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Program for Session 16d

Monday 22nd June PM: Room S1/Ro

16d (Oral): Exobiology: Are any terrestrial extremophiles plausible proxies for hypothesized microbial life on Venus, Mars, or the Jovian planets and their satellites (e.g., Titan, Europa, Callisto, Enceladus)?
Session chaired by Mary Voytek & David DesMarais

16:15  Keynote: Hints of Habitable Environments on Mars Challenge our Studies of Mars Analog Sites on Earth
Des Marais D
16:45  Invited: Preservation Under the Río Tinto Extreme Acidic Conditions and a Potential Location on Aram Chaos, Mars
Fernández-Remolar D, Johnson E, Clelan T, Lichtenberg K, Menor-Salvan C, Schweitzer M, Amils R, Parro V & Arvidson R
17:00  Invited: The Use of Low Earth Orbit to Select for Extremophilic Cyanobacteria
Olsson-Francis K, de la Torre R & Cockell C
17:15  Invited: Microbial Survival Mechanisms in the Cold Subsurface
Amato P, Doyle S & Christner B

Thursday 25th June PM: Room ICE

16d (Poster): Exobiology: Are any terrestrial extremophiles plausible proxies for hypothesized microbial life on Venus, Mars, or the Jovian planets and their satellites (e.g., Titan, Europa, Callisto, Enceladus)?

348  Life Detection Strategy for Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica: Lessons for Jovian Moon Europa
Bulat S, Alekhina I & Petit J-R
349  Life in Subglacial Lavas as an Analogue for Life on Mars
Cousins C, Ward J, Crawford I, Towner M & Jones A
350  Isotopic Clues (U-Series, 14C, 13C, 18O) on Growth Process and Age of Arctic Fissure Calcretes (Endostromatolites) from Northern Canada
Hillaire-Marcel C, Ghaleb B, Deschamps P & Lauriol B
351  Microbial Life in Alkaline Environments on Earth and the Potential for Life on Other Planets
Hobday C, Crawford I, Jones A, Shields G & Ward J
352  Microbial Respiration at Sub-Zero Temperatures in Laboratory Ices
Skidmore M, Bakermans C, Brox T, Christner B & Montross S