BioS-ENDURES Inaugural Annual Symposium

 

September 10-11, 2026
University of Washington-Seattle
Husky Union Building (The HUB)
South Ballroom

Logistics

Registration

Registration Fee: $120

After you submit your registration, we’ll email you a payment link.

If you are a member of the consortium, your institution covers your fee — no payment is required from you.

Attend in person
Webinar only (free and open to the public)

Schedule

Thursday, September 10

Business Meeting – Consortium Members Only
1 – 5 p.m.

Lunch on your own prior to arrival.

  • Consortium business topics
  • Funding and reporting guidelines
  • Research collaboration building
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Welcome 
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Annual Report 
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Seed Project Round 2 Guidelines
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Break 
2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Individual Research Profiles 
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. Speed Networking (In-person only) 

Reception | 5 – 6:30 p.m. (In-person only)

Appetizers included. Cash bar.

  • Networking  –  Engage directly with presenters and peers.

Friday, September 11

  Meeting – Open to the public | 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Breakfast and lunch are included. Dinner on your own. 

  • Research seed project presentations from across the consortium
  • Industry leaders and external guest speakers
  • NASA representative remarks
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome
9:15 – 9:30 a.m. NASA Overview 
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Thrust 1 Presentations:
Develop monitoring capabilities to measure underlying molecular status (biomarkers) of humans, animal models, plants and their associated microbial communities.
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break 
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. Science Keynote:
  Professor Afshin Beheshti
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Thrust 2 & 3 Presentations:

  • Build models to predict human, plant, and human-plant-microbe robustness and interactions in space.
  • Validate and apply understanding of human and plant health, including promoting beneficial human-plant-microbe interactions, to enhance health in space. 
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Presentation:
 Dr. Yinjie Tang, Director of AD ASTRA Consortium 
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Industry Keynote:
 Dr. Tara Ruttley, Chief Scientist Blue Origin Orbital Reef 
2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Industry Panel
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break 
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. Funding Panel 
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

In keeping with NASA’s principles of open science to make publicly funded scientific research transparent, available, and reproducible, these Friday sessions will be available to the public as a live webinar.

    Questions?

    Email us with your event or logistics questions.

    Email

    bios-endures@uw.edu