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Now showing: Year 2007 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.3

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

Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction

Evolution of abiotic environments to ecosystems

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Experimental Study of Radiolytic Oxidation of Pyrite as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

High-temperature, High-pressure Microcosms to Study the Bio-molecular Basis for the Upper Temperature Limits to Life

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

Laser fluorometry for remote detection of oxygenic phototrophs on Earth and, potentially, on Mars

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3

Membrane RNAs

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

Subseafloor basement (basalt) biosphere studies

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

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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

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3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems

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

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Hawaii

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