25 CMCI Supported Publications to Date
Since our inception in 2015, CMCI has seen an increase each year in the number of articles published. To view a full list of titles published with links to the full articles, click here.
Research Highlighted in the President’s Friday Letter
The Friday Letter is the university’s weekly update directly from the president. Today several CMCI faculty were mentioned: U of I researchers are trying to answer questions that could help slow the spread of antibiotic drug resistance, develop techniques to produce vaccines more quickly and help with treatment of malaria thanks to three federal grants from…
Team Meets for the First Time
Nearly 35 researchers and scientists from the University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho), Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) and the University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont) recently gathered for their first in-person “All-Hands Meeting” for the GenoPheno EPSCoR Track-2 award of $6M. The 3-day session hosted by CMCI was full of brainstorming, collaboration and team-building activities.
Understanding Persistence and Dispersal of Canine Rabies Using Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Modeling
Project Team: Craig Miller (PI), Aniruddha Belsare, JT Van Leuven Start Date: June 2018 Context Rabies kills an estimated 59,000 people every year. Most of these deaths are from the poorest sectors of society in low- and middle-income countries, where dogs are the principal reservoir of rabies [1]. There are two ways to limit human…
CMCI Poster Session in Action
The CMCI External Advisory Committee held their annual meeting recently on campus, which included this Science Expo. There were 23 posters on display, viewed by nearly 100 participants.
Patterns of Adaptive Evolution
Project Team: Craig Miller (Co-PI), Holly Wichman (Co-PI), JT Van Leuven, LuAnn Scott Vaccines are a remarkably effective way to stem the threat posed by infectious diseases. Methods that allow rapid development of vaccines are vital. Synonymous recoding of viral genomes is a recently developed, general, and highly promising strategy for producing live attenuated vaccines….
Seeking Summer Brown Bag Lunch Presenters and Talks
As summer begins, please note that the CMCI Brown Bag Lunches will continue on Mondays at 12:30pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352). BBLs are a great opportunity for Working Groups to present updates on what they’ve been doing during the academic year or what they plan on doing in the future. If you are the…
Congratulations Craig & Holly!
We are so excited to announce – Today the National Institutes of Health awarded a grant in the amount of $290,667 to the University of Idaho to fund research on Patterns of Adaptive Evolution. CMCI Deputy Director of the Collaboratorium Craig Miller and CMCI Director Holly Wichman are the principal investigators. Congratulations!!
White Paper Brainstorming
The CMCI weekly Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, May 21, will be an opportunity to brainstorm ideas, questions, suggestions and plans in regards to the recent call for white papers. This is a place to come discuss any idea that is NIH fundable and has the potential to involve modeling. Monday, May 2112:30 – 1:30…
CMCI Calendar Updates
If you have had recurring working group reservations in the Collaboratorium for the Spring 2018 semester, please be aware that most have ended and you will need to make a new reservation if you plan on meeting through the summer. You can see all current working groups on the CMCI calendar. If you would like…