Sarah Wyatt

[2] She is considered one of the world's experts on gravitational signaling in plants, and some of her recent research includes an experiment on board the International Space Station (ISS).

[1] In 2012, while holding a position as Associate Chair in the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University, Wyatt served as "Rotating" Program Director of Integrative and Organismal Systems for the National Science Foundation.

[5] Other projects in the Wyatt lab involve the shift between chasmogamous (open) and cleistogamous (closed) flowers in Viola pubescens[6][7] and genetic fingerprints indicating gene expression and relationships during evolution of plant species.

[4] In January 2015, the SpaceX Falcon 9[9] was sent into orbit, placing a Dragon cargo capsule with the BRIC-20 experiment[10] in path to the ISS Harmony module.

[5] The SpaceX Dragon cargo was released from the ISS after a month of spaceflight and returned to Earth for de-integration at the Kennedy Space Center.

[4] Following the BRIC-20 mission, Wyatt received Faculty Fellowship Leave to work with GeneLab[12] - Omics Open Science Initiative at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.