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Date, Time & Location: | Wednesday, 10/02/2013 12:10p – 1:00 p.m. Cullen Auditorium Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
Speaker: | Associate Professor Vice President, Chief Scientist & Institute Associate Director National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) |
Lecture Title: | “Towards Precision Space Medicine: Individual Responses to the Space Environment” |
· Graham Scott will highlight individual differences and phenotypic variability observed in astronaut crew members during spaceflight, as well as in analog environments.
· He will also discuss current and future opportunities to employ modern –omics techniques, such as next generation sequencing, as a key component of space biomedical research.
· Particular mention will be made of an upcoming flight study on the International Space Station involving a set of identical twin astronauts, namely Scott and Mark Kelly.
· Dr. Scott will also touch on the planned use of personalized medicine approaches to better enable the upcoming Inspiration Mars mission that will involve a husband and wife couple.
Please contact me if you need additional information about this elective.
Nancy Gibbins
Center for Space Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
713-798-7639