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Now showing: Year 2005 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 5.2

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

Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities

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

Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2

Analysis of fine scale genetic divergence in oceanic microbial communities

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2

Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

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

Darwinian Chemistry

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

Evolution of biocomplexity from an ancient autotrophic lineage

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

Examinations of the Microbial Diversity found in Ice Cores

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

From Stars to Genes: Addition to Extrasolar Planetary Systems

TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2

Genome Evolution and Innovation

TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

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

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.2, 5.2, 6.2

Geochemical Processes and Biosignatures (House)

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

Indigenous Bacteria of Arctic and Antarctic Permafrost

TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2

Integrated characterization of microbial communities associated with aquatic redox gradients

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

Iron and sulfur-based biospheres and their biosignatures

TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Lava tube microbiology

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 6.2

Lee Kump

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

Microbial and biogeochemical characterization of a terrestrial analogue site for Mars.

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

Microbial diversity and population structure studies in the Rio Tinto

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 5.1, 5.2

Microbial Mat Communities

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

Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

Planetary Biology, Evolution and Intelligence (project)

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

Radiolysis as a source of chemical energy for microbial metabolism in the deep subsurface

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

Re-tracing Steps Towards a Habitable World: The Biogeochemical Evolution of Sulfur on the Early Earth.

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

Relationship between hydrogeology and microbiology at active springs

TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 5.2, 7.2

Serpentinization, Abiogenic Methane, and Extremophilic Archaea within the Seafloor

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2, 5.3

Subsurface Biospheres (project)

TEAM: URI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Synergism, evolution, and functional ecogenomics of deep-subsurface microbial communities based on molecular analyses

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

The Distribution of Early Life into Geographically Distinct Subseafloor Microbial Habitats: A Metagenomic Strategy

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

UH NAI Executive Summary

TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

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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

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

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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 Rhode Island

University of Washington

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

"How did the earth acquire the heavy metals necessary for civilization?"

Now showing: Year 2005 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 5.2

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

Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities

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