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Now showing: Year 2007 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.2

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

Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules

Adaptation to salinity in microbial communities

TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.3, 7.2

Early Metabolic Pathways

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4

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

From Proto-Metabolism to the RNA World

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2

Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 5.1, 5.3

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 mass spectrometry for planetary analog and in situ chemical analyses

TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

Membrane RNAs

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

Module 1: The Building Blocks of Life

TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.3

Origin and Evolution of Organics

TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2

Philosophical Issues in Astrobiology

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

Phosphorus and Sulfur in the Origin of Life

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

Planetary Biology, Evolution, and Intelligence

TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Project 4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

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

Project 7. Astrobiotechnology

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

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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 [x]

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 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

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

SETI Institute

University of Arizona

University of California, Berkeley

University of Colorado, Boulder

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)