session 5

Title: Astrobiology and Exploration
type: oral
Description: Astrobiology plays a key role in the preparation of space exploration endeavours to find life in our solar system and beyond. Investigating habitability constraints and instrument technology to search for organic compounds and life provides support to current and future robotic missions to inner and outer solar system bodies as well as human exploration missions targeting the Earth-Moon-Mars space. The session invites papers of astrobiological content supporting space exploration.
Date: 2013-09-25
Time: 14:45
Room: 303B

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Petra Rettberg, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Chairman: Mr. Yufen Zhao, CAS, China;
Rapporteur: Dr. Inge ten Kate, SETI Institute, United States;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	Phosphorus Chemistry and Evolution of Biological Molecules	15'		Prof.Dr. Yufen Zhao	Xiamen University	China
2	RNA catalysis, the RNA world and its importance in the origins of life	15'	confirmed	Prof.Dr. David Lilley	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
3	Hydrothermal Systems in Europa and Possibility of Water on Similar Bodies as a Biological Precursor	15'	withdrawn	Dr. Ugur Guven		United States
4	Cosmic Convergent Evolution of Bioluminescence on Europa	15'	confirmed	Mr. Claudio Flores Martinez	Heidelberg University	Germany
5	The research on gas composition and charged particles of LEO	15'		Mr. zhuang haixiao	CAST	China
6	The Miller-Urey Experiment on Board of ISS	15'	withdrawn	Mr. Christian Kropiunig	Joanneum Research	Austria
7	Gene Expression Measurement Module (GEMM) – a Fully Automated, Miniaturized Instrument for Measuring Gene Expression in Space	15'	confirmed	Dr. Fathi Karouia	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center / UCSF	United States
8	Life Sciences Payload Development and R&D for Exploratory Missions	15'	confirmed	Ms. Sandra Podhajsky	OHB System AG-Bremen	Germany
9	The acidophilic iron-sulfur bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans as a model organism for a putative Martian ecosystem	15'	confirmed	Dr. Petra Rettberg	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
10	Microbes and Salty Water: new data with implications for planetary protection on Mars	15'	withdrawn	Prof. John D. Rummel	East Carolina University	United States
11	Mars Sample Return Backward Contamination - Planetary protection recommendations and design guidelines	15'	confirmed	Mr. Nicolas Walter	European Science Foundation	France
12	Astrobiology Road Mapping (AstRoMap) - A project within FP7 of the European Commission	15'	confirmed	Mr. Felipe Gómez	Centro de Astrobiologia (INTA-CSIC)	Spain

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