Asst Prof @urihealthsci |Former instructor @harvardmed |French and Impossibly Stubborn. She/Her |Views my own |Doc Brown 💍 |Space scientist 🌟PI @M2BLab
Boston, MA
Joined June 2009
- Tweets1.5K
- Following376
- Followers401
- Likes4.2K
Great feature on @TheodorosP_ in Rhody Today! Nutritional countermeasures to spaceflight studied at URI uri.edu/news/2026/10/nutriti…
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
There are no blurred lines when it comes to consent. Yet it is still too often misunderstood, ignored or dismissed.
There is no excuse for sexual violence.
Women’s rights and choices must be protected.
— via @UN_Women
Congratulations to @TheodorosP_ for being part of the International Winning Team !
NASA has selected 5 U.S. winners as part of the agency's Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table 🍽️ This competition sought innovative solutions for space food systems that would provide safe, nutritious meals to astronauts living and working in space.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4hpET71
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists.
Instead, the memo makes clear, NSF will devote the bulk of its resources to addressing the research priorities of President Donald Trump and his administration, many of them technology focused. scim.ag/4ipE1kY
Fantastic episode about our #ColdSleep study with Pitt to explain why hibernation may be a great asset for spaceflight! youtu.be/Cm00TFrmQRs?si=vCac…
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
The URI Honors Colloquium reaches for the stars this fall 🚀
Join us to explore the science and possibilities of space through 12 public lectures, sci-fi movie nights on the Quad, and a space-themed art exhibition. Free/open to the public. uri.edu/news/2026/08/uris-fa…
Space friends, my PhD student @TheodorosP_ will be presentations at #COSPAR I unfortunately can’t go, who is going there this year ? Would love to link him with some colleagues. @JeffWilleyLab @RyanTScott @AfshinBeheshti @KateHolquist @TalkSpaceMed
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
ASN @nutritionorg did not disappoint! Thrilled to make new connections, listen to nutrition science, and cheer on our masters student Em’s first oral presentation discussing our #coldsleep @NASA study! #NUTRITION2026
So disappointed in the France Paraguay game, dirty tactics by the Paraguay team and the referee does not belong there. We have VAR for a reason and so many cameras, this is a disgrace @FIFAWorldCup @FIFAcom
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
Yes, chef!👩🍳👨🍳
The Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table is inviting chefs, innovators, higher-education students & citizen scientists worldwide to design a complete, Earth-independent food system for long-duration space missions.
Register by July 31.
nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/n…
ALT An illustration of Moon to Mars infrastructure showing astronauts living and working on the surface of Mars.
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
There are not enough words to show how proud I am of this lab, with a good number of us being able to gather to celebrate the end of the year! Thank you for making great research, being wonderful cheerleaders for each other, and for sharing your mind with me! #AdAstra
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
No matter how far humanity aims to travel or how ambitious the mission, nutrition will play a key role for the crew members on distant worlds. Before planning long-term stays on the Moon, Mars, and beyond, humans must learn to grow and care for plants and other sources of nutrition like algae to keep the explorers taking part in these adventures fed.
To solve this problem, @NASA and its partners are conducting research aboard the @Space_Station to better understand how the space environment affects nutrition-relevant organisms. Several investigations aboard Northrop Grumman’s 24th commercial resupply mission for NASA support efforts to maintain crew diets as humanity ventures deeper into the cosmos.
Learn more: nasa.gov/missions/station/is…
ALT NASA astronaut Jessica Meir dines on fresh Mizuna mustard greens she harvested earlier that day aboard the International Space Station.
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
And splashdown!
America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely.
Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars.
This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next.
And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you.
Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.
I am so beyond proud of @TheodorosP_ for his systematic review on Nutrition-Based Interventions to mitigate the impact of space radiation! Hoping to go much deeper into this topic in the future! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Marie Mortreux (Brown), PhD retweeted
Hi! I’m Rise!
About a week ago, I launched aboard the Artemis II mission with four of my besties. Since then, I have been serving a very important purpose aboard the Orion spacecraft… I float. (And I look cute.)
Today, I am taking over the Artemis social media accounts! -Rise
