UI Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - BCB Graduate Program

The U of I Office of Research and Economic Development and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences will host a one-day Computer Vision (CV) Symposium on October 16th, exploring the current and emerging technologies and applications for AI based Computer Vision.

The morning plenary session will include selected research presentations from UI researchers, followed by a catered lunch with a keynote address by Dr. Sara Beery of MIT. Concurrent afternoon sessions offer focused presentations and discussions on 5 exciting topics: CV applications in remote sensing, object detection & recognition, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & CV applications in conservation biology, CV applications in microscopy & biomedical imaging, and a primer on CV for beginners.

Required registration closes September 1, 2023.
https://www.iids.uidaho.edu/registration.php?eid=644afde5a6608

Congratulations to our 2022 graduates!

Congratulations to BCB faculty Paul Hohenlohe, Christine Parent, and Luke Harmon !

Congratulations to the 2022 Paul Joyce Memorial Award Recipient: BCB PhD candidate Chava Castaneda!

We are pleased to announce our seminar series for Spring 2022! Seminars take place Thursdays at 12:30PM. Come listen to the speakers in Engineering Physics 122 or participate online via Zoom.

Details at www.iids.uidaho.edu/events.php

Congratulations to BCB faculty member and former Director Dr. Eva Top!

Congratulations to University of Idaho College of Science Professor Emerita Eva Top for her election as a 2021 AAAS - The American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow! This honor comes in recognition of her pioneering work on the ecology and evolution of multiple drug resistance plasmids in bacteria.

Read more: https://www.iids.uidaho.edu/news.php?newsid=112

Recent graduate of the UI Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - BCB Graduate Program Tanner Varrelman published a paper in PNAS examining the effectiveness of herpesviruses as vectors for transmissible vaccines.
He found that these types of vaccines could have the potential to manage infectious diseases in wildlife populations.

https://www.iids.uidaho.edu/news.php?newsid=111&fbclid=IwAR2kaVRWPHMgmw_Rx_jpzf_VSMURtXLuSEXBFZ2DBxJjr-yuNvS5v0MGFMo

IIDS News Bivariate posterior distribution of the transmission rate (βv) and the rate at which individuals exposed to the virus transition into the infectious class (σ).