<p>Biology Teacher, Ms. Jessica Quenzer shares that Stuy '21 Kristoff Misquitta's Genes in Space winning experiment has made progress last week ---</p><p>From last week's post on their site:</p><p>This week marked the culmination of the <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/news/press/genes-in-space-student-experiment-to-launch-to-international-space-station/">Genes in Space-8 experiment</a>, designed by 2020 winner <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/news/press/genes-space-names-winning-experiment-be-performed-international-space-station/">Kristoff Misquitta</a>, aboard the ISS! Across five sessions, Astronaut Megan McArthur tested out some brand-new hardware — our <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/toolkit/">Genes in Space Fluorescence Viewer</a> — and carried out Kristoff's experiment, which seeks to understand how drug metabolism is impacted by the conditions of space.</p><p>Over the coming weeks, we will be hard at work analyzing Megan's results. In the meantime, we're sharing some highlights from an eventful few weeks --- see photos at their site: <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/news/blog/genes-in-space-2020-winning-experiment-carried-out-aboard-iss/?mc_cid=954bbfe9b4&mc_eid=8c72d02f4e">https://www.genesinspace.org/news/blog/genes-in-space-2020-winning-experiment-carried-out-aboard-iss/?mc_cid=954bbfe9b4&mc_eid=8c72d02f4e</a></p><p></p><p>Check out this article as well:</p><p>On September 2, 2021, Astronaut Megan McArthur began to carry out the <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/news/blog/genes-in-space-2020-winning-experiment-carried-out-aboard-iss/">Genes in Space 2020 winning experiment</a> aboard the ISS. She also managed to find time to record a message of congratulations to <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/news/press/genes-space-names-winning-experiment-be-performed-international-space-station/">Kristoff Misquitta</a>, the student who masterminded the experiment. You can listen in on her warm words to Kristoff in the video at this link: <a href="https://www.genesinspace.org/news/blog/a-congratulations-message-from-astronaut-megan-mcarthur/">https://www.genesinspace.org/news/blog/a-congratulations-message-from-astronaut-megan-mcarthur/.</a></p><p></p><p>CNN also published an article! Kristoff’s is featured in the second half of the article. </p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/17/world/genes-in-space-deep-space-travel-scn/index.html">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/17/world/genes-in-space-deep-space-travel-scn/index.html</a></p>
