NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement (NRA) solicits flight and ground-based proposals for the Space Biology Program to examine and discover underlying mechanisms of adaptation to changes resulting from the space flight environment (e.g., altered gravity, stress, radiation), and to examine and determine cellular and organismal mechanisms that regulate and sustain growth, metabolism, reproduction and development. These studies are expected to result in new basic knowledge that will provide a foundation on which other NASA researchers and engineers can build approaches and countermeasures to the problems confronting human exploration of space, or that translate into new biological tools or applications on Earth.

PI Name Organization Proposal Address Delp, Michael University of Florida Disuse Osteopenia: A Potential Vascular Coupling Mechanism Dept. Applied Physiology and Kinesiology 100 FLG, PO Box 118205 Gainesville,FL 32611 Ferl, Robert University of Florida Molecular Biology of Growth and Cell Remodeling within the Spaceflight Environment Department of Horticultural Sciences 1301 Fifield Hall, Box 110690 Gainesville,FL 32611 Nicholson, Wayne University of Florida Development of Multiple Antibiotic Resistance by Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens during Human Space Flight Microbiology and Cell Science Space Life Sciences Laboratory Room 201-B, Building M6-1025/SLSL Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 Paul, Anna-Lisa University of Florida Cell Signaling in Undifferentiated Cells - Perceiving the Environment without Specialized Tissues Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program 1301 Fifield Hall Gainesville,FL 32611 Pandey, Santosh Iowa State University Integrative Response of C. elegans to Environmental Stresses in Microgravity Electrical and Computer Engineering 2126 Coover Hall Ames,IA 50011 Irudayaraj, Joseph Purdue University Defining epigenetic programming during flight expeditions in differentiating embryonic stem cells Agricultural and Biological Engineering 225 S University St ABE 215 Building West Lafayette,IN 47907 Brandizzi, Frederica Michigan State University Mechanisms for Plant Adaptation to Space Environment Plant Research Laboratory 106 Plant Biology East Lansing,MI 48824 Hammond, Tim Durham VA Medical Center Evolution of Genotypic and Phenotypic Changes in Yeast related to Selective Growth Pressures Unique to Microgravity 508 Fulton St Durham,NC 27705 Judex, Stefan Stony Brook University Genes that Predict the Loss of Bone during Weightlessness Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering Building, 213 Stony Brook,NY 11794 Blancaflor, Elison The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Utilizing the Advanced Biological Research System (ABRS) on the International Space Station (ISS) to uncover Microgravity's Impact on Root Development and Cell Wall Architecture Plant Biology Division 2510 Sam Noble Pkwy Ardmore,OK 73401 Turner, Russell Oregon State University Role of Marrow Adipocytes in Bone Loss during Simulated Spaceflight 3910SW Country Club Drive Corvallis,OR 97333 Elefteriou, Florent Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vestibular stimulation: a countermeasure for bone loss during long-term space mission? Medicine 2215 Garland Avenue, Room 1225E Nashville,TN 37232 Lawler, John Texas A&M University Redox Regulation of nNOS Translocation and Muscle Atrophy During Mechanical Unloading Health & Kinesiology 4243 Tamu, 276B Read Bldg. Redox Biology & Cell Signaling Lab. College Station,TX 77843 Wu, Honglu NASA Johnson Space Center miRNA Expression Profiles in Cultured Human Fibroblasts in Space Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Office 2101 NASA Parkway, Mail Code SK Houston,TX 77058 Gilroy, Simon University of Wisconsin - Madison BRIC: Mapping Spaceflight-Induced Hypoxic Signaling and Response Department of Botany 430 Lincoln Dr Madison,WI 53706