Fall Seminar Series

The next IBEST/CMCI seminar is on Thursday, October 11, 12:30 p.m. in EP 122. Fabienne Chevance, Research Assistant Professor in Biology at the University of Utah, will present, “Effect of ajacent codons on MRNA translation.” Her work has uncovered the importance of codon pair and codon triplet interactions in regulating the speed of translation in bacteria.

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…

Dr. Aaron King, a professor at the University of Michigan, will present the first IBEST/CMCI Seminar of the semester on Thursday, January 24 at 12:30 p.m. in LSS 277. Dr. King is interested in studying evolution and ecology at long temporal and spatial scales using stochastic approaches. He’s done work on disease modeling and method/model/software…

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…

Software Carpentry: Unix, Git, and Python for Novices Workshop dates: Thursday and Friday, January 30-31, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Instructors: Amanda Stahlke, Breanna Sipley, Salvador (Chava) Castaneda Barba, and Clint Elg Description: Software Carpentry  aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This…