M-EID Events and Announcements

M-EID Forum

M-EID Interviewee Sunday Dinner

M-EID Interviewee Monday UC Lunch

Departmental Events

IMB Seminar

Erica Woodahl - BMED - "Pharmacogenomics of Drug Transporters"

OBE Seminar

Claudio Meier - "Cottonwood establishment in the active channel of a gravel-bed river."

WBIO Seminar

David Reznick - UC Riverside - "The evolution of placentas in the fish family Poeciliidae: an empirical study of macroevolution."

Math Colloquium - Kelly McKinnie - Rice University - Open Search Candidate

The real Hamilton quaternions form a four dimensional real vector space with an associative multiplication and an identity element such that every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse. In fact, this is the only such non-trivial finite dimensional division algebra that exists over the real numbers. The Hamiltonians are an example of a cyclic algebra. If you ask which division algebras occur over the rational numbers you get a plethora of different division algebras, yet they are all still cyclic algebras.

The situation changes slightly when you look for division algebras with dimension pn over a field of characteristic p. In this talk I will discuss characterizations of cyclic algebras along with examples of non-cyclic algebras over a field of characteristic p which remain non-cyclic after any prime to p extension.

Research Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ulus Atasoy, Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri-Columbia. Topic: "HuR, RNAi and Posttranscriptional Regulation."

Upcoming Conferences -

Symposium on the Landscape Ecology of Infectious Diseases

To be held April 7th, 2008 at the annual meeting of the United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) in Madison, Wisconsin.

Who should attend? Biostatisticians, ecologists, epidemiologists, geographers, medical entomologists, microbiologists, parasitologists, and other health scientists who are interested in learning about novel geographic approaches to infectious disease research.

In addition to this symposium, the US-IALE conference will feature sessions on a variety of relevant topics including satellite remote sensing, spatial analysis, land cover/land use change, and species distribution modeling.

NIH/NIAID-sponsored travel awards are being offered to graduate students from the health science fields who have an interest in geographic and ecological approaches to the study of infectious diseases and human health, but have had limited exposure to the science of landscape ecology. Applications are due by February 15th, 2008.

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Wildlife Society's 2008 Northwest Section Conference

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The Northwest Scientific Association

The Northwest Scientific Association, in conjunction with the NW Lichenologists and The UM’s Division of Biological Sciences, is having their 2008 annual conference in the University Center on The University of Montana’s campus. The conference will be during the end of UM’s spring break, March 26th-March 28th.

For a mere $35 (students) or $70 (non-students) for registration, you can participate in a multi-discipline meeting that covers 16 different areas of science:

Anthropology; Aquatic Biology; Botany; Community Ecology; Fisheries; Forest Canopies; Forestry; Geology; Hydrology/Geomorphology; Lichenology; Mathematical Modeling; Paleontology; Plant Ecology; Soils; Wildlife Biology; Zoology.

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