Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. University of Colorado, Boulder

    PI Bruce Jakosky
    Members 50 (See)
    Active Dates 11/2003 - 10/2008
    Team Website http://lasp.colorado.edu/life/

    Executive Summary

    Project Reports

    Untitled

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    A Novel Route to New, Simpler, Self-aminoacylating Ribozymes

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES:

    Bally project

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Biological potential of Mars

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1

    Carbon Flow Between Organisms in Complex Communities

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    DDF: Geomicrobiology of a Unique Ice-Sulfur Spring Ecosystem in the High Arctic

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.2

    Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 6.2

    Star and Planet Formation

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1

    EPO Reports

    no reports submitted

    Project Reports

    Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective