Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2004 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 5.1

  2. Roadmap Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life

    Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms

    Divergence of protein families to provide novel function

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.2, 5.1

    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

    Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

    Bacterial Adaptation to Low Temperatures

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    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

    Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    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

    Climate Model For Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 7.1

    Diversity and physiology of prokaryotes in selected thermophilic and mesophilic environments in selected hydrothermal vents and subsurface environments

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

    Enzymes of Ancient Metabolic Pathways

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Evolution of Proteins

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

    Evolutionary Genomics Focus Group

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Examinations of the Microbial Diversity found in Ice Cores

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2

    First-Stage Biofilm Formation Under Extreme Conditions in Ice

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Genes that Regulate Photosymbiotic Interactions

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

    Genetics of Permafrost Bacteria

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Genome Evolution and Innovation

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3

    Genome-Genome Integration: Symbiosis, genetic assimilation, and evolutionary innovation

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.2

    Genomes of Permafrost Bacteria

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Genomic determinants of parasitism and mutualism in bacterial endosymbioses

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

    Indigenous Bateria of Arctic and Antarctic Permafrost

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Microbial diversity and population structure studies in the Rio Tinto

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

    Microbial Mat Communities

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Microbial symbionts: Agents for reorganizing genome architectures.

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.2

    NASA ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE VIRUS FOCUS GROUP Annual Report

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Oxygen Adaptation in the Anaerobic Methanogenic Archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans.

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Planetary Biology, Evolution and Intelligence

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Protenomes of Permafrost Bateria

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    SARST-V 6 Development

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2

    The Evolution of a Habitable Planet

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

    Transcriptomes of Permafrost Bacteria

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    UH NAI Visiting Faculty Scholars Program

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Ultramafic-hosted Springs in Subduction Zones

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Water-Rock Chemistry and Habitats for Life

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

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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
  • 3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
  • 4.1 Earth's early biosphere
  • 4.2 Foundations of complex life
  • 5.1 [x]
  • 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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  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Marine Biological Laboratory
  • Michigan State University
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • SETI Institute
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Washington
  • Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)