School of Phsyics, University of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA;
D.P. O'Brien, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ;
S.N. Raymond, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FRANCE;
Tilt-A-Worlds:Chaotic Obliquities and the Limits of the Habitable Zone
John C. Armstrong, Physics, Weber State University, Ogden, UT;
J.C. Armstrong, R. Barnes, S. Domagal-Goldman, Virtual Planetary Laboratory, Seattle, WA;
R. Barnes, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;
S. Domagal-Goldman, ORAU/NASA, Washington, DC;
S. Domagal-Goldman, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA;
Evidence for Sedimentary Processes at Mawrth Vallis, Mars and Implications for Habitability
Janice L. Bishop, R. Beyer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA;
J.J. Wray, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA;
D. Lowe, Stanford University, Stanford, CA;
D. Loizeau, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, NETHERLANDS;
N.K. McKeown, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA;
L. Saper, Brown University, Providence, RI;
M. Parente, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , MA;
Suniti Karunatillake, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ;
O. Gasnault, Université de Toulouse [UPS], Toulouse, FRANCE;
S. Karunatillake, S. McLennan, A.D. Rogers, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;
J.J. Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;
S. Squyres, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;
W.V. Boynton, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ;
Extraterrestial Biomolecules in the New Age of Astronomical Instrumentation
Complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium: pushing the limits with millimeter-wavelength spectroscopy
Arnaud Belloche, K.M. Menten, Max-Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, GERMANY;
H.S. Mueller, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, GERMANY;
R. Garrod, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;
Exploration of the Interstellar Medium: A New Age of Broadband Data Cube Analysis
Brent Harris, C. Yang, K. Lehmann, B. Pate, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA;
A. Remijan, C. Brogan, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA;
C. Yang, Virginia Image and Video Analysis, Charlottesville, VA;
Unraveling the Mysteries of Complex Interstellar Organic Chemistry Using Observational Spectral Line Surveys
Susanna L. Widicus Weaver, M.L. Radhuber, S. Wang, J. Sanders, J.A. Kroll, J.C. Laas, Emory University, Atlanta, GA;
D. Lis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;
E. Herbst, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA;
