- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -
Traditionally distinct scientific disciplines are merging to create new opportunities.
Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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Spring Semester 2012 | 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 13 | Engineering Seminar | ||
Michael Arnold, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison | |||
Structure- and Property-Controlled Nanocarbon Materials for Electronics and Light-Harvesting | |||
Friday, January 20 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Julie Mitchell, Departments of Mathematics and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison | |||
Knowledge-Based Structural Approaches for Predicting Hot Spots of Protein Binding and Allostery | |||
Friday, January 27 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Heping Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine | |||
Genetic Studies of Comorbidity | |||
Friday, February 3 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Shuangge Ma, School of Public Health, Yale University | |||
Integrative Analysis of Cancer Genomic Data | |||
Friday, February 10 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Anne Condon, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia | |||
Some Hows and Whys of Programming DNA Molecules | |||
Friday, February 17 | Engineering Seminar | ||
Liang-shi Li, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University | |||
Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots: A New Type of Carbon Materials Toward Energy Applications | |||
Friday, February 24 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Michael Kosorok, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |||
Personalized Medicine and Artificial Intelligence | |||
Friday, March 2 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Department of Chemistry and Biophysics, University of Michigan | |||
Dynamical Structures of Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy | |||
Friday, March 16 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
Doraiswami Ramkrishna, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University | |||
Dynamic Modeling of Metabolism. The Cybernetic Approach | |||
Friday, March 23 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
Ramon Gonzalez, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University | |||
Realizing the Promise of Engineered Metabolism | |||
Friday, March 30 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Chuan He, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago | |||
Nucleic Acids Modification/Demodification and Probes for Live Cell Imaging | |||
Friday, April 6 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
Victor Karpov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo | |||
Physics of Thin Film Photovoltaics | |||
Friday, April 13 [CANCELLED] |
Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Boris Shraiman, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara | |||
Evolutionary Dynamics in Genetically Diverse Populations | |||
Friday, April 20 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
Ehab Abouheif, Department of Biology, McGill University | |||
The Interactions between Genes and Environment in Ants | |||
Friday, April 27 | Quantitative Biology & Modeling Seminar | ||
R. Craig Albertson, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst | |||
Toward the Origin of Cichlid Craniofacial Diversity: Patterns, Processes and Mechanisms | |||
Seminar Organizers: |
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
Ruby Ghosh, Physics & Astronomy | ghosh@pa.msu.edu | ||
Jeffrey Schenker, Mathematics | jeffrey@math.msu.edu | ||
Engineering Seminars: | |||
Christina Chan, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | krischan@egr.msu.edu | ||
Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars: | |||
C. Titus Brown, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | ctb@msu.edu | ||
David Arnosti, Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease | arnosti@msu.edu | ||
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Prior semesters:
Fall 2011;
Spring 2011;
Fall 2010;
Spring 2010;
Fall 2009;
Spring 2009;
Fall 2008; |