In the near future, government spaceflights will become more ambitious, with the NASA Artemis program sending people back to the moon (and later missions going on to Mars). At the same time, commercial spaceflight providers (SpaceX, Axiom, Blue Origin) are sending people into space who might not have the same levels of health and fitness as government astronauts. Both of these circumstances will challenge the ability of humans to tolerate spaceflight and perform inflight tasks in an extreme environment. Among the approaches to address this issue is genomic analysis: assessing a given person’s genetic predisposition to tolerate the stressors of spaceflight, measuring changes in genetic (epigenetic) makeup as a consequence of spaceflight, and developing countermeasures to the effects of spaceflight based on these individualized and personalized responses.
Speakers include Dr. Michael Schmidt, Dr. Christopher Mason, and Chris Bradburne. Discussion will be moderated by Dr. Mark Shelhamer and Q&A by Dr. Mallika Sarma. This is a bioastronautics@hopkins event.
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Hi all, thanks to those of you attended! The recording for Genomics in Space will be available in the video library for Hopkins at Home in about a week (see Engineering & Technology - Hopkins at Home). Please feel free to check out our other Bioastronautics Symposia also uploaded!
