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…
Greetings IMCI crew, The University of Idaho will adjourn for the week of 11/24 for Fall Break. IMCI will continue to support our collaborators as usual—though all IMCI events will be postponed until the semester resumes.
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,…
This talk explores Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, a bacterium that rarely causes respiratory disease in domestic sheep and goats but poses a deadly threat to their wild counterparts. When domestic herds come in contact with bighorn sheep, the pathogen can spread, leading to severe pneumonia outbreaks impacting wild populations.
Come join us today at 3:00pm in Brink Hall 305 and TLC 148 at 3:30pm for a talk on Mathematical Modeling of Coupled Cardiovascular-Ocular Hemodynamics hosted by Sergey Lapin of the University of Washington! Details can be found below: Refreshments in Brink Hall Room 305 at 3:00 p.m.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://uidaho.zoom.us/j/83103384490 Meeting ID: 831 0338 4490…
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…