Aydin Mohseni, a mathematical philosopher at the University of California, Irvine, will be the featured speaker at the weekly CMCI Brown Bag Lunch on Monday, September 24. Talk title: “On the Emergence of Minority Disadvantage: Testing the Cultural Red King Hypothesis.” Abstract: The cultural red king effect predicts that differentials in group size may lead to…
CMCI is pleased to contribute to the research efforts at the University of Idaho and provide opportunities for students to gain hands-on field experience. Why is it important? President Chuck Staben recently asked David Pfeiffer, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, the same question and shared his answer in the Friday Letter – President…
Join us for the next joint-hosted IBEST/CMCI seminar on Thursday, September 13, 12:30 p.m. in EP 122. Sean Gibbons from the Washington Research Foundation will present, “How do we model gut microbial dynamics?“ Abstract: Dynamics reveal crucial information about how a system functions. However, it is not yet known what the relevant timescales or models…
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…
Linda Allen, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, will speak at 12:30 p.m. today, Aug. 30, in EP 122 as part of the IBEST/CMCI Seminar Series. Her talk is titled “Probability, Duration and Final Size of an Epidemic in Stochastic Multistage or Multigroup Models.”
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…
It’s the first seminar of the semester! Event: CMCI/IBEST Seminar – Dr. Alexander Bradley, Washington University Title: “A novel high-precision SIMS method to assess metabolic heterogeneity in a clonal microbial population” Date: Thursday, August 23 Time: 12:30 pm Location: Engineering/Physics 122
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…
We have a great line up of talks for the Fall 2018 CMCI/IBEST shared seminar series. Mark these dates on your calendar and plan to attend! All seminars are on Thursdays at 12:30 in the Engineering/Physics Building, room 122.
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,…