> Members of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology and their collaborators
> presented twenty-six papers at the **Astrobiology Science Conference**
> (Washington, DC, March 27-30, 2006). Ten papers were presented orally,
> in seven sessions. Listed below, the papers are grouped according to
> subject matter, and the institution of the first-listed GCA affiliate
> is given. The complete Abstracts may be viewed on-line at the AbSciCon
> web site: http://abscicon2006.arc.nasa.gov/abscicon2006.html

1.  \"Production Pathways for Interstellar Organics\" Steven Charnley
    (SETI/NASA ARC), Steven Rodgers

2.  \"A Possible Pathway for Organic Synthesis and Implications for
    Protostellar Systems\" Natasha Johnson (USRA/code 691/GSFC), Mildred
    Martin, Jason Dworkin, Joseph Nuth

3.  \"VLA Observations of Organic Molecules in Low-Mass Protostellar
    Systems\" Jeffrey Pedelty (code 693/GSFC), Lee Mundy, Steven
    Charnley

4.  \"A NIR Search for New Volatile Gases in Protoplanetary Disks \" Avi
    Mandell (Penn State/code 690/GSFC), Michael Mumma, Geoffrey Blake,
    Steinn Sigurdsson

5.  \"An Emerging Taxonomy for Pre-Biotic Volatiles in Comets:
    Astrobiological Implications for Young Planets\" Michael Mumma (code
    690/GSFC), Michael DiSanti, Karen Magee-Sauer, Boncho Bonev, Erika
    Gibb, Neil Dello Russo, Geronimo Villanueva

6.  \"Recent Observations of Transiting Extrasolar Planets\" L. Jeremy
    Richardson (code 667/GSFC), Sara Seager, Joseph Harrington, Drake
    Deming

7.  \"Exotic Earths: Dynamical Simulations of Terrestrial Planet
    Formation During Giant Planet Migration\" Avi Mandell (Penn
    State/code 690/GSFC), Sean Raymond

8.  \"Monitoring the Colors of Earth\" Tilak Hewagama (Univ. MD/code
    693/GSFC), Drake Deming

9.  \"Infrared Survey of Atmospheric Biomarkers on Mars\" Geronimo
    Villanueva (NPP/NRC, code 690/GSFC), Michael Mumma, Robert Novak,
    Tilak Hewagama, Michael DiSanti, Boncho Bonev, Avi Mandell, Michael
    Smith

10. \"Development of Analytical Protocols for Organics and Isotopes
    Analysis on the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory\" Paul Mahaffy (code
    699/GSFC)

11. \"Study of ^187^Os/^188^Os Highly Siderophile Element Systematics of
    Apollo 14 & 17 Impact Melt Rocks\" I. S. Puchtel, R. J. Walker
    (Univ. MD/GSFC), O. B. James

12. \"Direct Infrared Detections of H~2~O in Comets: Implications for
    Studies of the Origin of Our Planetary System\" Boncho Bonev (Cath.
    Univ./code 690/GSFC), Michael DiSanti, Michael Mumma, Neil Dello
    Russo, Karen Magee-Sauer, Richard Ellis, Daniel Stark, Geronimo
    Villanueva

13. \"Analysis of CO Emission in Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) from Infrared
    Observations\" William Anderson, Michael DiSanti (code 693/GSFC)
    Michael Mumma, Neil Dell Russo, Boncho Bonev, Karen Magee-Sauer,
    Erika Gibb

14. \"Formaldehyde Emission in Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) at Infrared
    Wavelengths: Line-by-line Validation of Modeled Fluorescent
    Intensities\" Michael DiSanti (code 693/GSFC), Boncho Bonev, Neil
    Dello Russo, Karen Magee-Sauer, Michael Mumma, Dennis Reuter, G.
    Villanueva, William Anderson

15. \"Amino Acids in CM1 Carbonaceous Chondrites\" Oliver Botta
    (UMBC/code 699/GSFC), Zita Martins, Pascale Ehrenfreund

16. \"Investigation of Isovaline Enantiomeric Excesses in CM Meteorites
    Using Liquid Chromatography Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry\"
    Daniel Glavin (code 699/GSFC), Jason Dworkin

17. \"The Cosmic Ice Laboratory and the Goddard Center for
    Astrobiology\" Reggie Hudson (Eckerd College), Marla Moore, Robert
    Ferrante

18. \"Icy Prebiotic Chemistry of Nitriles: Identification of Complex
    Organic Products\" Reggie Hudson (Eckerd College), Marla Moore,
    Jason Dworkin, Mildred Martin, Zachary Pozun

19. \"Investigations into the Astrochemistry of H~2~O~2~, O~2~, and O~3~
    in Ion-Irradiated Ices\" Paul Cooper (NRC-NPP/code 691/GSFC), Marla
    Moore, Reggie Hudson

20. \"Studies of Amino Acid Formation by Photolysis of Interstellar Ice
    Analogs\" Jamie Elsila, Max Bernstein (NASA ARC), Jason Dworkin

21. \"Experimental Aqueous Alteration of Amorphous Silicate Smokes: An
    Analog for Hydration of Cometary and Meteoritic Dust\" Lysa
    Chizmadia, Joseph Nuth (code 691/GSFC), J. M. Rietmeijer

22. \"MALDI-MS Analysis of Hetero-Trimer Fractions Formed by
    Montmorillonite Catalysis in the Reaction of Binary Monomer
    Mixtures\" Robert Hazen, Ann Snellinger, Jason Dworkin (code
    691/GSFC), James Scott, George Cody, Marilyn Fogel, Murray Johnston,
    Gozen Ertem

23. \"Prebiotic Phosphorylation Through Phosphorus Radicals\" Matthew
    Pasek, Jason Dworkin (code 691/GSFC), Dante Lauretta

24. \"Rough Terrain Astrobiological Field Investigation with
    Revolutionary Tetrahedral Extreme Mobility Explorers\" P. E.
    Clark, J. A. Nuth (code 691/GSFC), S. A. Curtis, M. L. Rilee, G. R.
    Allan, A. Lunsford

25. \"Laser-Based Mass Spectrometry for *In Situ* Astrobiology\" William
    Brinckerhoff (JHU/APL), Catherine Corrigan, Timothy Cornish, Anita
    Ganesan, Scott Ecelberger

26. \"The Astrobiology in Secondary Classrooms (ASC) Project\" Judy
    Butler, Stephanie Stockman (SSAI/code 690.1/GSFC), Michael Mumma,
    Donald Walker, Jason Dworkin, Todd Gary, Nasrollah Hamidi-Vadeghani,
    Leroy Salary, Michael DiSanti, Marla Moore, Tracy Cummings