2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
The viability of Earth-life on other planets
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19K23459
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Smith Harrison 東京工業大学, 地球生命研究所, 研究員 (50843934)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-08-30 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Astrobiology / Metabolism / Software / Networks / Complex Systems |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I have a paper in revision at the journal BioEssays which highlights current issues in Astrobiology research related to life detection. This research was done in collaboration with a collaborator at Arizona State University, and was presented at AbSciCon 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This work has gone through several updates and improvements in the last year, and extends my research to thinking about exoplanets, and the viable methodology which could be used to assess whether or not life can be reliably detected on such worlds. This work will hopefully help exoplanet astrobiologists better assess life detection methods.
The other main project related to this grant that I've been working on extends the network expansion codebase development to python, and the research questions to the origin and nature of life on early Earth, and early evolution of life. This development has been supporting another research project with collaborators at ELSI and Caltech. The paper corresponding to this project is currently under revision at Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Work has continued on the BioXP and ecg software packages with help from collaborators at Arizona State University, as well as a first year graduate student at ELSI who is improvement and using the code I developed for other microbial ecology research.
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