Monday, 30 Jan 2012
Seminar: Computational Biomodeling and Systems Biology Overview
Jesse Walsh, ISU BCB graduate student, will talk about the applications, approaches and challenges of biomodeling and systems biology.
Memoir of an Integration Baby: On the Road to Tomorrow
Mark Morrison-Reed is the author of In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby. In this frank and personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement, he wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther King, black radicalism, his interracial family, and serving as one of the first black Unitarian Universalist ministers. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Series
Wednesday, 01 Feb 2012
Seminar: Cancer Systems Biology
Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, will lead a seminar on the application of mathematical models to problems in cancer systems biology (protein and gene networks involved in cancer studies), particularly identifying the role of iron metabolism in breast cancer. A reception will follow.
Thursday, 02 Feb 2012
Computer science colloquia: Pavan Aduri
Pavan Aduri, associate professor of computer science, presents "Complexity Theory and Graph Theory."
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Tour, a correspondent for NBC, is the author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness, a look at what it means to be black today and how blackness has changed over the decades. In researching the book he interviewed more than one hundred prominent blacks, including Jesse Jackson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Malcolm Gladwell, Soledad O'Brien, Kara Walker, and Paul Mooney. Tour has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone...