Space Life Sciences Training Program Interns Present Summer Projects
Student interns from the summer 2024 cohort of the Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) attended the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) annual conference in Puerto Rico December 3 through 7.
Their participation in this annual scientific conference represents the culmination of the program and provides the interns the opportunity to discuss their project findings with members of the space biology research community.
At this year’s meeting, Aidan Kihm, an engineering student from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, took third place in the undergraduate student competition for his project, Optical Probe Design and Biocompatibility for an Autonomous Microbial Culture System. Following is a list of oral and poster presentations from the SLSTP interns;
Katarina Lile (in photo at right, left side) of the University of Vermont was invited to present in the scientific session on Biophysics for her project, Human Airway Responses to Simulated Space Flight Stressors.
Swarat Kulkarni was invited to present during the Invertebrates session on behalf of his mentor Siddhita Mhatre on his project, Sex-specific physiological and transcriptomic responses of CNS to combined effects of spaceflight stressors in Drosophila melanogaster.
Student Poster Presentations
Sarah Golts – Evaluating the efficacy of conditional variational autoencoders in generating synthetic single nuclei RNA-seq data for space biology research
Zachariah John – Combined hypergravity and irradiation effect on Rodent CNS and Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability
Anna Klein – Analysis of combined space-flight environmental stressors on male and female rodent behavior
Swarat Kulkarni – Impact of the ISS environment on CNS in Drosophila melanogaster
Nathan Moreno – Evolutionary Stability of Microbial Mutualism in Simulated Microgravity
William Tyukayev – Harnessing Synthetic Communities and Microbial Recycling of Space Waste Streams for Biomanufacturing Applications
Eliza Zaroff (in photo at right, on right) – Precision Fermentation: Relieving the Crabtree Effect in S. cerevisiae Through Genetic Engineering
Lana Zheng – GEAR3 : Genetically Encoded Automatable Real Time Radiation Reporters for Space Radiation Research
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