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-moons 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 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 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” 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 Deinococcus 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 Elias Chatzitheodoridis et al., Sample storage and curation during a sample return mission to presented by Nikolas Tsakonas Mars 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: History, social sciences, outreach, education 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 eukaryotes 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 Chroococcidiopsis’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 Bacillus subtilis 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 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. Microbial diversity within the vicinity of the Antarctic 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 Tardigrade energetics using O2 micro- gradients. 10:45-11:00 David Slade et al. Methane production by a psychrophilic methanogen 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 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 - DLR Germany Aerospace Center, 3D flight over Mars - Visit of Potsdam institutes and Potsdam city center

Poster Contributions

Adrienne Kish Are the Adaptations Used by Microorganisms at the Limits of Life "One-Size-Fits-All" or "Bespoke"? 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 extremophile 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 Moon 3.5 G.a. Years Ago Elias Chatzitheodoridis et al., presented by Nikolas Student Contest: Sample storage and curation during a sample Tsakonas 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 Deinococcus radiodurans 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 hydrothermal vent 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 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 Life beyond Earth: the ant Lena Noack et al. Habitability of rocky exoplanets - from star to planet Can tardigrades survive in Martian conditions? 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 extremophiles – 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 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 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 Mini Version of Exhibit of Meteorites and Minerals associated with the Origin of Life Robert B. Bruner Exhibition: 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 Sagarika Rao Valluri The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Review Santosh Roychowdhury et al. Understanding Photosynthesis process on Lunar Surface using Extremophiles Sarah R.N. McIntyre 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. ET-HOME: Evolution and Tracers of Habitability on Mars 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