Project Description Establishing the pre-pregnancy nutritional factors associated with delivery of healthy infants ideally involves assessing nutrition prospectively, accurately, and in a way that generalizes to diverse populations. Several different diets, including the Mediterranean, DASH, Fit for Delivery, FIGO Nutrition, and the Fertility Diet have been recommended for women planning to conceive. However, approximately 45% […]

Elizabeth Norton (Department of Microbiology & Immunology) Project Description The Norton lab works on various projects in understanding what drives immune responses to infectious diseases and how to design immune targtingtherapies (e.g. vaccines) Project Details Time, eligibility, and other details Expected workload inquire with project organizer Contact Info enorton@tulane.edu Who is eligible Undergraduate and graduate […]

M.A. “Tonette” Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine Lab Description Dr. Krousel-Wood is a physician-scientist who engages in NIH-funded clinical research and clinical trials focused on adherence to prescribed therapies, management of hypertension, and sex differences and health disparities research engaging local, national and international women and men with chronic cardiometabolic […]

Dahlene Fusco, MD, PhD, School of Medicine Lab Description Her lab is dedicated to identification of host factors that mediate the interferon antiviral response distal to viral subversion points, using in vitro and in vivo models for dengue and Zika virus. Information obtained in these studies will be used to identify pre-clinical host targets for […]

Project Description Ongoing research and collaboration with Cognitive Neuroscience at Xavier regarding real-time fMRI neurofeedback and neuroimaging of meditation. Approaches to data include functional connectivity analysis and dynamic ICA. Project Details Time, eligibility, and other details Expected workload minimum 10 hours/week Skills required Matlab, Python programming skills strongly preferred Who is eligible Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, […]