Seminar - Lessons from Microbiome Exploration within Space Science

Understanding the effects of exposure to the Lunar, Martian, and deep-space environments on biological systems and health is critical to enabling long-duration spaceflight and the horizon goal of a human mission to Mars. With this in mind, the seminar will discuss the implications of recent and ongoing research into microbiome variation across different modules of the International Space Station, of crew in an analogue Martian habitat during the longest controlled human isolation experiment conducted to-date as well as in mice on the Rodent Research 6 mission.

Speaker:

Dr Nicholas Brereton received his PhD from Imperial College London before moving to the Universite de Montreal as a research fellow before joining the UCD School of Biological and Environmental Science as an Ad Astra Fellow. He specialises in the genetics of cross-kingdom interactions in plant and environmental research, clinical microbiome research, and microbiome research within the space sciences and currently leads a multi-omic research project with NASA Genelab collaborators on spaceflight-associated changes at the host-gut microbiome interface using data from the Rodent Research 6 mission.

Seminar: March 2nd, 2023, 2pm in Room 129, UCD Science North (Physics), Belfield