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External Advisory Committee Meetings May 9

All CMCI participants are invited and encouraged to attend the following portions of the External Advisory Committee meetings at the Commons in the Crest-Horizon room on Wednesday, May 9:

8:00 – 8:30
CMCI Overview – Holly Wichman
Breakfast provided

8:30 – 9:00
Collaboratorium Overview – Craig Miller

9:00 – 9:30
EPSCoR Track II – Marty Ytreberg

12:00 – 2:00
Science Expo and Lunch
Lunch provided

If you are providing a poster for the Science Expo, please drop it off at the Crest-Horizon room at the Commons between 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. Please pick it up at the same location between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.        

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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. He is interested in expanding the applications of agent-based models to other research areas including, but not limited to, biomedical research (molecular biology, cell biology, cancer biology), public health research (healthcare management, social dynamics) and epidemiological research (antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic/vector-borne diseases).

The Modeling Access Grant Program enables faculty to produce preliminary biomedical models for competitive external proposals using support from the Center for Modeling Complex Interactions (CMCI) Collaboratorium. This program is intended for faculty with modeling needs outside of their own area of expertise who would like to develop a modeling component to a research project and who intend to submit a proposal within the next year. The objective is to substantially strengthen the work by adding the modeling dimension. The access grant will provide dedicated time with Collaboratorium personnel for developing models, preparing the modeling aspects of a grant proposal, and potentially write a manuscript.

Applicants are expected to consult with the CMCI Project Coordinator (Celeste Brown, celesteb@uidaho.edu) prior to developing a proposal to obtain advice on whether current Collaboratorium resources match the investigator’s needs. Proposals will be accepted anytime during the year, and the review process is simplified and expedited as described below.

Instructions for Proposal

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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 realms with postdoctoral scientists who reside in the Collaboratorium and devote full-time effort to collaborative modeling. We currently have openings in the Collaboratorium for a postdoctoral fellow interested in biomedical modeling.

CMCI fellows are knowledgeable modelers who are creative, collaborative, and strong communicators. They engage in interdisciplinary research, working with both experimentalists and other modelers, and take leadership roles in research direction, manuscript preparation, offering workshops to the UI research community, and presenting research at national and international scientific meetings.

Our current openings are for modelers who have expertise in mathematical and statistical methodology and are skilled computer programmers. Expertise in more than one modeling approach and more than one programming language is desired. The specialty is open, but we are particularly interested in systems biology, statistical, and agent-based modeling. The specialties of current CMCI fellows include bioinformatics, protein modeling, and ecological modeling.

CMCI interfaces with several strong research programs at the University of Idaho including bioinformatics, computational biology, evolutionary biology, microbiome ecology, infectious disease, and movement science. Fellows will have opportunities to collaborate across campus on these and other areas of biomedical research.

To apply, submit: 1) a letter of application addressing the criteria outlined above; 2) a CV; 3) contact information for three individuals who can provide recommendations, and 4) PDFs of up to three publications to cmci@uidaho.edu.   Use POSTDOC APPLICATION as the subject line.  Review of applications will begin in mid-March and will continue until all positions are filled.

For more information please see file below.

CMCI EPSCoR Open Postition

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