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 Theres 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 |