Jacqueline H

- Research Program Mentor

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Project ideas

Research Perspective Paper

Review of current literature regarding neuroimmunology, neurobiology and behavior, neurodegeneration, or aging, or another field of research if none of the above interest you. You will then search for papers that shifted how the field shifted with a focus on the most current opposed hypothesis and theories. You will then assess the quality of the data, arguments, rationale and models and make an argument for your own perspective or for one of the others. A perspective paper is typically not long (8-12 pages), but dense with material and requires a true dedication to reading the materials and a creative mindset to make a case for which hypothesis you deem worthy of further pursuit! The outcomes will be production of a paper which can be submitted as an article and presented at a symposium. Additionally knowledge that can be gained is understanding the current state of the field, and the current discussions regarding how novel technologies can result in interesting discovery.

Sci Comm

This project would involve a skill that most folks struggle with in science: communicating results and their relevance clearly, accurately, succinctly, and most importantly in an engaging manner. While this is helpful for the lay audience, it is also helpful for many researchers because of the increasing value of an ecological perspective in biomedical research, requiring a greater breadth in knowledge. Thus this project would require reading literature relevant to a scientific topic I have knowledge in (immunology, neurobiology, neurodegeneration, behavior, but more could be discussed) or about some aspect of philosophy of science,(some examples would be progress through history, or competing philosophies and how they are now represented in current fields I mentioned above). The project product will be a short zine/pamphlet/poster that will display the information that you find most interesting or crucial for the intended audience with the aesthetics you think would be most fitting for the topic and the most engaging. From this project you will gain skills in presentation of ideas and data which is a very important aspect in science. This will involve finding a source of publicly available data regarding the topic of your choice, and determining how to best begin analysis of data using excel or google spreadsheets to determine the question of interest based on simple graphical outputs. Once a question based on inferred patterns is determined from a first pass of simple correlative analysis, this project will next determine what platform (magazine article, online resource which may be shared with other, or applied to writing a paper from findings) would be best suited for questions and data visualization best practices. Once platform is determined, the next step will be to explore various methods of interactive and effective modalities and techniques used in both STEM papers and presentations for conferences. Additionally learning data visualization techniques lends to capacity to recognize patterns and link those patterns to questions that may be relevant to ask if the data was collected by you, as these methods are used for visual learners to analyze data sets in academia. Outcomes include: A scientific contribution to open source data banks

Interview a scientist!

We will find a scientist or group of scientists in a field of your choice in academia in a field that you are interested in that I have expertise in: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, Cancer Immunology, Clinical Immunology, Clinical oncology, Ecology, Computational Science, Neuroimmunology, neurodegeneration, aging, immunology, behavior and interview them for a podcast/youtube/vimeo etc. educational video. Project learning opportunities would include: learning how to find scientists to connect to through networking, determining the scientists you'd think would be helpful to your research, reading literature that would bolster these experiences to provide an opportunity to learn how to formulate questions to ask of the scientific community experts, learning how to conducting/editing the interview, and consideration of how to portray to the audience your vision of what information you think is most exciting for the intended audience to learn from this conversation! This will in here is an example: https://youtu.be/1EfOWIvv0Jc?si=VjiE_72dpwIdcr6k

Bioinformatics extension applications of diagnostics and treatment regimens.

For this project open access data banks would be used to evaluate quantitative patterns across datasets. A project in this lane would entail learning key skills for the evolution of AI/Agenic AI, and LLM. Creativity is a helpful skill that can be honed and used in the process of developing an algorithm or pipeline that predicts stratification across diseases or other demographic areas of interest. Additional skills learned could be learning coding architecture in conjunction with how to use modern toolsets currently discussed at the National Level.

Wet Lab at Home

This project would include observational data based on in house or field experiments. This could range anywhere from how to measure a food type and how it is stored, to the growth of bacteria from a phone. Typically this type of project requires strong fortitude and learning extensively about experimental design processes focusing on materials and methods. Additionally quantification and analysis whether that be image analysis using tools like ImageJ or Matlab are skills that will come from this type of project. Additionally understanding the basics of scientific experimentation on limited resources and creative design are the learning goals and publishable outcomes for those papers requiring wet lab experience.

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