Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2004 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.4

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

    Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems

    Molecular survey of extremophile microbial diversity in hypersaline ecosystems

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Biomars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Biosustainable Energy and Nutrient Cycles in the Deep Subsurface of Earth and Mars

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Early Metabolic Pathways

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4

    Evolution of Proteins

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4, 5.1

    Evolution of sensory and neural systems in basal animals

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.2

    Genomic determinants of parasitism and mutualism in bacterial endosymbioses

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2

    Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

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

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

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