| Slide 1 |
| Topics: |
| Universal Tree of Life: 3 Domain System |
| Extreme Environments on Earth |
| Cellular Targets of Adaptations to Extreme Environments |
| Life on Ice |
| Adaptations to Extreme Cold: Making More Fluid Membranes |
| More Life on Ice: Algae |
| Polychaete Worms Living on Methane Ice |
| Lake Vostoc: A model for Life on Europa? |
| Hydrothermal Vent Systems |
| Anatomy of A Vent |
| Hydrothermal Vents: Abiotic Conditions |
| Hydrothermal Vents: Biotic Community |
| Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems: The Prokaryotes |
| Thermal Adaptations Used By Hyperthermophiles for Survival |
| Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystem: Tube Worms |
| Endosymbiosis in Tubeworms |
| Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems: Bivalves |
| Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems: “Snow Flurries” and Crabs |
| And Where There’s Crabs, Octopi Are Not Far Behind |
| Slide 22 |
| Topics: |
| Extreme Environments on Earth |
| Life in Sulfur Springs (Hot and Acidic) |
| Other Acidic Environments and Denizens |
| High Salt Environments |
| Halophilic Algae |
| Halobacterium salinarum and Light-mediated ATP Synthesis |
| Slide 30 |
| High Salt Alkaline Environments: Soda Lakes |
| Survival Under Conditions of High Level Radiation Exposure: Deinococcus radiodurans |
| DNA Damage Repair in Deinococcus radiodurans |
| Importance of Extremophiles:Extremozymes |
| Importance of Extremophiles: Astrobiological Implications |