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Watch OHIO Experiment Leave Space Station Today at 2 p.m.

Watch OHIO Experiment Leave Space Station Today at 2 p.m.

Watch live as the Ohio University experiment leaves the International Space Station today, Feb. 10, at 2 p.m. on NASA TV. Coverage beings at 12:45 p.m., and the release of the SpaceX/Dragon Cargo Ship from the the space station is scheduled at 2:10 p.m. ET. The Expedition 42 crew closed […]

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February 10, 2015 at 11:36 amNews

Plant Biology Experiment Docking with Space Station Today

SpaceX rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center.

Before dawn on Saturday, the SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Ohio University experiment finally headed to space after several weeks of launch delay. Ohio University’s Team Gravitron plants-and-gravity experiment launched Jan. 10 and docks with the International Space Station today, Jan. 12. Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology […]

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January 12, 2015 at 9:44 amResearch

St. Louis Media Reports on Plants & Gravity in Space Research

“When NASA’s SpaceX Dragon rocket launches into space on Jan. 6, plants that are part of a research project between Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Ohio University will be on board. The experiment will test how plants respond to gravity,” reports the St. Louis Business Journal on Dec . 19. […]

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December 22, 2014 at 1:45 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Messenger: OHIO Team to Launch Rocket to Study Effects of Gravity on Plant Life

“The public is invited to attend a local rocket launch celebrating an Ohio University experiment that will be traveling to the International Space Station next week,” reports the Athens Messenger. Ohio University’s Team Gravitron, led by Sarah Wyatt, professor of Environmental Plant and Biology and principle investigator, will be conducting […]

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December 12, 2014 at 7:08 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Blast Off: T-Minus and Counting for Team Gravitron Launch

Blast Off: T-Minus and Counting for Team Gravitron Launch

After more than a year of preparation, Ohio University’s Team Gravitron plants-and-gravity experiment launches for the International Space Station this week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As the Falcon blasts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, the Ground Control Team at Ohio University in Athens, […]

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December 10, 2014 at 11:21 amNews Research

Wyatt: Unlocking the Black Box of Plant Response to Gravity

Dr. Sarah Wyatt presented her lab’s work on developing a network of gene expression data that is helping them to expand the knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented Plant Gravitropic Signal Transduction: A Network Analysis Leads to Gene Discovery at the […]

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October 28, 2014 at 10:13 amResearch

Grad Student Proma Basu Presents on Plants’ Response to Space Flight and Reorientation to Earth’s Gravity

Proma Basu presents at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.

  Graduate student Proma Basu presented a poster on studying the proteins plants express as they are exposed to gravitational changes in spaceflight and upon reorientation to the Earth’s gravitational pull on Oct. 25 at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research. Her co-author on Proteomics Analysis of Plants […]

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October 28, 2014 at 10:00 amResearch