Seminar | Bioastronautics | University of Colorado Boulder

Current Seminar

Fall 2024 - Tuesdays at 1pm

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
9/10	Students	Introductions	AERO 114
9/17	Bharath Tata	Lab Safety	AERO 114
9/24	Lisa Ventura	Pilot Day in the Life/F-15 Things	AERO 114
10/1	Professor David Klaus	The Co-evolution of BioServe and Bioastronautics at CU	AERO 114
10/8	Canadian Space Agency	Life Sciences + CanadaFarm	AERO 114
10/15	Tammer Barkouki	Being a PJ!	AERO 114
10/22	Jasmin Chadha + Lena Obaid	Research Presentations - Katya's new grant + how heartbreak research can be used in astronaut ICE research	AERO 114
10/29	Professor Theodora Chaspari	Speech to Predict Team Functioning during HERA Missions	AERO 114
11/5	Eric Sallinger	State of the Art Software Tools for Learning and Productivity	AERO 114
11/12	Sarah Leary + Grace Robertson	ECG and Psychological Health & Flight Resource Management	AERO 114
11/19	Katya Arquilla	Katya ABC Talk	AERO 114
11/26	N/A	No Seminar (Fall Break)	N/A
12/3	N/A	Christmas Party	AERO 114

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
1/24	Students	3-minute lightning talks	AERO N240
1/31	Doug Littiken (NASA JSC)	Inflatable Space Habitats	AERO N240
2/7	Aaron Allred and Vicki Hurd	Research Talks	AERO N240
2/14	N/A	No Seminar (HRP)
2/21	Ella Schauss & Sophie Zaccarine	Internship/Textiles/Mental Health	AERO N240
2/28	Dr. John Karasinski (NASA Ames)		AERO N240
3/6	Dr. Luis Zea (Jaguar Space)		AERO N240
3/13	Journal Club	AI	AERO N240
3/20	Sarah Leary	Research Talks	AERO N240
3/27	N/A	No Seminar (Spring Break)
4/3	Amrita Singh	1 Hr Dust Talk	AERO N240
4/10	Journal Club		AERO N240
4/17	Luca Bonarrigo	AsMA Research Talks	AERO N240
4/24	Marlena Fraune (Amazon)		AERO N240
5/1	N/A	End of Semester Party	AERO N240

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
8/30	N/A	No Seminar	N/A
9/6	Jacob Kintz	Introductions and Seminar Overview	AERO N250
9/13	Patrick Pischulti	Lab Safety	AERO N250
9/20	Brooke Shepard	Bone Biology in Spaceflight	AERO N250
9/27	Leo Wood	Non-Human Pilots: The Neuromechanics of Animal Flight Control	AERO N250
10/4	Samuel Kurtin	Industry Experiences and Internships Round-Table	AERO N250
10/11	Jacob Kintz	Research Ethics and Academic Integrity Round-Table	AERO N250
10/18	Lauren McIntyre (NASA GRC) and Dr. Jerry Myers (NASA GRC)	GRC CHP-PRA	AERO N250
10/25	Jacob Kintz / Patrick Pischulti	Software Engineering for Bioastronauts	AERO N250
11/1	Paromita Mitra (NASA JSC)	Joint Augmented Reality Visual Informatics System (Joint AR)	Zoom, Onizuka
11/8	Lt. Madison Maloney (USAF)	An Operator's Perspective on Spatial Disorientation and Training	AERO N250
11/15	Victoria Kravets	Quantifying temporal dynamics of neurovestibular adaptation to altered gravity	AERO N250
11/22	N/A	Fall Break - No Seminar	N/A
11/29	Savannah Buchner and Erin Richardson		AERO N250
12/6	Caroline Austin and Aaron Allred		AERO N250
12/13	N/A	Holiday Party	AERO N250

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
8/24	N/A	First week of classes - No seminar	N/A
8/31	Students	Research round table & intros	AERO 111
9/7	Bharath Tata	Lab Safety	AERO 111
9/14	Sage Sherman	Global Development	AERO 111
9/21	Ella Schauss & Vika Kravets	Imposter Syndrome & Systemic Exclusion in Academia	AERO 111
9/28	Dr. Mike Hecht	MOXIE	Zoom
10/5	Students	3-Minute Theses	AERO 111
10/12	Alvin Harvey & Evie Clarke	Indigenous Philosophy and Space Exploration	Hybrid
10/19	Gautham Ahuja & Grad projects	Student Presentations	AERO 111
10/26	N/A	No Seminar	N/A
11/2	Dr. Jon Stellar	Reproductive Health in Spaceflight	Zoom
11/9	Nate Bell	EMU Operations	Zoom
11/16	Alex Baughman	APACHE and NASA's H3PO	Zoom
11/23	N/A	Fall Break - No Seminar	N/A
11/30	Dr. Tobias Niederwieser	DSRG and Artemis I	AERO 111
12/7	Maraia Tanner	Star Harbor	AERO 111
12/14	Jamie Voros	Coffee Tasting	TBD

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
1/19	Kieran Smith	Introduction	Zoom
1/26	Torin Clark	Implicit biases	AERO 111
2/2	N/A	Cancelled: Snow Day	N/A
2/9	Students	HRP Social	AERO 111
2/16	Sam Kurtin & Col. Jim Voss	Human Spaceflight Graduate Projects	AERO 111
2/23	Danielle Rosales & Malik Moville	Space Tango	Zoom
3/2	Dr. Leanne Hirshfield	SHINE Lab	AERO 111
3/9	Victoria Kravets & Aaron Allred	Gravity Adaption Modelling and Vestibular Thresholds	AERO 111
3/16	Christine Escobar	Robust ECLSS Design Methodology for Deep Space Exploration	Zoom
3/23	N/A	Spring Break: No Meeting	N/A
3/30	Kieran Smith	Journal Club	AERO 111
4/6	Jacob Kintz & Saige Drecksler	Workload and Situation Awareness & A Non-Pharmacological Countermeasure for Motion Sickness	AERO 111
4/13	Dr. Torin Clark & Dr. Magdalena Herová	HSLU BIOTESC Joint Seminar (8am-9am)	Zoom
4/20	Sage Sherman	Decision Making in Harrowing Situations	AERO 111
4/27	Amy Ross	NASA Spacesuit Design	Zoom

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
9/1	Sam Eshima	Introduction	AERO 111
9/8	Bharath Tata	Lab Safety	AERO 111
9/15	Group Students	Professor Klaus and Professor Nabity research group overviews	AERO 111
9/22	Group Students	Professor Anderson and Professor Clark research group overviews	AERO 111
9/29	Emily Dommermuth	Zotero crash course	AERO 111
10/6	Students	Fellowship Opportunities	AERO 111
10/13	Callie Pherigo, Dean Widhalm	Intro to Bioserve	AERO 111
10/20	Andrew Boone	NASA Acoustics Office	Remote
10/27	Students	Bioastro Halloween Social	AERO 111
11/3	Sarah Fahmy	Public Speaking Workshop	AERO 111
11/10	Kimberly Binsted	HI-SEAS	Remote
11/17	Takashi Uchiyama	Astronaut Selection and Lunar Exploration in Japan	Remote
11/24	-	Fall Break	-
12/1	James Knox	NASA ECLSS CO2 removal system	Remote
12/8	Students	Bioastro Christmas Social	AERO 111

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
1/20	all	Welcome back and research roundtable	Zoom
1/27	Sage Sherman	Performance Enhancement through Stochastic Resonance	Zoom
2/3	HRP Social Hour		Zoom
2/10	Ryan Griffith Rachel Rise	Mid-Infrared Interband Cascade Semiconductor Laser Devices Identifying Stochastic Resonance in Perceptual Thresholds	Zoom
2/17	Reading Day	No Meeting	Zoom
2/24	Bioastro Aumni	CU at JSC Q&A Panel	Zoom
3/3	Jay C Buckey	Neurolab	Zoom
3/10	Sarah Fahmy	Public Speaking Workshop	Zoom
3/17	Evan Thomas	Remote Sensing and Global Health	Zoom
3/24	Rachael Seidler	Spaceflight on the Brain	Zoom
3/31	Katya Arquilla	EDA for PTSD Therapy	Zoom
4/7	Phil Larson	Politics of Spaceflight	Zoom
4/14	Jacob Kintz Jamie Voros	HOME VR Vestibular Research	Zoom
4/21	Group Discussion		Zoom
4/28	Eric Brighton	Aircraft Cockpit Design

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
8/26	all	Welcome back and return to research updates	Zoom
9/2	all	Research Round-table	Zoom
9/9	Bioastro students	Fellowship Panel	Zoom
9/16	Erin Marie Espelie	The Impact of Human Spaceflight on Art, Culture, and Humanity (Moving-Image Arts)	Zoom
9/23	Paul Hayne	Locating and Utilizing Ice on the Moon for Science and Exploration	Zoom
9/30	Emily Dommermuth	CU Library Resources	Zoom
10/6	Mary Robinette Kowal	Talking about Calculating Stars and her research for the book	Zoom
10/14	all	Social Hour	Zoom
10/21	all	Social Hour	Zoom
10/28	Ben Fernando	Dead or Alive: Taking the Vital Signs of Mars	Zoom
11/4	all	Journal Club	Zoom
11/11	Ali Guarneros Luna	Small Satellites for Spaceflight / ISS Payload Delivery	Zoom
11/18	Dr. Tobias Niederwieser	ISS Payload Development	Zoom
11/25	Thanksgiving Break		Zoom
12/2	Joalda Morancy	How Science Communications Leads to Better Science	Zoom
12/9	all	Social Hour	Zoom

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
1/22	all	Welcome back and updates	AERO 114
1/29		Cancelled (large group at NASA Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop this week)	AERO 114
2/5	Jordan Dixon	Lab Safety Protocols!	AERO 114
2/12	All	General Updates	AERO 114
2/19	Greg Frank	Approaches for Researching, Designing, and Manufacturing Space Suits	AERO 114
2/26	Jamie Voros	Trust in an Autonomous System and Simulations for Experimental Design	AERO 114
3/4	Rachel Rise	Reducing Uncertainty in Identifying Stochastic Resonance	AERO 114
3/11	Dr. Steve Chappell	Operationally-Driven Design, Development, and Testing	AERO 114
3/18		Cancelled due to COVID19	--
3/25	n/a	Spring Break week - no meeting	--
4/1	all	Check-in and social hour	Zoom
4/8	Neil Banerjee and Jacob Kintz	Embedded and Psychophysiological Measurements for Cognitive State Estimation	Zoom
4/15	MiSSE Students	Life on Mars	Zoom
4/22	all	Check-in and social hour	Zoom
4/29	Carlos Pinedo	Dynamic achievability limit display and novel control laws for planetary landing scenarios	Zoom

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
9/4	Prof. Torin Clark	Astronaut Sensorimotor Impairment and Artificial Gravity, and student meet and greet	AERO 111
9/11	Dr. Luis Zea, BioServe	Conducting Space Life Sciences Research - Why and What?	AERO 111
9/18	Jordan/Mike	Lab Safety Briefing - NOTE: MEETING DELAYED 30 MINUTES - START TIME at 3:30	AERO 111
9/25	Rylee Shauer	Fungus in Space	AERO 111
10/2	all	Student Journal Club (Klaus, Nabity, Clark, Anderson on travel)	AERO 111
10/9			AERO 111
10/16	Katya Arquilla	The impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on sleep NOTE: MEETING DELAYED 30 MINUTES - START TIME at 3:30	AERO 111
10/23			AERO 111
10/30	Robert Zubrin	The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility	AERO 111
11/6	Abhi Boppana	Using Dynamic Body-Shape Models to Improve Spacesuit Fit	AERO 111
11/13	Prof. Brian Hynek	Robotic- and Crew- based Science on Mars	AERO 111
11/20	Sophie Zaccarine	Intelligent Infusion of Smart Technologies into a Space Habitat	AERO 111
11/27	N/A	Thanksgiving Break	AERO 111
12/4	Brett Shaffer	Benefits and Challenges in Developing a Plant Growth Chamber for Aquatic Floating Plants in Microgravity	AERO 111
12/11	Jamie Voros	Brainstim - non pharmaceutical methods for performance enhancement	AERO 111

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
1/23	All	Intro/Kickoff (lots of folks at HRP)	Lockheed Martin Room
1/30	Col. Jim Voss	Astronaut Selection Process	Lockheed Martin Room
2/6		Cancelled due to snow storm...	Lockheed Martin Room
2/13	All	Meet and Greet - 3 minute thesis	Lockheed Martin Room
2/20	Emily Matula	Antarctica - Dry Valleys	Lockheed Martin Room
2/27	Nisar Ahmed	COHRINT Lab: Human-Autonomy Teaming	Lockheed Martin Room
3/6	All	Journal Club: Bayesian Analysis of the Astrobiological Implications of Life's Early Emergence (Spiegel, Turner 2012)	Lockheed Martin Room
3/13		Campus closed due to winter weather	Lockheed Martin Room
3/20	Samuel Eshima	Spaceflight-related Reseach in Japan	Lockheed Martin Room
3/27	Spring Break	No Meeting	Lockheed Martin Room
4/3	Laura Devendorf	Unstable Design Lab	Lockheed Martin Room
4/10		Cancelled due to snow storm ...	Lockheed Martin Room
4/17	Katya Arquilla	Wearable Sensor System for Long-Term Monitoring of Psychological Health in Extreme, Operational Environments	Lockheed Martin Room
4/24	CU Boulder NASA SUITS Team	Heads-Up Display for Extravehicular Activity	Lockheed Martin Room

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
9/5	All	Meet and Greet	Seebass Forum Room
9/12	Dr. Anderson and Dr. Clark	Bioastronautics Journal Club	Lockheed Martin Room
9/19	Emily, Katya, Jordan Dixon	Lab Safety (!)	Seebass Forum Room
9/26	Jan Junker Philipp Hartmueller	Characterization of Candidate Internal Heat Paths for Variable Emissivity Radiator Spacesuits Design of a LiOH Lyophilizer for Deep Space Applications	Seebass Forum Room
10/3	OCG Representatives	How to Write Successful Fellowship Proposals	Seebass Forum Room
10/10		Bioastronautics Journal Club	Seebass Forum Room
10/17	Katie Bretl	NSTRF Visiting Technologist Research Debrief	Seebass Forum Room
10/24	Dr. Dave Wickham	Supported Liquid Membranes to Control CO2 and Trace Contaminants in EVA and Cabin Applications	Seebass Forum Room
10/31	Benjamin Easter	Spaceflight Medicine - CU Anschutz	Seebass Forum Room
11/7	Carlos Pinedo	An Algorithm to Estimate the Instantaneous Acheivability Limit of a Fuel-Constrained, Piloted, Planetary Lander	Seebass Forum Room
11/14	Thomas Ruck	Simulation of Microalgal Growth in Photobioreactors	Seebass Forum Room
11/21	No meeting	Thanksgiving!	Seebass Forum Room
11/28	Young-Young Shen	Comprehensive Exam Dry-Run	Seebass Forum Room
12/5	Jordan Dixon	Adaptive Spatial Orientation Modeling	Seebass Forum Room
12/12			Seebass Forum Room

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
1/24	All	Meet and Greet	Seebass Forum Room
1/31	--	No Meeting	--
2/7	--	No Meeting	--
2/14	All	Status: Program, Projects, Papers, Posters, Presentations, Proposals, Plans, Problems (the 8 P's!)	Seebass Forum Room
2/21	Kimia Seyedmadani	Linear Sled Project	Seebass Forum Room
2/28	Young-Young Shen & Abhishektha Boppana	Wearable Sensor Suit System for Quantifying Human-Spacesuit Interactions	Seebass Forum Room
3/7	Jordan Dixon, Emily Matula	Bioastro safety briefing (invite grad projects teams-all 3)	Clark Conference Room
3/14	--	No Meeting
3/21	All	General 'Round the Room' updates
3/28	---	Spring Break, No Meeting	--
4/4	Heather Hava	Passive Human-Plant Interactions in a Space Habitat	Seebass Forum Room
4/11	Jordan Dixon	Neurovestibular Cues Relevant to Spaceflight & Preliminary Results of The Wheelchair Head Immobilization Paradigm	Seebass Forum Room
4/18	--	No Meeting	Seebass Forum Room
4/25	Eric Brighton	Evaluating Aircraft Cockpit Designs	Seebass Forum Room
5/2	Katie Bretl	Extended Human Adaptation to the Coriolis Cross-Coupled Illusion for Artificial Gravity	Seebass Forum Room

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
8/30	--	No meeting
9/6	All	Meet-and-greet / Bioastro grad student research summaries	Onizuka
9/13	Jordan D. and Emily	Lab Safety and Responsibility	Seebass Forum Room
9/20	Prof. Torin Clark	Artificial Gravity to Prevent Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome	Seebass Forum Room
9/27	Abhishek Kumar	Stuttgart Space Station Workshop Experience	Seebass Forum Room
10/4	Erick Brighton and Carlos Pinedo	Aircraft Flight Testing	Seebass Forum Room
10/11	Ted Southern, Final Frontiers Design (via Skype)	New Launch and Reentry Suit Testing	Seebass Forum Room
10/18	Stephan Reckie - Angelus Funding , Edge of Space	Space Nation- Entrepreneurship	Seebass Forum Room
10/25	NO MEETING	RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY 10/27 at 11am in ONIZUKA this week only
Friday 10/27 @11am	Prof. Larry Young, MIT	Mathematical Models for Adaptation of Manual control and VOR in Altered Gravity	Onizuka Conf Room
11/1	Mike Lotto	Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization	Seebass Forum Room
11/8	Rick Hieb	EVA - The highest profile blue collar job off the planet!	Seebass Forum Room
11/15	Dr. Luis Zea	Overview of BioServe Projects	Seebass Forum Room
11/22	--	No meeting, Thanksgiving Break	--
11/29	Jordan Dixon	The Wheelchair Head Immobolization Paradigm (WHIP)	Seebass Forum Room
12/6	Heather Hava	Cancelled	Seebass Forum Room
12/13	Jose Olivares	The Editorial Process	Seebass Forum Room

Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
01/18	--	No meeting	Seebass Forum Room
01/25	--	No meeting	Seebass Forum Room
02/01	All	Meet and greet / Bioastro grad student research summaries	Seebass Forum Room
02/08	Prof. Allie Anderson	Introduction	Seebass Forum Room
02/15	Prof. Chris Wickens	Robotics control human factors	Seebass Forum Room
02/22	All / Prof. David Klaus	Lab Group Picture / A Systems Engineering Perspective on Gravitational Microbiology	Seebass Forum Room
03/01	Prof. Virginia Ferguson	Bone loss in microgravity: Report of two mouse experiments on STS-118 and STS-135	Seebass Forum Room
03/08	Prof. Torin Clark	Observer Model Analysis of Orientation Perception during Artificial Gravity Stimulation via Centrifugation versus Linear Sled	Seebass Forum Room
03/15	Dr. Marc Cohen (remote)	Space Architecture	Seebass Forum Room
03/22	Prof. David Klaus	Structuring a CV	Seebass Forum Room
03/29	--	No meeting, Spring Break
04/05	Prof. Rebecca Kuglitsch	What you need to know about literature research in bioastronautics: Strategies, tools, & tricks	Seebass Forum Room
04/12	All	Open Discussion	Seebass Forum Room
04/19	Dr. Robert Singleterry	Space Radiation	Seebass Forum Room
04/26	Abhishek Kumar	Characterizing ionic liquid CO2 reduction properties	Seebass Forum Room
05/03	Dr. Bob Morrow (remote)	Evolution of plant growth systems	Seebass Forum Room

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
8/24	--	No meeting	N/A
8/31	All	Meet and greet / Bioastro grad student research summaries	Lockheed Martin Room
9/7	--	No meeting	Onizuka Conference Room
9/14	All	Open discussion/debate	Onizuka Conference Room
9/21	--	No meeting	Onizuka Conference Room
9/28	--	No meeting	Lockheed Martin Room
10/5	Tobias Niederwieser	Internal Space University experiences	Onizuka Conference Room
10/12	--	No meeting	Onizuka Conference Room
10/19	Prof. Mark Shelhamer (Hopkins)	NASA's Human Research Program and Complex Network Theory	Onizuka Conference Room
10/26	Krishan Patel	Group Discussion on Human Spaceflight Policy	Lockheed Martin Room
11/2	Kimia Seyedmadani	Material Life Cycle Management in use of 3-D Manufacturing for Self- Sufficient and Affordable Space Mission	Onizuka Conference Room
11/9	Nils-Alexander Bury (German Sport University)	Where is Down?: Underwater and Parabolic Flight Experiments for Spatial Orientation	Onizuka Conference Room
11/16	Emily Matula	Comprehensive Exam Dry Runs	Onizuka Conference Room
11/23	--	Thanksgiving
11/30	Krishan Patel	CO2 removal using ionic liquids	Onizuka Conference Room
12/7	Young-Young Shen	Distributed, Parallel Model of Sensory Integration for Spatial Orientation Perception	Onizuka Conference Room