The IQB summer program is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF DUE-0337406)
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PURCHASING ITEMS:
Next week the secretary of BISC can start to process the purchasing. All
students received a letter where
explicitly was mentioned the amount of allocated budget. Please do not overspend
your budget. You can spend the budget for purchasing items you asked for in your
application.
PLACE TO WORK:
Your project leader may give you a place to work. You also might want to meet
and discuss with other students. Gilbreath Hall 205 is open and Brown Hall
Undergraduate Research Facility 374 can be opened by request. We would like to
encourage you to interact with the other groups freely.
Exciting possibility to study abroad: Budapest Semester in Cognitive Sciences
Other News
Dr. Godbole REU group organize a joint research symposium with UTK on the campus. If somebody interested to give a talk please let me and Dr. Godbole know. The meeting will be in July 22.
We have 5 research groups in this summer (see projects and documents via the links below):
- Developmental Bioinformatics group
Final report
Everyone needs to prepare a final report by 10th of August. The last check and the conference support are available after an approved report. The report have to be submitted to both the project leader and IQB director (both hard copy and email).
The final report have to be in a form of a scientific publication. This does not mean you have to publish the material. Our aim is to provide you the experience to write a report in a way as scientists do. The scientific paper have to be minimum 5 pages long without figures and cover page. Your mentor will give you scientific papers to use as a blueprint for this assignment.
Cover page
Title
Student name (contact address for future contact)
Mentors
2004 Summer program
List and prices of supply bought
List of conference the student and a faculty plan to go
List papers this work might be submitted for publication
One page long summary avoiding jargon and make the project understable for the general public
Project report in the form of a scientific research paper 5 page minimum with abstract (not the same as above).
PI approval of the project
SEMINAR
July 2: No meeting
We start a new series of detailed seminars. The student will have a 30 minutes presentation (If 2 students belong to a project the presentation should be between 45-60 minutes). This must to be more detailed than for the intro lectures. At least one of the project leader also should have a 15 minutes talk (this can be an intro before the student talk or an overview after the student talk). The whole lecture should be about detailed plans and preliminary results and still solvable problems. Others expected to provide ideas, help and comments. Especially the faculty lectures have to focus to make the project completely digestible for both biology and math audiences.
July 9: Mike Phillips: division of labor in insect societies.
July 16 is a swim/volleyball cookout at Knisley's house. Guest lecturer R. Salinas.
July 23 Daniel Lamb and Brad Wild: Graph Theory and Protein Folding
July 30 Leanna Horton: Markovian and Connected Palindromes
August 4 G. Rosel and P Carey: Developmental bioinformatics: diapause and gene expression
August 6 Emily Mullersman and Jennifer Whittington: Game theory
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Our guest in July 16 was Dr René Salinas who talked about in agent based modeling of Black bears (see here video clip)
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After the lecture we had a good time and meal at Kinsley's house
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