Iris Irby

Jun 11, 2024 | nature.com | Christopher Mason |James Green |Jordan Baechle |Mathias Basner |Susan Bailey |Joseph Borg | +34 more

AbstractThe recent acceleration of commercial, private and multi-national spaceflight has created an unprecedented level of activity in low Earth orbit, concomitant with the largest-ever number of crewed missions entering space and preparations for exploration-class (lasting longer than one year) missions. Such rapid advancement into space from many new companies, countries and space-related entities has enabled a ‘second space age’.

May 15, 2024 | nature.com | Iris Irby |Jared Broddrick

AbstractEvidence from the International Space Station suggests microbial populations are rapidly adapting to the spacecraft environment; however, the mechanism of this adaptation is not understood. Bacteriophages are prolific mediators of bacterial adaptation on Earth. Here we survey 245 genomes sequenced from bacterial strains isolated on the International Space Station for dormant (lysogenic) bacteriophages.

Nov 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sam Brown |Iris Irby

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