Anna-Lisa Paul

Recognized under Tier 6 — Food Production & Space Agriculture, Anna-Lisa Paul conducts foundational research in plant spaceflight biology at the University of Florida. Paul's work — including landmark experiments growing plants aboard the ISS and studying how plants perceive and respond to the spaceflight environment at the molecular and cellular level — has revealed fundamental aspects of plant biology under spaceflight conditions essential to understanding how crops will behave in space habitats. The insights this research has produced into gene expression, root behavior, and plant stress responses in microgravity provide the scientific foundation upon which practical space agriculture systems must be built.