Several people reported the correct answer and students and postdocs were rewarded with chocolate at the CMCI Luncheon yesterday. The image was created by CMCI Postdoctoral Fellow Dharmesh Patel for the College of Science 2018 Photography and Graphic Arts Contest. Congratulations to CMCI student researcher Emmanuel Ijezie who submitted one of the top 5 images…
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…
Event: CMCI Brown Bag Lunch Date: Monday, November 12 Time: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Place: Collaboratorium, IRIC 352 Talk: “Performance of a bacterial cell as an energy conversion device in terms of energy-return-on-investment determined from atomic-detail structural models,” presented by Melih Sener, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC, https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~melih/ Abstract: Bioenergetic…
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…
Dr. Michael Burnam-Fink will be the featured speaker at our weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 10. His talk is titled “Visualizing Collaboration: Interactive Bibliometric Network Mapping for Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research Groups” and will take place at 12:30 in the Collaboratorium, IRIC 352. Michael is an instructor at Arizona State University and holds…
As summer begins, please note that the CMCI Brown Bag Lunches will continue on Mondays at 12:30pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). BBLs are a great opportunity for Working Groups to present updates on what they’ve been doing during the academic year or what they plan on doing in the future. If you are the…
The CMCI weekly Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, May 21, will be an opportunity to brainstorm ideas, questions, suggestions and plans in regards to the recent call for white papers. This is a place to come discuss any idea that is NIH fundable and has the potential to involve modeling. Monday, May 2112:30 – 1:30…
Come to the CMCI Brown Bag Lunch: Brainstorming a Modeler’s Workshop Monday, April 1612:30 – 1:30 p.m.Collaboratorium, IRIC 352 The CMCI hosts a 1-2 day modeler’s workshop during the fall of each year. And it’s time to plan for 2018! What topics do you want covered? What have you loved about past workshops? What do you want…
Peer mentoring is the topic of the next CMCI Brown Bag Lunch! Monday, April 912:30 – 1:30 p.m.Collaboratorium, IRIC 352 On Monday, April 9, three CMCI project directors, Christine Parent, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological SciencesTanya Miura, Associate Professor, Department of Biological SciencesBert Baumgaertner, Assistant Professor of Philosophy will present, “Peers & Beers: Our Experience…
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…