Although not directly organised or sponsored by RAeS, this event may be of interest to RAeS members ....
Proudly brought to you by the Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC)
Presenter: Dr. Richard Wassersug
Title: Latest Research in Space Biology
Dr. Wassersug is interested in how the space environment affects living organisms. Most of his research has been on amphibians such as tadpoles. He has been Principal Investigator for an impressive number of experiments flown on the U.S. Space Shuttle.
He explains how he accidentally became a space biologist: “I serendipitously got invited into the field some 15 years ago. Back then, a group at NASA was planning to raise frog eggs on the space shuttle to see how gravity (and the absence thereof) affected the early development of vertebrates. The mission was long enough to bring back live tadpoles on Earth. These were the first alien life forms—after all, they were born in space!—to arrive on our planet. In order to tell whether the space tadpoles were normal, NASA invited me in to study them upon their arrival at Cape Canaveral.”
Date: Thursday 29 March 2012
Time: 6:00pm for a 6:30pm Start
Venue: Victorian Space Science Education Centre at Strathmore Secondary College
Address: 400 Pascoe Vale Road, Strathmore
Registrations: Please visit the VSSEC website to register.
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