Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2004 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.2

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

    Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules

    Divergence of protein families to provide novel function

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

    Astrobiotechnology

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 7.1

    Bacterial tubulin and its implications on the evolution of Eukaryotes

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    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 and Abiosignatures

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 5.2, 5.3, 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

    Directed Evolution of an RNA Polymerase Ribozyme that Utilizes Highly Activated Monomers

    TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    Early Metabolic Pathways

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4

    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 biocomplexity from an ancient autotrophic lineage

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 4.2, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Evolution of Proteins

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

    Laboratory Studies of the Origins of an RNA World

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2

    Microbial Mat Communities

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

    Post Doc Recruitment - Water and its Relation to Life in the Universe

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

    Prebiotic Chemical and Isotopic Evolution on Earth

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

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

    The Astrobiological Exploration of Titan

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.2

    The evolution and diversity of ancient CO<SUB>2</SUB>-fixation pathways in anaerobic and extremophilic microorganisms: Clues to the early evolution of life on Earth

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1

    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

    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