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Session Highlights

Session 2: Advances in Astrobiological Instrumentation Development

2-10-O. Exploration of the Habitability of Mars with the SAM Suite Investigation on the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory

2-11-O. Lab-On-A-Chip: From Astrobiology to the International Space Station

2-14-O. The Mars Oxidant Instrument

Session 3: Approaches and Technologies To Detect Life On Mars

3-08-O. Detection Methods for Anticipated Hydrogen Peroxide-Water Based Life On Mars

3-13-O. Detection of Biogenic Molecules by Means of Circularly Polarized Light

Session 5: Astrobiology and the Human Exploration of Mars

5-03-O. Human Enabled Biological Investigations of Mars: The HEM-SAG Perspective

5-04-O. Human Exploration of Mars: The Role of Geophysical Investigations in the Search for Life

5-06-O. The Human Exploration of Mars, 2: Geology and Geophysics Investigations

5-07-O. The Human Exploration of Mars, 1: Astrobiology and Atmosphere/Climate Investigations

Session 7: Astrovirology

7-01-O. Evolution and Minority Subpopulations Within RNA Virus Quasispecies

7-04-O. Silicification of Viruses in a Simulated Hydrothermal Environment

7-05-O. Extinction Versus Sustained Replication in RNA Virus Populations Evolving at High Error Rate

7-06-O. Theory of Lethal Defection

Session 8: Biological and Environmental Signatures in Archean Rocks, Part 3: Chemical Signatures of Biology and Environments

8-02-O. A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event

8-27-O. Creation of Large MIF-S during Thermochemical Sulfate Reduction

Session 10: Chemical and Biological Determinants of Habitability

10-01-O. Minerals, Organics, Water, Origins and Planetary Habitability

10-05-O. Energy as a Determinant of Habitability

10-09-O. What is Special About Water as a Matrix of Life?

Session 11: Chemical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Habitable Worlds

11-03-O. Chemical and Dynamic Modeling of Terrestrial Planet Formation

11-05-O. Organic Molecules in the Planet-Forming Regions of Disks

Session 13: The Deep Cold Biosphere? Interior Processes of Icy Satellites and Dwarf Planets

13-03-O. Molecules in the Geyser from Enceladus

13-09-O. Habitability of Encaledus: Planetary Conditions for Life

13-11-O. Long-Lived Serpentinization Activity in Habitable Icy Worlds

Session 16: Extraterrestrial Organic Chemistry - Biological, Pre-Biological, and Abiological,        Part 1: Organic Chemistry in Interstellar Environments

16-37-O. Astrophysical Carbon

Session 16, Part 2: Sampling and Simulations

16-10-O. Photostability of Organic Compounds in Space Environments

Session 18: Functional Complexity of Modern Stromatolites and Microbial Mats

18-03-O. Potential Geochemical Challenges on Bacterial Quorum Sensing in Natural Microbial Mats

18-20-O. Biogeochemistry and Diversity of Open Marine Stromatolites and Hypersaline Lithifying Microbial Mats

Session 21: The Habitable Galaxy: Variation in Space and Time

21-08-O. Cycles of Fossil Diversity

Session 23: Laboratory Analogue Environments For Studying Geochemical and Biological Processes on Planetary Surfaces, Part 1: Atmospheric Processes on Mars and Titan

23-04-O. Optical Properties of Titan and Early Earth Haze Analogs

23-14-O. Laboratory Measurements of Adsorbed Water on Dust Under Martian Atmospheric Conditions

Session 24: Inorganic and Organic Biosignatures in Minerals:

Part 2, Mineral and Chemical Biosignatures

24-16-O. Sulfate Reducing Bacterial Activity at a Hematite Surface Promotes Formation of the Iron Sulfide Pyrrhotite

24-20-O. Mineral Evolution of Terrestrial Planets

24-32-O. Behaviors of Redox Sensitive Elements in Subaerial- and Submarine Weathering Products as Proxies for the Chemical and Biological Environments of Early Earth

24-56-O. Microbially-mediated Mineralization: A Lesson in the Present for Interpreting the Past?

24-58-O. Nano-structured Minerals as Biosignatures of Microbial Activities

Session 24, Part 3: Mineral and Chemical Biosignatures

24-36-O. Graphite Associated with Apatite in the ~3.83 Ga Quartz-pyroxene Rock from Akilia, Southwest Greenland

24-53-O. Reassessment of the "Life on Mars" Hypothesis

Session 24, Part 4: Isotope Biosignatures

24-40-O. A Reassessment of the Evidence for Sulfur-Based Microbial Metabolic Activity in the Early Archean at the North Pole, Western Australia

Session 24, Part 5: Isotope Biosignatures

24-33-O. How a Novel International Astrobiology Education Project Changed the Understanding of Science for Almost Half the Participating Students

Session 24, Poster:

24-35-P. Theoretical Investigations of Equilibrium and Surface Adsorption Effects on Mass-dependent Fractionation in Multiple Sulfur Isotope Systems

Session 27: Methane and Life?

27-14-O. Methane and Life? Constraints from Higher Hydrocarbon Gases and Associated Trace Gases

27-17-O. Production of Isotopically Heavy Biogenic Methane at High Pressures and Temperatures

Session 31: Spectra of Asteroid Belts, Kuiper Belts, and Giant Planets

31-03-O. Spitzer Emissivity Spectra of Asteroids and Icy Bodies: Solar System Context for Studies of Asteroid and Kuiper Belts in Other Planetary Systems

Session 33: Subsurface Microorganisms in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments

33-13-O. The Effects of Impacts on the Deep Subsurface Biosphere of Earth: Preliminary Results from the 2005 ICDP-USGS Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Drilling Project

33-17-O. Environmental Genomics Reveals a Single Species Ecosystem Deep Within the Earth

Session 34: Synthetic Cells and Life's Origin

34-03-O. A Self-Assembly Approach to Synthetic Biology and the Origin of a Pre-RNA World