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M-EID Events and Announcements
M-EID Forum
Date: Monday, December 3rd from 5:00pm - 6:00pmLocation: DHC 023
1st Monday Forum of the Month will include all Faculty/Staff and Trainees reviewing the administration of the program, i.e. business meeting.
M-EID Journal Club
Date: Wednesday, December 5th 5:00pm - 6:30pmLocation: Press Box Conference Room
M-EID Discussion Board
M-EID has created a discussion board that is intended for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty who participated in Pathways to Scientific Teaching Workshop. If anyone would like a discussion board, please contact Michael Zens.
Departmental Events and Announcements
Virologist Candidate - Dr. Tanya Miura
Date: Monday, December 3rd from 12:00pm - 1:00pmLocation: Skaggs 117
Topic - Coronaviruses in Their Natural Hosts: What can we learn from rodent models of viral pathogenesis?
Alina Niklison - Thesis Defense - "Influence of embryonic metabolic rate and incubation temperature on incubation length variation in neotropical Passerines”
Date: Monday, December 3rd from 1:00pm - 2:00pmLocation: Clapp Building, Room 452
Integrative Microbiology & Biochemistry Seminar Series
Date: Monday, December 3rd from 4:10pm - 5:00pmLocation: Skaggs Building Room 117
Presenter: Mike Franklin - Montana State University
OBE Wednesday Seminar Series
Date: Wednesday, December 5th from 12:10pm - 1:00pmLocation: Skaggs Building 117
Speaker - Steve Patterson - The University of Montana
Ecology Wednesday Seminar Series
Date: Wednesday, December 5th from 4:10pm - 5:10pmLocation: 3rd Floor University Center Theater
Speaker - Elizabeth Jockusch - "Non-tree-like speciation: examples from California herps"
Math Colloquium Series
Hillary VanSpronsenDate: Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 4:00pm
Location: Math 103
Rocky Mountain Lab Events
Graduate Partnership Program
Date: Monday, December 3rd from 10:30am - 11:30amLocation: RML Seminar Room
Presenter: Sharon Milgram - Dir. Of Office of Intramural Training and Education at NIH and Head of Graduate Partnership Program
Dr. Barry Rockx - "SARS-CoV evolution, pathogenesis and treatment"
Date: Wednesday, December 5rd from 10:30am - 11:30amLocation: RML Seminar Room
Presenter: Dr. Barry Rockx
RML Biosafety Committee
Date: Wednesday, December 5th from 1:00pm - 2:00pmLocation: RML Seminar Room
LZP WIP
Date: Thursday, December 6th from 9:00am - 10:00amLocation: RML Seminar Room
Dr. Gary Kobinge - "Protective Immunization Against High Biocontainment Viruses"
Date: Thursday, December 6th from 10:30am - 11:30amLocation: RML Seminar Room
Speaker - Dr. Gary Kobinger - Public Health Agency, Canada
Dr. Travis J. Bourret
Date: Thursday, December 6th from 2:00pm - 3:00pmLocation: RML Seminar Room
Speaker - Dr. Travis J. Bourret - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Dr. Darwyn Kobasa - "Pathogenesis of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus"
Date: Friday, December 7th from 9:00am - 10:00amLocation: RML Seminar Room
Speaker - Dr. Darwyn Kobasa - Public Health Agency, Canada
Jeff Shannon - LICP WIP
Date: Friday, December 7th from 12:00pm - 1:00pmLocation: RML Seminar Room
Speaker - Jeff Shannon
Upcoming Conferences -
Please note that all MEID Fellows can receive up to $1,000 a year in funding to attend relevant conferences and symposiums.Reproducibility in Protein Biomarker Research WEBINAR
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 10:00amDuration: 1 hour
Mass spectrometry is an extremely powerful and sensitive technology that can detect very small changes in expression levels. Some of these changes may stem from the biological differences related to a disease or treatment of interest. Others, however, may reflect the heterogeneity of patients across multiple sites, the inherent biological complexity and diversity of different sample types, and even small differences in sample collection, processing, handling, and analysis techniques used by multiple operators across multiple locations. As a consequence, data may be tainted by site-, study-, population-, or sample-specific anomalies and, therefore, not be sufficiently robust for biomarker discovery.
Join our panel of experts in a live, audience-driven Q&A as they discuss how to overcome these reproducibility issues to generate less biased and more reliable results. Questions for the panel can be submitted live through your viewing console.
Submit your questions LIVE to the experts during the webinar!
Molecular Basis for Chromatin Modifications and Epigenetic Phenomena (D3)
Organizers: Peter Fraser, Sepideh Khorasanizadeh and Asifa AkhtarDates: April 7 - 12, 2008
Where: Snowmass Resort, Snowmass, Colorado USA
Many chromatin modifications and structures are surprisingly dynamic, yet are involved in initiating and heritably maintaining distinct gene expression patterns that direct and preserve cellular identities. The molecules that target and regulate these modifications and how they influence—and may be influenced by—higher-order chromatin structures, nuclear organization, and various nuclear processes, are areas of intense interest and excitement. This meeting will examine the latest discoveries surrounding the molecular basis of chromatin modifications and explore their connections to various biological processes and epigenetic phenomena such as dosage compensation, imprinting, heterochromatin formation and gene expression in differentiation, development and disease. The goal is to promote a more integrated picture of the molecular interrelationships between chromatin structure and function that exercise the hidden regulatory information in the genomes of complex organisms.
Abstract Deadline: December 7, 2007Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2008
Molecular Evolution as a Driving Force in Infectious Diseases (D4)
Organizers: Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Edward C. Holmes and Thomas S. WhittamDates: April 8 - 13, 2008
Where: Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado USA
Infectious diseases have been a key driving force in evolution, both of the hosts and the pathogens. The era of genomics has made it possible to evaluate both infectious agents and their hosts at the genomic level. The evolutionary dynamics of viruses, bacteria and parasites, in their adaptive evolution to changes in host response or adaptation to new hosts is enormously complex. The burden of infectious diseases on people and domestic animals is staggering. We are only now beginning to achieve an understanding of how infectious organisms cause disease and how the complex patterns of immune response generated by their infections mitigate it. By bringing together experts in the evolution of viruses, bacteria and parasites, plus those studying host adaptation and evolution of the immune response, we hope that this meeting will stimulate further interaction between widely disparate lines of investigation.
Abstract Deadline: December 10, 2007Early Registration Deadline: February 11, 2008
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