Microbes interact with humans in complex ways and understanding how they respond to the spaceflight environment is important to the success of future manned spaceflight missions. The BRIC-23 mission was designed to measure the response of Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus to the spaceflight environment. This experiment aimed to produce high quality omics data from B. subtilis and S. aureus grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to allow comparison to matched ground controls. There were two primary objectives for this experiment: (1) Demonstrate all post-flight processes and operations required for successful completion of GeneLab Reference Missions conducted on ISS and (2) Generate high quality GeneLab Reference Mission omics data sets for two prokaryotic model organisms Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Freezing Control Experiment: The BRIC hardware has significant thermal inertia thus the freezing rate of samples placed at -80 C is quite slow. This could affect RNA-sequencing proteomic and metabolic data sets. In an effort to understand how slow freezing could affect these data sets a control experiment was designed in which B. subtilis and S. aureus were grown in petri plates and either slow frozen to -80 C at a rate matching the BRIC-23 spaceflight samples or processed immediately to harvest RNA and protein.

Microbes interact with humans in complex ways and understanding how they respond to the spaceflight environment is important to the success of future manned spaceflight missions. The BRIC-23 mission was designed to measure the response of Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus to the spaceflight environment. This experiment aimed to produce high quality omics data from B. subtilis and S. aureus grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to allow comparison to matched ground controls. There were two primary objectives for this experiment: (1) Demonstrate all post-flight processes and operations required for successful completion of GeneLab Reference Missions conducted on ISS and (2) Generate high quality GeneLab Reference Mission omics data sets for two prokaryotic model organisms Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Freezing Control Experiment: The BRIC hardware has significant thermal inertia thus the freezing rate of samples placed at -80 C is quite slow. This could affect RNA-sequencing proteomic and metabolic data sets. In an effort to understand how slow freezing could affect these data sets a control experiment was designed in which B. subtilis and S. aureus were grown in petri plates and either slow frozen to -80 C at a rate matching the BRIC-23 spaceflight samples or processed immediately to harvest RNA and protein.

Microbes interact with humans in complex ways and understanding how they respond to the spaceflight environment is important to the success of future manned spaceflight missions. The BRIC-23 mission was designed to measure the response of Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus to the spaceflight environment. This experiment aimed to produce high quality omics data from B. subtilis and S. aureus grown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to allow comparison to matched ground controls. There were two primary objectives for this experiment: (1) Demonstrate all post-flight processes and operations required for successful completion of GeneLab Reference Missions conducted on ISS, and (2) Generate high quality GeneLab Reference Mission omics data sets for two prokaryotic model organisms, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Freezing Control Experiment: The BRIC hardware has significant thermal inertia, thus the freezing rate of samples placed at -80 C is quite slow. This could affect RNA-sequencing, proteomic and metabolic data sets. In an effort to understand how slow freezing could affect these data sets, a control experiment was designed in which B. subtilis and S. aureus were grown in petri plates and either slow frozen to -80 C at a rate matching the BRIC-23 spaceflight samples or processed immediately to harvest RNA and protein. S. aureus omics data is deposited in GLDS-145.

RR-1 is a validation flight to evaluate the hardware operational and science capabilities of the Rodent Research Project on the ISS. RNA DNA and protein were purified from liver tissues from RR-1 mice (female C57Bl6/J 16wk old at time of launch) including eight from the Flight group and eight from the Ground Control group. From each group two liver samples were collected and frozen immediately after euthanasia (Flight mice dissected on-orbit after total 37 days after launch Samples FLT-M21 M22 and corresponding Ground Control samples GC-M31,M32). An additional six samples from each group were collected from frozen carcasses dissected post-flight (Samples FLT-M25,M26,M27,M28,M29,M30 and corresponding Ground Control samples GC-M35,M36,M37,M38,M39,M40). RNA-Seq whole genome and RNA BS-Seq (bisulfite sequencing) and proteomic expression profiling were performed.

This repository holds genome assemblies for Staphylococcus, Burkholderia, and Ralstonia bacterial isolates isolated from the ISS between the years of 2006-2015. Information on the overall microbial isolation effort is stored under NASA's Life Science Data Archive experiment 13823 (https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Experiment/exper/13823). For the genomes presented here, isolates were received from NASA's Johnson Space Center and their genomes were sequenced and assembled thanks to NASA Space Biology awards to Michael D. Lee (NNH16ZTT001N-MOBE) and Aubrie O'Rourke (80NSSC17K0035).

Continuous monitoring of bacterial community structure in the ISS-Kibo. This data contains numerous sequence reads of 16S rRNA gene fragments.

,Using the SHIME (an in vitro simulator of the human gut microbiome) we tracked the fate of the probiotic Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) over time and across colonic regions. Using fecal inoculum from three healthy human donors, reactors were established representing three colonic regions and both the luminal and mucosal microbiome in those regions. Community composition before, during, and after inoculation of the reactors with LGG as well as short chain fatty acid concentrations representing microbiome metabolic outputs. This dataset includes short-chain fatty acid concentrations and qPCR-based cell concentrations. Raw 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of the V1-V2 regions can be found in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive associated with BioProject PRJNA893635: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA893635.,Resources in this dataset:,

NASA s Rodent Research (RR) project is playing a critical role in advancing biomedical research on the physiological effects of space environments. Due to the limited resources for conducting biological experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) it is imperative to use crew time efficiently while maximizing high-quality science return. NASA s GeneLab project has as its primary objectives to 1) further increase the value of these experiments using a multi-omics systems biology-based approach and 2) disseminate these data without restrictions to the scientific community. The current investigation assessed viability of RNA DNA and protein extracted from archived RR-1 tissue samples for epigenomic transcriptomic and proteomic assays. During the first RR spaceflight experiment a variety of tissue types were harvested from subjects snap-frozen or RNAlater-preserved and then stored at least a year at -80C after return to Earth. They were then prioritized for this investigation based on likelihood of significant scientific value for spaceflight research. All tissues were made available to GeneLab through the bio-specimen sharing program managed by the Ames Life Science Data Archive and included mouse adrenal glands quadriceps gastrocnemius tibialis anterior extensor digitorum longus soleus eye and kidney. We report here protocols for and results of these tissue extractions and thus the feasibility and value of these kinds of omics analyses. In addition to providing additional opportunities for investigation of spaceflight effects on the mouse transcriptome and proteome in new kinds of tissues our results may also be of value to program managers for the prioritization of ISS crew time for rodent research activities.

NASA s Rodent Research (RR) project is playing a critical role in advancing biomedical research on the physiological effects of space environments. Due to the limited resources for conducting biological experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) it is imperative to use crew time efficiently while maximizing high-quality science return. NASA s GeneLab project has as its primary objectives to 1) further increase the value of these experiments using a multi-omics systems biology-based approach and 2) disseminate these data without restrictions to the scientific community. The current investigation assessed viability of RNA DNA and protein extracted from archived RR-1 tissue samples for epigenomic transcriptomic and proteomic assays. During the first RR spaceflight experiment (RR-1) a variety of tissue types were harvested from subjects snap-frozen or RNAlater-preserved and then stored at least a year at -80C after return to Earth. They were then prioritized for this investigation based on likelihood of significant scientific value for spaceflight research. All tissues were made available to GeneLab through the bio-specimen sharing program managed by the Ames Life Science Data Archive and included mouse adrenal glands quadriceps gastrocnemius tibialis anterior extensor digitorum longus soleus eye and kidney. We report here protocols for and results of these tissue extractions and thus the feasibility and value of these kinds of omics analyses. In addition to providing additional opportunities for investigation of spaceflight effects on the mouse transcriptome and proteome in new kinds of tissues our results may also be of value to program managers for the prioritization of ISS crew time for rodent research activities.