- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -
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Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series: |
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Spring Semester 2013 | 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 11 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
David A. Liberles, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming | |||
Computational Approaches for Linking Comparative Genomics to Biochemistry and Evolution | |||
Friday, January 18 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
Mikhail Zamkov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowling Green State University | |||
Engineering of Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Solids for Renewable Energy Applications | |||
Friday, January 25 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Mingyao Li, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | |||
Translational Genomics Study in Evoked Human Inflammation | |||
Friday, February 1 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Wolf Frommer, Department of Biology, Carnegie Institute for Science | |||
In Vivo Biochemistry with the Help of Genetically Encoded Sensors | |||
Friday, February 8 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Ethan White, Quantitative Ecology and Macroecology, Utah State University | |||
Testing a General Theory of Macroecology Using Big Data | |||
Friday, February 15 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
David Bortz, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder | |||
Biomechanics and Population Dynamics of Microbial Communities | |||
Friday, February 22 11:45 am |
Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
* NOTE SPECIAL TIME * (Refreshments at 11:30 am) | |||
Nathan Springer, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota | |||
Contribution of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation to Diversity in Maize | |||
Tuesday, February 26 11:00 am |
Special Joint Department of Mathematics and Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
* NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME * (Refreshments at 10:45 am) | |||
Yaoqi Zhou, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis | |||
Shedding light on the dark matter in the universe of protein structures and protein-RNA interactions | |||
Friday, March 1 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Mauro Maggioni, Department of Mathematics, Duke University | |||
Multiscale Geometric Methods for Data in High Dimensions | |||
Friday, March 15 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Oleg Igoshin, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University | |||
Ultrasensitivity and Stochasticity in Bacterial Networks (System Dynamics of Bacterial Gene Regulatory Networks that Control Development) | |||
Friday, March 22 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Ethan Perlstein, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University | |||
Do Yeast Get Depressed? Tales of an Evolutionary Pharmacologist | |||
Friday, March 29 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Matthew Rockman, Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University | |||
Genetic Consequences of Mating-system Evolution in C. Elegans | |||
Friday, April 5 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Qiang Cui, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
“Multi-scale” Simulation of Processes in Membrane Proteins and Biomembranes: Methods and Applications | |||
Friday, April 12 | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Jack Gilbert, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago | |||
The Earth Microbiome Project: Characterizing the Microbial World! | |||
Friday, April 19 [CANCELLED] | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Ian Korf, Genome Center, University of California-Davis | |||
Genomics and Bioinformatics to the Rescue: Solving Complex Problems with Simple Models and Loads of Data | |||
Friday, April 26 [CANCELLED] | Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
Stephanie Hampton, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California-Santa Barbara | |||
Deciphering Sixty Years of Environmental Data to Understand Recent Change in the World's Largest Lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia | |||
Friday, May 10 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
Michelle Johannes, Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory | |||
Using Computational Methodologies to Understand Energy Storage Materials | |||
Friday, May 17 | Engineering Seminar | ||
Mark Thompson, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California | |||
Exciton Management in Organic Solar Cells | |||
Friday, May 24 | Interdisciplinary Physics Seminar | ||
Henry Schaefer, Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia | |||
Reactions of Fluorine and Chlorine Atoms with Water and the Water Dimer | |||
Tuesday, July 16 |
Special Joint Department of Mathematics and Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminar | ||
* NOTE SPECIAL DAY * | |||
Bailin Hao, T-Life Research Center and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai | |||
Whole-Genome-Based and Alignment-Free Phylogeny of Prokaryotes | |||
Seminar Organizers: |
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
Ruby Ghosh, Physics & Astronomy | ghosh@pa.msu.edu | ||
Engineering Seminars: | |||
Tim Whitehead, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | taw@msu.edu | ||
Richard Lunt, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | rlunt@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 2012;
Spring 2012;
Fall 2011;
Spring 2011;
Fall 2010;
Spring 2010;
Fall 2009; |