[PG-SMLS] – An insight from Europe

December 18, 2020 @ 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CET

 

Sustainable exploration means that we will be required to grow food and make materials locally. As humanity evolved inside the Earth’s protective biosphere, unparalleled complications can occur outside Earth. Humanity’s engagement in deep space will require us to identify what problems can occur to human’s health and how we can use organisms to our advantage. Space biological research often has a sustainability or health side to it.

Space biological research will be critical to sustainable exploration. What are a few of these space biological research, and how can it benefit life on Earth?

 

This webinar is a continuation of our Introduction to Space Medicine and Life Science series where we aim to bring the latest space biological knowledge to students and young professionals.

The speakers :

Stefania Giacomello

Stefania Giacomello studied Biotechnology at the University of Udine in Italy and then moved to Cambridge (UK) to study key genes involved in wheat development. After obtaining her PhD degree in plant genomics at the University of Udine, she moved to Stockholm in 2013 for her postdoctoral training at SciLifeLab. During that time, she contributed to the development of Spatial Transcriptomics, a technology that allows to generate 2D gene expression maps of tissue sections. Before starting her research group at the end of 2018, she worked for two and a half years at the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure of Sweden where she mostly analyzed single-cell RNA-sequencing data from animal samples. Currently, her research group at SciLifeLab focuses on the fundamental question of how cell localization influences biological processes both in animal and plant tissues by developing and applying single-cell and spatial transcriptomics approaches, which are core technologies of her lab. She has collaborated with NASA GeneLab since early 2019.

Willian Da Silveira
Willian has a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy-Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, which involved analysing the transcriptome of Breast Cancer Stem Cells to identify master regulators of aggressiveness and invasion, both at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He became a Research Fellow in Bioinformatics Analysis at the Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), USA. He is  currently a Research Fellow in Food System Biology at the Queen´s University Belfast (QUB). Willian is the lead researcher of a collaborative project with NASA that in a big consortium, the result of which was recently accepted for publication by CELL and will be released in their November of 2020 edition. This work establishes the central role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction for Space Biology effects. He co-founded and now heads the multi-omics and systems biology of the Space Omics Topical Team funded by the European Space Agency

Tricia Larose

Dr. Tricia L. Larose is the Principal Investigator for Tumors in Space (TiS) with the University of Oslo, Norway. TiS is a paradigm shifting cancer research experiment at the intersection of stem cell biology and space technology. TiS has been selected by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the China Manned Space Agency for a 31-day space mission on board the China Space Station. Dr Larose is also adjunct faculty in Human Performance in Space at the International Space University, France.
Tricia is a Medical Advisor at the Institute of Aviation Medicine, Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services in Oslo, Norway. She is a Scientist-Astronaut Candidate with Project PoSSUM, published children’s book author, andmotivational speaker.

Twitter: @TricLarose

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