MONDAY October 29th, 2012
13:30-13:45 Introduction (Spohn)
Life Under Extreme Conditions
13:45-14:15 Theory and measurement of surface brine layers (Hansen-Goos)
14:15-14:45 Recultivation of iron depositing bacteria after exposure to Mars surface conditions (Feyh)
14:45-15:15 A quantitative study of low temperature humidity interaction and organic vapor sorption with the lichen species Buellia frigida, Xanthoria elegans and Aspicilia fruticulosa (Jänchen)
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:15 News from BIOMEX – the preparation for the space experiment on EXPOSE-R2 on the ISS (de Vera)
16:15-16:45 Biomineralization as a source of potential biomarkers in Raman-spectroscopy (Meeßen)

TUESDAY October 30th, 2012
Early (and Late) Mars
09:00-09:30 How high is the heat input from impacts or intrusions?  How long can short-lived, impact-induced lakes and fluvial features exist? Could they have been habitats?  (Hauber, de Niem, Wünnemann, Breuer, de Vera, Wagner, Tirsch, Hansen-Goos)
09:30-10:00 Martian crater-lake environments and their potential range of biological deposits (Gross, Airo, Al-Samir, Sowe, Nabhan, Bishop, van Gasselt)
10:00-10:30 Evaporites and cryobrines in cold environments. Earth analogs? What kind of organisms? (Le Deit, Schmitz, de Vera, Wagner, Adeli, Hansen-Goos, Hauber)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Initial constraints on the atmospheric water content of early Mars from geological data (Grenfell, von Paris, Petau, Jaumann, Rauer)
11:30-12:00 Outgassing and atmospheric escape on Early Mars (Lammer, H., Morschhauser, A., Breuer, D. et al.)
12:00-12:30 Habitability of Martian Crater-lakes (Airo et al.)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Life and the Evolution of Planets
13:30-13:45 Introduction (Spohn et al.)
13:45-14:15 Interdependencies between Life and Plate Tectonics (Airo, Höning, Spohn)
14:15-15:00 Life, Plate Tectonics and Continental Growth - An Interconnected Model
(Höning, Hansen-Goos, Spohn)
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
Missions
15:30-16:00 Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of bioprobes under Martian conditions (Schröder, Pavlov, Hübers)
16:00-16:30 Deep-Drilling on Mars – The answer to all questions? (Airo)
19:00 Social Event

WEDNESDAY October 31st, 2012
Habitability in Planetary Systems
09:00-09:15 Introduction (Kührt)
09:15-09:45 The starting conditions for a star system with habitable planets - distribution of material in the molecular cloud and pre-planetary disk (Tornow)
09:45-10:30 The system aspect of the build-up of planets on habitable orbits, with habitable sizes and with a habitable chemistry (Morbidelli)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Lessons learned from exoplanetary systems in comparison to our solar system (Rauer)
11:30-12:00 Impacts in planetary systems and their role for habitability (Wünnemann, Fritz)
12:00-12:30 Summary: What must come together to get habitability in a planet system (Bitsch)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Habitable Planets
13:30-14:15 Outgassing rates of exoplanets limited by geodynamics (Noack,  Godolt, Paris, Stracke, Plesa, Breuer, Rauer)
14:15-14:45 Interior Structure Models of Solid exoplanets (Wagner, Sohl, Rauer et al.)
14:45-15:15 Constraints to planet interior structure and planet formation from exoplanets (Rauer, Sohl, Wagner, Noack, et al.)
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:15 On the evolution of Earth's atmosphere considering the biogeochemical modeling of oxygen (Gebauer, Grenfell, Rauer)
16:15-16:45 Effect of cosmic rays on atmospheric biosignatures for Earth-like planets orbiting in the HZ of M dwarf stars (Grenfell, von Paris, Gebauer, Godolt, Stracke, Rauer)
16:45-17:15 Characterization of potentially habitable planets and their atmospheres (Von Paris et al.)
17:15-17:45 Planet TOPERS: Planets: Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their Reservoirs (Dehant)

THURSDAY November 1st, 2012
Astrobiology Round Table
09:00-09:30 Introduction (Spohn)
09:30-10:00 Aspects of Prebiotic Chemical Evolution on Terrestrial Planets (Strasdeit)
10:00-10:30 The Photosynthesis-based habitability of super Earths (von Bloh)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Discussion (with contributions from Horneck and Westall)