Nice! Welcome @rmagno and @matheussamaritano
To help orient you and everyone new who just joined, I do suggest checking out this post, which also has Youtube links, from the recent ‘AWG Catalyst Summit’ in March
You also should make sure to check out the master table of all open projects: Table of Conferences/Events Relevant to Space Biology/Life Sciences, Space Health/Medicine, and Intersecting Domains
Make sure to reach out the Chairs of whichever AWGs interest you most
AWG Chairs or Communications Coordinators should also be reaching out to you soon, and also forwarding you their respective monthly invites
- AI/ML – @lauren.sanders ; lmh.sanders@gmail.com
- The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) AWG develops or deploys AI and ML tools to answer basic science or applied science questions about spaceflight biology and human health.
- ALSDA – @rtscott2001 ; ryan.t.scott@nasa.gov
- The NASA Ames Life Sciences Data Archive (ALSDA) AWG is focused on non-omics data types, including physiological, phenotypic, biomedical, imaging, behavioral. This group spends a majority of its time on data and metadata standards.
- Animal – @paula6 ; paula6@erau.edu
- The Animal AWG focuses data from experiments with animal models in space, seeking to better understand basic animal science as well as animal evolution and adaptation to the conditions of space. Model organisms include rodents, fruit flies, c. elegans, and tissue-on-a-chip technology.
- Female Repro – @abegum ; abegum@usf.edu
- The Female Reproductive System AWG investigates the impacts of spaceflight on female reproductive health, from endocrinology to reproductive organ health.
- Human – @Dr.Overbey ; eoverbey@uaustin.org
- The Human AWG investigates clinical science for spaceflight, bridging genomics and other data types to support human health in space.
- Microbes – @daniela.bezdan ; bezdan.daniela@gmail.com
- The Microbes AWG investigates microbial life and the ecosystems to support life in space; investigations address bacteria, yeast, viruses, and other types of microbiological life.
- Multi-Omics – beheshti@pitt.edu or on the forum: @AfshinBeheshti or @jessicadurbano & jessica94durbano@gmail.com
- The Multi-Omics AWG. Molecular biology focuses on the function and structure of biological molecules (e.g., DNA). The so-called ‘omics disciplines analyze a whole set of biological molecules across an entire organism (e.g., an organism’s whole genome). Multi-omics integrates data from all the ‘omics fields (there is one for every important type of biological molecule, e.g., proteomics (proteins), lipidomics (lipids)) to take a holistic approach to understand biological processes. The Multi-Omics AWG uses this integrative approach to investigate how being in space impacts terrestrial life.
- Plant – @dr.richard.barker ; dr.richard.barker@gmail.com
- The Plants AWG focus on the science of cultivating healthy, nutritious plant crops in space.
- RadLab – @kirill ; kirill.grigorev@bmsis.org
- The RadLab AWG focuses on radiation telemetry (the science of remotely detecting and measuring radiation in space and converting those data to signals that can be transmitted) and radiation biophysics (the study of how radiation impacts the physics of cellular processes). This AWG was instrumental in guiding the creation of the ‘RadLab’ tools of the OSDR.