Directory

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University Research Groups and Laboratories

University of Florida Space Plants Lab

• Dr. Robert J. Ferl
• Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Simon Gilroy, Ph.D. & the Gilroy Life Science Lab (AstroBotany, GeneLab, TOAST)

University of Guelph

• CESRF :: Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility

Space Agency Projects, Research Groups and Laboratories

European Space Agency (ESA)

• MeLISSA project
  • Precursor of Food Production Unit (PFPU) project
  • MELISSA conference 2020
• ESA Astrocrops (STEM education)

DLR

• EDEN ISS  Ground Demonstration of Plant Cultivation (Germany, Antarctica)

NASA Kennedy Space Center

• Ray Wheeler
• Gary Stutte
• Oscar Monje (AECOM)

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Research Announcement: Development of Microgravity Food Production (2019)

Other Research Institutes and Groups

• HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama
• AgroParisTech

Conferences

• ASGSR 2020
• Plant Science Conference (2021)

Companies

• Astroplant
• Sierra Nevada Corporation (Orbitec)

Facilities

• Nevada company plans space station with inflatable pods (April 1, 2021)
• Nanoracks Starlab

 

Funding and Competitions

• Deep Space Food Challenge announcement (January 12, 2021)

 

Other

Yield Lab Institute (Space For Food)

Growing Beyond Earth program for schools (pepper pollination study)

• https://fairchildgarden.org/gbe/
• https://sites.google.com/site/growingbeyondearth/
• https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/CP4SMP/growing-beyond-earth-challenge-stem-education-program

Orbital Farm: https://orbital.farm

NASA Life Sciences Portal

NASA NSBRI

Fairchild Garden

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8276

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8276