Bring Your Own Cup Series (BYOC)
Come join us for Bring Your Own Cup on Wednesdays @9:30-11am in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352) for FREE coffee/tea and a social hour with the crew!
Come join us for Bring Your Own Cup on Wednesdays @9:30-11am in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352) for FREE coffee/tea and a social hour with the crew!
Do you know what happens when you step inside a future shaped by climate change? In a collaboration with the UI Polymorphic Games Studio, Dilshani Sarathchandra and Kristin Haltinner will discuss a virtual reality (VR) experience that immerses individuals into potential future climate scenarios. This talk walks you through the project’s theoretical foundations, experimental design, and…
Coffee, community, grassrooting. These are some of the things that brings IMCI together. At the heart of IMCI is the “Collaboratorium”. Faculty, students, and postdocs working in both modeling and empirical areas meet with postdoctoral scientists who devote full-time efforts to collaborative modeling. Our goal is to bring together the brightest minds across disciplines to…
Who are the Apollonians? Don’t ask us, but find out this coming Monday with our session leader, Katharine Kolpan, as she leads us through a discussion titled: Who Are These Apollonians Anyway? Isotopes, Migration, and Health at Ancient Apollonia Pontica (7th-3rd centuries BC), Bulgarian Black Sea Coast The ancient port city of Apollonia Pontica was an…
This is an announcement of our upcoming Brown Bag Lunch happening Monday, March 9, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). “What is the connection between modeling and storytelling? Are stories models? What story models can we use to make our science writing better?” Find out in ‘The Story Model’ when Erin James shares her work on story—or narrative—as a primary…
As summer begins, please note that the CMCI Brown Bag Lunches will continue on Mondays at 12:30pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). BBLs are a great opportunity for Working Groups to present updates on what they’ve been doing during the academic year or what they plan on doing in the future. If you are the…
Faced with a lethal stress, microbial populations must either evolve genetic resistance or die, right? For Methylobacterium extorquens, lethal levels of the toxic metabolic intermediate formaldehyde can select for mutants beneficial in this environment, but we have also found that they can survive via epigenetic inheritance. This occurs at much higher rates and can be passed…