Title: Myofilament Cooperative Activation in Human and Porcine Myocardium Project Team: Daniel Fitzsimons, Tuan Phan Start Date: September 2021 Contraction and relaxation of the mammalian heart is a cooperative process involving the binding of Ca2+ and myosin cross-bridges to the thin filament. While the cooperative effects of Ca2+ and myosin cross-bridge binding to the thin…
Title: Optimizing spatiotemporal modeling for public health risk analysis Project Team: Helen Brown, Christopher Murphy, Chris Williams, Erich Seamon, Mohamed Megheib Start Date: September 2021 This is a continuation of small area estimate (SAE) modeling of Idaho Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) health indicators. In 2019 the Pl sought MAG support to model obesity…
“The hidden half: How interactions between plants and microbes belowground drive ecosystem responses to global change” Accurate projections of the future land carbon sink by global climate models depend on how they represent nutrient constraints on primary production. While empirical research has highlighted the rhizosphere (i.e., the area immediately surrounding roots) as a hotspot for…
U of I Department of Biology Professor Chris Marx has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Department of Energy to support his project “Converting methoxy groups on lignin-derived aromatics from a toxic hurdle to a useful resource: a systems-driven approach”. This project involves the Marx and Vasdekis labs here at University of Idaho, as…
IMCI invites applications for two of our initiatives. Both initiatives support research that involves modeling from any field. Also note that we are hosting a Brown Bag Lunch discussion of DAGs specifically for researchers from CLASS and other colleges that may be unaware of the opportunities we offer – see details below. Anyone who wants…
IMCI invites applications for two of our initiatives. Both initiatives support research that involves modeling from any field. Also note that we are hosting a Brown Bag Lunch discussion of DAGs specifically for researchers from CLASS and other colleges that may be unaware of the opportunities we offer – see details below. Anyone who wants…
U of I Molecular Modeler Jagdish Patel worked with Canadian scientists to screen several common food additives or contaminants. They discovered that the commonly sprayed organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos puts the break on the burning of calories in the brown adipose tissue of mice and published their work in Nature Communications in August. Slowing down this burning of calories, a…
Project Team: James T. Van Leuven, Emma Altman The microbial communities colonizing animal guts are highly influential to host health and development. Animal hosts are impacted by the species of microbes present and temporal changes in their abundances, but the forces governing these dynamics are poorly understood. Bacteriophages modulate bacterial community composition through predation. They…
Working Group leader: Marty Ytreberg Group members: Matthew Bernards, Jagdish Patel, Paul Rowley, Kris Waynant, Jonathan Barnes, Brenda Schroeder, Leah Frye, Xiang Li, Srinath Pashikanti Originated: February 2021 Description: We will be brainstorming ideas on how the U of I can build a center that has a focus on drug discovery. Discussion includes possible focus areas,…
This research isn’t associated with IMCI but Christine Parent and Lisette Waits are both IMCI participants and we love touting good news. Kelly Martin, a biology doctorate student, and two faculty members, including Christine Parent, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, and Lisette Waits, distinguished professor in the College of Natural Resources, jointly produced a paper on…