BDP Jeff Coller will serve as the inaugural director of a new academic collaboration with TriLink BioTech, part of Maravai LifeSciences, designed to accelerate transformational research in RNA therapeutics and discovery. The Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT)

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This week our Epigenome Sciences BDP Research Cluster cluster held a successful 2024 symposium! The event created a platform for academic exchange, scholarly discussion, and networking opportunities for #epigenetics scholars.

From mushrooms to microscopic organisms, fungi represent a serious—and still relatively unexplored—threat to humans. Arturo Casadevall discusses, 'What If Fungi Win?', his new book with @SDesmon, shedding light on the complexities of fungal infections. 🍄

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BDP Otis Brawley offered comments on the stigma surrounding cancer diagnoses, how this has changed over time, and the importance of public conversations around cancer.

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“The true image dataset is infinity, which in practical terms leaves most computer vision systems vulnerable to corner cases, potentially with fatal results,” notes Alan Yuille, Bloomberg Distinguished Professors of cognitive science and CS at Johns Hopkins University.

Happy publication day to BDP Arturo Casadevall and co-writer Stephanie Desmon! 'What If Fungi Win?' examines a variety of ways in which we interact with fungi, ranging from their usefulness to their dangerous impacts.

Check out this excerpt from BDP Arturo Casadevall's new book, What If Fungi Win? and buy the book here:

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Our Preparing and Responding to Emerging Pandemics (PREP) Cluster is hiring! Clusters offer unparalleled levels of administrative and grants support, and access to equipment and core research facilities. Read more about the PREP cluster here:

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Join BDP Chris Chute this Friday, May 10, for Grand Rounds this week! His talk will be broadcast on Zoom.

BDP Odis Johnson Jr., executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, weighs in on an AI-based weapon-detection system being launched in Baltimore schools.

Read more at the The Baltimore Sun below:

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BDP Vesla Mae Weaver held a conversation about selective hearing—a concept she coined in a 2016 New York Times op-ed—laying out some historical and contemporary examples and considering some of its central dynamics and implications.

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Congratulations to our VP for Research Denis Wirtz and his team for their publication in nature today. Read about their success in mapping lesions in 3D and at the single-cell level and what this might mean for early detection and rational interception of pancreatic cancer.

In this Cell Genomics article, BDP Nilanjan Chatterjee proposes MUSSEL, a method for ancestry-specific polygenic prediction that borrows information in summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) across multiple ancestry groups.

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In a new study, BDP Eliana Perrin investigates The Injury Prevention Program, designed to help prevent childhood injury.

'Honestly, we were surprised by the results,' says Perrin. 'TIPP is a pretty simple program. There's not a lot of bells or whistles.'

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Congratulations to BDP patricia janak for being named an AAAS Fellow. Janak's work focuses on associative learning and addiction, aiming to better understand how drug and alcohol associated stimuli contribute to relapse. Read more here:

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In a new Nature Communications article, BDP Nilanjan Chatterjee proposes a new method for generating multi-ancestry Polygenic Risk scores based on ensemble of penalized regression models. This new method aims to improve predictive power for minority populations.

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Today for Earth Day BDP Daniel Polsky is hosting Secretary Xavier Becerra at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in a fireside chat about health and climate.

BDP Lawrence Jackson hosted an incredible 'day for renewal and reeducation' with a lecture by Dr. Shana L. Redmond that invoked the literary tradition of the rent party. The event ended with an incredible performance by Peabody Institute faculty and dancers.

Measurement errors cannot be responsible for the Hubble Tension, so there is a possibility that scientists have misunderstood the universe and its expansion, BDP Adam Riess says.

From NASA:

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Named a top 10 article of 2023 by BMJ Quality & Safety, BDP Kathy McDonald's qualitative study of diagnostic error experiences in sexual and gender minority individuals explores the unique challenges of SGM patients and identifies solutions.

Read more here: qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…