Zoom: https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/81951581577Pass: 4321 The landscape is changing with the rise of AI! What part will we play in the shaping of our future with it? We are very excited to announce two of our upcoming Brown Bag Lunches, the first happening Monday, February 23, from 12:30-1:30 pm, in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). Come join us…
This coming Monday, we will be joined by Onesmo Balemba when he presents his talk:Specific Phocaeicola vulgatus strains link dysbiosis of gut microbiota to the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal nerve cell damage and impaired motility in type 2 diabetes. We are very excited to have him! While you are away enjoying your weekend, keep us in mind when…
We are very excited to announce our upcoming Brown Bag Lunch happening Monday, February 2nd, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). This Monday we will be joined by Jean-Marc Gauthier when he presents his talk, Predict, Simulate, and Replace: Applications of digital twins working with AI agents. This is quick talk on digital twin research projects working with AI agents being developed by VTD’s VRLab. We will cover digital twin projects for bio-computing, lunar surface, wildfire intelligence,…
We’d like to remind you of our upcoming Brown Bag Lunch happening Monday, January 26 from 12:30-1:30pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). IMCI will have a special BBL for people interested in applying to our Pilot Project program. If you are considering applying to this Pilot Project program, we strongly encourage you to come to this lunch prepared to give a…
Our last Brown Bag Lunch series of the year! Come join the IMCI crew for our yearly Brainstorming Event and Luncheon happening Monday, December 8, from 12:30-2pm in the IRIC Atrium. ***Due to limited supplies, the first 55 people to RSVP will be counted and invited. This event will be a social gathering centered around…
In this work-in-progress, Dr. Fehrenkamp will present an IMCI-funded pilot in which she is recruiting ~30 breastfeeding mother–infant dyads for an intensive 24-hour protocol to quantify cortisol and melatonin dynamics across the maternal–milk–infant triad. Each dyad completes up to 10 repeated collections of maternal saliva, breast milk, and infant saliva over two days, along with…
Who are the Apollonians? Don’t ask us, but find out this coming Monday with our session leader, Katharine Kolpan, as she leads us through a discussion titled: Who Are These Apollonians Anyway? Isotopes, Migration, and Health at Ancient Apollonia Pontica (7th-3rd centuries BC), Bulgarian Black Sea Coast The ancient port city of Apollonia Pontica was an…
Achieving trustworthy AI in healthcare remains a significant challenge, as existing eXplanation Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods like attention maps or LIME/SHAP are often dismissed by clinicians and patients as uninterpretable. While the reasoning LLMs initially seemed promising for generating natural-language explanations, they often create unfaithful rationalizations that obscure a model’s true logic. To solve this,…
Join us this coming Monday when Ginny Lane will lead, with Brenda Murdoch, a discussion about new and ongoing research in chronic disease. Opportunities for depth and breadth in understanding chronic disease Brenda Murdoch and Ginny Lane will share some current research related to diabetes and opportunities for interdisciplinary research in the area of chronic disease development.
Session led by Tanya Miura Our initial project on the CMCI COBRE award was designed to identify parameters that determine disease outcomes during respiratory viral coinfection in a mouse model. Through this work we identified multiple virus pairs that resulted in reduced disease severity upon coinfection, which depends upon the viral doses and order of…