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Mars One Ventures AG: Can bacteria survive in Mars soil and thus enhance crop production? - Seite 3

Wieger Wamelink, Wageningen University & Research

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKsYtVuR80 for an overview of the Mars Moon experiment
https://www.facebook.com/Food.for.Mars.and.moon/ for pictures of the Mars Moon experiment

About Maaike van Agtmaal, PhD

Maaike van Agtmaal is a soil microbial ecologist whose research focuses on experimentally testing the role of soil bacterial diversity on various soil functions in the lab and in the field. She is intrigued by microbial interactions in soil, and the effect which these small scale processes could have on ecosystem functioning. She works as postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London on the Ugrass project: 'understanding and enhancing soil ecosystem services and resilience in UK grass and croplands' which is part of the Soil Security Program of the UK.

Maaike van Agtmaal, Imperial College London

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About Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen UR is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the DLO foundation. 'To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life'. That is the mission of Wageningen UR (University & Research centre). A staff of 6,500 and 10,000 students from over 100 countries work everywhere around the world in the domain of healthy food and living environment for governments and the business community-at-large. The scientific quality of Wageningen UR is affirmed by the prominent position they occupy in international rankings and citation indexes.

For more information about Wageningen University & Research, please visit www.wur.nl.

About Mars One

Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Before carefully selected and trained crews will depart to Mars, several unmanned missions will be completed, establishing a habitable settlement waiting for the first astronauts to arrive.


Mars One consists of two entities: the not-for-profit Mars One Foundation and the publicly trading Mars One Ventures AG [FRA: KCC], ISIN: CH0132106482. The Mars One Foundation implements, and manages the mission and owns the mission hardware. It also selects and trains the crews, and is building an ever growing community of experts and supporters that follow the progress of the mission and contribute to it.