Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Dr. Eliah Overbey, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Bioastronautics, University Of Austin; CSO, BioAstra - Making Humanity A Multi-Planetary Species
Dr. Eliah Overbey, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Bioastronautics at The University of Austin ( UATX - https://www.uaustin.org/people/eliah-overbey ) where she is involved in pioneering research in the field of astronaut health, specializing in spaceflight-induced genomic changes. Her work focuses on mapping changes in the human body during spaceflight and developing Earth-independent laboratories to make humans a multi-planetary species ( https://www.eliahoverbey.com/ ). Dr. Overbey comes to UATX from her previous position as a Research Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Overbey's most recent projects have analyzed genomic changes in astronauts from the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission, and she is currently working on data analysis and sample collection for the Axiom-2 and Polaris Dawn missions. Dr. Overbey’s work launched the Space Omics and Medical Atlas ( SOMA - https://soma.weill.cornell.edu/#main ), an online portal with the largest compendium of molecular measurements from astronauts. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Cornell Aerospace Medicine Biobank ( CAMbank - https://cambank.weill.cornell.edu/#main ), which is the first biorepository of samples from commercial astronauts. Dr. Overbey is also Chief Scientific Officer at BioAstra ( https://www.bioastra.org/ ), a non-profit developing healthcare systems for astronauts. Dr. Overbey received a B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego, a Ph.D. in Genome Sciences from the University of Washington, and was a Postdoctoral Associate in Computational Biomedicine in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Mason.