Gerald Sanders has worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center full time for over 32 years in the Propulsion and Power Division of the Engineering Directorate, and has extensive experience in propulsion, fluid systems, and In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). Mr. Sanders has worked in the area of ISRU for over 24 years. During this time, he has led multiple strategic plans, architecture studies, development projects, and analog field tests associated with ISRU advancement. Mr. Sanders currently serves as the Lead for the ISRU System Capability Leadership Team (SCLT) for...Read more
Gerald (Jerry) Sanders the Lead for NASA’s In-Space Resource Utilization (ISRU), Capability Leadership Team (CLT), where he serves as the technical steward for the Agency on ISRU system-level capabilities that span multiple Missions and Centers. He provides the integrated Agency perspective and leads roadmap activities to inform mission planning work and investment strategies. Serves as Agency-wide resource to help NASA missions leverage technologies, facilities, workforce, etc. unique to the capability.Read more
Lucia Altucci is Associate Professor of General Pathology at University of Naples 2, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and general Pathology, where she is teaches the causal mechanisms of diseases with a focus on tumorigenesis to medical students, technicians and biotechnologists. She is member of the Translational Medicine Ph.D. scientific board. She has also been appointed as associate researcher at IGB-CNR, where she holds a research laboratory. Her research focuses on innovative therapeutic strategies against cancer, (epi)drug discovery and development, identification of...Read more
Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Barcelona, and her PhD at the University of Montreal in the field of Biochemistry in 1999. She pursued her postdoctoral studies at the Scripps Research Institute, California in the field of genome-engineering . In 2005, she established her own laboratory at the University of North Carolina, as Assistant Professor and later as tenured Associate Professor in 2011. In 2012, Professor Blancafort moved her laboratory at the University of Western Australia. In 2014, she joined the...Read more
Mark Gomelsky is a Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Wyoming. He earned his MS degree (1988) in Industrial Microbiology from Moscow Institute for Chemical Technology and Ph.D. (1991) in Biological Sciences from Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (Moscow, Russia). He received post-doctoral training at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and University of Texas Medical School in Houston, Texas.
Since establishing his laboratory at the University of Wyoming in 1999, Dr. Gomelsky has focused on bacterial signal transduction and...Read more
