Editorial: Rising stars in space microbiology: 2022

André Antunes; D'Arcy R Meyer-Dombard

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1322924

Editorial: Rising stars in space microbiology: 2022

Front Microbiol. 2023 Nov 13:14:1322924. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1322924. eCollection 2023.

Authors

André Antunes^{1

2

3}, D'Arcy R Meyer-Dombard⁴

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macao SAR, China.
² China National Space Administration (CNSA), Macau Center for Space Exploration and Science, Taipa, Macao SAR, China.
³ Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States.
⁴ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: Astrobiology; Astromycology; microbial monitoring; pre-biotic life; space exposure experiments of microbes; space microbiology.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. AA was supported by funding from the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR, China [File No. SKL-LPS(MUST)-2021-2023], by a Faculty Research Grant of Macau University of Science and Technology's (FRG Grant No. FRG-22-079-LPS), and by China-Portugal Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Space & Sea Technology Advanced Research via National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2022YFE0204600). DRMD was supported by NASA (80NM0018D0004).