Year 2020

• Investigation of Microbes in the Stratosphere – Stardust Project

  Publication

  • D. Tomaszewska
  • K. Loret
  • M. Jasiukowicz
  • S. Magrian
  • K. Pelzner

  - Year 2020

  The stratospheric microbiota has been investigated many times using the methods of classical microbiology. In this research a few modern methods, including NGS sequencing and multiple displacement amplification of DNA, were in use. The analysis of metagenome helped to determine the content of various species of bacteria in the sample collected in the stratosphere by a hydrogen-filled balloon holding...

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Year 2022

• INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE ROCKET'S SUBORBITAL FLIGHT ON BIOFILM, ENZYMES AND BIOSYNTHESIS ON AUTONOMOUS, MODULAR AND SCALABLE PLATFORM FOR CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS OF AN ASTROBIOTECHNOLOGICAL NATURE

  Publication

  • B. Rybacki
  • W. Wysocki
  • M. Jasiukowicz
  • B. Rybak
  • J. Lützen
  • N. Czortek
  • K. Loret
  • S. Krawczuk
  • N. Szulc
  • T. Zajkowski... and 3 others

  - Year 2022

  With new incentives for human space exploration, biotechnological experiments in orbit became imperative.Answering this need, we build an autonomous, modular, and scalable platform that enables those experiments onrockets. We called it AMBER. The aim of the payload of the R6 suborbital rocket is to perform an experiment tostudy the influence of rocket flights on biofilm, molecular...

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• Stardust - Investigation of Microbes in the Stratosphere

  Publication

  • M. Jasiukowicz
  • B. Rybacki
  • M. Grzybowski
  • N. Czortek
  • D. Rekowski
  • J. Pawłowski
  • P. Podpirko
  • K. Loret
  • D. Tomaszewska
  • S. Magrian... and 4 others

  - Year 2022

  The stratospheric microbiome has been investigated several times using the methods of classical microbiology. In this experiment, we have combined them with some novel approaches including whole- metagenome amplification, Maldi TOF mass spectrometry and Sanger DNA sequencing. The results of the experiment may provide the scientists with knowledge about the mechanisms of survivability of microorganisms in stratospheric conditions...

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