Detection of bio-signatures in space research using a new and innovative measurement technique based on laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry

Project Information

BioTec

Grant agreement ID: 750353

DOI 10.3030/750353

Project closed

EC signature date 25 April 2017

Start date 1 October 2017

End date 30 September 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 177 598,80

EU contribution € 177 598,80

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Detectability of biosignatures in a low-biomass simulation of martian sediments

Author(s): Adam H. Stevens, Alison McDonald, Coen de Koning, Andreas Riedo, Louisa J. Preston, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Peter Wurz, Charles S. Cockell
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46239-z

The detection of microbes in Martian mudstone analogues using laser ablation ionization mass spectrometry at high spatial resolution

Author(s): Andreas Riedo, Coen de Koning, Adam H. Stevens, Charles S. Cockell, Alison McDonald, Alena Cedeño López, Valentine Grimaudo, Marek Tulej, Peter Wurz, Pascale Ehrenfreund
Published in: Astrobiology, 2019, ISSN 1531-1074
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

Novel 2D binning approach for advanced LIMS depth profiling analysis

Author(s): Andreas Riedo, Valentine Grimaudo, Alena Cedeño López, Marek Tulej, Peter Wurz, Peter Broekmann
Published in: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Issue 34/8, 2019, Page(s) 1564-1570, ISSN 0267-9477
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9ja00138g

Biosignature Analysis of Mars Soil Analogues from the Atacama desert: Challenges and Implications for future Missions to Mars

Author(s): J.W. Aerts, A. Riedo, D.J. Melton, S. Martini, U.J. Meierhenrich, J. Flahaut, R. Lindner, P. Ehrenfreund
Published in: Astrobiology, 2019, ISSN 1531-1074
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

ORIGIN: a novel and compact Laser Desorption – Mass Spectrometry system for sensitive in situ detection of amino acids on extraterrestrial surfaces

Author(s): Niels F.W. Ligterink, Valentine Grimaudo, Pavel Moreno‐García, Rustam Lukmanov, Marek Tulej, Ingo Leya, Robert Lindner, Peter Wurz, Charles S. Cockell, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Andreas Riedo
Published in: Scineitifc Repots, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

Survival of the halophilic archaeon Halovarius luteus after desiccation, simulated Martian UV radiation and vacuum in comparison to Bacillus atrophaeus

Author(s): Niloofar Feshangsaz, Farid Semsarha, Saeed Hesami Tackallou, Kamran Nazmi, Euan P. Monaghan, Andreas Riedo, Jack J.W.A. van Loon
Published in: International Journal of Astrobiology, 2019, ISSN 1473-5504
Publisher: Cambridge University Press