- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -
Traditionally distinct scientific disciplines are merging to create new opportunities. A poster of this schedule is available (PDF format). |
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Spring Semester 2019 | Michigan State University | ||
Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Fridays, with refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in |
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Friday, January 18 | |||
Xiaoqin Zou, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri | |||
Novel Strategies for Predicting Protein Interactions with Application to Structure-Based Drug Design | |||
Friday, February 1 | |||
Sorin Draghici, Department of Computer Science and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University | |||
Discovering Disease Subtypes through the Integration of Multiple Types of Omics Data | |||
Friday, February 8 | |||
Harald Ade, Department of Physics, North Carolina University | |||
How Much? How Do We Know? Solar Energy Conversation Technology and Global Warming in a Postmodern World | |||
Friday, February 15 | |||
Rebecca Anthony, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University | |||
Nonthermal Plasmas for Next-Generation Nanomaterials | |||
Friday, February 22 | |||
Michael Gooseff, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado | |||
Arctic Oases - Rivers and their Icings Promote Habitats and Hotspots Year Round | |||
Friday, March 1 | |||
Danny Hatters, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne | |||
Proteostasis Imbalance in Health and Neurodegeneration | |||
Friday, March 15 | |||
Emily Josephs, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University | |||
The Evolutionary Forces Shaping Complex Trait Variation | |||
Friday, March 22 |
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Marius Pachitariu, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | |||
High-Dimensional Problems in Neuroscience | |||
Friday, March 29 | |||
JohnJoe McFadden, Molecular Genetics, University of Surrey, United Kingdom | |||
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology | |||
Friday, April 5 | |||
Andrea Bodnar, Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute | |||
The Sea Urchin as a Model System for Cancer and Aging | |||
Friday, April 12 | |||
Sorin Draghici, Department of Engineering, Wayne State University | |||
Discovering Disease Subtypes Through the Integration of Multiple Types of Omics Data | |||
Friday, April 19 | |||
Mark Reimers, Department of Neuroscience, Michigan State University | |||
Dynamic Networks in the Brain: Using Constrained Regression to Infer Effective Connectivity from Observations of Rapid Cortical Dynamics | |||
Friday, April 26 | |||
L. Aravind, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH | |||
TBA | |||
Seminar Organizers: |
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics & Astronomy | carlo@pa.msu.edu | ||
Ruby Ghosh, Physics & Astronomy | ghosh@pa.msu.edu | ||
Engineering Seminars: | |||
Alexandra Zevalkink, Materials Science and Engineering | alexzev@msu.edu | ||
Sara Roccabianca, Mechanical Engineering | roccabis@msu.edu | ||
Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars: | |||
George Mias, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | gmias@msu.edu | ||
David Arnosti, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | arnosti@msu.edu | ||
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Prior semesters:
Fall 2018; |