B11F:
The Thermodynamics of Life Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
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
 
How the Second Law of Thermodynamics Has Informed Ecosystem Ecology through Its History
Eric J Chapman1, Daniel L Childers1 and Joseph John Vallino2, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Ecosystems Ctr, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Sunlight-Driven, Water-Mediated Generation of Prebiotic Complexity
Rebecca Rapf1, Elizabeth C. Griffith1, Russell J. Perkins1 and Veronica Vaida2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Temperature Dependence of Biological Rates from Enzymes to Ecosystems
Vickery L Arcus and Louis A Schipper, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
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
 
Geobiochemistry: Placing Biochemistry in Its Geochemical Context
Everett Shock1, Grayson Maxwell Boyer1, Peter A Canovas III1, Apar Prasad1 and Jeffrey M Dick2, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
 
Environmental and bioenergetic constraints on the synthesis of biomass
Doug LaRowe and Jan Amend, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
NONEQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATES IN MODELS OF PREBIOTIC EVOLUTION
J Woods Halley and Aaron Wynveen, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 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
 
Volumetric Properties of Dilute Aqueous Solutions of 1- and 2-propanol to 50 MPa and 373.15 K
Jeffery Seitz1, Jennifer 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
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
 
Bioenergetic Limitations on Slow Microbial Growth in the Subsurface: What is the Burden of Maintenance on the Overall Energy Budget?
Christina Marie Smeaton1, Bijendra Man Bajracharya2, Christine Ridenour3 and Philippe Van Cappellen1, (1)University of Waterloo, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (3)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
 
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
 
Energetic Constraints of Subseafloor Life
Steven D'Hondt1, Arthur J Spivack1 and Guizhi Wang2, (1)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
 
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