2025 Annual AWG Meeting “Moon to Mars” Science, Collabs & Innovation:rocket: Check out YouTube ~20+ AWG talks!
On Sept 25, ~175 members of the OSDR/NASA GeneLab Analysis Working Groups held a full-day virtual meeting on GatherTown. With 20+ talks, and ~25 posters, the event spotlighted the R&D benefits when data is maximally open access, high quality, and reusable to accelerate discoveries and platform development for space biology and space health.
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Highlights
• Theme: Moon to Mars—Advancing Research, Operations, and Countermeasures
• Welcome, Introduction, AWG Overview, and OSDR/Genelab Science Overview @jgalazka @rtscott2001: https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=240s
• Keynotes: Catriona Jamieson (UC San Diego Jamieson Lab) on “Stem Cells & Cancer Research in Space” https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=1515s;
Michael Lowry (NASA Ames) & Mirko Prezioso (Mentium Tech) on “Neuromorphic Processors for Resilient Spaceflight Compute” https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=3831s
• ESA Segment: @rodrigo.coutinhodeal introduced the “2024 Space Omics Hackathon” and 1st/2nd-place finalists @michael_olufemi and Claudio N. https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=6723s
• New AWGs launched in 2025: “Brain, Hardware, Planetary Protection, Physical Sciences Informatics” @windymc @nilufarali @jessica.a.lee Haley Sapers @stefan_green @Alex @Subhayu https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=8626s
• Two rapid-talk blocks spanning microbes, viral reactivation, cardiovascular meta-analysis, female repro/radiation, AI/ML (SANS & DNA damage), plant–gut health, exosomal biomarkers, workflow tools, and plant biology in lunar regolith @katherine.j.baxter @britaniadiazf @bruno.pavletic @mattias.neset @jessicadurbano @vaishnavi.nagesh https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=10455s
@borjabarbero @evartsb @mboerrigter @walt @rachelcrivero @kvbrahma @dr.aslinger Abdelraouf Omar @jkelliher @asaravia https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA?t=18415s
• Parallel poster + networking sessions across AI/ML, Brain, Animal, Microbes, Plant, and Human AWGs; catalyzing new collaborations and next steps. (Not recorded)
Watch / Learn
• Full agenda seen here: Gather
• Most slide decks uploaded: AWG Annual Meeting - Google Drive
• Main Auditorium recording (YouTube, unlisted): https://www.youtube.com/live/IyqYkJ5odMA
• Search the data repo yourself: NASA OSDR: Open Science for Life in Space
• Access the data via the BIOdataAPI: OSDR Biological Data API
• About the AWGs: About - Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups
• To join the AWGs: Request to join the Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) Analysis Working Group (AWG)
• Google Scholar of all ~150 enabled OSDR/Genelab papers, pre-prints, etc: NASA OSDR-GeneLab Enabled Publications - Google Scholar
Grateful to all speakers, poster presenters, facilitators, and attendees.
@GasMan @mdrusins @amey-agarwal @AliReza-H @ayseyigit @amaanarif25 @kjenkins @anna.lewkowicz @kuppala James Hunt @blabee @sophiatran @Yathu @justinytlin @dpiekarskiva @angel @srajeev @yenkai.chen.id @camipatri523 @luca.bertolaccini @asaravia @acaicedo @owengeyman @RAF @parul.gupta @Sevdeckll
Special thanks @Jennifer_Claudio and other OSDR teams members @danielle.lopez91 @rachelrgilbert for event support
@AIMLawg @HUMANawg @FemaleReproAWG @AnimalAWG @ALSDAawg @PlantAWG @MicrobesAWG @MultiOmicsAWG @BrainAWG @HardwareAWG @RLWG