STAR-4 (2023-2024) Course Participants
Takashi Akera, Ph.D.
Tenure-Track Investigator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
Selfish DNA and Female Fertility.
James Bagley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, San Francisco State University.
Muscle Biology and Exercise Physiology.
Borja Barbero Barcenilla, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University.
Plant Oxidative Stress, Telomeres and Telomerase.
Rutwik Barmukh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Murdoch University, Australia.
Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding.
Chhandak Basu, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, California State University, Northridge.
Research Affiliate, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Plant and Microbial Adaptations to Extreme Environments.
Kuhan Chandru, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia).
Astrobiology.
Adam Chicco, Ph.D., F.A.H.A.
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences; Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research; Colorado State University.
Physiology and Biochemistry (Cardiovascular Physiology, Mitochondrial Biology and Metabolism).
Steve K. Cho, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea.
Cancer Metabolism and Space Biomedicine.
Diana Cruz-Topete, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport.
Stress Signaling in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases.
Joyonna Gamble-George, M.H.A., Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Yale University.
Gene-Environment Interactions and Psychobiology.
Parul Gupta, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Plant Multi-omics, Bioinformatics, Biocuration.
Robert Hinshaw, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA Ames Research Center.
Radiation Biology In Vitro Cell Culture Models.
Julianne Holloway, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University.
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering.
Kirk Jensen, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF), Adelaide Centre for Epigentics (ACE), SAiGENCI (South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute).
Single-Cell and Spatial Biology Applications & Methods Development.
Khaled Kamal, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University.
Space Biology, Skeletal Muscle, Redox Biology.
Kathleen Keough, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Computational Biology, Fauna Bio.
Computational Biology – Comparative and Functional Genomics.
Sarah Kessans, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Fungal synthetic biology and protein biochemistry.
Maryam Kohram, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University.
Cancer Biophysics.
Christine Lalonde, Ph.D.
Director of Health Services, Nipissing First Nation.
Stipendiary Faculty, NOSM University.
Low Dose Radiation and Neurobiology.
Begum Mathyk, M.D.
Assistant Professor, M.D., ObGyn, University of South Florida.
Reproductive Endocrinology, PCOS, Multiomics.
Raheleh Miralami, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Mississippi State University, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
Biomedical.
Elpinickie Ninou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow, Hellenic Pasteur Institute.
Microglia in Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration.
Jiwoon Park, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Single Cell and Spatial Genomics.
R. Lee Reinhardt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado.
T Cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells in Mucosal Immunity.
Marina Trombetta Lima, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
The Aged Tissue Microenvironment.
Meenakshi Upreti, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Children’s Hospital at Los Angeles.
Predictive Tumor Models for High Grade Pediatric Gliomas.
Maryam Vasefi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Lamar University.
Signal Transduction in Human Cells.
Geraldine Vitry, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University Medical Center.
Biodosimetry.
Piyumi Wijesekara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher (NASA Postdoctoral Program), NASA Ames Research Center.
Human Airway Responses to Spaceflight Stressors.
Daniel Winer, M.D.
Associate Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Adjunct Associate Professor, USC School of Gerontology.
Affiliate Scientist, University Health Network.
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Department of Immunology, and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology.
Immunology, Aging, and Microgravity.
