- SCIENCE AT THE EDGE -


Traditionally distinct scientific disciplines are merging to create new opportunities.
Share the excitement and challenge through seminars and discussions with nationally recognized pioneers in science at the edge.

Seminars included on this schedule are in these three series:
Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars, Engineering Seminars, and Quantitative Biology / Gene Expression in Development & Disease Seminars.
A poster of this schedule is available (PDF format).


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 Room 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building (unless noted otherwise)
 

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:
 
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

Further information on some seminars may be found at:
http://www.qbmi.msu.edu/seminars.php

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