BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:78@escience.washington.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T172000 DTSTAMP:20240312T215028Z URL:https://escience.washington.edu/events/uwdss-incubator-2/ SUMMARY:UW Data Science Seminar: Winter Incubator DESCRIPTION:\n\nPlease join us for a UW Data Science Seminar on Wednesday\, April 3rd from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PST. The seminar will feature two projec ts from Nino Migineishvili and Tabitha Harrison\, who participated in our 2024 Data Science Incubator program at the eScience Institute.\n\n2024 Spr ing Quarter seminars will be held in PAA A118 - campus map\n\n\n \;\n" Assessing Influences of Wildfires on Park Visitation Patterns Using Gravit y"\nAbstract: Wildfires have been growing in size\, duration\, and destruc tivity\, resulting in more decisive calls to improve forest health and pro tect communities. Wildfire fuel treatments – which  involve reducing or removing vegetation from fire-prone areas – are one strategy for reduci ng wildfire risk. Where to conduct fuel treatments implementation is prima rily based on biophysical risk factors. Yet wildfires also disrupt recreat ional utilization of public lands\, which in turn affects societal well-be ing and the numerous physical and mental health benefits of recreating in nature. Given this\, the aim of this project is to develop approaches for estimating recreation on public lands and quantify how recreationalists re spond to wildfires and wildfire treatments on the landscape. The approach uses gravity models with trips to public lands sourced from AllTrails.\n\n \n"Investigating germline genetic influence on somatic immune traits in no n-cancerous tissues"\nAbstract: Cancer is a significant health burden in t he US\, causing substantial morbidity and mortality. This research project builds on past studies demonstrating that inherited genetic variants can influence how our immune system affects cancer risk and survival. While pr ior work has linked aspects of the immune system to tumors\, this project focuses on understanding how our inherited genetic makeup affects immune f unction in healthy tissues. Using publicly available data from dbGaP and G TEx\, we will examine how inherited immune-related genetic markers (in the HLA region) relate to immune function in non-cancerous tissues in the lun g\, breast\, prostate\, and colon. We will then investigate if genetic mar ker variations that affect immune traits in healthy tissues are associated with developing common solid cancers.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe UW Data Science Semi nar is an annual lecture series at the University of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas of data science\, such as the scien ces\, engineering\, humanities and arts along with methodological areas in data science\, such as computer science\, applied math and statistics. Ou r presenters come from all domain fields and include occasional external s peakers from regional partners\, governmental agencies and industry.\n\n&n bsp\;\n\nThe 2023-2024 seminars will be held in person\, and are free and open to the public.\n\n LOCATION:Physics/Astronomy Auditorium\, room A118\, Seattle\, WA\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Seattle\, WA\, ;X-APPLE-RAD IUS=100;X-TITLE=Physics/Astronomy Auditorium\, room A118:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR