Wiki source code of Amadee-20-MICRO-POTENTIAL

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1.1	1	=== Details ===
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	3	\|Acronym\|MICRO-POTENTIAL
	4	\|Description\|(((
	5	(% style="line-height:100%" %)Investigating the development of astronauts microbiome during and after an isolation mission under Mars-analog conditions
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	7	\|Principal Investigator (PI)\|(((
	8	Reut Sorek Abramovich
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	10	E-mail: [[reut.sorek@gmail.com>>mailto:reut.sorek@gmail.com]]
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	12	\|Organisation \|Dead Sea and Arava Science Center
	13	Desert Mars Analog Ramon Station
	14	\|Co-Investigators\|(((
	15	Yael Yair, Tel Aviv University
	16	36 Avra'am Keren st., Kfar Saba, 4420836, Israel;
	17	+972 52 3627965, [[yaelyairhelmann@gmail.com>>mailto:yaelyairhelmann@gmail.com]]
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	19	Oded Aharonson, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary
	20	Sciences - Center for Planetary Science
	21	Rehovot 76100, Israel;
	22	+972 8 9346961, [[oded.aharonson@weizmann.ac.il>>mailto:oded.aharonson@weizmann.ac.il]]
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	27	=== ummary ===
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	29	[[image:ACT_manifest.png\|\|height="266" width="399"]]
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	32	For missions to Mars, especially crewed ones, which aim to investigate
	33	biomarkers must be aware of contamination issues and how they
	34	might interfere with the investigation. It is impossible to remove live organisms and
	35	organic material completely from an Earth based spacecraft prior to launch.
	36	Some bacteria, in spore formation, have been shown to survive under thin layer of
	37	Martian soil after spacecraft sterilization techniques. Analog missions are relevant
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	39	to test forward and backward contamination issues. Especially long-term analog missions, with
	40	several crew members provide a reliable, sustainable source of information for bacterial
	41	contamination analysis.
	42	By using advanced sequencing techniques, the MICRO-POTENTIAL experiment aims to study
	43	the effect of human missions on bacterial and eukaryotic dispersion in the vicinity of the habitat.
	44	The scientific hypotheses to be tested are:
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	46	1. Microbial population composition will correlate to the distance of samples from the habitat.
	47	1. Few species (<10) will be present in all samples regardless of distance.
	48	1. At a given geographical location, microbial population composition will vary with time