BBL / BYOC Series: July 23rd – Topic is TBD
Please reach out to aeldridge@uidaho.edu with topic ideas or if you’d like to lead a discussion!
Please reach out to aeldridge@uidaho.edu with topic ideas or if you’d like to lead a discussion!
Faced with a lethal stress, microbial populations must either evolve genetic resistance or die, right? For Methylobacterium extorquens, lethal levels of the toxic metabolic intermediate formaldehyde can select for mutants beneficial in this environment, but we have also found that they can survive via epigenetic inheritance. This occurs at much higher rates and can be passed…
This talk explores Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, a bacterium that rarely causes respiratory disease in domestic sheep and goats but poses a deadly threat to their wild counterparts. When domestic herds come in contact with bighorn sheep, the pathogen can spread, leading to severe pneumonia outbreaks impacting wild populations.
Our very first BBL of the Fall Semester will be a special potluck session to celebrate our very own Holly Wichman and her tireless work and dedication here at IMCI. It is happening Monday, September 8th (09/08), from 12:30-2pm in “The Collaboratorium” (IRIC 352). If you’d like to contribute food or drink to this session,…
Do you know what happens when you step inside a future shaped by climate change? In a collaboration with the UI Polymorphic Games Studio, Dilshani Sarathchandra and Kristin Haltinner will discuss a virtual reality (VR) experience that immerses individuals into potential future climate scenarios. This talk walks you through the project’s theoretical foundations, experimental design, and…
Session led by Tanya Miura Our initial project on the CMCI COBRE award was designed to identify parameters that determine disease outcomes during respiratory viral coinfection in a mouse model. Through this work we identified multiple virus pairs that resulted in reduced disease severity upon coinfection, which depends upon the viral doses and order of…