Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation

Advancing model-based research & Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration

The Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI) at the University of Idaho advances model-based research and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration. It serves as a hub where faculty, postdocs, staff and students from a broad range of disciplines work together to solve complex-systems problems. IMCI’s Modeling Core supports research across the university by generating new approaches and seeding interdisciplinary teams and its mission emphasizes creating a cultural and physical environment that bridges disciplines and encourages grassroots collaboration. Through pilot grants, modeling access and collaborative structures, IMCI enables early-career investigators and multi-disciplinary teams to pursue novel research directions and build institutional capacity.

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Grant Support

Community / Grassrooting
Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC)
Brown Bag Lunch (BBL)
Writing Working Group (Writing WG)

Collaboration
IDAC
The Modeling Core

News and Events

IHHE IMCI Synergistic Grant Support

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Animal, plant, human health, and complex ecosystem researchers! Are you planning on a grant submission to a federal agency in the next 4-6 months from mechanism to modeling? Do you need feedback on your premise and overarching hypothesis or text? Would you like assistance with paperwork, planning a budget, and or meeting deadlines for your unit, OSP, and the target agency? The Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem (IHHE) and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI) are here to help! These institutes are partnering together to provide synergistic support for PIs who want to would like assistance with the demanding task of grant submission. With…
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News: IMCI affiliated Podcast, Protecting Idaho potatoes from fungi with new tools

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We are celebrating the release of Episode 11.1 of the Vandal Theory Podcast featuring our very own Marty Ytreberg with the support of his Drug Discovery working group which aired yesterday. Beginning with the founding of the working group, Ytreberg shared his experience of finding an interdisciplinary community of researchers, brought together around the issue of fungal disease. In an unexpected turn of events, the group, originally founded to address human fungal diseases, re-tooled their efforts, finding quick success in developing antifungals for Idaho potatoes. Marty shares the team’s successes in isolating fungal diseases and creating mechanisms which eliminate only…
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Brown Bag Lunch: Back to the office, come hang out!

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We sure hope you had a chance to enjoy yourselves during the break! For today’s Brown Bag Lunch, the only thing we are scheduling is time to catch-up with you! This session will be open for you to bring food, stop by, and chat with the crew. We will also be hosting a survey in which you can weigh in on your choice of a variety of SWAG items. Come throw your hat in the ring and decide what IMCI swag you will be dawning! We have a number of exciting Brown Bag Lunches on the horizon, so be sure…
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Post Brown Bag Lunch: Erin James, The Story Model

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Following the Erin James’s lively Brown Bag Lunch: The Story Model, IMCI is sharing the opportunity to collaborate with interns from the Confluence Lab. Are you looking to increase the impact of your research with storytelling? We are the Confluence Lab of the University of Idaho, an interdisciplinary outfit that brings together the sciences, arts, and humanities. In our new project—an approach to science and storytelling that we call Narrative Science—we partner with science practitioners to better use stories to communicate their work with diverse audiences. Thus far, we have been ambitious in providing workshops and consultations with as wide a…
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