Jessica Audrey Lee is a microbiologist who uses both wet-lab experimentation and computational modeling to understand what microbes really experience when they come to space with us, and how we can predict and control microbial activity to facilitate space exploration. At NASA Ames Research Center, her projects involve ground experiments studying the effects of simulated microgravity and radiation on microbial communities, hardware development for automated microbiology experimentation in space, and planetary protection research. She is also Project Scientist for the Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA), and Manager of the Space Biology Beyond LEO Instrumentation and Science Series (BLISS). She has an S.B in Biology from MIT and a studied Environmental Microbiology at Stanford for her Ph.D.