Fall 2017 Seminar Series


IMCI is sponsoring the University of Idaho as a member organization in The Carpentries training program to improve data literacy and reproducible science. The Carpentries teaches foundational computational and data science skills to researchers worldwide. They train and certify volunteer instructors and provide curriculum in a variety of topics designed to be presented as workshops….
Data Carpentry – Geospatial Analysis Workshop dates: Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Instructors: Erich Seamon and Travis Seaborn Description: This hands-on workshop will focus on managing and understanding spatial data formats, understanding coordinate reference systems, and working with raster and vector data in R for analysis and visualization. An introductory knowledge to R…
A ballooned beta-logistic model with a bioassay application Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri Monday, January 25, 2016, 12:30 pm Location: Commons Whitewater Room Influenza virus reassortment Dr. Anice Lowen, Emory University School of Medicine Friday, March 25, 2016, 3:30 pm Location: Life Sciences 277 Pediatric rehabilitation: caring for children with disabilities in the state of…
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…
Integrated inferences of demography and selection from population genetic data Sohini Ramachandran, Center for Computational Molecular Biology Brown University Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 3:30 pm Location: Life Sciences 277 Dynamical systems with random switching and application to brain biochemistry and insect physiology Sean Lawley, University of Utah Thursday, November 19, 2015, 3:30 pm Location: Life…
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…