18th EANA Conference European Astrobiology Network Association

24-28 September 2018

Freie Universität Berlin,

Sponsors:

Scientific Organizing Committee (EANA Council):

 Daniela Billi, Italy  Oleg Kotsyurbenko, Russia  Alexis Brandeker,  Helmut Lammer,  John Brucato, Italy  Harry Lehto, Finland  Barbara Cavalazzi, Italy  Kirsi Lehto, Finland  Elias Chatzitheodoridis, Greece  Zita Martins, Portugal  Charles Cockell, UK  Nigel Mason, UK  Hervé Cottin,  Ralf Möller, Germany  Rosa De la Torre, Spain  Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Austria  Jean-Pierre De Vera, Germany  Lena Noack, Germany  René Demets, ESA  Karen Olsson-Francis, UK  Cristina Dobrota, Romania  François Raulin, France  , The  Petra Rettberg, Germany  Franco Ferrari, Poland  Séverine Robert, Belgium  Kai Finster, Denmark  Gyorgyi Ronto, Hungary  Muriel Gargaud, France  Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Germany  Beda Hofmann,  Alan Schwartz, The Netherlands  Nils Holm, Sweden  Ewa Szuszkiewicz, Poland  Jan Jehlicka, Czech Republic  Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Austria  Jean-Luc Josset, Switzerland  Jorge Vago, The Netherlands  Kensei Kobayashi, Japan  Frances Westall, France

Local Organizing Committee:

 Lena Noack (FU)  Lutz Hecht (MfN, FU)  Jean-Pierre de Vera (DLR, DAbG)  Jacob Heinz (TU)  Dirk Schulze-Makuch (TU, DAbG)  Dennis Höning (VU Amsterdam)  Alessandro Airo (TU)  Deborah Maus (TU)  Felix Arens (FU)  Ralf Möller (DLR)  Alexander Balduin  Carolin Rabethge (FU)  Mickael Baqué (DLR)  Heike Rauer (DLR, TU, FU)  Doris Breuer (DLR)  Christof Sager (FU)  Andreas Elsässer (FU)  Janosch Schirmack (TU)  Georg Feulner (PIK)  Dirk Wagner (GFZ, Uni Potsdam, DAbG)  Mareike Godolt (DLR, TU)  Sebastian Wolf (FU)  John Lee Grenfell (DLR)  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, [email protected]

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 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 . 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- Welcome address for joint EANA / German Astrobiology Makuch, R. Möller Society (DAbG) / VAAM Space Microbiology meeting Session 1: Exoplanets and exo- 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 An Accurate and Quantitative Model of the Formation of Maindl 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 Understanding cometary ice chemistry after Fabian Schmidt 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 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. A New Model to Estimate Energy Flow and Biomass in Cockell 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- Autonomous Anomaly Detection Used as a Primary Novel Makuch 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 Nitrogen recovery from urine in Space: a case for nitrification by Amanda Luther 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 Common properties of life in the Universe: Lessons from the Hassanali 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 From quantum computational physics to the origins of life Pietrucci 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- Pyrite surface a crucial substrate for small peptides adsorption Martinez 16:00-16:15 Manesh Prakash Joshi and Sudha Formation and stability of prebiotically plausible membranes Rajamani 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 Welcome address Grohmann 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 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 ’s survival after exposure to space and Mars 12:30-12:50 Tetyana Milojevic and Wolfram Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Survivability in Outer Weckwerth 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 biofilms and spores grown in simulated microgravity 15:15-15:30 Janosch Schirmack and Dirk Comparison of different sterilization methods on bacteria Schulze-Makuch 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 Summary & session closing Grohmann 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 Microbial diversity within the vicinity of the Antarctic Ralf Möller 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 energetics using O2 micro- gradients. 10:45-11:00 David Slade et al. Methane production by a psychrophilic 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 Space Factor and Poster Award Ceremony Lena Noack 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 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 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 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 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 conditions Hector Andreas Stavrakakis and Elias Extraction of water on Mars with electrokinetics. Chatzitheodoridis 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 survive in Martian conditions? Łukasz Kaczmarek and Bartłomiej Gołdyn Water bears (Tardigrada) – space invertebrates Life from the ashes: survival of dry bacterial spores after very Lynda Beladjal et al. high temperature exposure

Madhu Kashyap Jagadeesh et al. Rock dependent – indexing of rocky exoplanets Manet E. Peña-Salinas1,2, Patricia G. Núñez3, Recently discovered hydrothermal vents at Gulf of California Ronald M. Spelz-Madero 1, and Roberto in Mexico may harbor microbial diversity and its potential to Vázquez2 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 ET-HOME: Evolution and Tracers of Habitability on Mars Robert 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