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DESCRIPTION:Biography: \n\nJenny is driven by the question: what if we stud
 ied what makes us healthy\, not just what makes us sick? She earned her Ba
 chelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University\, drawn
  to the field for its blend of creative and analytical thinking. Along the
  way\, a personal practice in yoga and meditation sparked a deeper interes
 t in applying engineering approaches to help people understand and improve
  their health.\n\nThat interest took her to ETH Zürich\, where she comple
 ted a Master's in Biomedical Engineering\, developing smart wearables and 
 computer vision tools for clinical applications. She then joined Dr. Micha
 el Snyder's lab at Stanford School of Medicine\, where she has led the Ben
 eficial Exposome project — investigating how positive environmental expo
 sures\, particularly plant-derived phytoncides\, affect human health throu
 gh clinical trials combining multi-omics analysis and wearable devices. Al
 ongside this work\, she is completing a Master's in Epidemiology and Clini
 cal Research at Stanford\, deepening her foundation in clinical trial meth
 odology and population health.\n\nHer work is helping to bring the positiv
 e side of the exposome into sharper focus — and with it\, the possibilit
 y that our environment holds as many answers for health as it does risks.\
 n\n \n\nAbstract:\n\nWe find ourselves at an unusual moment in human histo
 ry. Across millennia\, from the agricultural revolution through industrial
 ization and urbanization\, our relationship with the natural world has gra
 dually shifted. The environments we now inhabit\, shaped by cities\, techn
 ological infrastructure\, and industrial agriculture\, look increasingly u
 nlike those in which humans evolved. As human environments shift away from
  biodiverse natural ecosystems\, these evolving exposure patterns coincide
  with a global rise in non-communicable diseases.\n\nYet societal progress
  need not come at the expense of our relationship with the natural world. 
 Inspired by the Japanese practice of forest bathing\, we study phytoncides
 \, volatile compounds released by plants as part of their antimicrobial de
 fense\, and their effects on human health. Through controlled clinical stu
 dies integrating wearable sensing and multi-omics profiling\, we aim to un
 cover the physiological and molecular mechanisms through which these expos
 ures influence human biology.\n\nIn this way\, technological innovation\, 
 once associated with our separation from natural environments\, may now en
 able their reintegration\, allowing us to systematically measure\, interpr
 et\, and harness beneficial environmental exposures for human health.
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LOCATION:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, CAM 5th Floor West Tower
 \, D5-122
SUMMARY:Reconnecting with Nature in the Age of Technology: Exploring the Be
 neficial Exposome
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 ature-in-the-age-of-technology-exploring-the-beneficial-exposome
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