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Baker Center Seminar Friday, September 30 (9/29/05 kmw)
Birth Announcement (9/28/05 kmw)
September 30 BCB Faculty Seminar (9/28/05 kmw)
Familiar Face in Today's Des Moines Register (9/19/05 kmw)
Xun Gu to Present This Week's BCB Faculty Seminar (9/14/05 kmw)
ISU Awarded IGERT Renewal (9-02-05 kmw) The focus of the new grant will be to lead the field of computational biology into the next era of discovery and to educate a diverse group of professionals to spearhead this effort. To enhance minority education, the project will partner ISU with New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, which has an emerging BCB graduate program. Desh Ranjan and Mary O'Connell of NMSU will serve as co-PIs on the grant. During the initial IGERT funding period, ISU established the interdepartmental graduate program in bioinformatics and computational biology (BCB), and provided fellowships for 30 graduate students majoring in BCB, biophysics, chemical engineering, computer sciences, electrical engineering and genetics. It also funded computational biology hardware, software and support. Details
ISU Researchers Receive $2 Million to Study Plant Disease Defenses (9-02-05 kmw) ISU co-PIs are Steve Whitham (Plant Path), Julie Dickerson (BCB, ECpE) and Dan Nettleton (BCB, Stat). Patrick Schweizer, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, in Gatersleben, Germany, will serve as an international collaborator. Details
BCB Faculty Seminar Series (9-06-05 ts)
NSF Offers International Summer Institutes for US Grad Students (9-02-05 kmw)
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, or Taiwan, an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location, and orientation to the culture and language. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research laboratory, and to initiate personal relationships that will better enable them to collaborate with foreign counterparts in the future. The institutes last approximately eight weeks from June to August and are administered in the United States by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) co-sponsor the Summer Institute in Japan. See the NSF website for details. Don't let this opportunity pass you by!
BCB Faculty News (9-07-05 ts) The new Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery was established at ISU on July 1. Directed by computer science professor, and BCB faculty member, Vasant Honavar, the Center will study how massive data sets can be integrated, analyzed and interpreted to advance collaborative science and research. The Center will also offer students and professors the opportunity to integrate data across the fields of life sciences into physical sciences and engineering. More details can be found here. Jackie Shanks, recently featured in the January 2005 issue of the AlChE Journal, has spent years studying how to make periwinkle plants better produce indole alkaloids for use in the chemotherapy drugs Oncovin and Velbe. Shanks, working with other scientists from institutions across the country, is studying a complex reaction pathway of more than 30 steps that leads to periwinkle plants. It is the hope that work on the pathway will lead to increased production of the needed drug, thereby lowering drug prices. More details can be found here. Jackie joined the BCB Faculty last Spring. Surya Mallapragada, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at ISU, BCB Faculty member and associate scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has been named to the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) of the Institute for Defense Analyses. Mallapragada will be taking part in the two-year program focused on defense policy, related research and development, and the systems, missions, and operations of the U.S. armed forces. Appointment will begin in 2006 and continue through 2007. More details can be found here.
Conferences of Interest (9-06-05 ts)
First Thursday (8-31-05 kmw)
Great Opportunity for TA Training (8-31-05 kmw)
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching is planning a series of workshops this fall especially for graduate students.
September Birthdays (8/31/05; edited 1-4-07 kmw)
Zhong Gao, BCB alumnus Michael Lawrence, BCB and MGET Brooke Peterson-Burch, IGERT alumnus Misha Rajaram, BCB Aimin Yan, BCB Huaijun Zhou, BCB alumnus
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