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Research on Tap: Genomes in the 21st Century (2022)
Faculty Host: Trevor Siggers, Associate Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences When the human genome was sequenced two decades ago, some predicted that this would be “biology’s century.” In the years since, our understanding of genetic variation and tools to study it have developed at warp speed. At the same time, many of […]
Research on Tap: Neuromonitoring Brain Health and Recovery (2022)
Faculty Host: Swathi Kiran, James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation This Research on Tap event will highlight the interdisciplinary work at Boston University that integrates health data, both brain data and behavioral data, with state of the art computing methods to develop models for precision medicine in neurological disease (e.g., stroke, dementia, traumatic […]
Research on Tap: Health Misinformation: How it Affects Society and How We Can Deal With It (2022)
Co-sponsored by the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and the Office of Research. Hosted by Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering. False or inaccurate information can influence how the public responds to health issues, and reduce the effectiveness of public health measures. To ensure an effective […]
Research on Tap: Climate Change & Health: Understanding and Reducing Impacts (2022)
Continued climate change threatens nearly every aspect of the way we live, move, work, and play. Across the Boston University campus, researchers are working to better understand how climate hazards such as air pollution, heat, hurricanes, and wildfires are affecting our health. Our collective goal is to develop the evidence needed to foster communities that […]
Research on Tap: Data Science for Racial Equity (2021)
Faculty Hosts: Azer Bestavros, Associate Provost, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, and Ibram X. Kendi, Director and Founder, Center for Antiracist Research The need for research that exposes racist policy implications and informs policy makers and the public on antiracist alternatives could not be more urgent. Data science can be the window through which […]
Research on Tap: Human Flourishing in Diverse Populations and Contexts (2021)
What does it mean to flourish? How can people living in conditions of physical, psychological, or material adversity attain personal growth, purpose, happiness, social connectedness, and generativity – when these states may appear elusive, if not impossible? How can social institutions, including education, the workplace, and religion, as well as natural environments bolster or impede […]
Research on Tap: Improving Early Childhood Well-Being Locally & Globally (2021)
Faculty Hosts: Dina Castro, Director, BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being, and Ruth Paris, Associate Director for Research, BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being Investments in the development of young children benefit the social and economic vitality of every society. The new BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being works to address adverse conditions faced by children and families, here […]
Research on Tap: Migration: How Movement in the World Shapes Populations and Population Health (2021)
Hosted by Sandro Galea, Dean, School of Public Health Population migration is among the central catalysts shaping the demography of the world around us, a trend likely to accelerate in the coming years. Together with population aging and urbanization, the movement of people within countries and across international borders is rapidly coming to define the […]
Research on Tap: Pandemic Preparedness and Response (2021)
Faculty Host: Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Founding Director, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research; Associate Director, NEIDL; Associate Professor, School of Medicine As the world continues to battle COVID and its variants, researchers and policy makers are already preparing for the next pandemic. Climate change, population growth, economic and ecological injustice, and microbial evolution […]
Research on Tap: Cancer & Microbiome (2021)
Hosted by Evan Johnson, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics and Daniel Segrè, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering Microbial communities that live in and on the human body play a vital role in health and disease, which includes significant systems-level cross-talk and interaction between microbial and host pathways. In particular, the microbiome has […]