Sunday (20 November 2005)
18.30: informal gathering in the bar Portofino of Hotel Gyldenlove
20.00: informal dinner somewhere
Monday (21 November 2005)
8.30-9.00: Registration
9.00-11.00: Session Ia (chairperson: Axel Brandenburg)
9.00-9.20: Eske Willerslev (Copenhagen): The long-term survival of nucleic acids and cells in the geosphere [ppt]. 9.30-9.50: Karen Guldbæk Schmidt (Copenhagen): Possibilities for liquid water on Mars today [ppt]. 10.00-10.20: Kai Finster (Aarhus): Biological Marssimulation experiments with complex soil communities [ppt]. |
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-12.30: Session Ib (chairperson: Eske Willerslev)
11.00-11.45: Lynn Rothschild (NASA Ames): Limits of Life: defining the envelope for the search for life in the universe [ppt,paper]. 12.00-12.30: General discussion |
12.30: lunch
14.00-16.00: Session IIa (chairperson: Ella Carlsson*)
14.00-14.45:
Kathryn Fishbaugh (Bern):
Glaciation on Mars and Implications for Habitability
[ppt].
15.00-15.30: Discussion
15.30-16.00: Coffee
16.00-18.45: Session IIb (chairperson: Kathryn Fishbaugh* )
16.00-16.30: Victor Melezhik (Trondheim): Archaean-Proterozoic transition: emerging modern Earth System [ppt]. 16.45-17.15: Dieter Braun (Munich): Thermophoresis and convection can close missing links in molecular evolution 17.30-18.00: Eörs Szathmáry (Budapest): Signs of water runoff and its relation to possible living organisms on Mars [ppt]. 18.15-18.45: General discussion |
20:00: Conference Dinner (Cafe Mistral, Majorstuveien 41)
Tuesday (22 November 2005)
9.00-12.30: Session III (chairperson: Kai Finster)
9.00-9.20: Ella Carlsson (Kiruna): Atmospheric escape at Mars - implications for astrobiology 9.30-9.50: Håkon Dahle (Bergen): The microbial diversity of deep subsurface oil reservoirs [ppt]. 10.00-10.20: Daria Morozova (Potsdam): Methanogenic archaea under permafrost extreme conditions: a model for putative life on Mars [ppt]. |
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.20: Ingunn Thorseth (Bergen): Microbial activity in sediments and volcanic rocks 11.30-11.50: Hanna Sanmark (Turku): PCR analysis of the microbes from deep mine rock and water samples 12.00-12.30: General discussion |
12.30: lunch
14.00-16.00: Session IV (chairperson: Ingunn Thorseth)
14.00-14.20: Milja Tammi [formerly Tuire Karkinen] (Turku): Cyanobacteria as putative life support system in Martian conditions [ppt]. 14.30-14.50: Kirsi Lehto (Copenhagen/Turku): Adaptation of organisms to extreme conditions 15.00-15.30: General discussion |
15.30-16.00: Coffee
16.00: Departure