Hello everyone!
I wanted to share a quick update on the dopamine project.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had several discussions with collaborators and researchers involved in the RR-1 mission to better understand the available datasets and define the project’s direction. Based on those conversations, we’ve decided to slightly refine our focus.
Our initial plan was to investigate dopaminergic markers. However, after exploring the datasets currently available through OSDR, we decided to broaden our approach. Our current goal is to investigate the relationship between behavior (particularly the circling phenotype observed during the SpaceX-4 mission), neuroinflammation (inflammasome-related pathways), and the spaceflight/radiation environment. We’re also exploring how these findings might eventually connect with available human datasets.
We’ll be starting monthly project meetings very soon to discuss the datasets, plan analyses, review the literature, and coordinate tasks.
If you’re interested in:
- behavioral neuroscience,
- neuroinflammation,
- radiation biology,
- computational analysis,
- bioinformatics,
- or simply learning more about the project,
we’d be very happy to have you join us!
Feel free to reply here or send me a message or an email (claracarrias@gmail.com) if you’d like to participate or receive the meeting invitation.
Looking forward to collaborating with everyone!