Vandals in Focus 2019
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Vandals in Focus 2019

CMCI is one of many organizations on the U of I campus that offers research opportunities to undergraduate students. David Pfeiffer, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research says: Vandals in Focus is a magazine created by undergraduate students about undergraduate student research. And the 2019 edition has just been released. Read the stories and…

Office of Research and Economic Development to Host Open House
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Office of Research and Economic Development to Host Open House

Travel through Morrill Hall at the spring Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) Open House from 3-5 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in Moscow. Faculty, students and staff will have the chance to meet ORED staff and learn about the multitude of services offered at the University of Idaho. There will be an opportunity to…

Learn Pivot for Your Funding Search
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Learn Pivot for Your Funding Search

Research and Faculty Development will present an introduction to Pivot training from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in IRIC 105. Pivot is a searchable database of funding opportunities, calls for papers and researcher profiles. Pivot provides information from federal and local governments, private foundations and public organizations for a variety of activities, including research…

Min Xian is Making Breast Cancer Detection Affordable and Accessible for All

Min Xian is Making Breast Cancer Detection Affordable and Accessible for All

This article was written by University of Idaho Communications and Marketing. View the original article here. Dr. Xian’s research project, Deep Learning for Ultrasound Tumor Detection, is one of CMCI’s primary research projects. March 26, 2019 College of Engineering assistant professor Min Xian earns funding toward portable detection device. In Min Xian’s perfect world, the…

Best Wishes, Aniruddha

Best Wishes, Aniruddha

Congratulations to CMCI postdoc Aniruddha Belsare who will soon be joining the Boone and Crockett Quantitative Wildlife Center (QWC) in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife at Michigan State University as a Research Associate. his work will focus on the development of quantitative tools to evaluate tne inform wildlife disease control and management, specifically chronic…

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…

New Publication Cites CMCI Grant
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New Publication Cites CMCI Grant

Where does a cell put it’s resources? CMCI participant and Department of Physics faculty member Andreas Vasdekis, and his research colleagues Hamdah Alanazi, Amrah Canul and Christopher Williams published a study in the journal Nature Communications. They introduce a new imaging technique to record how a single cell allocates its resources between the production of…

National Academy of Sciences Member Jim Bull to Join U of I Faculty
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National Academy of Sciences Member Jim Bull to Join U of I Faculty

This article was written by Leigh Cooper, Science and Content Writer at University of Idaho Communications and Marketing. We’re excited that Dr. Bull is affiliated with the Center for Modeling Complex Interactions. MOSCOW, Idaho — Feb. 13, 2019 — National Academy of Sciences (NAS) member Jim Bull will join the University of Idaho faculty in fall 2019. He will be the first NAS member affiliated with an educational institution in Idaho,…

Ethics of Gene Editing Talk Rescheduled
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Ethics of Gene Editing Talk Rescheduled

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…