Accomplishments

Since its launch in Fall 2022, the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures has generated outstanding outcomes, ranging from external funding and highly-visible publications to impactful community engagement and new learning opportunities.

Accomplishments include:

External Funding

ITF Collaboration: Next Frontiers in Radio Chemistry
Grant Organization: National Institutes of Health
Funded Project: Antibiotic-based PET Imaging of Implant-Associated Gram-positive Bacterial Infections
Grant Amount: $427,625
Start Date: September 30, 2024
PI: Daniel Thorek
 

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ITF Collaboration: Toward a Synergy Between Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
Grant Organization: National Institutes of Health
Funded Project: Exploring How Scene Segmentation Circuits Aid in Predicting Future Visual Input
Grant Amount: $427,625
Start Date: September 1, 2024
PIs: Tom Franken, Ralf Wessel
 

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ITF Collaboration: Mindfulness Science and Practice
Grant Organization: National Institutes of Health
Funded Project: Mindfulness to Enhance Cognitive Health in Latinx Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
Grant Amount: $1,000,823
Start Date: August 15, 2024
PIs: Todd Braver, Diana Parra Perez
 

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ITF Collaboration: Improving Data Integration Techniques
Grant Organization: U.S. National Science Foundation
Funded Project: Improving Data Integration Techniques
Grant Amount: $233,955
Start Date: August 1, 2024
PI: Ted Enamorado
 

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ITF Collaboration: The St. Louis Policy Initiative
Grant Organization: U.S. National Science Foundation
Funded Project: Collaborative Research: Electoral Systems, Suburbanization, and Representation
Grant Amount: $324,762
Start Date: August 1, 2023
PI: Matt Gabel
 

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ITF Collaboration: Police Body Camera Metadata
Grant Organization: U.S. National Science Foundation
Funded Project: Body-worn camera metadata
Grant Amount: $224,712
Start Date: August 1, 2023
PIs: Andrew Jordan, Kyle Rozema, Soumendra Lahiri, Christopher Lucas
 

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ITF Collaboration: The Human-Wildlife Interface
Grant Organization: National Institutes of Health
Funded Project: Phylogenetic modeling of viral transmission dynamics at the human-wildlife interface in Uganda
Grant Amount: $2,999,999
Start Date: July 20, 2023
PI: Krista Milich
 

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ITF Collaboration: Toward a Synergy Between Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
Grant Organization: U.S. National Science Foundation
Funded Project: Non-Parametric Inference of Temporal Data
Grant Amount: $70,003
Start Date: June 16, 2023
PI: Likai Chen

Publications

The Human-Wildlife Interface:

Outlet: Systematic Biology
Title: "PhyloJunction: A Computational Framework for Simulating, Developing, and Teaching Evolutionary Models"
Date: November 2024

Outlet: bioRxiv
Title: "phyddle: software for phylogenetic model exploration with deep learning"
Date: August 2024

Outlet: Systematic Biology
Title: "Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong"
Date: January 2024

Outlet: Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Title: "Impacts of a participatory action project: how reducing crop raiding has implications for health"
Date: 2024

Immersive Technology Collective

Outlet: Theatre Journal
Title: "Augmented Reality and Theatre"
Date: June 2024

Outlet: The Drama Review
Title: "The Human Labor of Digital Humanities"
Date: March 2024

Mindfulness Science and Practice

Outlet: ScienceDirect
Title: "Distinct Mindfulness States Produce Dissociable Effects on Neural Markers of Emotion Processing: Evidence From the Late Positive Potential"
Date: September 2024

Outlet: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Title: "Parsing state mindfulness effects on neurobehavioral markers of cognitive control: A within-subject comparison of focused attention and open monitoring"
Date: June 2024

Outlet: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Title: "ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices"
Date: November 2024

Outlet: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Title: "Using EEG to advance mindfulness science: A survey of emerging methods and approaches"
Date: October 2024

Outlet: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Title: "Decoding mindfulness with multivariate predictive models"
Date: November 2024

Next Frontiers in Radio Chemistry

Outlet: Methods in Enzymology
Title: "Siderophore-dependent ferrichelatases"
Date: 2024

Outlet: ACS Chemical Biology
Title: "Expanding the Substrate Selectivity of the Fimsbactin Biosynthetic Adenylation Domain, FbsH"
Date: November 2024


New Learning Opportunities

Immersive Technology Collective

Mindfulness Science and Practice

Trust and Public Health