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.
Coffee, community, grassrooting. These are some of the things that brings IMCI together. At the heart of IMCI is the “Collaboratorium”. Faculty, students, and postdocs working in both modeling and empirical areas meet with postdoctoral scientists who devote full-time efforts to collaborative modeling. Our goal is to bring together the brightest minds across disciplines to…
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…
The primary objective of this discussion is to present findings on how residency, exposure history, and risk perception influence Idahoans’ protective behaviors toward wildfire smoke, as modeled using structural equation modeling (SEM) to link psychometric constructs with observed behaviors. We will also seek feedback on our proposed future study, which will employ threshold and regression models to…
Bring a lunch and come join the crew as Chenangnon Tovissode presents a mock job talk. His topic is “From Genes to Epidemics: Integrating Machine Learning and Mechanistic Models“. In this presentation, Chenangnon will explore two complementary approaches to investigating causal mechanisms in biological and social systems. The first part focuses on uncovering causal pathways from…
Our very own Tinashe Gashirai will present a talk this coming Monday (09/29)! The main aim of this discussion is to trigger a conversation between mathematical modelers and experimentalists on how the concurrent formulation of mathematical model and running of experiments could increase the utility of math models in informing optimal experimental design. Tinashe will use…