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Dynamic Virtual Production (DVP)

Working Group leader: Jean-Marc Gauthier Group members: Clayton Christensen, Payton Finney, F. B. Wróblewski Originated: April 2019 Description: This Working Group is part of the U of I’s NSF Track-2 EPSCOR Grant. They hold virtual reality meetings and user evaluation meetings bi-monthly. The DVPS workgroup develops a novel approach to storytelling in the metaverse. During the…

Single Cell Variation in Phenotype (SCWG)

Single Cell Variation in Phenotype (SCWG)

Working Group leader: Andreas Vasdekis Group members: Daniel Weinreich, Chris Marx, Tanya Miura, Brenda Rubenstein, Shala Nemati, Monica Pedroni, Sergey Stolyar, Akaorde Serki, David Morgan, Maya Weisman Originated: October, 2019 Description: SCGW is interested in fusing expertise at UI and Brown towards understanding the response of cell populations with single-cell resolution to stress, as well as…

U of I Study: Some Vaccine Doubters Swayed by Outbreaks
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U of I Study: Some Vaccine Doubters Swayed by Outbreaks

This news article was written by Kathy Foss, Marketing and Communications Manager for the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. Drs. Florian Justwan and Bert Baumgaertner are active CMCI faculty participants and part of the Social-Epi working group. MOSCOW, Idaho — Aug. 28, 2019 — People skeptical of the medical establishment who live close to…

IMCI Postdocs

IMCI Postdocs

Working Group leader: JT VanLeuven Group members: Erich Seamon, Li Huang, Tuan Phan, Nurbanu Bursa, Chenangnon Tovissode Originated: August 2018 Description: The IMCI postdocs working group brings IMCI core fellows and postdocs together to provide each other a support system that helps peers to navigate the challenges at work. In addition, the working group provides a…

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Reproducibility Does Not Equal Truth

The CMCI Reproducibility in Sciences working group, or SciRep for short, has been meeting since the fall of 2015. Today, their most recent publication, “Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity,” was published in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! The American Council on Science and Health also picked up the story with their…

Modeling Chlamydia Infection in Mice

Modeling Chlamydia Infection in Mice

Working Group leader: Lihong Zhao Group members: Yusuf Omoson (Morehouse School of Medicine), German Enciso (UC Irvine), Ming Tan (UC Irvine), Scott Grieshaber Originated: April, 2019 Description: This working group is interested in using mathematical modeling to understand the association of microbial dynamics in the genital tract of female mice with Chlamydia infection. They will…

Muc7 Models of Peptide Glycostation (MMPG)

Muc7 Models of Peptide Glycostation (MMPG)

Working Group leader: Kristopher Waynant Group members: Darren Thompson, Tyler Siegford, Tanner Hahn Originated: March 1, 2019 Description: Modeling efforts of Muc7 homologs for understanding possible glycosylation patterning that will allow for bacterial agglutination. Using the preliminary results from this data we are attempting to synthesize the first of these analogs. We hope to see…

Geospatial Modeling (GM)

Geospatial Modeling (GM)

Updated: February 2021 Working Group leader: Erich Seamon Group members: Bruce Godfrey, Claudio Berti, Paul Gessler, Raymond Dezzani, Jason Karl, Vincent Jansen, Marshall Ma, Luke Sheneman, Naveen Joseph, Alan Kolok, Daniel Cronan, Felix Liao, Jeff Hicke, Chao Fan Schedule: TBD Description: The Geospatial Modeling (GM) Working Group will explore and propose platforms and methodologies for performing spatially-explicit modeling across landscape…

Epistasis

Epistasis

Working Group leader: Dan Weinreich Group members: Tanya Miura, Andreas Vasdekis, Brenda Rubenstein, Craig Miller, David Morgan, Jagdish Patel, JT VanLeuven, Jonathan Barnes, Kyle Martin, Marty Ytreberg, Paul Rowley Originated: November, 2018 Description: This working group is interested in empirical and theoretical approaches for understanding epistasis and its evolutionary consequences.