Or course #CBIOMES would not have be here without the funding and operations support of #NASA, Bioserve, NASA Kennedy Space Center and Space Biology, plus Texas Tech University (Siva Vanapalli), Baylor College of Medicine (Buck Samuel), Rutgers University and Ohio University (Nate Szewczyk).

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mission logo for NG24

Launch is late this week (4/9-10) from Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center. Watch live on NASA+. I'll post updates and a live link as we get closer, and when the worms come home. 🪱 🚀 🦠 🧬 🚀

www.nasa.gov/news-release...

#WormsinSpace #Celegans #Microbiome #ISS #CBIOMES #Artemis #spaceX

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The worms launch in culture bags and microfluidic chips, live on the station for ~6 days, then get imaged, frozen and returned to Earth for analysis. A matching ground experiment runs simultaneously so we can isolate what impact of microgravity.

#Celegans #SpaceBiology #microbiome #cbiomes 🚀 🦠
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#CBIOMES flies worms with three different microbiomes and four genetically distinct host backgrounds. Because real populations aren't uniform, and we want to understand how individual variation shapes #microbiome behavior and impact on host under stress.

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We know #spaceflight changes the #microbiome in astronauts. What we don't yet know is what that means for their long-term health. That's the gap #CBIOMES was designed to close — before humans are living on
the Moon full-time.

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CBIOMES team - Buck Samuel, Monica Driscoll, Shilpa Akella, Atiyya Soroyia, Siva Vanapalli, Ciara Hosea and Bushra Rhaman. Not pictured: Dana Blackburn. Collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Tech and Rutgers University.

#Artemis is circling the Moon right now. And later this week, our team's experiment launches to the #ISS. Tiny worms. Defined gut microbiomes. Here's why the two are connected. 🧵
#WormsinSpace #CBIOMES #Celegans 🧪 🪱 🧬 🚀

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