Impact

Since its launch in Fall 2022, The Incubator has generated outstanding outcomes. Our teams have received external grant awards in excess of 17 million dollars, published their research in numerous highly-visible journals, and created several new WashU courses for both undergraduate and graduate student populations.

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

Toward a Synergy Between Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience

Outlet: bioRxiv
Title: "Brain-like border ownership signals support prediction of natural videos"
Date: August 2024

Outlet: Nature Neuroscience
Title: "Sleep restores an optimal computational regime in cortical networks"
Date: January 2024


New Learning Opportunities

Immersive Technology Collective

  • WashU course: Immersive Story Studio
  • WashU course: Early Chinese Art: Human Sacrifice to the Silk Road

Mindfulness Science and Practice

  • WashU course: Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience
  • WashU course: Psychology of the Good Life

Next Frontiers in Radio Chemistry

  • WashU course: Radiochemistry for Life Sciences

Toward a Synergy Between Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience

  • WashU course: Topics in Theoretical Biophysics 

Trust and Public Health

  • WashU course: International Politics, Trust, and Public Health