Space Lab

Space Lab is a contest held by Youtube, NASA and other organization that allow high school students to come up with experiments that to be done in space. For two of my AP classes, the teacher requires us to do this video. For weeks, I had been thinking about how microgravity can have any impact on lives. I learned that otolith organs are among the systems most sensitive to gravity and movements. Such organs are common in vertebrates, so use other animal to model human. After I read several scientific papers, I found that several studies have done experiments with zebrafish. How do otolith organs of zebra fish grow in microgravity environment? My hypothesis is that the growth of otolith organ will be different in microgravity environment in terms of the gene expression and morphology by image. Although I rushed out the last minute to finish my video, I'm very satisfied with my idea and method. Hopefully, after I get comments from teacher, I will reedit it really submit to youtube.