BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT (9-30-03)
We extend our congratulations to BCB faculty member Amy Andreotti and husband Alejandro (Curriculum and Instruction faculty member) on the birth of their daughter Isabel on September 29 (also Amy's birthday!). Our best wishes to Amy, Alejandro, Isabel and five-year old big brother Daniel.

ALUMNI UPDATE (9-30-03)
BCB's first PhD alumna Yufeng Wang (Summer 2001, Gu/Ashlock) recently accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in biology at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She previously had been an independent research scientist with American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) in Manassas, VA. Congratulations, Yufeng!

IGERT alumnus Sid Baccam (Applied Mathematics and Immunobiology PhD, Spring 2000, Cornette/Carpenter) has completed his postdoctoral appointment at Los Alamos National Laboratory and started his new position with Innovative Emergency Management, Inc. (IEM) in Abingdon, MD. IEM is a risk management company providing services to both private industry and government agencies. Sid, his wife Becky and son Isaac arrived in Maryland just in time to enjoy the hurricane's electrical outages. Now that power finally has been restored, Sid has been busy getting reacquinted with his computer. Watch for Sid's latest publication in the November issue of Journal of Virology. Nice going, Sid!

BCB-RELATED SEMINAR LINKS (9-29-03)
Our BCB seminars page has been updated with links for all current BCB-related series. If you know of any other series that should be linked to our page, please let us know.

FIRST THURSDAY SUPPER AND SOCIAL OCTOBER 2 (9-29-03)
Our October First Thursday will be held 5:00-6:30 pm on Thursday, October 2, in 1102 Molecular Biology. To help us plan, please let me know by noon Wednesday, October 1, whether you will be able to attend. We hope to see you there!

ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS (AB&G) SEMINAR SERIES (9-25-03)
Jack Dekkers will present the September 30 AB&G seminar, "Commercial Application of Marker Assisted Selection" at 2:10 pm in 203 Kildee. See the complete AB&G seminar schedule for information on upcoming seminars in this series. Everyone is welcome.

Please note: Our BCB seminars page is being updated with links for all current BCB-related series, so you'll be able to keep abreast of campus-wide offerings without the need for repetitive email notices. We'll let you know as soon as the updates have been completed so you can bookmark the page for future reference. If you know of any series that should be included on our page, please send us the name of the seminar series and its url.

STATISTICS SEMINAR SEPTEMBER 29 (9-24-03)
The Statistical Laboratory at ISU is hosting a seminar by Juergen Kleffe (Charité-University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Institute of Molecularbiology and Biochemistry, Section: Molecularbiology and Bioinformatics, Berlin, Germany) at 4:10 pm Monday, September 29, in 1104 Gilman. Coffee will be served at 3:45 pm in 104 Snedecor. The complete schedule of Statistics Department seminars is available online. All are invited to attend these seminars.

SRINIVAS ALURU WILL PRESENT SEPTEMBER 26 BCB FACULTY SEMINAR (9-23-03; updated 9-24-03)
Srinivas Aluru, a faculty member in ISU's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, will present this Friday's BCB 691 Faculty Seminar. Aluru's seminar, A Faster Algorithm for Hierarchical Clustering of Microarray Data, will begin at 12:10 pm in E164 Lagomarcino. Information about Aluru's research and the faculty seminar series is available online. All are welcome to attend.

BCB GRADUATES ON TO NEW ADVENTURES! (9-23-03)
We extend our very special congratulations and best wishes to two BCB students who have recently completed their degree programs. Although they will not officially graduate until December 2003, they have wrapped up their work at ISU and moved on to new challenges.

Yingchun Wang (BCB and Genetics PhD, Chitnis/Kothari) - Postdoctoral research associate, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Hua Zhou (BCB MS, Dorman/Carpenter) - PhD graduate student, Statistics Department, Stanford University

DISCOVER CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY (9-18-03)
Plan to attend the Biotechnology Career Day, 9 am to 3 pm Wednesday, October 15, in the Molecular Biology Building Atrium. Representatives from several biotech companies will be on hand to discuss employment opportunities. Companies include Cargill; Demonstratives, Inc.; Diamond V Mills, Inc.; ExSeed Genetics; Fort Dodge Animal Health; Human Resource Recruitment Consortium (Iowa Department of Economic Development); Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc.; Iowa State University Career Services; Iowa State University Graduate Programs; ISU Research Park Companies; Monsanto; Phytodyne; Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.; Proliant, Inc.; Protein Design Labs; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; University of Iowa - Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine; ViraQuest, Inc. For more information, visit the Biotech Career Day website.

LEAHY THESIS SEMINAR SET FOR SEPTEMBER 26 (9-17-03)
BCB PhD student Nicole Leahy (GDCB Department, co-major professors John Mayfield and Dan Ashlock) will present her thesis seminar, Pseudophyte evolutionary algorithm: A simple computational model of parapatric speciations, at 1 pm Friday, September 26, in 0020 Howe Hall. The ISU bioinformatics community is invited to attend.

EVE WURTELE WILL PRESENT SEPTEMBER 19 BCB FACULTY SEMINAR (9-17-03)
Eve Wurtele, a faculty member in ISU's Genetic, Development and Cell Biology (GDCB)Department, will present the BCB 691 Faculty Seminar on Friday, September 19. The seminar, titled METNET: Integration of Metabolomic, Proteomic and Transcriptomic Gene Expression Data, will begin at 12:10 pm in E164 Lagomarcino. Information about Wurtele's research and the faculty seminar series is available online. All are welcome to attend.

JEAN PECCOUD TO PRESENT THIS WEEK'S FACULTY SEMINAR (9-11-03)
Dr. Jean Peccoud of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, and a collaborating faculty member of the Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Department, will present the BCB 691 Faculty Seminar on Friday, September 12. His seminar, titled Modeling Gene Networks, will begin at 12:10 pm in E164 Lagomarcino. More information about Peccoud's seminar and the faculty seminar series is available online. All are welcome to attend.

ISU HOSTS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MODERN COMPUTING, OCTOBER 30 through NOVEMBER 1 (9-4-03)
"When professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry built the world's first electronic digital computer in the basement of the Iowa State University Physics building, little did they know they were changing the world of technology. To honor the late Atanasoff's 100th birthday next October, Iowa State University is hosting a landmark event to bring together leading experts to discuss what new computer technologies will have the potential to again change the world."

We strongly encourage students to participate in this international event. Registration for full-time students is $60, including meals and proceedings.

The following distinguished speakers are scheduled for the four workshops:

Computational Intelligence Workshop

• Pierre Baldi, University of California at Irvine
• Joseph Halpern, Cornell University
• James Hendler, University of Maryland
• Ramesh Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael Pazzani, National Science Foundation
• Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Satinder Singh, University of Michigan
• Stephen Smale, University of California at Berkeley
• Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Richard Sutton, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

MORE WEDDING BELLS (9-4-03; edited 1-4-07)
Our (late!) best wishes to Brent Kronmiller (BCB-IGERT, Wise lab) and Danelle Hoffa, who were wed in July in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations, Brent and Danelle!

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS (8-29-03; edited 1-4-07)
Happy, happy birthday to our September celebrants!

Huaijun Zhou
Michael >Lawrence
Aimin Yan
Susan Carpenter

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