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Jarah A. Meador received her B.S. (1997) and M.S. (1999) in Biology from Texas State University and her Ph.D. (2004) in Environmental and Molecular Carcinogenesis from The University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston (UT-HSCH) where she was a two-time recipient of the John P. McGovern Award. She was also awarded a NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship in 2003. Her graduate work involved the study of DNA damage and repair processes of marine plankton in response to various environmental stressors such as changes in ultraviolet radiation due to ozone depletion over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Jarah joined USRA’s Division of Space Life Sciences in 2004 as a BFSB Postdoctoral Fellow and begins her postdoctoral research work with Dr. Honglu Wu of NASA’s Radiation Biodosimetry Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Her research will focus on space radiation, DNA damage and repair, nutrient conditions, and their combined effects on the health of astronauts.
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JARAH A. MEADOR, PH.D.