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AbSciCon 2008 Topical Sessions
Abstracts are invited for the following sessions, including a "General" session. Each title links to further information including the session description and organizer's contact information. The session number also appears on the on-line abstract submission forms. Click on the session title to see the details.
- Plenary Sessions
- Advances in Astrobiological Instrumentation Development
- Approaches and Technologies to Detect Life on Mars
- Astrobiology and Lunar Exploration
- Astrobiology and the Human Exploration of Mars
- Astrobiology Missions on Small Satellites, Sounding Rockets, and Balloons.
- Astrovirology
- Biological and Environmental Signatures in Archean Rocks
- Certified Organic: Astrobiology and the latest developments in organic geochemistry, biochemistry and organic assays
- Chemical and Biological Determinants of Habitability
- Chemical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Habitable Worlds
- Comets and Primitive Asteroids: Their Role in Supplying Water and Pre-biotic Organics to Early Earths
- The Deep Cold Biosphere? Interior Processes of Icy Satellites and Dwarf Planets
- Earth Analog Studies for Astobiology: ASTEP and beyond
- The Evolution of the Biogeochemical Cycling of Phosphorus and other Bioessential Elements
- Extraterrestrial Organic Chemistry - Biological, Pre-Biological, and Abiological
- Formation, Composition, and Detection of Habitable Extrasolar Planets
- Functional Complexity of Modern Stromatolites and Microbial Mats
- Future SETI: Technologies, Techniques and Strategies
- Getting Smarter about Intelligence
- The Habitable Galaxy: Variation in Space and Time
- Habitability of Super-Earths
- Laboratory Analogue Environments for Studying Geochemical and Biological Processes on Planetary Surfaces
- Inorganic and Organic Biosignatures in Minerals
- Is the Universe Optimally Right for Life?
- Mars Sample Return Planning Issues
- Methane and Life?
- Microbial life in Terrestrial Arid Environments
- The New Mars: Habitability of a Neighbor World
- Planetary Protection Constraints for Future Exobiology Missions
- Spectra of Asteroid Belts, Kuiper Belts, and Giant Planets
- Stardust: Organic Matter in Comet 81P/Wild 2
- Subsurface Microorganisms in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments
- Synthetic Cells and Life's Origins
- Teaching Astrobiology to Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Water and Life: Redefining the Habitable Zone of Terrestrial Planets.
- Origin of Life
- Evolution
- Life in Extreme Environments