Molecular Modeling and Its Applications to Biomolecular Systems
CMCI Postdoc Jagdish Patel will present a Biological Sciences Seminar Friday, February 02, 20183:30 – 4:20 p.m.Engineering/Physics Building 122
New Communications / Event Coordinator
Welcome Lydia Stucki, our new communications / event coordinator, to the CMCI team! Lydia comes to us with a broad background in communications, marketing and event planning. She has over 10 years of experience at the University of Idaho but none of that time has been spent in the College of Science. “It’s a little…
Modeling Access Grants Announcement
Aniruddha Belsare, Ph. D. has recently joined the cohort of postdoctoral fellows in the CMCI Collaboratorium and is available to help with appropriate Modeling Access Grants (see below). Aniruddha is a disease modeler with a background in veterinary medicine, disease ecology, and conservation research. He uses an agent-based modeling approach to investigate complex host-pathogen systems….
McMaster Project
Project PI: Jagdish Patel This research project is to identify the correct bound conformations of veranamine in signma-1 and 5HT2B receptors. Crystal coordinates of sigma-1 and 5HT2B receptors will be downloaded from the Protein Data Bank. Both of the receptor structures will then be used to perform ordinary molecular dynamics to sample various conformations available….
OneHealth Modeling Working Group (OHM)
Working Group leader: Aniruddha Belsare Group members: Craig Miller, JT Van Leuven, Ryan Long, Katherine Lee Originated: September 2017 Description: Given the interconnectedness of animal health, environmental health and human health and well-being, it is necessary to investigate the ecological contexts of animal disease systems that have public health, conservation or economic implications. Such host-pathogen…
Collaborative Postdoc Position
The NIH-funded Center for Modeling Complex Interactions (CMCI) at the University of Idaho is an intellectual, cultural, and physical environment that fosters synergy in interdisciplinary biomedical research. The focal point of CMCI is the Collaboratorium, a space and a culture for collaborative modeling. It brings together faculty and students from both the empirical and modeling…
Modeling Virus Interactions in Eukaryotic Systems (MoVIES)
Working Group leader: Tanya Miura Group members: Paul Rowley, Shunji Li, Angela Crabtree, Sierra Beach, Kevin Hutchinson, Laura Steiner, Jordan Richter, Mark Lee, Lance Fredericks Originated: August, 2017 Description: MoVIES is a group designed to bring together the two IMCI-affiliated eukaryotic virology labs at U of I to discuss empirical approaches to test computational predictions…
Open and Reproducible Science Workshop
Reproducibility of research results across repeated studies is a defining feature of science. However, in the last few years scientists across several fields including (but not limited to) psychology, cancer biology, biochemical science, preclinical research, ecology, and evolution have been facing difficulty reproducing well-known results in their respective fields. This disconcerting trend has resulted in…
Using Biophysical Protien Models to Map Genetic Variation to Phenotypes
Project Team: Marty Ytreberg (PI), Craig Miller, Brandon Ogbunugafor (University of Vermont), Daniel Weinreich (Brown University) Understanding how genotypes map to organismal phenotypes is one of the great unsolved problems in modern biology. This research is built on the principle that the biophysical properties of proteins represent general, computationally-predictable intermediaries for mapping genotypes to phenotypes. The…