Kathleen Hallisey Rubins is an American microbiologist, the inaugural director of the Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and retired NASA astronaut. Sh
Rubins in 2018
Rubins aboard the ISS with the USB MinION sequencer (lower right) that was used in the first DNA sequencing in space, August 2016
Rubins pictured next to the ISS "voting booth", where she cast her vote for the 2020 United States presidential election