NASA flight engineer Kathleen “Kate” Rubins on Friday finished fourth in her career in an effort to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for solar array upgrades.
Rubins, 42, was born in 1978 in Farmington, Connecticut, but grew up in Napa, the heart of California’s wine country.
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After graduating from Vintage High School in 1996, Rubin earned a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego, three years later.
In 2005, Rubins received a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford University’s medical school biochemistry department and the department of microbiology and immunology.
There, she and U.S. Colleagues from the Army’s Medical Research Institute Inf Infectious Diseases and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created the first model of smallpox infection in addition to a complete map of the poxvirus transcriptom.
He also studied virus-host interactions using both in-vitro and animal model systems.
After his time at Stanford, Rubins began as a fellow / principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
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At MIT, Rubin leads a laboratory of 14 researchers studying viral diseases that affect Central and West Africa and traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to do more research and monitor study sites.
His lab focuses on poxvirus, host-pathogen interactions, and viral mechanisms for controlling host cell mRNA transcription, translation, and decay.
Rubin also worked on collaborative projects with the Army to develop treatments for Ebola and Lassa viruses.
In the summer of 2009, she was selected by NASA as one of the nine selected members of the 20th NASA Astronaut Class.
She received extensive training and instruction about ISS systems, spacewalks, robotics, physical training, T38 flight training, and water and wildlife survival training.
During his first spaceflight on Expedition 48/49 in July 2016, Rubins became the first person to rank DNA in space, and the crew of these missions conducted or participated in more than 275 different experiments.
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Rubins also grew heart cells or cardiomyocytes in cell culture and performed quantitative, real-time PCR and microbiome experiments while in orbit.
P ve experienced astronauts aboard the ISS on a six-month mission as a flight engineer for the 63 63/6464 crew.
