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List of works by Petra Rettberg

A Method for Extracting RNA from Dormant and Germinating Bacillus subtilis Strain 168 Endospores

scientific article published on 28 July 2006

Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis cells to Archean-like UV climate: relevant hints of microbial evolution to remarkably increased radiation resistance

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

An ultraviolet simulator for the incident Martian surface radiation and its applications

AstRoMap European Astrobiology Roadmap

scientific article

Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere…

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

BIOPAN experiment LICHENS on the Foton M2 mission: Pre-flight verification tests of the Rhizocarpon geographicum-granite ecosystem

Biofilm and planktonic lifestyles differently support the resistance of the desert cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis under space and Martian simulations.

scientific article published on 18 August 2013

Biological Contamination Prevention for Outer Solar System Moons of Astrobiological Interest: What Do We Need to Know?

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Biological UV dosimeters in the assessment of the biological hazard from environmental radiation

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Biological dosimetry of solar radiation for different simulated ozone column thicknesses

scientific article published in February 1996

Biological space experiments for the simulation of Martian conditions: UV radiation and Martian soil analogues.

scientific article published on January 2004

Biologically weighted measurement of UV radiation in space and on Earth with the biofilm technique

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Comment: The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return

scholarly article

DNA bipyrimidine photoproduct repair and transcriptional response of UV-C irradiated Bacillus subtilis.

scientific article published on 6 June 2007

EXPOSE, an astrobiological exposure facility on the international space station - from proposal to flight.

scientific article

EXPOSE-E: An ESA Astrobiology Mission 1.5 Years in Space

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

Effect of relative humidity on Deinococcus radiodurans' resistance to prolonged desiccation, heat, ionizing, germicidal, and environmentally relevant UV radiation

scientific article published on 16 December 2010

Enhanced Radiation Resistance of Methanosarcina soligelidi SMA-21, a New Methanogenic Archaeon Isolated from a Siberian Permafrost-Affected Soil in Direct Comparison to Methanosarcina barkeri.

scientific article

Experimental and Simulation Efforts in the Astrobiological Exploration of Exooceans

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Exposure of phototrophs to 548 days in low Earth orbit: microbial selection pressures in outer space and on early earth.

scientific article

Genomic bipyrimidine nucleotide frequency and microbial reactions to germicidal UV radiation.

scientific article published on 8 May 2010

Growth phase-dependent UV-C resistance of Bacillus subtilis: data from a short-term evolution experiment.

scientific article

HUMEX, a study on the survivability and adaptation of humans to long-duration exploratory missions, part I: lunar missions.

scientific article published on January 2003

Immobilization as a technical possibility for long-term storage of bacterial biosensors

scientific article published on 25 March 2005

Implementing bioburden reduction and control on the deliquescent hydrogel of the HABIT/ExoMars 2022 instrument

scientific article

Influence of ice and snow covers on the UV exposure of terrestrial microbial communities: dosimetric studies

scientific article published on August 2002

Insights into the microbial diversity and bioburden in a South American spacecraft assembly clean room.

scientific article

Key Technologies and Instrumentation for Subsurface Exploration of Ocean Worlds

scientific article

Lessons learned from the microbial analysis of the Herschel spacecraft during assembly, integration, and test operations.

scientific article

Life at the limits: capacities of isolated and cultured lichen symbionts to resist extreme environmental stresses

scientific article

Microbial Markers Profile in Anaerobic Mars Analogue Environments Using the LDChip (Life Detector Chip) Antibody Microarray Core of the SOLID (Signs of Life Detector) Platform

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Microbial Metabolism of Amino Acids—Biologically Induced Removal of Glycine and the Resulting Fingerprint as a Potential Biosignature

scientific article published on 4 April 2022

Microgravity inhibits intestinal calcium absorption as shown by a stable strontium test

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Mineralization and Preservation of an extremotolerant Bacterium Isolated from an Early Mars Analog Environment

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Monitoring of biologically effective UV irradiance at El Arenosillo (INTA), Andalucia, in Spain

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

On the response of halophilic archaea to space conditions

scientific article

Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment)

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Planetary Protection and Mars Special Regions--A Suggestion for Updating the Definition

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Protection of bacterial spores in space, a contribution to the discussion on Panspermia.

scientific article

Quo vadis? Microbial profiling revealed strong effects of cleanroom maintenance and routes of contamination in indoor environments

scientific article

Resistance of bacterial endospores to outer space for planetary protection purposes--experiment PROTECT of the EXPOSE-E mission

scientific article

Role of DNA repair by nonhomologous-end joining in Bacillus subtilis spore resistance to extreme dryness, mono- and polychromatic UV, and ionizing radiation

scientific article published on 9 February 2007

Roles of DNA repair and membrane integrity in heat resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans

scientific article published on 05 August 2012

Roles of PprA, IrrE, and RecA in the resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans to germicidal and environmentally relevant UV radiation.

scientific article published on 31 October 2009

Roles of the major, small, acid-soluble spore proteins and spore-specific and universal DNA repair mechanisms in resistance of Bacillus subtilis spores to ionizing radiation from X rays and high-energy charged-particle bombardment

scientific article

Simulation of the environmental climate conditions on martian surface and its effect on Deinococcus radiodurans

article by U. Pogoda de la Vega et al published January 2007 in Advances in Space Research

Space Station conditions are selective but do not alter microbial characteristics relevant to human health

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Space as a Tool for Astrobiology: Review and Recommendations for Experimentations in Earth Orbit and Beyond

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Space station biomining experiment demonstrates rare earth element extraction in microgravity and Mars gravity

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Supporting Mars exploration: BIOMEX in Low Earth Orbit and further astrobiological studies on the Moon using Raman and PanCam technology

Survival of microorganisms in space protected by meteorite material: results of the experiment 'EXOBIOLOGIE' of the PERSEUS mission.

scientific article

Survival of spores of the UV-resistant Bacillus subtilis strain MW01 after exposure to low-earth orbit and simulated martian conditions: data from the space experiment ADAPT on EXPOSE-E.

scientific article

Survival of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms after exposure to UV-C, ionizing radiation and desiccation

scientific article published on 3 June 2011

Surviving Mars: new insights into the persistence of facultative anaerobic microbes from analogue sites

scientific article published on 24 March 2022

Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit.

scientific article

The BOSS and BIOMEX space experiments on the EXPOSE-R2 mission: Endurance of the desert cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis under simulated space vacuum, Martian atmosphere, UVC radiation and temperature extremes

article published in 2013

The SOS-LUX-LAC-FLUORO-Toxicity-test on the International Space Station (ISS).

scientific article published in January 2003

The SOS-LUX-TOXICITY-Test on the International Space Station.

scientific article published on 6 December 2005

The SPORES experiment of the EXPOSE-R mission: Bacillus subtilis spores in artificial meteorites

The Survival and Resistance of Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1, Halococcus hamelinensis, and Halococcus morrhuae to Simulated Outer Space Solar Radiation.

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

The Urey instrument: an advanced in situ organic and oxidant detector for Mars exploration

scientific article

The archaeal class Halobacteria and astrobiology: Knowledge gaps and research opportunities

scientific article published in 2022

The combined bacterial Lux-Fluoro test for the detection and quantification of genotoxic and cytotoxic agents in surface water: results from the "Technical Workshop on Genotoxicity Biosensing".

scientific article published on 8 September 2007

The influence of microgravity on repair of radiation-induced DNA damage in bacteria and human fibroblasts.

scientific article

The potential of the lichen symbiosis to cope with the extreme conditions of outer space II: germination capacity of lichen ascospores in response to simulated space conditions

scientific article

The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return

scientific article published in March 2019

Tolerance of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms to desiccation.

scientific article published on 31 March 2009

Tox-Box: securing drops of life - an enhanced health-related approach for risk assessment of drinking water in Germany

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Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector

Venturing into new realms? Microorganisms in space

scientific article published on 26 June 2016