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Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life
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420
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Year: |
2009
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Editors: |
Meech, K. J.; Keane, J. V.; Mumma, M. J.; Siefert, J. L.; Werthimer, D. J.
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Synopsis: |
The 9th International Bioastronomy conference: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life was organized by Commission 51 (Bioastronomy) of the International Astronomical Union. The meeting was held in San Juan Puerto Rico, and hosted 234 participants, 19 invited talks, 57 contributed oral talks, and 113 poster presentations.
The series of IAU Bioastronomy meetings have played an important role in integrating the broader interests and techniques of both astronomy and biology to understand the origin and evolution of life in our solar system, and of living systems in the universe. The theme of the 2007 meeting, Molecules, Microbes, and Extraterrestrial Life, deals with topics relevant both to solar system origins as well as to the NASA Vision of the Moon, Mars, and Beyond. The meeting location was selected because it is the site of one of the world's premier radio observatories at Arecibo, and because Puerto Rico is an astrobiologically relevant environment rich in biodiversity and well-suited for extremophile (halophile) studies. The meeting was held at a critical time for important science milestones, with recent commissioning of the CARMA millimeter array and the Allen Telescope Array in California , and coincident with (or just prior to) several planetary mission launches relevant to the NASA Vision and Bioastronomy (several international lunar launches, the NASA Dawn mission to the asteroid belt, the Phoenix mission to Mars in 2007, and the orbiting planet-finder Kepler in 2008).
The conference was organized around four broad themes: the origin of prebiotic material in space and delivery to the Earth; investigation of habitable worlds in the solar system and the building blocks of life; the origin of early life and its co-evolution with the environment; and extrasolar planets and biosignatures.
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978-1-58381-720-9
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978-1-58381-721-6
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Meech, K. J.; Keane, J. V.; Mumma, M. J.; Siefert, J. L.; Werthimer, D. J. |
Front matter |
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Meech, K. J.; Keane, J. V.; Mumma, M. J.; Siefert, J. L.; Werthimer, D. J. |
Part 1. Introduction |
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Overview of the Bioastronomy 2007 Meeting |
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Meech, K. J.; Irvine, W. M. |
Part 2. How Early Could Life Originate in the Universe? |
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Observing the Molecular Composition of Galaxies |
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Martín, S. |
Theoretical Models of Complex Molecule Formation on Dust |
29 |
Charnley, S. B.; Rodgers, S. B. |
Searching for the Precursors of Life in External Galaxies |
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Lawton, B.; Churchill, C. W.; York, B. A.; Ellison, S. L.; Snow, T. P.; Johnson, R. A.; Ryan, S. G.; Benn, C. R. |
Simple Organic Chemistry in the Horsehead Nebula |
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Goicoechea, J. R.; Pety, J.; Gerin, M.; Hily-Blant, P.; Teyssier, D.; Roueff, E. |
Organic Molecules in the Orion KL Hot Molecular Core |
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Wang, K.-S.; Kuan, Y.-J.; Liu, S.-Y.; Huang, H.-C.; Charnley, S. B. |
Part 3. The Nature of Interstellar Organics |
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Establishing the Synthetic Contingencies for Life: Following the Carbon from AGB Stars to Planetary Surfaces |
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Ziurys, L. M.; Halfen, D. T.; Woolf, N. J. |
White Dwarf Debris Disks: The Fate of Planetary Systems? |
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von Hippel, T.; Reach, W. T.; Mullally, F.; Kilic, M.; Kuchner, M. J. |
The Near-Star Environment: Spectropolarimetry of Herbig Ae/Be Stars |
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Harrington, D. M.; Kuhn, J. R. |
Comparing the Chemical Compositions of the Sun and Earth |
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Lineweaver, C. H.; Robles, J. A. |
Towards Quantifying the Prevalence of Primitive Membranes in the Galaxy: The Millimeter-Wave Rotational Spectrum of Pyruvic Acid |
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Kisiel, Z.; Pszczólkowski, L.; Bailkowska-Jaworska, E.; Charnley, S. B. |
Part 4. Organic Material in Comets, Meteorites, and IDPs |
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Application of the Organic Synthetic Designs to Astrobiology |
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Kolb, V. M. |
Imaging of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner |
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Pittichová, J.; Kelley, M. S.; Woodward, C. E.; Meech, K. J. |
Organics in the Samples Returned by the Stardust Spacecraft from Comet 81P/Wild 2 |
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Sandford, S. A. |
Part 5. Mars as a Setting for Life |
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CO2 Clathrates on Mars and the CH4 Question: A Laboratory Investigation |
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Trainer, M. G.; McKay, C. P.; Tolbert, M. A.; Toon, O. B. |
Production of Phyllosilicates and Sulfates on Mars Through Acidic Weathering: The Río Tínto Mars Analog Model |
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Fernández-Remolar, D. C.; Prieto-Ballesteros, O.; Amils, R.; Gómez, F.; Friedlander, L.; Arvidson, R.; Morris, R. V.; Gómez, D. |
Methane Production on Rock and Soil Substrates by Methanogens: Implications for Life on Mars |
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Kozup, H. A.; Kral, T. A. |
Radiation Environments on Mars and Their Implications for Terrestrial Planetary Habitability |
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Schneider, I.; Kasting, J. F. |
Part 6. Prebiotic Chemistry |
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Enigmatic Isovaline: Investigating the Stability, Racemization, and Formation of a Non-Biological Meteoritic Amino Acid |
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Hudson, R. L.; Lewis, A. S.; Moore, M. H.; Dworkin, J. P.; Martin, M. P. |
Oscillating Type of Prebiotic Models as an Intermediate Step to Life |
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Kompanichenko, V. N. |
Prussian Blue as a Prebiotic Reagent |
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Ruiz-Bermejo, M.; Menor-Salván, C.; Osuna-Esteban, S.; Veintemillas-Verdaguer, S. |
Organic Material by Irradiation of HCN Solutions |
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Colin-García, M.; Negrón-Mendoza, A.; Ramos-Bernal, S. |
Plausible Organic Synthesis on Titan’s Surface |
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Abbas, S. H.; Schulze-Makuch, D. |
The Radiowave Synthesis in the Droplets of a Thunderstorm Cloud as a Precursor of Photosynthesis |
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Gusev, V. A. |
Part 7. Origins of Viruses and Cellular Function |
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The Earliest Ion Channels |
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Pohorille, A.; Wilson, M. A.; Wei, C. |
Theoretical Studies of Glutamate Enantiomers at Different pH Conditions |
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González, J.; Corredor, C. F.; Lareo, L. R. |
Part 8. Life in Extreme Environments |
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Sulfate Reduction: A Model for Subsurface Martian Life |
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Denson, J.; Chevrier, V.; Sears, D.; Ivey, D. M. |
A Hot Climate on Early Earth: Implications to Biospheric Evolution |
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Schwartzman, D. W.; Knauth, L. P. |
Survival of Purines and Pyrimidines Adsorbed on a Solid Surface in a High Radiation Field |
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Guzman-Marmolejo, A.; Ramos-Bernal, S.; Negrón-Mendoza, A. |
Patterned Growth in Extreme Environments |
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Curnutt, J.; Gomez, E.; Schubert, K. E. |
Planetary Habitability Under Dynamic Temperatures |
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Méndez, A. |
Chromatic Complementary Adaptation (CCA) for the Exploration of Exoplanetary Life |
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Tarasashvili, M. V.; Alexidze, N. G. |
Exobiology at Southern Brazil: Spore Dosimetry and the UV Solar Radiation |
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Rampelotto, P. H.; Rosa, M. B.; Schuch, N. J.; Pinheiro, D. K.; Schuch, A. P.; Munakata, N. |
Astrobiology in the Environments of Main-Sequence Stars: Effects of Photospheric Radiation |
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Cuntz, M.; Gurdemir, L.; Guinan, E. F.; Kurucz, R. L. |
Biological Evolution on the Earth Influenced by Astronomical Objects: Especially Gamma-ray Sources |
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Ponert, J.; Príhoda, P. |
Determination of Oxygen Production by Cyanobacteria in Desert Environment Soil |
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Bueno Prieto, J. E. |
Evaluation of Biological and Enzymatic Activity of Soil in a Tropical Dry Forest: Desierto de la Tatacoa (Colombia) with Potential in Mars Terraforming and Other Similar Planets |
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Moreno Moreno, A. N. |
Part 9. Co-Evolution of Life and the Environment on Early Earth |
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Bistability of Atmospheric Oxygen and the Great Oxidation: Implications for Life Detection |
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Goldblatt, C.; Watson, A. J.; Lento, T. M. |
Non-sparse Sampling of the Genomic Phase-Space of a Proto-cell in the Young Earth |
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Mullan, D. J. |
Part 10. Extrasolar Planets / Planet Formation |
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Toward Earth-Like Planets |
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Latham, D. W. |
Observable Differences Between Core Accretion and Disk Instability |
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Jang-Condell, H. |
Preliminary Results in Dynamical Simulations of Water Origins for Earth-Like Planets |
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de Souza Torres, K.; Cabo Winter, O. |
Transiting Extrasolar Planets and SuperWASP |
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Anderson, D. R.; SuperWASP Consortium |
Transit Spectroscopy of the Extrasolar Planet HD 209458b |
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Rojo, P.; Harrington, J.; Deming, D.; Fortney, J. |
Stellar Properties and Rocky Planet Habitability: Is There a Correlation? |
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Robles, J. A.; Lineweaver, C. H. |
Part 11. Habitable Planets and Their Stars |
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Extreme Habitability: Formation of Habitable Planets in Systems with Close-in Giant Planets and/or Stellar Companions |
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Haghighipour, N. |
Dynamic Habitability of Extrasolar Planetary Systems |
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Franck, S.; von Bloh, W.; Bounama, C. |
Astrobiologically Interesting Stars Near the Sun: Galactic Orbits and Mass Extinctions |
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Porto de Mello, G. F.; Lépine, J. R.; da Silva Dias, W. |
Dynamical Stability of Habitable Planets in Astrobiologically Interesting Binary Stars |
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Michtchenko, T.; Porto de Mello, G. F. |
Orbital Stability of Earth-Type Planets in Binary Systems |
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Eberle, J.; Cuntz, M.; Musielak, Z. E. |
Characterizing Other Earths: Why and How |
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Quirrenbach, A. |
Part 12. Biosignatures and Life Beyond Earth |
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Search For Chiral Signatures in the Earthshine |
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Sterzik, M. F.; Bagnulo, S. |
Detection of Endolithes Using Infrared Spectroscopy |
377 |
Dumas, S.; Dutil, Y.; Joncas, G. |
Interplanetary Transport of Microorganisms: Survival, Growth, and Adaptation |
381 |
Nicholson, W. L.; Fajardo-Cavazos, P.; Schuerger, A. C. |
Part 13. SETI |
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The Lifetime of Technological Civilizations and their Impact on the Search Strategies |
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Lemarchand, G. A. |
New Strategies for SETI |
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Shostak, S. |
Cultural Evolution and SETI |
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Dick, S. J. |
Progress on IRAS-based Whole-Sky Dyson Sphere Search |
415 |
Carrigan, R. A., Jr. |
Anthropological Contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
421 |
Vakoch, D. A. |
Von Neumann’s Probes And Their Implications For SETI |
429 |
Musso, P. |
SETI with Help from Five Million Volunteers: The Berkeley SETI Efforts |
431 |
Korpela, E. J.; Anderson, D. P.; Bankay, R.; Cobb, J.; Foster, G.; Howard, A.; Lebofsky, M.; Marcy, G.; Parsons, A.; Siemion, A.; Von Korff, J.; Werthimer, D.; Douglas, K. A. |
Sustainability: A Tedious Path to Galactic Colonization |
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Dutil, Y.; Dumas, S. |
Spin-Off Successes of SETI Research at Berkeley |
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Douglas, K. A.; Anderson, D. P.; Bankay, R.; Chen, H.; Cobb, J.; Korpela, E. J.; Lebofsky, M.; Parsons, A.; Von Korff, J.; Werthimer, D. |
Astropulse and Fly’s Eye: SETI Searches for Transient Radio Signals Using Distributed Computing |
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Von Korff, J.; Siemion, A.; Korpela, E.; Werthimer, D.; McMahon, P.; Cobb, J.; Lebofsky, M.; Anderson, D.; Bankay, B.; Bower, G.; Foster, G.; van Leeuwen, J.; Mallard, W.; Wagner, M. |
Spectral Line Measurements in Exceptionally Low SNR Achieved by Virtue of the KLT (Karhunen-Loève Transform) |
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Maccone, C.; Pluchino, S.; Schillirò, F. |
Part 14. Education and Public Outreach |
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Astrobiology as a Context for High School Science: Teachers’ Professional Development |
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Harman, P. K.; DeVore, E. K. |
Astrobiology for Knowledge Transfer |
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Price, C. A. |
Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of an Astrobiology Curriculum for Secondary Students: Establishing a Successful Model for Increasing the Use of Scientific Data by Underrepresented Students. |
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Arino de la Rubia, L.; Butler, J.; Gary, T.; Stockman, S.; Mumma, M.; Pfiffner, S.; Davis, K.; Edmonds, J. |
The NASA Astrobiology Institute - Minority Institution Research Support Program: Strengthening the Astrobiology Community |
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Gary, T.; Butler, J.; Arino de la Rubia, L.; Myles, E. L.; Bradford, K.; Kirven-Brooks, M.; Ceballos, M.; Taylor, L.; Bell, B.; Coulter, G. |
Part 15. Astrobiology Glossary |
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An Evolving Astrobiology Glossary |
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Meech, K. J.; Dolci, W. W. |
Back matter |
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Indexes |
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Meech, K. J.; Keane, J. V.; Mumma, M. J.; Siefert, J. L.; Werthimer, D. J. |
Conference Photos |
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Meech, K. J.; Keane, J. V.; Mumma, M. J.; Siefert, J. L.; Werthimer, D. J. |
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