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SUMMARY:Using Evidence and Data to Illuminate Our Food Systems
DESCRIPTION:We are embedded in a crowded\, complex landscape of global challenges—climate change and environmental degradation\, mounting social upheaval and inequities\, and increasing public health and food insecurity risks. Food systems sit at the center of these challenges and constitute major causes of the climate crisis. But they can also be key parts of the solution. \nAt a time when facts and data are often openly regarded as suspect by political leaders and business interests\, the rigors of evidence-based research may help to bring about wholesale changes in attitudes\, political discourse\, and social action. Innovations in data gathering and analysis will play a vital role in charting a positive and sustainable direction for food system transformation. \nJessica Fanzo\, a climate\, nutrition\, and immunology expert\, will discuss how these innovations can illuminate our complex food systems and also equip decision-makers to navigate the difficult course of making our food systems more resilient in the face of the climate crisis and environmental instability. She will highlight recent developments her team has initiated\, including the Food Systems Dashboard and the Food Systems Countdown Initiative.
URL:https://www.masslifesciences.com/event/using-evidence-and-data-to-illuminate-our-food-systems/
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SUMMARY:How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual talk\, Ann-Christine Duhaime RI ’16\, will speak about her latest book\, “Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis” (Harvard University Press\, 2022). Duhaime is the Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital\, associate director of the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health\, and associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Climate Change and Health. A practicing board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon\, she is deeply interested in environmental issues and the relationship between brain and behavior. \nDuhaime’s reading will be followed by a discussion with Sharon Weinberger RI ’16\, national security and foreign policy editor at The Wall Street Journal. \nThe event will also include an audience Q and A.
URL:https://www.masslifesciences.com/event/how-neuroscience-can-help-solve-our-environmental-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Predicting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in a Rapidly Changing World
DESCRIPTION:From climate change to land use\, anthropogenic alterations to the environment are occurring at unprecedented rates and on an unthinkable scale. These developments alter the built landscape and our access to life-sustaining resources. \nBut they also disrupt the ecological relationships that bind together humans\, mosquitoes\, and parasites. Upsetting these relationships results in changes to the distribution of host organisms\, rates of contact\, the spread of infectious diseases\, and the seasonality of transmission risk. \nDisease ecologist Courtney Murdock will explore the climate variables that influence mosquito-borne disease transmission. Deploying advanced models of climate-based disease spread\, Murdock’s research seeks to predict transmission patterns in order to respond to the epidemiological effects of the climate crisis. Register online.
URL:https://www.masslifesciences.com/event/predicting-mosquito-borne-disease-transmission-in-a-rapidly-changing-world/
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SUMMARY:Clarifying the Mysteries of Choosing Statistical and Machine-Learning Methods in Genomics Research
DESCRIPTION:Virtual presentation by Jingyi Jessica Li\, a professor in the Department of Statistics (primary) and the Departments of Biostatistics\, Computational Medicine\, and Human Genetics (secondary) at UCLA. Li leads a research group called the Junction of Statistics and Biology\, where she and her students focus on developing statistical and computational methods to answer important questions in biological and biomedical sciences and to extract key information from genomics and health-related data. \nIn this lecture\, Lin will clarify common confusions in genomics data analysis by connecting cutting-edge genomics research questions with fundamental statistical and machine-learning methods. In particular\, she will focus on the distinctions and choices among the methods that are apparently similar but fundamentally different\, so that quantitative genomics researchers will have clear guidelines to follow in their development of bioinformatics tools. Register online. \nLi has received multiple awards and grants from National Institutes of Health\, the National Science Foundation (NSF)\, and other institutions\, including the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award (2018)\, a Sloan Research Fellowship (2018)\, an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award (2019)\, and a spot on the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 China list (2020).
URL:https://www.masslifesciences.com/event/clarifying-the-mysteries-of-choosing-statistical-and-machine-learning-methods-in-genomics-research/
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