Katie Dickieson
Solid
The science.
I’m a biomedical engineer. Mars is the long game.
From the notebook
What I’ve done.
- Degree
- Cornell M.Eng in biomedical engineering.
- Bench
- Protein purification. COVID sequencing.
- Aug 2021
- Analog astronaut at LunAres, Poland.
- Thesis
- I grew Arabidopsis on fumed silica gel with Martian regolith simulant MMS-2. Arabidopsis is a small lab plant. MMS-2 is a stand-in for Mars dirt. The paper is in preparation.
- 2022
- Oral talk at ASGSR, the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
Why
I wrote the goal down in 2019.
“to work toward sustaining life on Earth and Mars.”Remember Who the F*ck You Are, p.54
“I was never supposed to be a scientist or an artist. I was always meant to be both.”Remember Who the F*ck You Are, p.223