Chairs: Michael H New, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Lindsay E Hays, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners: Lindsay E Hays, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners: Michael H New, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Lindsay E Hays, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Maximum Entropy Production As a Framework for Understanding How Living Systems Evolve, Organize and Function
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)Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Bioenergetic and Geobiological Possibilities of Methanotrophy on Mars
Jeffrey J Marlow1, Douglas LaRowe2, Bethany L Ehlmann3, Jan Amend2 and Victoria J Orphan3, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Isolation and Characterization of Microbes Mediating Thermodynamically Favorable Coupling of Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane and Metal Reduction
Jennifer B Glass1, Benjamin C Reed1, Neha D Sarode1, Cecilia Batmalle Kretz1, Marcus S Bray1, Thomas J DiChristina1, Frank J Stewart1, David A Fowle2 and Sean A Crowe3, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Power and Biological Potential
Tori M Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Sanjoy M Som, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States, Chris Kempes, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Bo Barker Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus, Denmark
The Thermodynamics of Life on a Planetary Scale
Shawn D Domagal-Goldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sanjoy M Som, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States, Tori M Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, James F Kasting, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States and Victoria Suzanne Meadows, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Biological activity at the limits of life: Microbial cycling of C, S and N in cold, permanently stratified, hypersaline Lake Vanda, Antarctica.
Samantha Benton Joye1, Charles Schutte1, Vladimir Samarkin2, Karen L Casciotti3, Michael Madigan4 and Matthew Saxton1, (1)Univ Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, (4)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Microbiology, Carbondale, IL, United States