IMCI Seminar Series – Spring 2023
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IMCI Seminar Series – Spring 2023

Join us at 12:00 p.m. for coffee and treats before the presentation. “Outsmarting pathogens with protein engineering: Lessons from pertussis, cytomegalovirus and coronavirus” There is growing interest in development of antibodies to provide instant immunity that protects susceptible individuals against infectious diseases, especially pathogens for which no vaccine is yet available. However, many of these…

Standards of Evidence Working Group

Standards of Evidence Working Group

Working Group Leader: Bert Baumgaertner Group Members: Florian Justwan, Kendal Mitton, Chenangnon Tovissode Originated: January 2023 Description: This working group uses both modeling and empirical investigations to understand the role that evidentiary standards play when individuals evaluate claims. We are interested in the systematic ways standards of evidence differ across various types of claims (e.g….

Mathematical Immunology

Mathematical Immunology

Working Group Leader: Tanya Miura. Esteban Vargas, Jean-Marc Gauthier Group members: Pallavia Deol, Eugenia Yeboah, Rodolfo Blanco Rodriguez, Benjamin Whipple Originated: November 8, 2022 Description: The Mathematical Immunology Working Group will develop mathematical models to explain the roles of immune responses during respiratory viral infections.

Tanya Miura Awarded Modeling Access Grant

Tanya Miura Awarded Modeling Access Grant

Title: Synergistic mutations allow for antibody resistance in respiratory syncytial virus Project Team: Tanya Miura, Jonathan Barnes Start Date: June 2022 This project was initially funded by the NSF EPSCoR Track II Geno-Pheno Grant to use molecular modeling to predict antibody escape variants of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). In that work, we identified five novel…

Daniel Fitzsimons Awarded Modeling Access Grant

Daniel Fitzsimons Awarded Modeling Access Grant

Title: Myofilament Cooperative Activation in Human and Porcine Myocardium Project Team: Daniel Fitzsimons, Tuan Phan Start Date: September 2021 Contraction and relaxation of the mammalian heart is a cooperative process involving the binding of Ca2+ and myosin cross-bridges to the thin filament. While the cooperative effects of Ca2+ and myosin cross-bridge binding to the thin…

Helen Brown Awarded Modeling Access Grant

Helen Brown Awarded Modeling Access Grant

Title: Optimizing spatiotemporal modeling for public health risk analysis Project Team: Helen Brown, Christopher Murphy, Chris Williams, Erich Seamon, Mohamed Megheib Start Date: September 2021 This is a continuation of small area estimate (SAE) modeling of Idaho Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) health indicators. In 2019 the Pl sought MAG support to model obesity…

IMCI Seminar Series – Spring 2022

IMCI Seminar Series – Spring 2022

“The hidden half: How interactions between plants and microbes belowground drive ecosystem responses to global change” Accurate projections of the future land carbon sink by global climate models depend on how they represent nutrient constraints on primary production. While empirical research has highlighted the rhizosphere (i.e., the area immediately surrounding roots) as a hotspot for…