Speaker: Petia Vlahovska (Northwestern University) Abstract: Lipid bilayers are the main structural component of the membranes that shape and compartmentalize cells. Cell architecture is highly dynamic and membranes’ conformation changes dramatically in processes such as movement, division, and vesicle trafficking. Fluidity plays essential role in the structural malleability and diversity of static shapes of […]
Event Category: SLM Event
Abstract: Electrostatic assembly can be used to engineer coatings that yield release of different drugs, DNA or protein, resulting in highly tunable multi -agent delivery nanolayered release systems for tissue engineering, biomedical devices, and wound healing applications. Most recently, we have developed a modular nanoparticle approach using liposomal core particles and layering them with an […]
Abstract: Medical artificial intelligence has shown remarkable progress in diagnostic and clinical applications, yet concern grows over AI systems relying on “shortcut learning”—exploiting statistical patterns that correlate with outcomes without capturing genuine causal relationships. This paper examines the dual nature of shortcut learning in medical AI, analyzing both its potential benefits and significant risks. While shortcuts […]
Speaker: Tera Levin (University of Pittsburgh) Abstract: New infectious diseases routinely emerge from natural reservoirs, with sometimes devastating consequences on human populations. How does this happen? Specifically, what events within natural environments allow proto-pathogens to evolve virulence and eventually jump to humans? Using the bacterium Legionella pneumophila, we study the evolution of microbial virulence […]
Abstract: Physical health and chronic medical comorbidities are underestimated, inadequately treated, and often overlooked in psychiatry. Integrated research into brain and body systems holds substantial clinical potential in addressing mental-physical comorbidity. In my talk, I will first present evidence of co-occurrent physical health problems in people with mental disorders, from epidemiology to physiology. I will then […]