NASA has established the world leading space biology facility for generating, processing, and storing –omic datasets for space biology. This facility is called GeneLab.
The purposes of this Topical Team are to support ESA member state scientists participating in GeneLab and to study and implement future GeneLab based activities for ESA member state scientists. Examples of current activities include bi-lateral cooperation on future space biology experiments, co-authorship on original research, and bi-lateral exploration of incorporating human biology datasets into GeneLab. Examples of potential future activities include establishing physical or virtual ESA supported GeneLab infrastructure, incorporating GeneLab based experiments in new launch/operational platforms, and partnering ESA ground and space based human biology experiments with GeneLab.
Publications:
Space omics research in Europe: Contributions, geographical distribution and ESA member state funding schemes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222001900
The European research community, via European Space Agency (ESA) spaceflight opportunities, has significantly contributed toward our current understanding of spaceflight biology. Recent molecular biology experiments include “omic” analysis, which provides a holistic and systems level understanding of the mechanisms underlying phenotypic adaptation. Despite vast interest in, and the immense quantity of biological information gained from space omics research, the knowledge of ESA-related space omics works as a collective remains poorly defined due to the recent exponential application of omics approaches in space and the limited search capabilities of pre-existing records. Thus, a review of such contributions is necessary to clarify and promote the development of space omics among ESA and ESA state members. To address this gap, in this review, we i) identified and summarized omics works led by European researchers, ii) geographically described these omics works, and iii) highlighted potential caveats in complex funding scenarios among ESA member states.
Authors: Colleen S Deane; Space Omics Topical Team; Willian A da Silveira, Raúl Herranz
Revamping Space-omics in Europe
https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/pdf/S2405-4712(20)30413-0.pdf
Authors: Pedro Madrigal, Alexander Gabel, Alicia Villacampa, Aránzazu Manzano, Colleen S Deane, Daniela Bezdan, Eugénie Carnero-Diaz, F Javier Medina, Gary Hardiman, Ivo Grosse, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Silvio Weging, Stefania Giacomello, Stephen D R Harridge , Tessa Morris-Paterson, Thomas Cahill, Willian A da Silveira, Raúl Herranz