Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology

Herausgeber: Kolb, Vera M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the timely subject of systems applications in astrobiology. It demonstrates how astrobiology - a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary field of science - can benefit from adopting the systems approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781032278216
• ISBN-10: 1032278218
• Artikelnr.: 69033093

Autorenporträt

Vera M. Kolb obtained degrees in chemical engineering and organic chemistry from Belgrade University, Serbia, and earned her PhD in organic chemistry from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States. Following a 30-year career, she is Professor Emerita of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin. During her first sabbatical leave with the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT) in Astrobiology, she conducted research with Dr. Leslie Orgel at the Salk Institute and Prof. Stanley Miller at UC San Diego. Her second sabbatical was with Prof. Joseph Lambert at Northwestern University, where she studied sugar silicates and their potential astrobiological relevance. She is credited for authoring over 160 publications, in the fields of organic and medicinal chemistry, green chemistry, and astrobiology, including several books. Recently, she authored Green Organic Chemistry and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (CRC 2016). In the astrobiology field, she edited Astrobiology: An Evolutionary Approach (CRC 2015) and Handbook of Astrobiology (CRC 2019). She co-authored (with Benton C. Clark) Astrobiology for a General Reader: A Questions and Answers Approach (CSP 2020), and Systems Approach to Astrobiology (CRC 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Astrobiology: An overview. Chapter 2: A primer on the systems
approach. Chapter 3: Systems approach to prebiotic chemistry which led to
life. Chapter 4: Assembly of membranous compartments: An essential step in
the emergence and function of protocells. Chapter 5: Locating the cradle of
life: The hydrothermal impact crater lakes on young Earth and Mars. Chapter
6: Systems Geochemistry in Astrobiological Context. Chapter 7: Asymmetric
autocatalysis and the origins of homochirality. Chapter 8:
Abiotic-to-biotic transition of chemical systems starting with
thermodynamic inversion. Chapter 9: Systems biology. Chapter 10: Systems
approach to microbiology. Chapter 11: The role of astrobiology in systems
thinking education. Chapter 12: Knowledge gaps in astrobiology: Can systems
approach help elucidate them? Chapter 13: Life's emergence by protocellular
mutually catalytic networks of small molecules. Chapter 14: Prototyping the
colonizer cell: Combining biology and systems engineering.