This message is being sent to you courtesy of BCM Center for Space Medicine

 

 

Date, Time & Location:     

Wednesday, 03/27/2013   12:10 – 1:00 p.m.  DeBakey Classrooms,  M321 and M323

 

Speaker:                                

Neal R. Pellis, Ph.D, Director, Division of Space Life Sciences

Universities Space Research Association

 

Lecture  Title:      

 

Learning Objectives:

“Life in Space:  What We Can Learn from Cells”

 

•       General understanding of the health risks to humans in space exploration

•       The rationale for cell based research in the Space Program

•       Role of physical forces in life processes

•       Cellular responses to microgravity

•       Conditions created by microgravity that influence cell function

 

We encourage BCM students, faculty and staff to attend the CSM elective lecture series “Introduction to Human Space Exploration and Medicine.”   Please contact me if you need additional information about this presentation.

 

Thank you,

 

Nancy Gibbins

Center for Space Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

[log in to unmask]

713-798-7639