CDT PhD candidate Henry Cope (2019 cohort) presented his work with NASA GeneLab datasets on aerospace medicine at the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Aerospace Medicine Group Annual Symposium 2021.
The Aerospace Medicine Group consists mainly of doctors and other professionals in aerospace medicine. They focus on aircrew performance, flight safety, the human-machine interface, spaceflight physiology, fitness for flying, illnesses among aircrew and passengers, and applying clinical expertise to aerospace medicine.
Through the work presented at the symposium, Henry is also working with a program called GeneLab for High School (GL4HS). GL4HS is a four-week intensive program for high school juniors and seniors (A-level equivalent), supported by NASA’s Ames Research Center near Mountain View, California. It focuses on space life sciences, especially omics-based bioinformatics research, which involves studying complex biological data like genetic codes using computational biology. Henry has written tasks for students to work on relating to the planned publication for the project. In recognition of their contributions, students would receive authorship credit for the publication.
Tags: aerospace medicine, fitness, flight, GeneLab for high School, GL4HS, human-machine, interface, physiology
