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New Seed Grant Program! Call for Proposals!
IMCI invites proposals for a new Seed Grant Program. IMCI Seed Grants provide between $2000 and $20,000 of funding to stimulate innovative and adventurous model-based and/or interdisciplinary research at the University of Idaho. We envision these seed grants could be used for a wide range of purposes, such as generating preliminary data, building new collaborative teams, building a novel high risk, high reward model, or going on a team retreat to write a large interdisciplinary grant proposal. We will focus on funding smaller…
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Celebration | Congratulations | EAC | Events | News
Event: Advisory Committee Visit
Good afternoon, IMCI crew, We are very excited to remind you all of our upcoming IMCI Advisory Committee Visit, happening Friday, May 1, with events happening all day, starting at 8:45 AM, in locations including the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352) and International Ballroom/ Pittman Center. Arrival begins at 8:45 AM. Please join us for a day…
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Post Brown Bag Lunch: Erin James, The Story Model
Following the Erin James’s lively Brown Bag Lunch: The Story Model, IMCI is sharing the opportunity to collaborate with interns from the Confluence Lab. Are you looking to increase the impact of your research with storytelling? We are the Confluence Lab of the University of Idaho, an interdisciplinary outfit that brings together the sciences, arts, and…
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News: IMCI affiliated Podcast, Protecting Idaho potatoes from fungi with new tools
We are celebrating the release of Episode 11.1 of the Vandal Theory Podcast featuring our very own Marty Ytreberg with the support of his Drug Discovery working group which aired yesterday. Beginning with the founding of the working group, Ytreberg shared his experience of finding an interdisciplinary community of researchers, brought together around the issue…
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Events | Misc Events | News
Event: Advisory Committee Meeting
We’d like to announce the Advisory Committee Meeting happening Friday, May 1. Details regarding activities and events will be announced as we get closer. For now, please mark your calendars for 05/01/2026 when we will meet as a crew.
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News: Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision
Patel Lab Study Reveals a New Pathway in Vertebrate Vision What do deep‑sea fish see that we don’t? What deep‑sea fish eyes see has long fascinated scientists. Their larvae, developing in pitch‑black waters, offer a rare window into observable evolutionary processes—helping us understand not only how they see, but how vision evolved in all vertebrates,…
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IHHE IMCI Synergistic Grant Support
Animal, plant, human health, and complex ecosystem researchers! Are you planning on a grant submission to a federal agency in the next 4-6 months from mechanism to modeling? Do you need feedback on your premise and overarching hypothesis or text? Would you like assistance with paperwork, planning a budget, and or meeting deadlines for your unit, OSP, and…
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IMCI Announcement: IICS merges under IMCI!
The Institute for Modeling, Collaboration, and Innovation continues to grow. The decision has been made to merge IMCI and IICS under one institute—IMCI! This has brought new members to IMCI with previously unavailable expertise, skills, and resources now under our umbrella. New features such as anNSF Biology Integration Institute (EMBER), NSF Focused EPSCoR Collaboration (INSPIRE), and other public and private…
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Celebrating the “Collaboratorium” (IRIC 352)
Coffee, community, grassrooting. These are some of the things that brings IMCI together. At the heart of IMCI is the “Collaboratorium”. Faculty, students, and postdocs working in both modeling and empirical areas meet with postdoctoral scientists who devote full-time efforts to collaborative modeling. Our goal is to bring together the brightest minds across disciplines to…
