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Havecker's Thesis Seminar Set for April 8 (4-1-05 kmw) IGERT fellow Ericka Havecker (Interdepartmental Genetics major, GDCB Department, co-major professors Dan Voytas and Mei Hong) will present her PhD thesis seminar, Characterization of the Sireviruses: A unique group of Ty1/copia LTR retrotransposons in plants, at 10 am Friday, April 8, in 1062 Roy J. Carver Lo-Lab. The ISU computational biology community is invited to attend.
First Thursday Supper - April 7 (4-5-05 ts)
It's Time to Make Lab Decisions! (3-29-05 kmw; 4-5-05 ts)
BCB 597 to be offered Fall, 2005 (4-1-05 ts)
BCB 551 to be offered Fall, 2005 (4-11-05 ts) This course covers sequence alignment and assembly techniques in great depth. For example, an algorithm for computing an optimal global alignment of two sequences in linear space is developed in the course, both in pseudo code and in source code. The pseudo code form focuses on the key details of the algorithm, whereas the source code form is a complete specification of the algorithm. As a homework problem, students work out a similar algorithm, such as an algorithm for computing an optimal syntenic alignment of two genomic sequences with introns. Students who took this course in the past told me that this course was very useful for their Ph.D. studies and their scientific careers involving analysis of genomic sequences. Students in the fall 2004 class felt that this course is very unique, useful, and reasonable in workload. The web address for course is http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs551. -- Xiaoqiu Huang
News from the ISU Libary (4-1-05 ts) Web resource locator for students -- To locate quality web resources to recommend to your students, take a look at the NetWatch Archive. NetWatch is a weekly column in Science magazine. Each week Science provides brief descriptions of 4-6 high quality websites. This week’s issue features the following: Cell Centered Database; The Ovarian Kaleidoscope Database; Gateway to Lectins; and The Center for North American Herpetology. For more information: http://www.sciencemag.org/netwatch/ Have you recently published or edited a book? -- If so, please send Andrea an email with the information so she can be sure to order the publication for the collection. We have recently received “Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates” edited by Nicole Valenzuela, Assistant Professor in EEOB. Fredric Janzen, Associate Professor in EEOB has authored a chapter in this publication. Congratulations! To review syllabi from other universities -- check out Syllabus Finder, created by The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The Center has created a search tool specifically for finding course syllabi posted on the Web, called Syllabus Finder. Syllabus Finder sends an optimized, specially packaged version of your query to Google, which returns the results. Syllabus Finder can be found here: http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/ Check out the New Titles list in Biomathematics and Bioinformatics below. -- QH 323-324 Biomathematics. Bioinformatics.
QH323.5 B562 2004 Biostatistics : a methodology for the health sciences /Gerald van Belle. John Wiley & Sons, c2004.
New BCB Senator for GPSS (4-05-05 ts) GPSS is not the GSB but is the official voice of graduate and professional students to the administration, undergraduates, and public at large. Through GPSS, you can have input into university issues in general or graduate student issues in particular. In the past, GPSS promoted full tuition scholarships for PhD students (which are being phased in), better relationships between GSB & GPSS, health insurance issues, etc. Current issues include student benefits such as medical leave, vacation policies, etc. Matt will attend monthly meetings on the last Monday of the month (except December or June). These are usually hourly meetings which take place in the Memorial Union at 7 p.m. GPSS Reps must attend all GPSS meetings so if Matt cannot attend a meeting, he will be asking for a BCB grad student to take his place. He will need to know of a replacement before the meeting so he can inform the GPSS secretary of his absence. After the meeting, Matt will email items of interest to the BCB grad students. Announcements will also be emailed between the meetings as well. Again, welcome to Matt and thanks to Jo !!!
Birth Announcement (3-29-05 kmw)
April Birthdays (3-29-05; edited 1-4-07 kmw)
Jennifer DONNELLY Ling GUO Ericka HAVECKER Tony HILL Vasant HONAVAR Matthew STUDHAM Michael TERRIBILINI
Aspen GARRY
Women in Science Symposium April 1-2 (3-30-05 kmw) The keynote address, The life of a woman scientist: sources of gender asymmetry in the status of scientists, will be presented at 9 am Saturday in the Molecular Biology Building auditorium. The symposium will conclude with a 3 pm poster session in the atrium. Dr. Gowaty also will present a research seminar, Offspring viability selection and the compensation hypothesis, at 2 pm Friday, April 1, in 108 Kildee. All are invited and encouraged to attend both the symposium and the seminar. There is no registration fee, and preregistration is not required. Special thanks to MGET fellows Erin Myers (EEB major, Janzen/Adams) and Jennifer Deitloff (EEB major, Adams/Venezuela) for their untiring leadership in the planning and organization of this workshop.
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