BBL / BYOC Series: June 11th – Disease Mechanisms / Interventions
Brenda
Brenda
Do you ever wonder how the university picks which research to highlight in our signature publications? Or how your colleague’s work landed in the local newspaper? Find out at the Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, August 26, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). Leigh Cooper, U of I’s science and content writer,…
Due to extreme weather conditions and canceled travel, our scheduled speaker for today’s Brown Bag Lunch, Bryan Cwik, will NOT be here. Instead, today’s BBL will be an OPEN DISCUSSION. We will work with Dr. Cwik to reschedule his talk.
Aydin Mohseni, a mathematical philosopher at the University of California, Irvine, will be the featured speaker at the weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 24. Talk title: “On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Cultural Red King Hypothesis.” Abstract: The cultural red king effect predicts that differentials in group size may lead to…
In this presentation, Lon Chubiz will explore the consequences of antagonistic interactions between microbes during assembly of microbial communities. Many experimental and theoretical studies on microbial communities focus on how interactions between microbes from diverse species shape their assembly. Often overlooked are interactions between members of the same species. These interactions are frequently highly competitive…
Dr. Bryan Cwik, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and University Studies at Portland State University, will be speaking at CMCI’s Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, February 11, 12:30 p.m., in the Collaboratorium. Title: Moving Beyond ‘Therapy’ and ‘Enhancement’ in the Ethics of Gene Editing Abstract: Since the advent of recombinant DNA technology, expectations (and trepidations) about…