Research Highlight: Siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 Present at Biomedical Engineering Society Conference
Last fall, siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 presented at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Baltimore, MD, as part of the conference’s two-hour poster session for high school students. Tai’s poster, entitled “Blood Vessel Reflectance as a Tool for Assessing DBS Efficacy in Mice,” focused on how blood vessels in mouse brains react to deep-brain stimulation while the mouse is still awake. Mira’s poster, “A Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network to Identify Surgical Targets in Human Epilepsy,” built upon her senior thesis research.
Of their experience at the conference and the path that led them there, Tai shared:
“From last summer until now, I have been visiting the Han Lab at BU and doing projects under two of the grad students working there. They told me about this conference and worked with me on creating the poster and practicing for the poster session. I told my sister about it, and she worked on creating a poster so she could also go. We both had to submit our research before getting in, including a basic outline of what we were going to prove and how. There were a lot of other people [at the conference], but I’m not quite sure how many, as I was presenting my poster the whole time.”
Congratulations to Tai and Mira on your fascinating research and successful poster presentations!