Working Group leader: Holly Wichman Group members: LuAnn Scott, Elissa Schwartz, Karen Biggs, Clay Bailes Originated: March, 2018 Description: This group supports a collaboration between the Schwartz lab and the Wichman lab to investigate the behavior, biological relevance, and evolution of resistance to a self-inhibitory sequence found in the Microvirid genome. We are currently working…
CMCI Brown Bag Lunch Monday, March 2612:30 – 1:30 p.m.Collaboratorium, IRIC 352 On Monday, Jean-Marc Gauthier, UI Associate Professor of Virtual Technology and Design in the College of Art and Architecture, will present: “Visualization and Animation of Proteins” Jean-Marc is Managing Director of TinkerToo, an interactive design studio based in Singapore, currently focused on designing…
Project Directors: Kyle Harrington, Nathan Schiele Project Team: Leo Epstein, Sophia Theodossiou, Aniruddha Belsare Tendons are collagen-rich musculoskeletal tissues that transfer mechanical forces from muscle to bone to allow for normal human movements, such as locomotion. Unfortunately, tendon injuries are frequent, treatment options are limited, and the mechanical function of tendon rarely returns to pre-injury…
CMCI funds were used recently to purchase this ROTOR HDA, high-throughput microbial array pinning robot, to facilitate microbial evolution research on campus. Quoted by the manufacturer as the fastest and most powerful colony manipulation robot in the world, this machine is indeed ultra-fast and easy to use. The ROTOR HDA is designed for the picking…
Congratulations! Bert Baumgaertner, Florian Justwan and Juliet Carlisle, who are part of The Social Determinants of Infectious Disease Dynamics working group, had their research published in the Public Library of Science One (PLOS ONE) yesterday. Their paper is titled “The Influence of Political Ideology and Trust on Willingness to Vaccinate.” Read the University of Idaho press release…
The College of Science recently announced the recipients of this year’s Hill Undergraduate Research Fellowships. We are proud to report that half of these diligent students are working with CMCI-affiliated faculty. Congratulations to: Courtney Kennedy, for the project “Determining Antifungal Resistance Mechanisms in Yeast Using High Throughput Robotics” (working with Professor Paul Rowley) David Richards, for the project “Effect…
We’re thrilled to announce that another postdoctoral researcher has join the CMCI team! Lihong Zhao comes to the UI from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she received her PhD in Mathematics in 2017. Her research involves application of differential equations, numerical analysis, and inverse problems. She is currently working with Dr. Chris Remien…
Congratulations to Eva Top, professor of biology and bioinformatics and computational biology in the College of Science, who achieved fellowship status in the American Academy of Microbiology. Members of the academy are recognized for their excellence, originality and leadership in the microbiological sciences and are widely recognized as eminent leaders in the field of microbiology.
We are pleased to announce the Spring 2018 Seminar Series schedule. CMCI co-sponsors these Thursday seminars with IBEST. Students wishing to receive course credit for attending should register for BCB 501, CRN 31371. All seminars will be held at 12:30 p.m. in JEB 104 on the Moscow campus.