session 5

Title: Astrobiology and Exploration
Description: A new era os space exploration will soon expand into a global endeavour to achieve highly ambitious goals such as establishing human bases on the Moon, journeys to Mars and the construction of new infrastructures in space. Astrobiology plays a key role in the strategic search for organic compounds and life on Mars and other planetary objects in our solar system and can provide support in the preparation of human exploration endeavours. The session invites papers of astrobiological content supporting future robotic and human exploration missions.
Date: 2014-10-01
Time: 14:45
Room: 716A

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Petra Rettberg, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Co-Chair: Dr. Victoria Hipkin, Canadian Space Agency, Canada;
Rapporteur: Dr. Cora S. Thiel, University of Zurich, Switzerland;

papers
Order	Paper title	Selection result	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Development of a multiplex label-free immunoassay on photonic microrings, for space exploration and biomonitoring	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Mrs. Graciela de Diego Castilla	Centro de Astrobiologia (INTA-CSIC)	Spain
2	Gene Expression Measurement Module (GEMM)- the door to high-throughput in-situ analyses of biological systems for astrobiology.	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Dr. Fathi Karouia	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center / UCSF	United States
3	Fungi in Space: what role can fungi play in terraforming Mars?	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Ms. Rose Tasker		Australia
4	Biofilms in space	accepted	20'	confirmed	Dr. Petra Rettberg	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
5	Defining Astrobiological Science Objectives for the Europa and Enceladus Explorer Mission Designs	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Mr. Claudio Flores Martinez	Heidelberg University	Germany
6	Enceladus Plume Biosignature Sample Return Missions	accepted	20'	withdrawn	Mr. Brent Sherwood	Caltech/JPL	United States
7	MASE - Mars Analogue for Space Exploration project	accepted	20'	confirmed	Mr. Nicolas Walter	European Science Foundation	France
8	European landscape in astrobiology, results of the AstRoMap consultation	accepted	20'	confirmed	Dr. Gerda Horneck	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine	Germany