Program 3rd NL-Gravity & Astrobiology Symposium
Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th May 2001.

Location: Free University Amsterdam. The meeting is in a different room each day. Tuesday 15 in lecture room D-113 in the 'Provisorium'. A two story building at de Boelelaan 1115. Wednesday 16 in lecture room 8A05 in the main building at de Boelelaan 1105. Click here for travel direction to the Free University.

Gravity Related Research : Tuesday 15th

Time

Speaker

Subject / Title
08:45-09:25 All Registration

09:25-09:30

Jack van Loon (DESC)

Introduction

09:30-09:50

Dr. Richard Braeucker (Univ. Bonn / DLR, Germany)

Gravity signal transduction in ciliates: experimental strategies (abstract)

09:50-10:10

Dr. Janneke Krooneman (Bioclear)

Microbial Growth Kinetics under Conditions of Microgravity (abstract)

10:10-10:30

Mr. R.G. Bacabac (VU)

Microgravity and bone cell mechanosensitivity. Rheological characterization of the parallel plate flow chamber (abstract)

10:30-10:50

Prof.dr. Timothy Hammond (Tulane Univ./ VA, USA)

STS-106 Results - Effects of Mechanical Culture Conditions on Renal Cell Gene Expression (abstract)

10:50-11:10

Coffee Break

 

11:10-11:30

Dr. Ad A.M. Delil (NLR)

Issues of Thermal-Gravitational Modelling and Scaling of Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer (abstract)

11:30-11:55

Prof.dr.ir. Gerrit Kroesen (TUE)

International Microgravity Plasma Facility: expanding the frontiers of physics while keeping society in mind (abstract)

11:55-12:15

Dr. Helen Jane Fraser (RUL)

Physics and Chemistry of molecular solids under microgravity conditions. (Topical Team) (abstract)

12:40-14:00

Lunch Break

 

14:00-14:20

Dr.ing. Jack van Loon (DESC)

Possibilities and results of the ground facilities in the Netherlands (abstract)

14:20-14:40

Dr. Rene Wubbels (AMC)

Immuno-histochemistry of the otolith sensory epithelium after prolonged hypergravity (abstract)

14:40-15:00

Dr. Jelte Bos (TNO)

Modelling (space) motion sickness (abstract)

15:00-15:20

Tea Break

 

15:20-15:45

Prof.dr.ir. Chris Snijders (EUR)

Astronaut microgravity model for the assessment of deep muscle fibre atrophy of low back pain. (Topical Team) (abstract)

15:45-16:05

Dr. Marc Heppener (ESA/ESTEC)

Research plans for life and physical sciences (abstract)

16:05-16:25

Dr. Rolf de Groot (SRON)

Microgravity research within the Netherlands (abstract)

16:25-16:30

TBD

Discussion / Closing Remarks

16:30-

Drinks

 
     

Astrobiology Related Research : Wednesday 16th

Time

Speaker

Subject / Title

09:00-09:15

Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund (RUL)

An introduction into astrobiology and perspectives in Holland

09:15-09:45

Prof.dr. Alan Schwartz (KUN)

What do we know about the origin of life? (abstract)

09:45-10:05

Dr. Wout Nijman (UU)

Earth's Earliest Sedimentary Basins, a geological contribution to astrobiology (abstract)

10:05-10:25

Dr. Bernard Foing (ESA)

Astrobiology research with ESA space missions (abstract)

10:25-10:50

Coffee Break

 

10:50-11:20

Prof.dr. Peter Westbroek (RUL)

Gaia (abstract)

11:20-11:50

Dr. Henk van Verseveld (VU)

The search for extra-terrestrial microbial life. Possibilities and pittfalls (abstract)

11:50-12:20

Prof.dr.ir. Hans Fraaije (RUL)

Evolutionary polymer materials in Chemical Industry and Astrobiology (abstract)

12:20-13:30

Luch Break

 

13:30-14:00

Dr. Agustin Chicarro (ESA)

Astrobiology and Mars Express / Beagle2 (abstract)

14:00-14:30

Dr. Huub Röttgering (RUL)

Characterizing Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars and Darwin, ESA's InfraRed Space Interferometer mission (abstract)

14:30-14:50

Dr. Didier Schmitt (ESA/ESTEC)

Proposed program for planetary exploration (abstract)

14:50-15:10

Tea Break

 

15:10-15:30

Dr. René Demets (H.E. Space Operations)

ESA exobiology on unmanned Foton capsules (abstract)

15:30-15:45

Mr. Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro (RUL)

Detection of prebiotic molecules in UV-photoprocessed interstellar ice analogs (abstract)

15:45-16:00

Mr. Richard Ruiterkamp (RUL)

Evolution of Organic Matter in Space, from deep space to the early planets (abstract)

16:00-16:15

Moderator: Ehrenfreund

Discussion / Round Table

16:15-

Drinks

 

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