2025 CFIRE Team “ Leveraging Adaptive Mechanisms and Mineral Interactions of Microbes for Lunar Extremes”

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2025 CFIRE Team “ Leveraging Adaptive Mechanisms and Mineral Interactions of Microbes for Lunar Extremes” will be held February 6, 2025, virtually. 

Agenda At-A-Glanc

Times are (Pacific Standart Time) PST
8:45am – 9:00am: Arrive, coffee, introductions
9:00am – 9:20am: Introduction and Overview / Goals – Kisailus/DiRuggiero
9:20am – 9:40am: Mineral synthesis/acquisition and characterization – Kisailus
9:40am – 10:10am: Culturing experiments and results – DiRuggiero
10:10am – 10:30am: Coffee break
10:30am – 10:50am: Post-culture mineral analyses – Kisailus
10:50am – 11:10am: Biofilm analyses – DiRuggiero/Gianneschi
11:10am – 11:40am: Interfacial reactions, surface-based syntheses, and mineral-organic binding – Kisailus / Tao / Gianneschi
11:30am – 11:45am: Next steps – Kisailus and team
11:45am – 12:00pm: Air Force Feedback

Registration
Click here to register online.

Contact
Dr. Bennett Ibey
Air Force Office of Scientific Research/RTB
Phone:  703-965-5327
Email:  afosr.nature@us.af.mil