Paving the Path University of Idaho educator went from being the first woman in her department to a distinguished professor and leader This article was written by Justyna Tomtas and published in the Lewiston Tribune on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Read the original article here. When Holly Wichman was an assistant professor at the University of…
Working Group leader: Marty Ytreberg Group members: Andreas Vasdekis, Craig Miller, Tanya Miura, Paul Rowley, Holly Wichman, Chris Marx, Jagdish Patel, JT Van Leuven, Jean-Marc Gauthier, Brian Clevely, Brenda Rubenstein, Dan Weinreich, Mandar Naik, Brent Lockwood, Melissa Pespeni Originated: October 2018 Description: The purpose of this working group is to discuss issues that are potentially important to…
Dear Friends & Colleagues, There are so many good things happening within CMCI! I want to bring your attention to an action item and share a few recent accomplishments. ACTION ITEM: REPORTING It’s reporting season! Please respond to Michele’s request for information in a timely manner. We have just a few weeks to get everything…
Event: CMCI Brown Bag Lunch Date: Monday, November 12 Time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Place: Collaboratorium, IRIC 352 Talk: “Performance of a bacterial cell as an energy conversion device in terms of energy-return-on-investment determined from atomic-detail structural models,” presented by Melih Sener, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC, https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~melih/ Abstract: Bioenergetic…
The CMCI Working Group, Reproducibility in Sciences or SciRep for short, was recently highlighted in the Lewiston Tribune. The group is comprised of a marketer, a philosopher, a statistician and a computer scientist. They are looking for ways to improve traditional research methods by examining an emerging pattern that shows results from many scientific studies…
The College of Science held its 14th annual Student Research Exposition on Thursday, October 18. There were 44 entries on display representing three categories: Undergraduate Category, Graduate Category and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Award. “All of our entries deserve praise,” stated Mark Nielsen, Associate Dean of the College of Science. “We’re very proud of…
We have a new MAG! Project Team: Ryan Long (PI), Nicole Bilodeau, Aniruddha Belsare Start Date: October 1, 2018 The models developed during this MAG project will be used to develop a better understanding of pneumonia dynamics in bighorn sheep populations and guide further research questions. The long-term goal of our work is to support…
Irene Eckstrand, retired NIGMS Program Officer and chair of CMCI’s External Advisory Committee, will be in Moscow October 18-19. She will participate in the joint IBEST-CMCI Seminar Series on Thursday and also give a less formal talk on Friday. If you would like to meet individually with Dr. Eckstrand while she is on campus, please…
The next IBEST/CMCI seminar is on Thursday, October 11, 12:30 p.m. in EP 122. Fabienne Chevance, Research Assistant Professor in Biology at the University of Utah, will present, “Effect of ajacent codons on MRNA translation.” Her work has uncovered the importance of codon pair and codon triplet interactions in regulating the speed of translation in bacteria.
Project Director: Chris Remien Project Team: Benjamin Ridenhour, Janet Williams, Mark McGuire The human body is host to a myriad of microbial communities, many of which are thought to perform tasks critical to maintaining health and avoiding disease. Understanding how microbes interact with each other and their environment is critical to the longer-term goals of…