Transcript BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment Meeting

BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment Meeting
Post-flight review of the BIOMEX experiment onboard EXPOSE-R2
Rome 10-12 May 2016
patrocinato dall’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
May 10th
ASI via del Politecnico snc (room Sirio)
10:30-10:45 Welcome
10:45-11:00 Frances Westall (President of the European Astrobiology Association Network)
11:00-12:40 Jean-Pierre de Vera (German Aerospace Center, Berlin)
“Summary and overview about BIOMEX actions in the past and outlook to future
activities”
11:40-12:00
Charles Cockell, Jennifer Wadsworth (The University of Edinburgh)
“Preparations for BIOMEX/BOSS with Gloeocapsa”
12:00-12:20
Stefan Leuko (German Aerospace Center, Köln)
"Evaluation of the survival, genetic integrity and biosignatures of Deinococcus radiodurans
following space flight"
12:20-12-40
Frances Westall (CNRS, Orleans)
“The effect of space on preserved biosignatures in potential sedimentaray meteorites”
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-14:50
Thomas Herzog and Jochen Jänchen, (Technical University of Applied Sciences, Wildau)
“Expected impact of cosmic irradiation on the water-sorption properties of selected
BIOMEX-extremophiles"
14:50-15:30 Round Table
15:30-16:00 (skype)
Claudia Pacelli, Ekaterina Dadachova (Albert Einstein College of Medicine,NY), Silvano
Onofri (La Tuscia University)
“Functions of melanin in fungi “
16:30-17:00 (skype)
Lynn J. Rothschild (NASA, Ames)
“Title TBD”
May 11th
Sala Capizucchi (Piazza di Campitelli, 3)
9:30-9:45 Welcome
9:45 -10:15
Joachim Meeßen (Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf)
"Lessons learned from STARLIFE: new momentum and new techniques to analyze the
BIOMEX samples"
10:15-10:30
Baqué Mickael, Jean-Pierre de Vera, Daniela Billi, (DLR Berlin, Tor Vergata University)
“Results from STARLIFE and their contribute to evaluate BIOMEX samples”
10:30-10:40
Theresa Backhaus (Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf)
“Methods and techniques envisaged for the analysis of the returning BIOMEX samples”
10:40-10:50
Martha Kruchten (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
“UV-induced DNA damages of isolated lichen symbionts - novel techniques to support
BIOMEX”
10:50-11:30 coffee break
11:30-11:50
Karen Olsson-Francis (The Open University, UK)
“Analytical techniques at the Open University.”
11:50-12:10
Natuschka Lee (Umeå University)
“Advanced approaches for detecting identity, activity, function and other changes in life
sciences”
12:10-12:30
Peter Lasch (Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin)
"Characterization of microbial phenotypes by Raman and IR spectroscopy"
12:30-12:50
Michael Kliefoth, Ulrich Szewzyk (Technische Universität, Berlin)
“Survival potential of iron depositing bacteria after exposure to Mars surface
conditions"
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Round Table
May 12th
ASI - via del Politecnico snc (room Sirio)
10:30-10:40 Welcome
10:40-11:00
Bernard Foing (ESA-ESTEC)
“Laboratory and field spectrometry and analysis of Moon-Mars analogue samples'”
11:00-11:20
Dirk Schulze-Makuch (Washington State University, Technical University, Berlin)
“The last possible outposts of Life on Mars”
11.20-12:00
Silvano Onofri, Laura Selbmann, Laura Zucconi (University La Tuscia, Viterbo)
“Cryomyces antarcticus in BIOMEX”
12:00-12:20
Daniela Billi (Tor Vergata University)
“Desert cyanobacteria in BIOMEX”
12:20-13:00 Round Table
13:00-14:30 - Lunch