Our very first BBL of the Fall Semester will be a special potluck session to celebrate our very own Holly Wichman and her tireless work and dedication here at IMCI. It is happening Monday, September 8th (09/08), from 12:30-2pm in “The Collaboratorium” (IRIC 352).
If you’d like to contribute food or drink to this session, please see this form.
Please reach out to aeldridge@uidaho.edu with topic ideas or if you’d like to lead a discussion!
Our very own Tinashe Gashirai will present a talk this coming Monday (09/29)! The main aim of this discussion is to trigger a conversation between mathematical modelers and experimentalists on how the concurrent formulation of mathematical model and running of experiments could increase the utility of math models in informing optimal experimental design. Tinashe will use…
Nearly two dozen people gathered in the Collaboratorium for an unusual Brown Bag Lunch on Monday to learn a little about virus structure and to make their own beaded virus. Our beginning work looked nothing like Holly’s expert designs but we had fun trying!
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…
Are you a biomedical researcher looking to generate preliminary data? IMCI is proud to announce a new deadline for our distinguished Pilot Project Program. We invite letters of intent for the 2026 Pilot Project Program funded by NIH P30GM159567. The objective of this program is to provide funding to stimulate model-based, biomedical research at the…
Dr. Michael Burnam-Fink will be the featured speaker at our weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 10. His talk is titled “Visualizing Collaboration: Interactive Bibliometric Network Mapping for Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research Groups” and will take place at 12:30 in the Collaboratorium, IRIC 352. Michael is an instructor at Arizona State University and holds…