Success and Failure Stories: Challenges in astrobiology experiments beyond low Earth orbit
Universeh WP5 Space Innovation
How platforms beyond the International Space Station offer new possibilities for going beyond the current knowledge on the limit of life and the stability of biomarkers.
Future experiments on CubeSats as well as on larger platforms around the Moon or on Moon surface require payloads that allow the exposure of microbial extremophiles in the metabolic active state and in-situ measurements of their functionality.
A focus will be given to the effects of deep space conditions to gain insights into the boundary conditions for life and applied knowledge to support human space exploration.
About the speaker
Daniela Billi, PhD, associate professor at the Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata where she holds the courses of Astrobiology and Synthetic Biology. She is leading the laboratory of Astrobiology and Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria and member of ESA and ASI topical teams on Astrobiology and Space Microbiology as well as of the INAF Scientific Advisory panel.
Event Date
Tuesday, 25 March 9.30am on Microsoft Teams
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