Save the Date!

Save the Date!

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…

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.

Pioneering Women
|

Pioneering Women

Paving the Path University of Idaho educator went from being the first woman in her department to a distinguished professor and leader This article was written by Justyna Tomtas and published in the Lewiston Tribune on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Read the original article here. When Holly Wichman was an assistant professor at the University of…

EPSCoR Track-2 Genome to Phenome (GenoPheno)

EPSCoR Track-2 Genome to Phenome (GenoPheno)

Working Group leader: Marty Ytreberg Group members: Andreas Vasdekis, Craig Miller, Tanya Miura, Paul Rowley, Holly Wichman, Chris Marx, Jagdish Patel, JT Van Leuven, Jean-Marc Gauthier, Brian Clevely, Brenda Rubenstein, Dan Weinreich, Mandar Naik, Brent Lockwood, Melissa Pespeni Originated: October 2018 Description: The purpose of this working group is to discuss issues that are potentially important to…

IRIC building in winter
|

Melih Sener Will Talk at Brown Bag Lunch

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…

IRIC building in winter
|

Reproducibility in Sciences Working Group Highlighted

The CMCI Working Group, Reproducibility in Sciences or SciRep for short, was recently highlighted in the Lewiston Tribune. The group is comprised of a marketer, a philosopher, a statistician and a computer scientist. They are looking for ways to improve traditional research methods by examining an emerging pattern that shows results from many scientific studies…

Graduate Student Wins Outstanding Poster
|

Graduate Student Wins Outstanding Poster

The College of Science held its 14th annual Student Research Exposition on Thursday, October 18. There were 44 entries on display representing three categories: Undergraduate Category, Graduate Category and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Award. “All of our entries deserve praise,” stated Mark Nielsen, Associate Dean of the College of Science. “We’re very proud of…

Development of an Agent-Based Model for Understanding Mechanisms of Pneumonia Transmission in Bighorn Sheep

Development of an Agent-Based Model for Understanding Mechanisms of Pneumonia Transmission in Bighorn Sheep

We have a new MAG! Project Team: Ryan Long (PI), Nicole Bilodeau, Aniruddha Belsare Start Date: October 1, 2018 The models developed during this MAG project will be used to develop a better understanding of pneumonia dynamics in bighorn sheep populations and guide further research questions. The long-term goal of our work is to support…