Research

Dr. Jonathan Clark, MD, MPH

• Co-Investigator: SPACE-CENT: Studying the Physiological and Cerebral Effects of Centrifugation and Head Down Tilt 2017- 2022 (NASA).

• Consultant: “Zero G and ICP: Evaluation of Invasive and Noninvasive ICP Monitoring in Humans on the ISS”, 2014-present (NASA).

• Principal Investigator: Astronaut Genome Analysis Project, 2017-2019 (BCM/ Inspiration Mars).

• Consultant: SPACE-COT, Studying the Physiological and Anatomical Cerebral Effects of Carbon Dioxide and Tilt, 2015 (NASA/ NSBRI).

• Co-Investigator: Development of Minor Injury Severity Scale for Orbital Human Space Flight 2012-2013 (FAA Office of Commercial Space Flight).

• Co-Investigator: Gait and Balance Assessment in Repatriated Prisoners of War 1999- 2001 (DOD).

• Principal Investigator: Vestibular Effects of Low-Frequency Sound Project, 1995-1999 (U.S. Navy).

• Principal Investigator: Aviation Medical Criteria Methodology Project, 1995-1997 (U.S. Navy).

• Principal Investigator: Neuro-otologic Assessment Project, 1994-1997 (U.S. Navy).

Dr. Giugi Carminati, JSD, Esq.

• Principal Investigator — Reference-Quality Haploid Genome for Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale), 2023–Present (The Unknown Scientist Institute).
   

• Principal Investigator — Exploring sub-speciation, population structure, and adaptive divergence in Megaptera novaeangliae, 2023–Present (The Unknown Scientist Institute).
   

• PhD Candidate (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) — Hybridization as an evolutionary tool for climate adaptation and conservation, 2023–Present (University of Colorado Boulder).
   

• Co–Principal Investigator — Prospective longitudinal cohort study of closed-circuit rebreather (CCR) divers: long-term outcomes and mortality, 2024–Present (Divers Alert Network).
   

• Principal Investigator — Comparative HIF-regulated hypoxia and decompression sickness (DCS) genomics across mammals, 2024–Present.
   

• Student Researcher / Presenter — Phage Genomics I (SEA-PHAGES Program): Identification and characterization of novel Mycobacteriophages, University of Colorado Boulder.
   

• Co-Author — Rodent model for high-altitude and ebullism exposure studies.