B11F:
The Thermodynamics of Life Posters
Session ID#: 2707
Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs: Michael H New, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Lindsay E Hays, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Convener: Lindsay E Hays, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Convener: Michael H New, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Lindsay E Hays, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
Virtual Option?: No
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Maximum Entropy Production As a Framework for Understanding How Living Systems Evolve, Organize and Function (Invited) (2531)
Joseph John Vallino1,2, Christopher K Algar2,3, Julie A Huber4,5 and Nuria Fernandez-Gonzalez6, (1)Ecosystems Ctr, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Sunlight-Driven, Water-Mediated Generation of Prebiotic Complexity (6607)
Rebecca Rapf1, Elizabeth C. Griffith1, Russell Perkins2 and Veronica Vaida3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Bioenergetic and Geobiological Possibilities of Methanotrophy on Mars (14587)
Jeffrey J Marlow, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Douglas LaRowe, Southern Methodist University, Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jan Amend, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Victoria J Orphan, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
Geobiochemistry: Placing Biochemistry in Its Geochemical Context (Invited) (10801)
Everett Shock1, Grayson Maxwell Boyer1, Peter A Canovas2, Apar Prasad2 and Jeffrey M Dick3, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Isolation and Characterization of Microbes Mediating Thermodynamically Favorable Coupling of Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane and Metal Reduction (18128)
Jennifer B Glass1, Benjamin C Reed2, Neha D Sarode2, Cecilia Batmalle Kretz2, Marcus Salvatore Bray3, Thomas J DiChristina2, Frank J Stewart2, David A Fowle4 and Sean Crowe5, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (4)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, (5)University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Volumetric Properties of Dilute Aqueous Solutions of 1- and 2-propanol to 50 MPa and 373.15 K (19381)
Jeffery Seitz1, Jennie Bahramian1, Rebecca Blackwell1, Taichi Inaki1, Drew York1 and Mitchell D Schulte2, (1)California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Power and Biological Potential (30354)
Tori M Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Sanjoy M Som, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, United States, Chris Kempes, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, United States and Bo Barker Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus, Denmark
The Thermodynamics of Life on a Planetary Scale (22984)
Shawn D Domagal-Goldman, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Sanjoy M Som, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, United States, Tori M Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, James F Kasting, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Victoria Suzanne Meadows, SETI Institute, Seattle, United States and The Virtual Planetary Laboratory
Biological activity at the limits of life: Microbial cycling of C, S and N in cold, permanently stratified, hypersaline Lake Vanda, Antarctica. (32116)
Samantha Benton Joye, Univ Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Charles A Schutte, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, NJ, United States, Vladimir Samarkin, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Karen L Casciotti, Stanford University, Oceans Department, Stanford, United States, Michael Thomas Madigan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Microbiology, Carbondale, IL, United States and Matthew Saxton, Univ Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Energetic Constraints of Subseafloor Life (Invited) (27834)
Steven D'Hondt, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Arthur J Spivack, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Guizhi Wang, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
