Engineering for Women’s Health (Eng4WH) is a multi-campus affinity group started by graduate students from Boston University, Northeastern University, and Tufts University with the goal of promoting technology that can impact women’s lives. Eng4WH aims to cultivate interdisciplinary dialogues and foster collaborations to advance women’s health. We strive to provide a platform for such conversations, and […]
Register Wednesday, November 6 | 4-6 pm Kilachand Center Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Room 101) 610 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 For much of the 20th century, clinical research predominantly involved male participants, with the assumption that findings would apply equally to women. Concerns about hormonal fluctuations and reproductive health risks led to the exclusion of women, particularly […]
Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher Location: Boston UniversityDepartment: Biomedical EngineeringDAMP Lab (Design, Automation, Manufacturing, and Processes Laboratory)Position Type: Full-Time, Postdoctoral Research Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team. This position focuses on continuing to develop our automated infrastructure for cell and molecular processes. Applications in the DAMP […]
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Women’s Health Collaboration program supports collaborative projects that aim to improve the discovery, technical innovation, and/or analysis of datasets to answer pressing life science questions around women’s health. The Center awarded Dr. Klapperich and her industry partner, BioSens8, LLC, $805,660 to support their project “Novel Biosensors for Monitoring Fertility at […]
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Join the Global One Health Academy as we kick off the Global One Health Leader Series (GOHLS). During this series, One Health experts will present new research and findings related to global One Health, and engage in panel discussions that enhance interdisciplinary perspectives and advance the field. The first GOHLS event will feature short presentations from […]
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Comparison of anterior nares CT values in asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 in a university screening program Abstract (from PLoS ONE, July 13, 2022) At our university based high throughput screening program, we test all members of our community weekly using RT-qPCR. RT-qPCR cycle threshold (CT) values are inversely proportional to the amount […]
A progesterone biosensor derived from microbial screening Chloé Grazon, R C. Baer, Uroš Kuzmanović,Thuy Nguyen, Mingfu Chen, Marjon Zamani, Margaret Chern, Patricia Aquino, Xiaoman Zhang, Sébastien Lecommandoux, Andy Fan, Mario Cabodi, Catherine Klapperich, Mark W. Grinstaff, Allison M. Dennis & James E. Galagan Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 1276 (2020) Abstract Bacteria are an enormous and largely untapped reservoir of biosensing proteins. We describe an approach to identify and isolate bacterial allosteric transcription factors […]