Dr. Michael Burnam-Fink at Brown Bag Lunch
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Dr. Michael Burnam-Fink at Brown Bag Lunch

Dr. Michael Burnam-Fink will be the featured speaker at our weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 10. His talk is titled “Visualizing Collaboration: Interactive Bibliometric Network Mapping for Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research Groups” and will take place at 12:30 in the Collaboratorium, IRIC 352. Michael is an instructor at Arizona State University and holds…

Determining the Role of Albumin Conformation in Enhanced Bone Repair and Regeneration

Determining the Role of Albumin Conformation in Enhanced Bone Repair and Regeneration

Project Team: Matthew Bernards, Nathan Schiele, Dharmeshkumar Patel, Stephanie Haag In the US, over 130,000 surgical procedures each year require a bone graft material, but almost 30% of grafts fail. Recent studies have implicated albumin as important during bone repair and it has been adapted for improving scaffold integration with bone tissue. This is important…

Machine Learning (ML)

Machine Learning (ML)

Working Group leader: Fuchang (Frank) Gao and Audrey Fu Group members: Audrey Fu, Min Xian, Aleksandar Vakanski, Linh Nguyen, Boyu Zhang, Esteban Hernandez Vargas Originated: August 2018 Description: This group studies various machine learning methods/models and their application with two primary goals: Dr. Gao states, “It is important that CMCI continue to support this kind of…

A Causal Network Approach to Understanding Transcription and Methylation in Breast Cancer

A Causal Network Approach to Understanding Transcription and Methylation in Breast Cancer

Project Team: Audrey Fu, Md. Bahadur Badsha, Evan Martin Complex diseases often involve changes in DNA sequence, and in DNA transcription and methylation, an epigenetic process that can both regulate and be regulated by gene expression. These changes result in a wide range of symptoms or multiple subtypes of the same disease. In breast cancer,…

Mountain West Mine Tailings, Watersheds and Adverse Human Health Outcomes

Mountain West Mine Tailings, Watersheds and Adverse Human Health Outcomes

Project Team: Alan Kolok, Lucas Sheneman, Chantal Vella The long-term goal of this program is to model the associations that occur among metal contamination (as a consequence of mining), watershed geography and adverse human health impacts across the Rocky Mountains. In this pilot project, we will focus on generating a predictive classifier model that includes…