Medicago truncatula post flight research opportunity (US)

ExoLab-11 launches next month to the ISS for a nominal 30-day experiment with M. truncatula Jemalong A17 seed line. Environmental and image data will be available during the mission, and returned samples (-80C) can be available if you are interested in 'omics or imaging work.

Berkeley National Lab had done work for us in the past, and less likely they will have the time and material resources for this one.

Magnitude is an education company that runs missions on the ISS for learning institutions around the world, and we’d love your expertise and insight. Program will follow an Open Science philosophy and welcome collaboration. Please reach out if you have an interest.

@PlantAWG

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Thank you for sharing about this with the team!!

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Yes please contact me and I would love to help, both with outreach and the science. @tagami

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Fabulous! Thank you Professor. I will reach out by email. For others interested, please let me know. We will need to understand how best to deliver these to more than 1 institution while keeping the specimens in a cold chain. Looking for a 48-72 hour window from splashdown to lab.

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Thank you for reaching out regarding the upcoming ExoLab-11 mission. We would be delighted to assist with the genetic analysis of the M. truncatula Jemalong A17 seed line, as well as conducting post-return cultivation experiments once the samples are back on Earth. Our team at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at National Central University has extensive experience in genomics, and we would welcome the opportunity to collaborate on this exciting project.

Please feel free to contact me directly at email: syic@ncu.edu.tw to discuss further details. We look forward to contributing to this mission and the open science initiative.

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