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session 6

Title: Astrobiology and Gravitational Biology
Description: This session will address current threads in the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, and life’s behavior in conditions of altered gravitation.
Date: 2008-10-02
Time: 10:00
Room: Carron 2

IPC members

Chairman: Prof. François Raulin, Université de Paris XII et Paris VII, France;
Chairman: Prof. John D. Rummel, SETI Institute, United States;
Rapporteur: Dr. Catharine Conley, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1		Space-based Observations of Organic Chemistry in Astronomical Objects	presentation		Dr. Steven Charnley	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center	United States
2		Astrobiological aspects of Titan and Enceladus: from Cassini-Huygens to TSSM	presentation		Prof. François Raulin	Université de Paris XII et Paris VII	France
3		A Small Payloads Program for Astrobiology	presentation		Prof. John D. Rummel	East Carolina University	United States
4		Expose-E – The Astrobiological Exposure Facility on ISS – from proposal to flight	presentation		Dr. Elke Rabbow	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
5		UV biological sensor versus MED and its potential applications in space studies involving the UV radiation effects on life systems	presentation		Mr. Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto	Southern Regional Space Research Center - CRS/CCR/INPE - MCT in collaboration with the Space Science Laboratory of Santa Maria - LACESM/CT - UFSM	Brazil
6		Evolution of organic matter studied on the Expose facility onboard ISS	presentation		Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund	Space Policy Institute, George Washington University	United States
7		Bacterial spores under simulated martian conditions - the BIOPAN experiment MARSTOX II of the FOTON M-3 mission	presentation		Dr. Petra Rettberg	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
8		A key role for analogue missions in the search for life	presentation		Dr. Victoria Hipkin	Canadian Space Agency	Canada
9		immunohistochemical analysis of auxin localization during gravimorphogenesis of cucumber seedlings	presentation		Ms. Watanabe Chiaki		Japan
10		Worms in Space: How Gravity affects Biology	presentation		Dr. Catharine Conley	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	United States
11		Susceptibility of stem cells to changed gravity depends on their commitment and differentiation	presentation		Prof. Ludmila Buravkova	Institute for Biomedical Problems	Russian Federation