Welcome Ousseini Issake Salia to the CMCI team! Ousseini comes to us from France where he was doing research at the Institute of Research for Development in Montpellier. At the U of I, he will be working jointly between CMCI and the Hohenlohe Lab. Check out his profile to learn more or to contact him.
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…
Please join us in welcoming Dharmeshkumar Patel, CMCI’s newest Collaboratorium Molecular Modeling Postdoctoral Researcher. Patel has a masters degree in Medicinal Chemistry and earned his PhD from the University of Sydney where he worked on computational study of binding of ion channels inhibitors and protein aggregation. He also has work experience with Piramal Lifesciences Ltd., a drug…
The University of Idaho’s Visualizing Science exhibit at The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho will run through Oct 27, 2018. We are excited that the display includes the work of CMCI faculty: The Little Phage, by Greg Turner-Rahman, Department of Art and Design, and Holly Wichman, Department of Biological Sciences Nebulous, by J. Casey Doyle, Department of Art…
University of Idaho senior Emmanuel Ijezie is double majoring in molecular biology and biotechnology. He’s also one of many undergraduate students working directly with CMCI-related research. He said he specifically chose to attend U of I because of the opportunity to be directly involved with cutting-edge research projects. Read more of his story here.
Project Team: Diana Mitchell (PI), Ousseini Isaaka Start Date: August 1, 2018 For the 19 genes without significant similarity to genes in humans, the following analyses will be performed in order to identify their putative functions: identify conserved proteins or protein domains predict protein localization search for functional domains predict cellular and functional pathways synteny…
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.
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…
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.
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…