LAUNCHING AN EXPERIMENT INTO SPACE!

See the article I wrote for the Perspectives Blog on our experiment here!

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a team of dedicated students to launch an experiment up into the International Space Station! It aims to look at how bacteria like E. coli and E. faecalis grow under the microgravity conditions in space. It has potential applications in drug development.

Here are some pictures:

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UPDATE: The capsule was launched as of today (April 9 2020) as part of the Soyuz MS–16 mission! It’s going to be in space for 4 months, and then we’ll be able to retrieve the capsule.