Past Seminars & Workshops

Tools, Methods & Practices for Data and Model Publication

CMCI is pleased to join with Northwest Knowledge Network and the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute (IWRRI) to sponsor Professor David Tarboton from Utah State University who will be speaking on the U of I campus on November 27 at 10:30 a.m. His presentation will describe the tools, methods and practices for data and model publication: “The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CAHSI) operated HydroShare data and model repository.”

HydroShare enables researchers to more easily and freely share products resulting from their research, not just the scientific publication summarizing a study, but also the data and models used to create the scientific publication. HydroShare accepts data from anybody, and supports Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable (FAIR) principles.

Proposal Writing Seminar Sept 27

Research and Faculty Development (RFD) will host a training seminar designed to enhance skills that lead to successful proposals. In this session, Carly Cummings, director of RFD, will share tips and guidance for writing competitive proposals across all disciplines. The seminar is appropriate for faculty of all career stages. The session is from 2:30-4 p.m. Pacific time Thursday, Sept. 27, in IRIC 305, Moscow. Participants may also join via Zoom. To ensure seating availability, please register so we can plan accordingly. For more information visit their website.

Funding Opportunities, Past Seminars & Workshops

Mathematical Philosopher at Brown Bag Lunch

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 inequitable outcomes for minority groups even in the absence of explicit or implicit bias. We test this prediction in an experimental context where subjects divided into groups engage in repeated play of a simplified Nash demand game. We run 14 trials involving a total of 112 participants. The results of the experiments are significant and suggestive: individuals in minority groups do indeed end up making low demands more frequently than those in majority groups, and so receive lower payoffs.

Brown Bag Lunch, Past Seminars & Workshops

Modeling Gut Microbial Dynamics

Join us for the next joint-hosted IBEST/CMCI seminar on Thursday, September 13, 12:30 p.m. in EP 122. Sean Gibbons from the Washington Research Foundation will present, “How do we model gut microbial dynamics?“

Abstract:

Dynamics reveal crucial information about how a system functions. However, it is not yet known what the relevant timescales or models are for understanding microbial dynamics in the gut. For example, gut microbial population dynamics may be largely internal, and the stool samples we obtain likely represent the end-point of these internal dynamics. In this talk, I describe a statistical approach for disentangling different components of dynamics within the human gut microbiome: autoregressive and non-autoregressive. Autoregressive dynamics involve recovery from large deviations in community structure. These recovery processes appear to involve the blooming of facultative anaerobes and aerotolerant taxa, likely due to transient shifts in redox potential, followed by re-establishment of obligate anaerobes. Non-autoregressive dynamics carry a strong phylogenetic signal, wherein highly related taxa fluctuate coherently. These non-autoregressive dynamics may be driven by external, non-autoregressive variables like diet. Most of the community variance is driven by day-to-day fluctuations in the environment, with occasional autoregressive dynamics as the system recovers from larger shocks. Despite frequently observed disruptions to the gut ecosystem, there exists a strong returning force that continually pushes the gut microbiome back towards its steady-state configuration.

Check out the Gibbons Lab website here.

Past Seminars & Workshops

Dr. Michael Burnam-Fink at Brown Bag Lunch

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 a Ph.D in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology. His work examines the relationship between knowledge and power in the context of 21^st century science and technology. Michael was a Breakthrough Institute Breakthrough Generation Fellow and NSF IGERT Fellow.

Brown Bag Lunch, Past Seminars & Workshops