Our newly (August 2026) minted Dr. Aseel Alatoom's reflections on her time at LIBRA "When I began my PhD, I had very ambitious ideas about what it meant to do meaningful research. I was entering the field of #immunomechanobiology, and somewhere between enthusiasm, naïveté, and the excitement of beginning something new, I imagined that I might discover the answer, the one that could somehow change everything. The possibilities seemed endless. For a while, it felt as though the

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I was back home, my Alma Mater (#nationaluniversityofsingapore), for my sabbatical. Getting in touch with old colleagues, old professors, and old classmates. I was going to refresh my research mind and my academic career for this semester. Within a few days, news, social media, and texts I received would change LIBRA's world. I've penned my thoughts through those early days in this LinkedIn post . In the midst of it all, albeit with some changes in our research mindset, the t

Huge congrats to our former postdoc, Anna Sabaté Garcia , on her selection for the Hypatia III Mars Analog mission! 🚀 During her time at the LIBRA lab New York University Abu Dhabi , Anna was the driving force behind our space biology research. She pioneered our work using simulated microgravity, conceptualizing the awarded Research Enhancement Fund that allowed us a random positioning machine, and ultimately leading to several key publications on immune dysfunction and e

Exciting Developments in Our Lab! We are thrilled to welcome Aurélie Mawart to our research family! Recently hired as a research...

I (Jeremy) had the pleasure to sit through this conversation at TERMIS EU 2025, and as much as I can remember, fueled by bad German...