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Date, Time & Location:     

Wednesday, 04/15/2015   12:10 – 1:00 p.m.  DeBakey Classrooms M321, M323

 

Speaker:                                

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

Universities Space Research Association

 

Lecture  Title:      

 

Learning Objectives:

“Space Cell Biology: A Microcosm  of the Influence of Physical Forces on Life”

 

•       The rationale for cell based research in the Space Program

•       Role of physical forces in life processes

•       Cellular responses to microgravity and to mechanical forces

•       Conditions created by microgravity that influence cell function

•       Integration of observations in cells to tissue, system, organ, and organismal level

 

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

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