Fall 2017 Seminar Series


Like many of you, IMCI continues to monitor and follow university, state and national guidelines in regards to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Please be aware that the Seminar scheduled on April 2 has been canceled. The Seminar on April 16 with Rachael Bay from UC Davis will be held virtually. You may participate from IRIC…
Introduction to R for Reproducible Science Workshop dates: Thursday and Friday, February 27-28, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Instructors: Lihong Zhao and Amanda Culley Description: This introductory course will showcase reproducible research through simple analysis examples. The goal is to teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis. This 2-day…
When COVID-19 landed in Washington state, researchers at the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) in Bellevue quickly switched their focus from tuberculosis and malaria to track and forecast the coronavirus pathogen that was threatening their own country. Mike Fumulare is the group’s lead coronavirus modeler and finds his work days longer than ever, even though…
Aaron King, a professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, professor of Mathematics and member of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, will present an all-day CMCI WORKSHOP on modeling and fitting stochastic dynamic systems on Friday, January 25. Registration will be required. Interested participants are strongly encouraged to…
Dr. Bryan Cwik, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and University Studies at Portland State University, will deliver his talk titled “Moving Beyond ‘Therapy’ and ‘Enhancement’ in the Ethics of Gene Editing,” on Monday, April 8 at 12:30 p.m. in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). If you would like an opportunity to meet with Dr. Cwik while he…
We have four great speakers lined up to deliver talks for the fall seminar series: Nickolas Banovich, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) (hosted by Audrey Fu) Rustom Antia, Emory University (hosted by Jim Bull) Kayla Hardwick, Phylos (hosted by BCB student Bob Week) Wolfgang Banzhaf, Michigan State (hosted by James Foster) If you would like…