Twenty-one virtual presentations and lightning talks related to GeneLab will be given by the GeneLab team, Analysis Working Group (AWG) members, and others in the Space Biology community at ASGSR on Nov. 5-6, 2020:
- Space Systems Biology with GeneLab (Thursday Nov. 5th, 3:15 – 4:45 pm Eastern):
- Stefania Giacomella, SciLifeLab Understanding spaceflight impact on mouse heart by Spatial Transcriptomics
- Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University, Plant AWG adds insights from RNA-Seq datasets and alternative splicing analysis
- Craig Willis, University of Exeter (UK), Comparative transcriptomics in C. elegans exposed to hypergravity and spaceflight
- Man (Jimmy) Kim, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Modeling metabolic pathways from NASA GeneLab spaceflight data
- Stefan Green, University of Illinois at Chicago, Microbes AWG: Effect of spaceflight on the murine fecal microbiome and comparison of sequencing methodologies
- Alternative splicing and transcriptome modulation under Space flight response in Arabidopsis thaliana, Plant AWG, Parul Gupta
- Using TOAST to engage students in the mining of bioinformatics data from NASA GeneLab, Andrea M. Henle
- Use of the TOAST bioinformatics database to identify genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, that may be important in the gravitropic response during spaceflight, Melanie Gucwa
- ISSOP: A global effort to provide new standards in space omics research, Lindsay Rutter (former GeneLab intern)
- A Comparison of the Staphylococcus aureus physiological response to spaceflight and ground-based simulated microgravity, Matthew Hauserman
- A ESA Space Omics Topical Team to help expand and accelerate space omics in Europe, Colleen S. Deane
- Logistic regression based detection of ATR and ATM orthologs from putative radiation networks of Arabidopsis thaliana in spaceflight, Lightning Talk by Jairo Orozco, graduate student of Vidya Manian (Plant AWG)
- Evaluation of Correction Methods for Combining NASA GeneLab Transcriptomic Datasets, Finsam Samson (current GeneLab intern)
- Spaceflight induces transcriptome and methylome changes in mouse retina , Xiao Wen Mao
- Human placenta-derived stromal cells mitigate select immune responses to simulated weightlessness, Linda Rubinstein (Guttmann), Amber M. Paul*, Charles Houseman, Metadel Abegaz, Nathan O'Neil, Steffy Tabares, Racheli Ofir, Jacob Cohen, April E. Ronca, Ruth Globus, Candice Tahimic* (*Animal AWG)
- Cross-Translational Animal Models of Altered Gravity Simulation Induces Immunomodulatory Chaperone Heat Shock Protein 70, Amber M. Paul*, Joe Olivieri, Brooke D. Shepard, Rachel Gilbert*, Janani S. Iyer, Siddhita Mhatre, Sharmila Bhattacharya* (*Animal AWG)
- Newt Tail Regeneration in Microgravity: A Novel Omics Investigation, Cassandra M. Juran
- In-Vitro Cyclic Stretch Mechanical Loading Regulates p21/CDKN1a Expression and Differentiation Progression of Regenerating Osteogenic Lineages but not Early Mesenchymal Osteoprogenitors, Eduardo A. C. Almeida
- Plant-Microbial Metatranscriptomic Analysis Using the MinION Nanopore Sequencing Platform for Spaceflight Applications, Natasha Sng
- Phototropism and gravitropism responses in six knockout mutants: follow up studies to a spaceflight experiment, Tatsiana Shymanovich, Joshua Vandenbrink, John Z. Kiss* (*Plant AWG)
- Spectrum: Fluorescence Imaging on the International Space Station, Sarah J. Swanson
