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Now showing: All projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.4

Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors

Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems

4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 7.1

Biomimetic Cluster Synthesis: Bridging the Structure and Reactivity of Biotic and Abiotic Iron-Sulfur Motifs

TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

Early Metabolic Pathways

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4

Origin of Life and Catalysis - Philosophical Considerations

TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2

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

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

Prebiotic Organics from Space

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

Probing the Structure and Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Iron-Sulfur Minerals

TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

Sulfur and Phosphorus Cosmochemistry: Implications

TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1

The Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

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1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets

1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets

2.1 Mars exploration

2.2 Outer Solar System exploration

3.1 Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts

3.2 Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules

3.3 Origins of energy transduction

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4.1 Earth's early biosphere

4.2 Foundations of complex life

5.1 Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms

5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities

5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments

6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems

6.2 Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth

7.1 Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials

7.2 Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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Carnegie Institution of Washington

Indiana University, Bloomington

Montana State University

NASA Ames Research Center

University of Arizona

University of Colorado, Boulder

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