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--> Using Multilayered Methods to Analyze Genes putative to triple-negative breast cancer sub-types

--> Niccolo & Kofi: FoldIt to assess Novel Mortalin variants coded by HSPA9 Pertaining to Triple Neg Breast Cancer sub-types

--> Using Social learning Tools based on evolutionary patterns to predict tumor cell learning based on cancer treatment type

--> Breast cancer incidence rates in women stratified by lifestyle and behavioral factors

--> Is there a Genetic basis for mental disorders? Can we use bioinformatics tools to find patterns of incidence?

--> George & Kofi: Using exact Bayesian algorithms to assess tumor cell networks by breast cancer sub-type

--> Pete & Kofi: Using Data-mining and bioinformatics tools to assess healthy learning environments for students at Ivy League Universities in the Massachusetts area

--> Quantifying the randomness of epidemic patterns

--> Quantifying proximal networks for mosquito-borne diseases

--> talia and cesar: The spread of diseases from migration due to political unrest in Venezuela: the Maduro effect

--> talia and jarno: Predicting ADHD using maternal psychological risk factors

--> Kevin & Ada: Multi-level Analysis of Sub-State Actors in International Politics

--> Evgenia & Ada: Co-evolution of Internal and External Ties within Organisations

--> Chris & Ada: Multi-scale Feedback Loops in Micro-Finance

--> Allie & Ada: Hierarchical Science of Science

--> Yanchen & Ada: Self-similarity for Network Aggregation

--> Gianrocco & Allie: Food for Research

--> Alex & Allie: The Effects of Urban Environments on Scientific Collaboration

--> Conor & Allie: Quantifying Multivariate Effects in Diversity

--> Talia & Allie: Characterizing the Heritability of Gender Norms across Academic Families

---> Maria & Jacob: Evolution of cooperative resource redistribution in microbial systems

---> Saska & Jacob: Plant microbial interactions reconsidered: All pay auctions force plants hands

---> Goerge & Jacob: The structural determination of consensus and diversity n GRN; How plants choose how to grow.

---> Ana & Jacob: Increasing the nutritional value of crops through redirection of resources towards fibrous tissues

---> Alice & Jacob: Analysis of protein-protein interaction networks at critical junctions for root zonation.

---> Sarah & Kevin: Changes in behavior of bacteria in response to different virus attack patterns

---> Matt & Kevin: Collective action problems with limited resources in congressional budgeting

---> Vandana & Kevin: Changes in agent behavior in iterated games with different rules for each period

---> Chris & Kevin: Sentiment analysis based on reactions to the stock market from text mining Twitter data (i.e. hedonometer research)

---> Patricia & Kevin: Simulation of flash crashes to test different threshold levels for control systems of automated stock trading programs

---> Anastasiya & Kevin: Identification of attractors in UN Voting Data from 1948 to the present

---> Tom & Kevin: Defining deviations of city size from Zipf's Law as a parameter of centralization (or decentralization) in a nation-state

Evolution of the evolution of evolution.

A framework for understanding anxiety in social situations.

Impact of fats moderated by scalar participation on generalised anxiety disorder

Eating chocolate cake reverses weight loss in major depression.

No connection between MRNA transcription levels and compulsive hand-washing

Repeated antisocial behavior modulates immune responses in face of radiation exposure

Evaluating effects of drought on savanna trees with respect to their phylogenetic distance

Sasha & Evgenia: Variation in synapse number in development -> effect on social network formation

Jordan & Sasha: Impact of brain inflammation on synapse stability as an adaptive network

Sasha & Nam: Supervised & Unsupervised learning in neural networks dynamics

Sasha & Konstantinos: Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition to evaluate patterns of activity of spontaneous neural waves in visual cortex before and after eye opening

Jordan & Xiaoyu: New mechanisms for synchronization in power grids with high renewable penetration

Jordan & Andrea: Quantifying perturbation spreading in multilayer systems using information theory

Ben & Jordan: Early warning signs for saddle-node bifurcations on temporal human contact networks

Alan & Jordan: Insights on multilayer networks from microbial metabolic networks

Optimization of industrial development paths to meet climate policy goals

Software development of a communication network for a swarm of robots

George and Luca: A generative model of mutualistic networks

Marina and Luca: Is a network always a network? A comparison of graph theoretic properties of social and biological networks under stress

Xindi and Luca: Modeling the publishing ecosystem using Lotka-Volterra system of equations

The heterogeneous effect of evolution of the spread disease on high and low income groups

Simon and Cesar: Comparing methods for water supply infrastructure for a case study in Ecuador and its economic and political outcomes

Vandana and Cesar: Fitness effects of high and low income groups under an epidemic

Yanchen and Cesar: How income levels affect network structure after an epidemic outbreak?   
 Matt & Ricky: k-Core Groups is Political Discussion Networks

Ariadna & Ricky: Thermodynamics of Multilayer Networks - Phase Transition as a Function of Network Connectivity

Conor & Ricky: Evaluating the Importance of Synergistic Interactions in Multilayer Networks

Magdalena & Ricky: Multilayer Innovation Networks

Anastasia & Ricky: Interplay between Topology and Nonlinear Dynamics in Oscillator Networks

Jarno & Ricky: Psychological Profile an a Factor in Multilayer Terrorist Networks 
 Alan & Evgenia: "Social dynamics of heterogeneous microbial populations"

Evgenia & Maria del Rio Chanona: "The evolution of multilayer network of labour unions and industry organisations"

Evgenia & Tom: "Altering networks to increase cooperation"

Ben & Evgenia: "How individuals novelty seeking affects contact switching in swinger network dynamics"

Evgenia and Peter: "Propagation of the negative and positive attitudes towards prescribing controlled substances in clinicians' social networks"

Vandana and Anastasiya: "Studying phase transitions in lattices using game theory in structured populations"

Jared and Marina: "Friend or Foe? Effects of political crises on friendship networks"

Maria R. and Marina: "Surviving the Big Crash: Impact of financial crisis on structure and evolution of social networks"

Ricky & Matt: k-Core Groups in Political Discussion Networks.

Kevin & Matt: Collective Action Problems with Limited Resources in Congressional Budgeting.

Anastasiya & Matt: Perturbation Spreading and Social Influence of Public Opinion in Political Networks.

Javier & Matt: Twitterbots as Opinion Leaders in the Spread Fake News.

Patricia & Matt: Using Facial Recognition to Track Networked Interaction Among Caucus Attendees.

Carol & Matt: Using Brain Signals to Predict Sociability in Discussion Networks. 
 Pride or punishment: When a new company moves to town

Investment policy impact on inequality

Emergence of social networks: comparing slack and self-reported contact data

Twitter bots as opinion leaders in the spread of fake news

Spread of gentrification in cities using multilayer network models

Taxation as a function of disorder in corporate structures

Measuring self-organization/productivity applying hidden Markov models to interevent communication data

Population dynamics and proximity to water

Inga & Gianrocco: 'Phones for Malaria'

Ariadna & Gianrocco: 'Modeling socio-temporal patterns from wireless wearable device'

Magdalena & Gianrocco: 'Sustainable innovation pathways for nutritive artificial meat production'

Jarno & Gianrocco: 'Autistic gut: food intolerance effects on impaired emotional intelligence'

How technology affected the neolithic society of south east asia

Network early warning signs of global financial crisis

An ABM of conflict due to robots stealing jobs. Jared & Maria

The innovation network of microbial communities. Luca & Maria

The evolution of the multilayer network of labor union and industry organization. Evgenia & Maria

Surviving the big crash -- the impact of financial crisis on the structure and evolution of social networks. Marina & Maria

Modeling influenza epidemic patterns with HMMs. Talia & Ariadna

Thermodynamics of a multilayer network. Ricky & Ariadna

Synergistic error correction in stochastic processes. Conor & Ariadna

Crowd Archeology and Ideas of Cultural Identity in Southeast Asia. Jenn & Chris

Urban Centers as Cultural Centers in Past, Present and Future. Jenn & Chris

Developing Micro Consensus Models on the Blockchain. Nicollo & Chris

Designing Governance for Large Groups. Nicollo & Chris

Defining Network Robustness Parameters in Decentralized Cryptocurrency Networks. Andrea & Chris

Bayesian Optimal Information Integration of wind measurements in wind farms: Niccolo & Xiaoyu Wang

Water system recover after exogenous event using networks and newspaper data: Thushara & Xindi

Spatial book sales pattern analysis: Konstantinos & Xindi

Replicator dynamics for interactions between multiple genomic loci to understand interactions on a genomic scale: Vandana & Sarah

Decomposing performance improvements in cells into biological innovation mechanisms: Magdalena & Sarah

The Effects of Urban Environments on Scientific Collaboration - Alex & Allie

Investigations into the Urban Collective Conscience - Alex & Juarno

NLP for ethnography of communication networks_Sandra&Yuki

Networks of communication in biological systems_Alan&Sandra

Financial connections proxied by information sharing_Eleonora&Sandra

How to play well with others: communication systems and human cooperation_Catriona&Sandra

Similarity/Differences in Public Transport Network Structure in Singapore and Belgrade

Adaptive Network in Transport Systems

Optimizing strategies for public transport systems in cities

Commonly considered factors sufficient to give rise to clustering in business networks

Mobility and access: Spatial dynamics of healthcare provision for senior population - Shantal & Peter

Reconstructing social network structure of past societies using Bayesian influence

Critical comparison between evolution of mutualism and evolution of cooperation

First order phase transition in human social organisation

How social hierarchy impacts inter-organisational collaborations

How did the emergence of financial system reinforce hierarchical organisation

Comparison of patterns of neuronal avalanches in social and non-social species

Coupling and decompling of biological oscillators - Subash and Kostantinos

Environemntal influences on endogenous dynamics - Subash and Thushara

Comparing information transfer in living systems; a comparative study between between slime molds and human population - Subash and Peter

Slime mold inspired search algorithms in swarm-robotics - Subash and Zohar

Dynamic mode decomposition of slime mold oscillators - Subash & ..

Using slime mold as a model organism to solve political conflicts - Subash and Jared

Egocentric networks and adverse opioid related events - Jared & Peter

Got Pills? Leveraging social networks for prescription medicines in disruption - Marina & Peter

Spatial Distribution of syringe supply and syringe sharing: A simulation study Peter & Saska

Huff & Kogan -- where am I going to go when the volcano blows: networks and survival after natural disasters

Huff & Perret -- climate change effects on evolution of tool use and form

Fussner & Huff -- public archaeology and ideas of cultural identity in island southeast asia

Fussner & Huff -- urban centers as sites of cultural exchange past, present, and future in ISEA

Edgerton & Huff -- evolution of networked social identity and conflict in eastern indonesia past and present

Huff & Stopnitzky -- practice and theory of navigation by stable ocean wave patterns

Huff & Schweikert -- local rural indonesian perspectives on reliable low-carbon energy access

Cantwell & Huff -- inferring trade network structure from isotopic analysis of ceramics and pig bones: with application to the iSEA Neolithic