P41B:
Investigating Mineral-Organic Interactions Relevant to Astrobiological Systems on Mars and Other Planetary Bodies I Posters

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Session ID#: 29220

Session Description:
Laboratory investigations of mineral-organic chemistry are essential in planetary analogue research for astrobiology in order to understand chemical biomarkers, potential physical biosignatures, and the original in-situ biology present in a geological system. Many water-rock and water-mineral interactions can drive reactions relevant to prebiotic chemistry and/or provide energy to support extant life, and these processes can leave a significant amount of physical and/or chemical traces after the fluvial activity has ended. Furthermore it is critical to understand the geobiological pathways, quantified by biotic evidence, from the original organics to their in-situ habits to laboratory analogues testing the limits of habitability. For biotic processes this requires an interplay between microbiology, planetary geobiology, chemistry, and sedimentology. This session will address the mineral-organic interactions relevant to life origins, astrobiology, and detection that may have occurred on Mars and other terrestrial worlds, and show pathways toward deconvoluting these signs from abiotic or prebiotic processes.
Primary Convener:  David S Holmes, Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Center for Bioinformatics and Genome Biology, Santiago, Chile; Andres Bello National University, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Las Condes, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Conveners:  Scott M Perl, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Jorge Valdés, Universidad Mayor, Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Santiago, Chile and Laura M Barge, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jorge Valdés, Universidad Mayor, Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Santiago, Chile and David S Holmes, Andres Bello National University, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Las Condes, Region Metropolitana, Chile
OSPA Liaison:  David S Holmes, Andres Bello National University, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Las Condes, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Co-Organized with:
Planetary Sciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Ocean Sciences, and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

0424 Biosignatures and proxies [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0448 Geomicrobiology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0463 Microbe/mineral interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Effect of Hydration State of Martian Perchlorate Salts on their Decomposition Temperatures during Thermal Extraction (206584)
Samuel Howard Royle, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Wren Montgomery, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Samuel P Kounaves, Tufts University, Medford, United States and Mark A Sephton, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Organic Adsorption Capacity of Aluminum for Potential Mars Sample Return Contamination Analysis (232803)
Emilie J Skoog, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Michael L Tuite Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kenneth H Williford, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Astrobiology Training in Lava Tubes (ATiLT): Characterizing coralloid speleothems in basaltic lava tubes as a Mars analogue (243035)
Jenny Ni1, Richard J Leveille2 and Peter Douglas1, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
Flash pyrolysis of adsorbed aromatic organic acids on carbonate minerals: Assessing the impact of mineralogy for the identification of organic compounds in extraterrestrial bodies (260337)
Rabia Zafar, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering Department, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom; Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Environmental Science Department, Quetta, Pakistan
Exploring Planetary Analogs With an Ultracompact Near-Infrared Reflectance Instrument (263410)
Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States and Alian Wang, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
Biogenic iron oxide transformation by hyperthermophiles: spectral and physiological potentials (289976)
Srishti Kashyap, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, United States, Ms. Elizabeth Sklute, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Melinda Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States and James F Holden, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States
Geobiological Comparisons of Preservation Potential within Hypersaline Mineral-Microbe Systems (293234)
Scott M Perl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Aaron J Celestian, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Parag Vaishampayan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planetary Protection, Pasadena, United States, Arman Seuylemezian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Taleen Mahseredjian, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Bonnie Baxter, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Characterization of Serpentine Samples from the Coast Range Ophiolite Microbial Observatory with μ-FTIR and XRD. ­­ (299570)
Alexander Sousa, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Dawn Cardace, University of Rhode Island, Geosciences, Narragansett, United States
Visualizing Organic Textures and Biosignatures: Analysis of the Deep Biosphere, Meteorites, and Mars  (301364)
Rohit Bhartia, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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