Jennifer Yang

2 months ago | theglobeandmail.com | Jennifer Yang

Nov 17, 2024 | artguide.com.au | Jennifer Yang

A green velvet curtain shades the entrance to Leyla Stevens’s exhibition PAHIT MANIS, Night Forest. Inside, the walls are virescent, almost black; the scene, as suggested by the title, is a forest after nightfall. Here, Stevens stages an encounter: between her single-channel video developed as part of a new partnership between the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Artspace, and four pen-and-ink paintings by Sanur artists loaned from the Australian Museum.

Jun 21, 2024 | nature.com | Jennifer Yang |Eric An |Ravi R. Bhatt |Jennifer S. Labus |Rishabh Agarwal |Shrey Pawar | +7 more

The brain–gut microbiome (BGM) system plays an influential role on mental health. We characterized BGM patterns related to resilience using fecal samples and multimodal magnetic resonance imaging. Data integration analysis using latent components showed that the high-resilience phenotype was associated with lower depression and anxiety symptoms, higher frequency of bacterial transcriptomes (related to environmental adaptation, genetic propagation, energy metabolism and anti-inflammation), increased metabolites (N-acetylglutamate, dimethylglycine) and cortical signatures (increased resting-state functional connectivity between reward circuits and sensorimotor networks; decreased gray-matter volume and white-matter tracts within the emotion regulation network). Our findings support a multi-omic signature involving the BGM system, suggesting that resilience impacts psychological symptoms, emotion regulation and cognitive function, as reflected by unique neural correlates and microbiome function supporting eubiosis and gut-barrier integrity. Bacterial transcriptomes provided the highest classification accuracy, suggesting that the microbiome is critical in shaping resilience, and highlighting that microbiome modifications can optimize mental health. The authors evaluated and integrated compositional and functional microbiota data using fecal samples taken from healthy individuals and multimodal neuroimaging.

May 12, 2024 | artlink.com.au | Jennifer Yang

A tempered but stubborn nationalism haunts the contemporary biennale, appearing most paradigmatically in Venice’s pavilion format. Its seductions are less obvious in the latest edition of the Biennale of Sydney, curated by Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero, which has sought to decentre North Atlantic discourse through an emphasis on a multiplicity of perspectives (Ten Thousand) unfolding within a shared planetary system (Suns).

Nov 12, 2023 | medium.com | Jennifer Yang

AI Image Generators in Representing Racial Diversity AI in the classroom doesn't always have to be scrutinized in the context of plagiarism accusations and academic misconduct - sometimes, its usage can serve a different, but just as important lesson. Take my experiences this past month in an Ontario secondary school teaching the newly implemented Indigenous curriculum, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies (NBE3U1).