Joined July 2022
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This spring, 4 lab members graduated with their BS at @universityofri , Biological Sciences, Kinesiology and Dietetics. Wishing you guys the absolute best for the future, thank you for this journey together ! 🧑🏻‍🎓🧑🏻‍💻🧑🏼‍🔬🔬
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There are not enough words to show how proud I am of this lab, with a good number of us being able to gather to celebrate the end of the year! Thank you for making great research, being wonderful cheerleaders for each other, and for sharing your mind with me! #AdAstra
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Another amazing student's achievement! @TheodorosP_
I am so beyond proud of @TheodorosP_ for his systematic review on Nutrition-Based Interventions to mitigate the impact of space radiation! Hoping to go much deeper into this topic in the future! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab retweeted
The @M2BLab showed up IN STYLE to the @URIHealthSci Research Night !!!
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Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab retweeted
GOSPEED #ArtemisII ! I never felt this before, today is making History and I’ve never been prouder to study Space Biology and be a very lucky NASA investigator! What a time to be alive! #AdAstra
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So proud of @TheodorosP_ for being a finalist of the 3MT Competition!!!! And thanks to lab members (even non pictured) who came to support him! #AstroFuel
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Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab retweeted
As humans return to the Moon, scientists confront the dangers of deep-space radiation | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/… So grateful to work with the AMAZING team at Pitt trying to understand how "hibernation-like" status impacts our bodies!
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Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab retweeted
An outstanding & important collaboration for human spaceflight to the Moon&Mars - it’s also microbes! 💯 Enabled by @NASA @esa and data sharing, open science, and the OSDataRepo-Analysis Working Groups. As Astra! @mason_lab @NASAAmes @NASAScience_ @NASAAdmin @GeorgeAlderman_ @NASASpox @rodcoutalmeida
Delighted to see this Perspective Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support published in @Nature_NPJ: lnkd.in/d89c_cqm A genuinely collaborative #OpenScience NASA GeneLab/OSDR - Microbes AWG With support from @ucddublin @NASAGeneLab @esa ucd.ie/research/news/2026/th…
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#StudentSpotlight Jared is a post bac pre med student, unraveling what happens to skeletal muscles following cardiac arrest. We are trying to use novel biomarkers that may inform standard of care in ICU settings.
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#StudentSpotlight Jacob is a URI alumnus who graduated with a bachelor in cell and molecular bio. He studies metabolic cart data for our cold sleep participants, looking at energy expenditure and respiratory quotient. We hope to unlock how the body fuels itself during cold sleep
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#StudentSpotlight Mateus is a biology / pre health senior working on our AstroFuel project, working with rats and using nutrition to prevent space induced muscle deconditioning.
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#StudentSpotlight Roman is a junior in Pharmacy/Nutrition who worked on our cold sleep project, examining changes in electrical impedance myography during prolonged metabolic manipulation. We hope to identify the acute impact of this countermeasure on muscle health.
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#StudentSpotlight I am so incredibly grateful for our students this semester. Matt is a senior (KIN, pre med). He has been working tirelessly on our cold sleep project and how glucose levels are impacted by hibernation-like state in humans. He will soon join BIDMC Orthopaedics!
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#Announcement We are DELIGHTED to graduate our First Masters Student David. We are so proud of his work and accomplishments working on space biology! 🎉👏🎊
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#StudentSpotlight The M2B lab is absolutely thrilled to welcome its first PhD Student @TheodorosP_ coming all the way from Cyprus with a Masters in Clinical Dietetics. He will be working on space nutrition and we can’t wait to help him reach the stars ✨
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Metabolism and Muscle Biology Lab retweeted
On the ferry back and just incredibly grateful for @NASA @BrookhavenLab our wonderful #LunarLiving team, Mags, Jim and our INCREDIBLE BLAF ladies. Good science always makes me so happy. I’ll be back soon for more radiation and space studies
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