Ganna Aleshcheva, Oliver Schüler, Elisabeth Warnke (from left to right) with their DGLRM Young Fellow certificates during the SpaceLife Students’ Workshop in Grainau, with the Badersee in the background
Oliver Schüler, Ganna Alesheva and Elisabeth Warnke, three doctoral students of the 2nd SpaceLife generation, receive a grant from the German Society of Aerospace Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrtmedizin e.V., DGLRM). Mrs. Aleshcheva was successful with her topic “Effects of microgravity on human chondrocytes – new strategies for cartilage tissue engineering”. Mrs. Warnke will be supported in her thesis project that compares two approaches to simulate microgravity on Earth, rotation of human cells on a clinostat or random movement on a random positioning machine (RPM). As thyroid carcinoma cells were previously shown to be very sensitive to mechanical stimuli and show increased apoptosis rates in microgravity (Prof. Daniela Grimm, Aarhus University, Denmark), thyroid carcinoma cell lines are used in this project. Mrs. Aleshcheva and Mrs. Warnke both work at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg and are supervised by Prof. Grimm and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ruth Hemmersbach (DLR, Institute of Aerospace Medicine).
The thesis topic of Oliver Schüler is related to bioregenerative life support systems in manned space missions. He analyses the changes in gene expression and metabolic reaction of common wallcress (Arabidopsis thaliana) roots in simulated microgravity. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ruth Hemmersbach and Dr. Maik Böhmer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) are the supervisors.
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