18th EANA Conference

European Astrobiology Network Association

24-28 September 2018

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Sponsors:

Scientific Organizing Committee (EANA Council):

Daniela Billi, Italy

Alexis Brandeker, Sweden

John Brucato, Italy

Barbara Cavalazzi, Italy

Elias Chatzitheodoridis, Greece

Charles Cockell, UK

Hervé Cottin, France

Rosa De la Torre, Spain

Jean-Pierre De Vera, Germany

René Demets, ESA

Cristina Dobrota, Romania

Pascale Ehrenfreund, The Netherlands

Franco Ferrari, Poland

Kai Finster, Denmark

Muriel Gargaud, France

Beda Hofmann, Switzerland

Nils Holm, Sweden

Jan Jehlicka, Czech Republic

Jean-Luc Josset, Switzerland

Kensei Kobayashi, Japan

Oleg Kotsyurbenko, Russia

Helmut Lammer, Austria

Harry Lehto, Finland

Kirsi Lehto, Finland

Zita Martins, Portugal

Nigel Mason, UK

Ralf Möller, Germany

Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Austria

Lena Noack, Germany

Karen Olsson-Francis, UK

François Raulin, France

Petra Rettberg, Germany

Séverine Robert, Belgium

Gyorgyi Ronto, Hungary

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Germany

Alan Schwartz, The Netherlands

Ewa Szuszkiewicz, Poland

Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Austria

Jorge Vago, The Netherlands

Frances Westall, France

Local Organizing Committee:

Lena Noack (FU) Jean-Pierre de Vera (DLR, DAbG) Dirk Schulze-Makuch (TU, DAbG) Alessandro Airo (TU) Felix Arens (FU) Alexander Balduin Mickael Baqué (DLR) Doris Breuer (DLR) Andreas Elsässer (FU) Georg Feulner (PIK) Mareike Godolt (DLR, TU) John Lee Grenfell (DLR)

Lutz Hecht (MfN, FU) Jacob Heinz (TU) Dennis Höning (VU Amsterdam) Deborah Maus (TU) Ralf Möller (DLR) Carolin Rabethge (FU) Heike Rauer (DLR, TU, FU) Christof Sager (FU) Janosch Schirmack (TU) Dirk Wagner (GFZ, Uni Potsdam, DAbG) Sebastian Wolf (FU) Kai Wünnemann (MfN, FU)

Venue: Wifi: Freie Universität Berlin Network: Conference

Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften Password: 99xy7ukf

Malteserstr. 74-100

12249 Berlin-Lankwitz

Building G

Emergency contact: Lena Noack, +49 173 914 50 41, lena.noack@fu-berlin.de

Campus Lankwitz

EANA 2018 Lecture Hall:

Building G

Level 2, Room 202

EANA 2018 Icebreaker:

Building G

Foyer

Lunch:

Campus Mensa

Building Q

VAAM and DAbG Meeting:

Building G

Level 2, Room 202

Public Event: Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 19:30-22:00

It is often believed that the highlight and the main focus

of an astronaut flight to the ISS is the rocket start.

Although this is not off, this does only represent a small

fraction of the whole picture. The astronauts needs to get

selected first, undergo various kind of trainings and pass

numerous amount of exams, tests and simulations to

finally stand in spacesuit at the bottom of their rocket.

This presentation will address all those background and

vital space station tasks and operations, putting them in perspective of the astronaut flight itself until his/her

return. Some science experiments will be presented in a very pictured manner opening the floor towards human

exploration of the solar system.

Technische Universität Berlin, Mathematics, Room HE101, Str. des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin

Conference Dinner: Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 19:30-22:30

The conference dinner will take place at the Museum of

Natural History Berlin.

Museum für Naturkunde

Invalidenstraße 43

10115 Berlin

Public transport:

U-Bahn: Line U6 (U Naturkundemuseum)

S-Bahn: Line S1 or S2 (S Nordbahnhof)

Letter from the EANA President Frances Westall

Dear EANA friends,

This year finds our annual EANA meeting in Germany for the second time. Let me remind you that one

of our founders of the famous astrobiology “Gang of Four” is Gerda Horneck who spent much of her

career working at the DLR in Cologne (the other members of the Gang of Four are André Brack and

François Raulin from France, and Beda Hofmann from Switzerland). After the 2009 EANA meeting in

Cologne, EANA finds itself in Berlin, thanks to the efforts of Lena Noack and her local organising team.

As with Cologne, astrobiology has a special place in Berlin, where planetary sciences is very strong at

the DLR-Berlin and Free University Berlin. Indeed, seminal observations of our sister planet Mars were

made by Gerhard Neukum and his group at DLR and later FU Berlin from the Mars Express orbiter.

Their valuable work is being continued and expanded with studies of other planets in the Solar System,

including the icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. But it is not just observation that is pursued in Berlin:

understanding of the habitability of planets starts, rightly so, with the formation and interior structure

and processes of the planets. The DLR is deeply involved in the InSight mission to study the geophysical

structure of planet Mars. This is the first, dedicated geophysical mission to another planet and we

expect exciting results that will have bearing on the history of Mars and the fate of its habitability. The

Institute of Planetary Research of the DLR under the former leadership of Tilman Spohn initiated a very

successful broad programme linking planetology, astronomy, biology and geology that became a

Helmholtz research alliance on Planetary Habitability, and linked several research institutes in Berlin

and Potsdam as well as other German institutes with each other with respect to astrobiology and

planetology. I had the privilege of following the project from its birth, seeing the first tentative steps

of disparate groups trying to learn the language of the other – and finally succeeding!

Berlin is also the home of other aspects of astrobiology science. The Technical University hosts an

Astrobiology group looking at extreme conditions of life on Earth. The Natural History Museum houses

an important collection of meteorites and the Museum and Free University are well-known for their

research on extraterrestrial materials. In Potsdam, just at the border of Berlin, the Potsdam Institute

for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) are involved

in several astrobiology studies.

Further afield, investigations into the habitability of exoplanets is supported by the actual head of DLR

Institute of Planetary Research, Heike Rauer, who is PI of the ESA PLATO mission and professor at the

FU Berlin. With the future exoplanet missions, hopefully we will be able to detect signatures that may

suggest possible inhabitants.

Many aspects of the field that is now known as astrobiology were pioneered in Germany. It was

Kalkowski who in 1908 first described laminated domical structures (observed in the Harz mountains)

as stromatolites, although he noted that they were of problematic origin. Wolfgang Krumbein’s group

in Oldenburg made ground-breaking studies at the boundary of biology and geology, a discipline now

known as geobiology and at the core of the search for extraterrestrial life. Göttingen with its Center

for Geobiology is continuing this work, as are many other centers, such as Tübingen and Bremen.

With respect to astrobiology and life in space, the DLR in Cologne of course had been at the forefront

of research in lower Earth orbit with the group led by Gerda Horneck and her successors. Gerda’s

innovative and far-seeing heritage has brought great rewards to the discipline.

It was with great pleasure that I learnt about the creation of the Astrobiology Association in Germany

(DAbG). So many in the country have been working for so long in astrobiology-related disciplines and

participating actively in EANA since its creation in 2001. It is also a great pleasure that the German

Astrobiology Association joins this year’s EANA workshop.

There will be many other astrobiology-related groups in Germany that I do not yet know and that I

hope to have the opportunity of meeting this year at the Berlin meeting.

I am particularly happy to come back to Germany because it was in this country that I reached the

proverbial turning point in my life that took me from being a simple marine geologist to becoming an

exobiologist. As a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven in the 1980s, I was

fortunate to be able to participate in an Ocean Drilling Programme cruise to the South Atlantic. Drilling

in 4000-5000 m deep waters in the middling of the roaring forties (yes, I was sick as a dog but reached

shore with a beautifully slim figure – having accomplished my tasks!). I took samples of sediments from

cores penetrating up to 1000m beneath the seafloor to study the history of the Polar Front and the

Circum-Antarctic Current – and found some very strange things, namely fossil bacteria. The rest of the

story is history, to be reminisced over a glass of wine in good company…

Ending this short foreword to the programme, I would like to thank the many supporters of EANA. We,

the European Astrobiology Network Association, are very fortunate to benefit from the financial

support that ESA has generously provided us since the beginning. The financial support of ESA provides

us will the means of being able to hold our yearly meetings and, especially, to support student and

young scientist participation. EANA is a European association but our doors are open to all interested

scientists and buona fide astrobiology enthusiasts from all over the world. To this end, Sohan Jeehta

over the last few years has made very generous donations to allow students and young scientists from

further afield to come to our meetings.

Finally, I would like to thank the local organisers and, especially Lena Noack, for their indefatigable

efforts to produce a wonderful programme with additional outside support that has enabled funding

even more student/young scientist participation, and Karen Olsson-Francis and Jean-Pierre de Vera for

introducing a new award, the Gerda Horneck-André Brack presentation award so-named in honour of

our first two presidents. This year’s EANA meeting is going to be difficult to beat!!

Participants list

Nr Last name First name Nr Last name First name 1 Adam Raven 60 Esen Berivan 2 Adeli Solmaz 61 Feige Jenny 3 Airo Alessandro 62 Feketeová Linda 4 Albdeery Kamal 63 Ferrari Franco 5 Alibrandi Armando 64 Feshangsaz Niloofar 6 Anders, Dr. Christian 65 Feulner Georg 7 Arens Felix 66 Fiedler Julia 8 Arruda Rebecca 67 Filippidou Sevasti 9 Backhaus Theresa 68 Filker Sabine

10 Balduin Alexander 69 Finster Kai 11 Baqué Mickael 70 Flocco Cecilia 12 Barth Patrick 71 Foing Bernard 13 Bartosik Weronika 72 Fox Stefan 14 Bassez Marie-Paule 73 Fuchs Felix 15 Battistuzzi Mariano 74 Gallego Fernandez Beatriz 16 Beblo-Vranesevic Kristina 75 Gálvez Martínez Santos 17 Becker Sidney 76 Gargaud Muriel 18 Benner Steven 77 Gebauer Stefanie 19 Besen Richard 78 Gessner Alexander 20 Billi Daniela 79 Gheysens Tom 21 Bläsing Saskia 80 Gkrintzalis Konstantinos 22 Boosman Arjen 81 Gonzalez Yvette 23 Bopp Cecile 82 González-Pastor Jose Eduardo 24 Boy Diana 83 Górska Agata 25 Boy Jens 84 Grenfell John Lee 26 Brachmann Caroline 85 Grohmann Elisabeth 27 Brandeker Alexis 86 Grund Marc 28 Bredehöft Jan Hendrik 87 Haberkorn Iris 29 Brucato John 88 Haghighipour Nader 30 Bruner Robert 89 Haldrup Bjarke 31 Brunsmann Olga 90 Hänggi Corinne 32 Burzynski Natasha 91 Hanke Wolfgang 33 Camprubí Casas Eloi 92 Harms Elsa-Henriette 34 Cane Rosie 93 Harrison Stuart 35 Cann George 94 Hashimoto Hirofumi 36 Caplin Nicol 95 Hecht Lutz 37 Capova Klara Anna 96 Heinz Jacob 38 Carone Ludmila 97 Hespeels Boris 39 Carr Christopher 98 Hickman-Lewis Keyron 40 Cassaro Alessia 99 Higgins Peter 41 Cavalazzi Barbara 100 Hirschberger Charlotte 42 Cavallius Maria 101 Holm Nils 43 Chandru Kuhan 102 Höning Dennis 44 Chatzitheodoridis Elias 103 Houtkooper Joop 45 Chavez Cristian Felipe 104 Hunt Ryan 46 Cheptsov Vladimir 105 Hwang Yunha 47 Cortesão Marta 106 Ioannou Ioannis 48 Danger Gregoire 107 James Leandro 49 Dass Avinash Vicholous 108 Jehlicka Jan 50 de Haas Aram 109 Jentzsch Laura 51 de la Torre Noetzel Rosa 110 Jheeta Sohan 52 de Vera Jean-Pierre 111 Jordan Sean 53 Desai Prarthana 112 Joshi Manesh 54 Dickinson Andrew 113 Josset Jean-Luc 55 DiGregorio Barry 114 Josset Marie 56 Dobos Vera 115 Kaatz Lisa 57 Dorminey Bruce 116 Kaczmarek Łukasz 58 Elsaesser Andreas 117 Kawaguchi Yuko 59 Erdmann Weronika 118 Kayal Hakan

Nr Last name First name Nr Last name First name 119 Khanna Ramon 181 Pleyer Hannes Lukas 120 Khawaja Nozair 182 Pohorille Andrew 121 Kim Alex 183 Postberg Frank 122 Kish Adrienne 184 Price Alex 123 Klasen Nora 185 Przystupski Dawid 124 Klenner Fabian 186 Rabethge Carolin 125 Kobayashi Kensei 187 Rammu Hanadi 126 Koch Stella 188 Rasheed Rabeea 127 Kochina Olga 189 Rauer Heike 128 Kočí Jan 190 Rennie Vincent 129 Kölbl Denise 191 Rettberg Petra 130 Kołodziejczyk Agata 192 Riekeles Max 131 Kompanichenko Vladimir 193 Robert Séverine 132 Könemann Vincent 194 Roychowdhury Santosh 133 Kopacz Nina 195 Ruiz-Bermejo Marta 134 Kotsyurbenko Oleg 196 Rychert Krzysztof 135 Kounaves Samuel 197 Sager Christof 136 Krüger Anna 198 Saitta Antonino Marco 137 La Rocca Nicoletta 199 Santomartino Rosa 138 Laine Pauli 200 Scalone Lisa 139 Lammers Alexander 201 Scherzer Sophie 140 Lancet Doron 202 Schirmack Janosch 141 Lane Michael 203 Schley Nicolas 142 Leuko Stefan 204 Schmidt Fabian 143 Lichtenberg Tim 205 Schmidt Julia 144 Longo Savino 206 Schmidt Vanessa 145 Lozada Chávez Irma 207 Schreiber Ulrich 146 Luther Amanda 208 Schulze-Makuch Dirk 147 Macey Michael 209 Schwartz Alan 148 Mancinelli Rocco 210 Selbmann Laura 149 Mason Nigel 211 Sevenich Robert 150 Mateo-Marti Eva 212 Shang Yuchen 151 Matuszczak Mikolaj 213 Shepherd Laiken 152 Mayer Christian 214 Siems Katharina 153 McIntyre Sarah 215 Slade David 154 Meyer Guido 216 Smith David 155 Micca Longo Gaia 217 Sproß Laurenz 156 Miccinilli Elisa 218 Sriaporn Chanenath 157 Milojevic Tetyana 219 Stavrakakis Hector - Andreas 158 Möller Ralf 220 Stevens Adam 159 Moelling Karin 221 Stoeck Thorsten 160 Mogul Rakesh 222 Strasdeit Henry 161 Mooij Bram 223 Szurlej Marta Wiktoria 162 Moors Hugo 224 Szuszkiewicz Ewa 163 Nemecková Katerina 225 Taubner Ruth-Sophie 164 Neupane Chetanath 226 ten Kate Inge Loes 165 Noack Lena 227 Thiele Sebastian 166 Núñez Patricia G. 228 Tsakonas Nikolas 167 Olsson-Francis Karen 229 Umenta Braithwaite 168 Onofri Silvano 230 Vaishampayan Ankita 169 Ott Emanuel 231 Vazart Fanny 170 Ott Sieglinde 232 Villafañe Barajas Saul 171 Özgen Natalie 233 Vladilo Giovanni 172 Pacelli Claudia 234 Voigt Maximilian 173 Pagan Fabio 235 Vollenhofer-Schrumpf Sabine 174 Palabikyan Hayk 236 Wagner Dirk 175 Panhölzl Florian 237 Weber Peter 176 Panitz Corinna 238 Westall Frances 177 Pedretti Ettore 239 Wiese Robert 178 Peña Salinas Manet E. 240 Wolf Sebastian 179 Perera Liam 241 Yokobori Shin-ichi 180 Pinna Silvana 242 Zinn Sarah

Monday, 24 September 2018

13:00-14:00 Registration

14:00-14:45 F. Westall, L. Noack, D. Schulze-

Makuch, R. Möller

Welcome address for joint EANA / German Astrobiology

Society (DAbG) / VAAM Space Microbiology meeting

Session 1: Exoplanets and exo-moons Chairs: Brandeker and Noack

14:45-15:00 Stefanie Gebauer et al. Investigating the atmosphere and biosphere of early Earth-like

planets orbiting M-dwarf stars

15:00-15:15 Ludmila Carone et al. Diverse Stratosphere Circulation in tidally locked Exo-Earths

15:15-15:30 Vera Dobos et al. Geophysical Assessment of Habitability for the TRAPPIST-1

Exoplanets

Session 2: Evolution of planetary systems and planets Chairs: Szuszkiewicz and Carone

15:30-15:45 John Lee Grenfell et al. Limitation of atmospheric composition by combustion-

explosion in exoplanetary atmospheres

15:45-16:15 Tim Lichtenberg et al. Invited Talk: Gradual desiccation of rocky protoplanets from

aluminum-26 heating

16:15-16:30 Nader Haghighipour and Thomas

Maindl

An Accurate and Quantitative Model of the Formation of

Terrestrial Planets and Origin of Earth’s Water

16:30-16:45 Feulner, Georg Lessons from Earth's history for the long-term habitability of

planets

16:45-17:00 Laurenz Sproß et al. Development of the N2 Partial Pressure in the Archean

17:00-17:30 Coffee break

Session 3: Habitability, water and the interior evolution of planets Chairs: Haghighipour and Taubner

17:30-17:45 Dennis Höning et al. Long-term water and carbon cycles and habitability of

terrestrial planets

17:45-18:00 Andrew Pohorille Is water necessary for life?

18:00-18:15 Elias Chatzitheodoridis et al. The relevance of alteration minerals on Mars revealed in a

compendium of eleven martian meteorites

18:15-18:30 Jan Hendrik Bredehöft and

Fabian Schmidt

Understanding cometary ice chemistry after

ROSETTA/COSAC

18:30-18:45 L. Feketeová et al. Out of equilibrium dynamics of water nanodroplets

18:45-19:00 Marie-Paule Bassez Water in the high subcritical state as a trigger for the formation

of ferric minerals and geobiotropic molecules of life

19:00-22:00 Icebreaker barbecue

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Session 4: Student contest “Space Factor” Chairs: Möller and Noack

09:00-09:15 Maria Cavallius et al. Water Vapour in the Beta Pictoris Debris Disk

09:15-09:30 Arjen Boosman et al. UV-induced methane and volatile organic carbon emission

from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite

09:30-09:45 Raven Adam et al. Evolution of the Martian atmosphere

09:45-10:00 P. P. Desai et al. Development of Compact Sensor System for Detection of

Water Activity

10:00-10:15 Saúl A. Villafañe-Barajas et al. The thermolysis of HCN from a prebiotic chemistry

perspective

10:15-10:30 Emanuel Ott et al. The molecular response of Deinococcus radiodurans to real

and simulated outer space environment

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:15 Mariano Battistuzzi et al. An experimental setup to study by remote sensing analyses

cyanobacteria growth and photosynthetic performances under

non-terrestrial simulated environments

11:15-11:30 Marta Cortesao et al. Fungi in space: Implications for astronaut health and planetary

protection

11:30-11:45 Nikolas Tsakonas et al. Extreme Environments and Space Architecture

11:45-12:00 Peter M. Higgins and Charles S.

Cockell

A New Model to Estimate Energy Flow and Biomass in

Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments

Session 5: Traces of life, biosignatures, life detection Chairs: Rettberg and Adeli

12:00-12:15 Séverine Robert et al. First spectral retrievals of trace species using NOMAD

onboard ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

12:15-12:30 Pacelli C. et al. Search for life beyond Earth: the detection of fungal

biosignatures on lunar and Mars rock analogues

12:30-12:45 Teresa Fornaro et al. Laboratory simulations for supporting life detection on Mars:

preservation of molecular biomarkers and their detectability

with different techniques

12:45-13:00 A. H. Stevens et al. Detectability of biosignatures in martian sedimentary systems

13:00-13:15 Jan Jehlička and Adam Culka Miniaturised Raman spectroscopic instruments for Mars

analogues studies: from mineral matrix to endolithic

colonisations

13:15-13:30 R. de la Torre Noetzel et al. Detection of new biomarkers on lichens with Raman

spectroscopy after space- and Mars like conditions: Results of

BIOMEX-EXPOSE R2

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

Chairs: de Vera and Baqué

15:00-15:30 Nozair Khawaja et al. Invited talk: Complex macromolecular organic material from

the subsurface ocean of Enceladus

15:30-15:45 Ruth-Sophie Taubner et al. Lipid Pattern of Methanothermococcus okinawensis under

Varying Enceladus-like Conditions

15:45-16:00 Hakan Kayal and Dirk Schulze-

Makuch

Autonomous Anomaly Detection Used as a Primary Novel

Search Strategy for Life

16:00-16:15 Bram J. A. Mooij et al. Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy for the detection of

biomarkers among layered minerals

16:15-16:30 Keyron Hickman-Lewis et al. Unveiling the biogeochemistry of early life through trace

element distributions in the Archaean fossil record

16:30-16:45 Robert B. Bruner Exhibition: Meteorites and Minerals associated with the Origin

of Life

16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:30 Poster session 1

19:30-22:00 Public lecture: Lionel Ferra Flying to the ISS – What does it truly mean (at TU Berlin)

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Session 6: Tools for exploration, space flight, and contamination Chairs: Westall and Elsaesser

09:00-09:30 Bernard Foing Invited Talk: EuroMoonMars: science, technology,

astrobiology, habitability and life

09:30-09:45 Amanda Luther et al. CO2 recovery in regenerative life support systems

09:45-10:00 Peter Clauwaert et al., presented

by Amanda Luther

Nitrogen recovery from urine in Space: a case for nitrification

10:00-10:15 Rakesh Mogul et al. Metabolism and Biodegradation of Spacecraft Cleaning

Reagents by the Spacecraft-Associated Acinetobacter

10:15-10:30 J.-L. Josset et al. CLUPI, a high-performance imaging system on the rover of

the ExoMars mission 2020. Science objectives and

development status

10:30-10:45 Hannes Lukas Pleyer et al. Are iron porphyrins stable enough to withstand ion

bombardment?

10:45-11:00 P. Rettberg et al. The application of Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) for the

sterilisation of spacecraft components

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Session 7: The building blocks of life Chairs: Strasdeit and Camprubi

11:30-12:00 Steven A. Benner et al. Invited talk: Darwinism in Synthetic and Alien Artificial

Genetic Systems

12:00-12:15 Giovanni Vladilo and Ali

Hassanali

Common properties of life in the Universe: Lessons from the

hydrogen bonds

12:15-12:30 Gregoire Danger et al. From Astrochemistry to Prebiotic Chemistry: the Organic

Matter Evolution

12:30-12:45 Fanny Vazart et al. Possible gas-phase formation routes of interstellar Complex

Organic Molecules

12:45-13:00 Natasha Burzynski et al. The effects of ion particle radiation on amino acids in a

serpentine matrix

13:00-13:15 Kensei Kobayashi et al. Characterization of Amino Acid Precursors Synthesized from

Interstellar Ice Analogues and Their Stab

13:15-13:30 Kuhan Chandr Combinatorial Chemistry and the Origins of Life: Polyesters

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

Chairs: Finster and Airo

15:00-15:15 Savino Longo et al. White Soft Minerals (WSM): a key to organic matter delivery?

15:15-15:30 A. Marco Saitta and Fabio

Pietrucci

From quantum computational physics to the origins of life

15:30-15:45 Christian Mayer et al. Molecular Evolution in a Peptide-Vesicle System

15:45-16:00 E. Mateo-Martí and S. Galvez-

Martinez

Pyrite surface a crucial substrate for small peptides adsorption

16:00-16:15 Manesh Prakash Joshi and Sudha

Rajamani

Formation and stability of prebiotically plausible membranes

under terrestrial hydrothermal conditions

16:15-16:30 Eloi Camprubi et al. An origins simulator – Could natural pH gradients have

powered the origin of life?

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

Chair: Fox

17:00-16:15 Sean F. Jordan et al. Alkaline hydrothermal conditions favour the formation of

vesicles from mixed amphiphiles at the origin of life

17:15-17:30 F. Westall et al. A hydrothermal sedimentary origin of life?

17:30-17:45 Sidney Becker et al. Prebiotic origin of all four RNA building blocks

Session 8: Social sciences, outreach, and education Chair: Gargaud

17:45-18:00 Klara Anna Capova et al. Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today

18:00-18:15 Rabeea Rasheed Astrobiology Roadmap of Pakistan—Education and Outreach

activities

20:00-22:00 Conference dinner at Natural History Museum

Thursday, 27 September 2018

Session 9: VAAM/Space microbiological focus on environmental extremes Chairs: Möller and Grohmann

09:00-09:05 Ralf Möller and Elisabeth

Grohmann

Welcome address

09:05-09:30 Rocco L. Mancinelli Space Microbiology: The search for life in the universe

09:30-09:45 Kristina Beblo-Vranesevic et al. Impact of simulated Martian conditions (perchlorates, drought,

radiation) on bacterial strains from different Mars analogue

sites

09:45-10:00 Andreas Elsaesser et al. Exocube – A new Exobiology Exposure Platform in Low Earth

Orbit with in-situ Analytical Capabilities

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:30 Pascale Ehrenfreund EANA Keynote lecture: Recent Developments in

Astrobiology and DLR Space Missions in 2018

11:30-11:50 Thorsten Stoeck et al. Microbial eukaryotes in Mars analog field sites on Iceland

11:50-12:10 Sabine Filker et al. Diversity and adaptation strategies of halophilic

microeukaryotes

12:10-12:30 Daniela Billi et al. Insights into the molecular basis of Chroococcidiopsis’s

survival after exposure to space and Mars

12:30-12:50 Tetyana Milojevic and Wolfram

Weckwerth

Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Survivability in Outer

Space

12:50-13:10 Christopher E. Carr et al. Informational polymers as unambiguous biomarkers for

aqueous-based life

13:10-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-14:45 Iris Haberkorn et al. High-throughput sequencing based analysis of Chlorella

vulgaris associated microbial diversity

14:45-15:00 Rosa Santomartino et al. We will BioRock you: influence of microgravity on microbe-

mineral interaction of Sphingomonas desiccabilis in

preparation for the International Space Station (ISS)

15:00-15:15 Felix M. Fuchs et al. Resistance properties and structural analysis of Bacillus

subtilis biofilms and spores grown in simulated microgravity

15:15-15:30 Janosch Schirmack and Dirk

Schulze-Makuch

Comparison of different sterilization methods on bacteria

embedded in Mars Regolith Analog

15:30-15:45 Ankita Vaishampayan et al. A novel antimicrobial coating inhibits biofilm formation of

MRSA

15:45-16:00 Katharina Siems et al. Copper kills microbes - the microbial struggle addressed in the

upcoming ESA space experiment BIOFILMS

16:00-16:20 David J. Smith et al. What the Earth's Stratosphere Can Teach Us about Searching

for Life on Mars

16:20-16:30 Ralf Möller and Elisabeth

Grohmann

Summary & session closing

16:30-16:45 European Astrobiology Institute

16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:30 Poster session 2

18:30 DAbG Members Meeting

Friday, 28 September 2018

Session 10: Planetary analog research and extreme conditions on Earth Chairs: Kish and Rennie

09:00-09:15 Doron Lancet Enceladus organic chemistry supports Origin of Life in a

Lipid-World scenario

09:15-09:30 Hugo Moors and Mieke De Craen A physico-chemical and geo-microbiological study of ten

different lakes located in the Danakil depression

09:30-09:45 Dirk Schulze-Makuch et al. Islands of Habitability in the Atacama Desert

09:45-10:00 Alessandro Airo et al. Adaptation of microbial communities to distinct soil

microhabitats in the hyperarid Atacama Desert,

10:00-10:15 Nikea Ulrich et al., presented by

Ralf Möller

Microbial diversity within the vicinity of the Antarctic

Concordia Station - an analog for human exploration sites on

Mars or the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn

10:15-10:30 Jean-Pierre de Vera et al. New terrestrial Mars analog habitat sites in the permafrost of

continental Antarctica (North Victoria Land Mountains)

10:30-10:45 Bjarke Haldrup et al. A method for studying Tardigrade energetics using O2 micro-

gradients.

10:45-11:00 David Slade et al. Methane production by a psychrophilic methanogen in

simulated thermophysical subsurface Mars conditions

11:00-11:15 Alex B. Price et al. Experimental assessment of nitrate-dependent iron oxidation as

a metabolism for Noachian Mars

11:15-11:30 Chanenath Sriaporn et al. Molecular characterization of digitate siliceous

microstromatolites in terrestrial hot springs as analogues for

biosignature candidates at Columbia Hills, Mars

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

Session 11: Evolution of life and its environment Chairs: Billi and Schirmack

12:00-12:30 Karin Moelling Invited talk: Viruses everywhere! - Viruses first?

12:30-12:45 Cecilia G. Flocco et al. Antarctic microbial communities shed light on crucial

adaptation mechanisms under environmental extremes

12:45-13:00 Sevasti Filippidou et al. Serratia ureilytica differentiates into resistant cell type in order

to adapt in poly-extreme environment

13:00-13:15 Irma Lozada-Chávez et al. Differential evolution of non-coding DNA across eukaryotes

and its close relationship with complex multicellularity

Announcements

13:15-13:30 Frances Westall, Ralf Möller and

Lena Noack

Space Factor and Poster Award Ceremony

13:30-13:45 Frances Westall Closing of EANA 2018

13:45-14:15 Lunch break (optional)

14:15 Friday afternoon tours Offered tours:

- Visit to Natural History Museum (free entry)

- Sightseeing Tour Berlin city center (free)

- DLR Germany Aerospace Center, 3D flight over Mars (free)

- Visit of Potsdam institutes and Potsdam city center (5€)

Poster Contributions

Adrienne Kish

Are the Adaptations Used by Microorganisms at the Limits of

Life "One-Size-Fits-All" or "Bespoke"?

Agata Maria Kołodziejczyk Astrobiology in Lunares Research Station in Poland

Alexandra Whicher et al. Substrate-level phosphorylation by acetyl phosphate enhanced

by brucite under abiotic conditions

Andrew W. Dickinson and Charles Cockell Simultaneously occurring extremes: charting the boundaries of

habitability space on Earth

Aram de Haas et al. The effects of space radiation on filamentous fungi

Arjen Boosman et al. Student Contest: UV-induced methane and volatile organic

carbon emission from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite

Avinash Vicholous Dass et al. Potential role of confinement to prebiotic chemistry

Berivan Esen et al. Characterising the influence of phyllosilicate clay minerals on

fatty acids during py-GC/MS analysis

Boris Hespeels et al. RISE – Rotifers In SpacE – new eukaryotic extremophile

model organisms to study the impact of radiation and micro-

gravity on biological processes?

Cristian Chavez et al.

On the Thermal Inertia and Physical Properties of Larissa and

Schubart Asteroids, Tracers of Solar System Evolution

Cécile Bopp et al.

Iron Ladies – How desiccated asexual rotifer species deal with

high dose Fe irradiation?

Chetanath Neupane Protein structure of exoplanet species (if any)

Christian Anders and H. M. Urbassek Jupiters magnetosphere interacting with cometary ice surfaces

Christophe Lenert and Nader Haghighipour The Effect of Giant Planet Migration on the Formation of

close-in Super-Earth

Corinna Panitz et al. Icy exposure of microorganisms – ICEXPOSE

Dawid Przystupski et al. The cytoprotective role of antioxidants in mammalian cells

exposed to variable temperature, pressure, overload and

radiation in the stratosphere

Denise Koelbl et al. Biomineralization and selective cell preservation of

dehydrated extreme thermoacidophile archaeon

Metallosphaera sedula grown on terrestrial and extraterrestrial

minerals

Dirk Schulze-Makuch and William Bains How to Search for Complex Life on Exoplanets with Next-

Generation Space Telescopes

Dirk Schulze-Makuch et al. A Possibly Brief Habitable Period on Our Moon 3.5 G.a.

Years Ago

Elias Chatzitheodoridis et al. Sample storage and curation during a sample return mission to

Mars

Eloi Camprubi Casas et al. Acetyl phosphate directs the formose reaction towards ribose

Emanuel Ott et al. Student Contest: The molecular response of Deinococcus

radiodurans to real and simulated outer space environment

Ettore Pedretti

Bacterial discrimination in human lung as a proxy to identify

life

Fabian Klenner et al. Analog Mass Spectra of Astrobiologically Relevant Organic

Material for Spaceborne Mass Spectrometers

Fabian Schmidt and Jan Hendrik Bredehöft Interstellar formic acid by versatile water chemistry

Federico Panichi et al. On the modelling of the Kepler-30 planetary system

Florian Panhölzl et al. Manganese-associated molecular mechanisms of Deinococcus

radiodurans

Gaia Micca Longo et al. Atmospheric entry model for white soft minerals

micrometeoroids in the context of Astrobiology

George Cann et al. Development of a Mars modified Tau-REx for ExoMars TGO

NOMAD

Gözen Ertem et al. Protection of organic compounds from gamma radiation by

Mars analogue minerals

Hanadi Rammu et al. Stability and morphology of mixed amphiphile vesicles under

hydrothermal vent conditions

Hector Andreas Stavrakakis and Elias

Chatzitheodoridis

Extraction of water on Mars with electrokinetics.

Hirofumi Hashimoto et al. Temperature Measurement with Mechanical Space

Thermometer for TANPOPO

Hugo Moors Habitable planet “Earth”: We owe everything to microbes!

Ioannis Ioannou et al. Spontaneous formation of iron-sulfur clusters under alkaline

hydrothermal conditions

Irene Bonati et al. Direct imaging of magma oceans in nearby young stellar

associations

Jacob Heinz et al.

Halotolerance of Planococcus halocryophilus in chloride and

perchlorate brines

Kai Waldemar Finster et al. What kills permafrost microbes during Marssimulations?

More new questions than answers.

Kamal Albdeery

Abiogenically Relevant Self-Assembly Processes in Silica

Hydrogels

Kateřina Němečková et al. Detection of carotenoids of snow algae using Raman

spectroscopy

Keyron Hickman-Lewis et al. Study of Archaean cellular remains by means of the

Transmission Electron Microscope

Kristina Kislyakova et al. Effective induction heating of exoplanets

Krzysztof Rychert Detection of metabolism in dune sand of low organic content

L.J. Perera et al. Habitat formation during freezing of aqueous systems

Laura Selbmann et al. Life beyond Earth: the antarctic black fungus in planetary

simulations

Lena Noack et al. Habitability of rocky exoplanets - from star to planet

Łukasz Kaczmarek and Bartłomiej Gołdyn Can tardigrades survive in Martian conditions?

Łukasz Kaczmarek and Bartłomiej Gołdyn Water bears (Tardigrada) – space invertebrates

Lynda Beladjal et al. Life from the ashes: survival of dry bacterial spores after very

high temperature exposure

Madhu Kashyap Jagadeesh et al. Rock dependent extremophiles – indexing of rocky exoplanets

Manet E. Peña-Salinas1,2, Patricia G. Núñez3,

Ronald M. Spelz-Madero 1, and Roberto

Vázquez2

Recently discovered hydrothermal vents at Gulf of California

in Mexico may harbor microbial diversity and its potential to

the Astrobiology field

Maria Cavallius et al. Student Contest: Water Vapour in the Beta Pictoris Debris

Disk

Mariano Battistuzzi et al. Student Contest: An experimental setup to study by remote

sensing analyses cyanobacteria growth and photosynthetic

performances under non-terrestrial simulated environments

Marta Cortesao et al. Student Contest: Fungi in space: Implications for astronaut

health and planetary protection

Marta Ruiz-Bermejo et al. Photochemistry of Cyanide in Water/Ice Interphases:

Implications for Icy Worlds

Michael C. Macey et al. Prokaryotes at Colour Peak – An analogue for the Icy Moons

Michael C. Macey et al. Microbial diversity in simulated martian chemical

environments

Mickaël Baqué et al. Distribution of Raman biosignatures in salt nodules from the

hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

Mikołaj Matuszczak Determining orbits means discovering traces of ancient life

Natalie Gutmann-Özgen et al. Molecular response of Deinococcus radiodurans exposed to

vacuum conditions of Low Earth Orbit

Nikolas Tsakonas et al. Student Contest: Extreme Environments and Space

Architecture

Nina Kopacz et al. The catalytic properties of minerals and their role in prebiotic

Olga Kochina

Deuterated isotopologues of water and other astrobiologicaly

important species in regions of star formation

P. P. Desai et al.

Student Contest: Development of Compact Sensor System

for Detection of Water Activity

Patricia G. Núñez et al. First Findings on Tardigrades of Baja California, Mexico

Pauli Laine Life on Icy Worlds? Emergence vs. Panspermia

Peter M. Higgins and Charles S. Cockell Student Contest: A New Model to Estimate Energy Flow and

Biomass in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments

Raven Adam et al. Student Contest: Evolution of the Martian atmosphere

Robert B. Bruner

Exhibition: Meteorites and Minerals associated with the

Origin of Life

Robert B. Bruner

Mini Version of Exhibit of Meteorites and Minerals associated

with the Origin of Life

Rosie Cane et al. A Quantitative Approach to Life in Extremes

S. Adeli et al.

Phyllosilicates and chlorides in evaporitic setting as key

targets in the search for life on Mars

S. Gálvez and E. Mateo-Martí Study of small peptides adsorption on sputtered modify pyrite

surface by XPS

S. Wolf et al.

OREOcube – ORganics Exposure in Orbit: Photostability of

organic molecules and biomarkers in space and planetary

environments

Santosh Roychowdhury et al. Understanding Photosynthesis process on Lunar Surface using

Extremophiles

Sarah R.N. McIntyre Habitable Zone ≠ Liquid Water Zone?

Saúl A. Villafañe-Barajas et al. Student Contest: The thermolysis of HCN from a prebiotic

chemistry perspective

Shin-ichi Yokobori et al. Quest for ancestors of eukaryotic cells; Implications from

evolution of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases

Sohan Jheeta The Dogma: Revisited

Tetyana Milojevic et al. Dehydration, preservation and associated biomineralization

patterns of the extreme thermoacidophile Metallosphaera

sedula grown on terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials

Theresa Backhaus et al. Characterization of survival potential of the lichen Buellia

frigida after 1.5 years in Space on the International Space

Station as part of the BIOMEX project

Ulrich Schreiber and Christian Mayer From Molecules to Pre-LUCA World

Vladimir S. Cheptsov et al. Viability of the soil and permafrost microbial communities

after irradiation with gamma radiation and accelerated

electrons under simulated Martian and open space conditions

Vanessa Schmidt et al. The Influence of Stellar Variability on the Atmosphere of

Proxima Centauri b

Vincent Rennie et al. Azorean hydrothermal polyextremophiles: A case study

exploring the limits of habitability in acidic thermal springs

Vinciane Debaille et al., presented by Séverine

Robert

ET-HOME: Evolution and Tracers of Habitability on Mars

and the Earth

Vladimir Kompanichenko Transformation of Prebiotic Microsystems into Primary Forms

of Life under Oscillating Conditions: the Inversion Concept

Vladimir V. Sorokin et al. A microfluidic device for the detection of microbes based on

biogenically formed silver nanoparticles

Weronika Erdmann Tardigrades in extraterrestrial conditions – chances of survival

Weronika Erdmann et al. Changes in expression level of transcripts encoding stress

proteins in Tardigrades in hipomagnetic conditions

Yongda Li et al.

Development of methods for the detection of life-inhibiting

peroxidants in Mars-like soils

Yuchen Shang et al. An Integrated Sensing Capability for Astrobiology

Yuko Kawaguchi et al. Survival and DNA damage of cell-aggregate of Deinococcus

spp. exposed to KIBO-ISS for two-years in Tanpopo mission

Yvette Marie Gonzalez Human Space Exploration: Resilience, Training, Cooperation,

Sustainability, and Policy