session 5

Title: Astrobiology and Exploration
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: 2011-10-06
Time: 10:00
Room: TS-09

IPC members

Chairman: Dr. Petra Rettberg, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;
Chairman: Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund, International Space University (ISU), France;
Rapporteur: Dr. Inge ten Kate, SETI Institute, United States;

papers
Order	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	The CAREX Project and Roadmap for research on life in extreme environments	15	confirmed	Mr. Nicolas Walter	European Science Foundation	France
2	Sulfur isotopes as a proxy for early Earth atmosphere: constraints for habitability on other planets	15	confirmed	Ms. Kristyn Rodzinyak	McGill University	Canada
3	Astrobiology Analogue Field Research Supporting Space Missions	15	confirmed	Prof. Bernard Foing	European Space Agency (ESA)	The Netherlands
4	Catalytic peptide hydrolysis by mineral surface: implications for the origin of life on planetary surfaces	15	no-show	Ms. Karina Marshall-Bowman	International Space University (ISU)	Germany
5	Miniaturized submersible for exploration of aqueous environments on Earth and beyond	15	confirmed	Mr. Jonas Jonsson	Uppsala University - Ångström Space Technology Centre	Sweden
6	Analysis of microbial diversity by PCR in a Mars analogue environment – The Mars Desert Research Station	15	confirmed	Dr. Cora S. Thiel	University of Zurich	Switzerland
7	Automated, Miniaturized Instrument for Measuring Gene Expression in Space - the Doors to New Biology in Space	15	confirmed	Prof. Andrew Pohorille	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center	United States
8	Development of an Automated Sample Extraction and Preparation System for Astrobiology in situ Research Applications	15	confirmed	Ms. Kennda Lynch	Colorado School of Mines	United States
9	Iron/sulfur bacteria as model organisms for a putative Martian ecosystem	15	confirmed	Dr. Petra Rettberg	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)	Germany
10	Antarctic cold desert hypoliths - Astrobiological models of cryptic life	15	confirmed	Prof. Don Cowan	University of the Western Cape	South Africa
11	Detection of metabolic activity by125I-Iododeoxyuridine incorporation into DNA in Colwellia psychrerythraea over a temperature range from 8°C to -40°C	15	confirmed	Dr. Fathi Karouia	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center / UCSF	United States
12	Preliminary results from a crewed Mars exploration simulation at the Rio Tinto Analogue Site	15	confirmed	Mr. Gernot Groemer	Austrian Space Forum	Austria

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