Astrobiology Graduate Conference

Invited Speakers

Mark Claire, UW-Seattle

Modeling the Rise of Atmopheric Oxygen

Corey Cohn, Stony Brook

Mineral Generated H2O2 and OH

Josh Eisner, Caltech

Circumstellar Disks Around Young Stars

Kevin Hand, Stanford

Biosignatures on Europa

Jelte Harnmeijer, UW-Seattle

BIF-hosted Phosphates

Rachel Horak, William and Mary

Light Production in Bacterial Mats

Andrew Howard, Harvard

Optical SETI

Julie Huber, UW-Seattle

Subseafloor Biosphere

Matthew Hurtgen, Pennsylvania State University

Geochemistry of the Maieberg Formation

Vladimir Ivkovic, Institute of Anthropological Research, Croatia

Neurocybernetics of Emerging Biotic Systems

Hilary Justh, Pennsylvania State University

Warming Early Mars with Methane

Stanimir Metchev, Caltech

Imaging of Extrasolar Planets

Hector Montiel, UNAM

Interstellar Amino Acid Formation

Jim Moran, Pennsylvania State University

Anaerobic Methane Consumption

Annika Mosier, Desert Research Institute

Microbial Assemblages in Ice-Sealed Lake Vida

Erika Offerdahl, University of Arizona

Student's Understanding of Key Astrobiology Concepts

Dominic Papineau, CU-Boulder

Precambrian Evolution of Atmospheric Oxygen

Sean Raymond, UW-Seattle

Delivery of Water to TerrestrialPlanets

Aubrey Zerkle, Penn State

Trace Metal Biosignatures

Olga Zhaxybayeva, University of Connecticut

Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

Invited Posters

John Armstrong, Weber

Questions in Astrobiology: Solved

William Brazelton, UW-Seattle

Molecular and Organismal Characterization of Microbiological Communitites

Irma Chavez, Nitrogen Fixation Research Center, UNAM

The Early Evolution of Simple Sequences and Genome Size

Eduardo de la Fuente, Dpto. de Fisica., Univ. de Guad.

High Resolution Radio Observations of Maser Clumps

Melanie Freed, U of A

A 5-micron Camera for the Detection of Giant Exoplanets

Jessica Goin, Portland State

RAMAN Characterization of Modern Microbial Communitites in Siliceous Sinter

Shawn Goldman, PSU

Hematite Stability in an Anoxic Atmosphere

Orion Johnson, U. South. CA

The Geobiology of Ultrabasic Springs on a Serpentinizing Peridotide in Sonoma County, CA

Timothy Riedel, UT

Directed Evolution of a Halotolerant E. Coli

Scott Sheppard, UH

Small Outer Solar System Objects as a Source of Water

Alexander Smirnov, SUNY

Ammonium Immobilization in Ocean Floor Rocks and Minerals

Steve Vance, UW-Seattle

A Lost City on Europa?

Achim Herrmann, PSU

Middle Ordovician (Caradoc) Global Paleobiogeography: Constraining OGCM Results and Implications for the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction

Armeda VanDam, Rice

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Kelly Smith, Clemson U

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