IMCI Seminar Series
Tuesday | December 6th | 12:30 p.m.
Clearwater Room ISUB
or join us on Zoom Passcode 028591
Jennifer Runckle
"Human Health Impacts of Climate Change: An Epidemiologist's perspective "
The Carpentries Workshops
Learn practical data analysis skills.
Five Carpentries Workshops are being offered by IMCI. Open to students and non-students. Registration required. Students taking the workshops for credit MUST register via the U of I course schedule.
IMCI Seminar Series
Tuesday | December 13th | 12:30 p.m.
Clearwater Room ISUB
or join us on Zoom Passcode 028591
Lubna Pinky
"Within-host kinetics of parainfluenza virus infection "
Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
U of I Department of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Paul Rowley has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project “Cellular Mechanisms of Killer Toxin Resistance in Yeasts”.
Awarded DOE Grant
U of I Department of Biology Professor Chris Marx has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to support his project “Converting methoxy groups on lignin-derived aromatics from a toxic hurdle to a useful resource: a systems-driven approach”. This project involves...
Eva Top, professor emerita, biological sciences, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant that will determine how horizontal gene transfer in a microbial community impacts the evolutionary trajectories of mobile antibiotic resistance genes. The spread of drug resistance to pathogens is influenced by horizontal gene transfer.
Former IMCI Post Doc, Lihong Zhao, will receive one year financial support from an AAI Intersect Fellowship for Computational Scientists and Immunologists. The fellowship provides independent research scientists with support for postdoctoral fellows to cross-train between computational science and basic immunological bench research.
Appears in the Atlantic
Moscow, Idaho scientist Tanya Miura, Department of Biological Sciences, and other University of Idaho researchers are mentioned in the Atlantic article "The Double-Whammy COVID-Flu" by Roxanne Kamsi.
IMCI has recently purchased a Biotage Initiator-Alstra Microwave Peptide Synthesizer and a BioRad QX200 AutoDG Droplet Digital PCR System for the U of I Research Community.
