- 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 2017 | Michigan State University | ||
Seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. Fridays, with refreshments served at 11:15 a.m.
Seminars are in Select seminar date to see schedule for meeting with the seminar speaker (available for select seminars only – contact organizers for more info). |
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Friday, January 13 | |||
Mark Reimers, Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University | |||
The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies®) Initiative: Big Data Comes to Neuroscience | |||
Friday, January 20 | Cancelled due to illness | ||
James Bardwell, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan | |||
Watching a Chaperone Fold a Protein at High Resolution | |||
Friday, January 27 | |||
Mason Porter, Department of Mathematics, UCLA | |||
Collective Behavior in Online Social Networks, Politicians, and Cows | |||
Friday, February 3 | |||
Jennifer Marsman, Developer, Microsoft | |||
Intro to Machine Learning: Predict Who Survives the Titanic | |||
Friday, February 10 | |||
Jiali Gao, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Minnesota and Jilin University, Changchun, China | |||
Control of Water by Protein Functional Dynamics in Two Photoreceptors | |||
Friday, February 17 | |||
Ursula Whitcher, Math Reviews, American Mathematical Society and Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | |||
Mirror, Mirror: String Theory and Pairs of Polyhedra | |||
Friday, February 24 | |||
Paul Jardine, Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota | |||
Bacteriophage DNA Packaging as a Model for Ring Motors and Polymer Dynamics | |||
Friday, March 3 | |||
John Stiller, Department of Biology, Eastern Carolina University | |||
RNA Polymerase and the Evolution of Eukaryotes: Comparative Genomics Shakes the Tree-of-Life | |||
Friday, March 17 | |||
Marilyn Gunner, Physics Department, City College of New York | |||
Electron Transfer & Proton Transfer Reactions | |||
Friday, March 24 | |||
Karen Davies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |||
Electron Cryo-Tomography of Mitochondria: The Role of ATP Synthase in Shaping Cristae | |||
Friday, March 31 | |||
James Noonan, Department of Genetics, Yale University | |||
Genetic Models of Human Evolution | |||
Friday, April 7 | |||
Wenying Shou, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington | |||
The Survival of the Most Cooperative: Insights from Biological and Mathematical Systems | |||
Friday, April 14 | |||
Michael Chabinyc, Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara | |||
Energy Conversion with Organic Semiconductors | |||
Friday, April 21 | |||
Rongling Wu, Department of Public Health Sciences and Director of Center for Statistical Genetics, Pennsylvania State University | |||
Statistical Genetics and Genomics | |||
Friday, April 28 | |||
Sunduz Keles, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |||
Statistical Analysis of Global Gene Expression Information | |||
Seminar Organizers: |
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Interdisciplinary Physics Seminars: | |||
Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics & Astronomy | carlo@pa.msu.edu | ||
Engineering Seminars: | |||
Richard Lunt, Chemical Engineering & Material Science | rlunt@egr.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 | ||
Further information on some seminars may be found at:
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Prior semesters:
Fall 2016;
Spring 2016;
Fall 2015;
Spring 2015;
Fall 2014;
Spring 2014; |