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Events for February 08, 2018
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Biomedical Engineering Department Guest Speaker
Thu, Feb 08, 2018 @ 01:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Jennifer Treweek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biology and Bioengineering, Caltech
Talk Title: Functional and anatomical mapping of neuropeptide circuitry using modern neuroscience techniques
Abstract: Neuropeptide systems are notoriously difficult to study due to their biological complexity and the overall technical inadequacy of traditional pharmacological tools (e.g., synthetic design of receptor ligands, immunohistochemistry-based labeling). However, given the pathological relevance of neuropeptides, such as corticotropin releasing factor, to a variety of disease states, the functional and anatomical characterization of neuropeptide circuitry is crucial to our discovery of better disease therapies. The development and application of new technologies to enable such characterization is an important first step towards this goal.
In my talk, I will summarize recent improvements to in vivo modalities for recording and perturbing neuronal activity in behaving rodents, as well as ex vivo techniques for analyzing the functional connectivity of targeted cells at the single-molecule through systems-levels. In particular, our methods for the multiplexed labeling and imaging of mRNA and peptide epitopes at depth in cleared tissue offer scientists an opportunity to visualize transcriptional changes and structural plasticity in intact circuits during the progression of disease.
Host: Ellis Meng, PhD
Location: Corwin D. Denney Research Center (DRB) - 145/145A
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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Abbreviation Disambiguation and NLP tools for Danish
Thu, Feb 08, 2018 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Manuel Ciosici, Aarhus University, Denmark
Talk Title: NL Seminar-Abbreviation Disambiguation and NLP tools for Danish
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: This talk will cover two topics. The first part will be a brief overview of Manuel's recent project in abbreviation disambiguation. Following, Manuel will give a brief overview of how various NLP methods are used in an industrial setting in a danish company that provides text analytics services for publishers such as Springer-Nature.
Biography: Manuel is a 3rd year PhD student at Aarhus University in Denmark. His PhD is focused on applying Data Mining and Machine Learning on large collections of unstructured text documents with the goal of extracting and representing knowledge embedded in the documents.
Host: Nanyun Peng and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 6th Floor Conf Rm-CR# 689
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Illinois Institute of Technology Information Session
Thu, Feb 08, 2018 @ 05:20 PM - 06:20 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Illinois Tech is a private, technology-focused, research institution located in Chicago offering degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law. The university also offers academic research internships to current and visiting students, providing valuable research experience applicable in academia and other careers. Come join our information session to learn more about your future studying at IIT!
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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ASBME Mentoring Ice Cream Social
Thu, Feb 08, 2018 @ 07:45 PM - 08:45 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join ASBME's Mentoring Program for an ice cream social at Baked Bear on Thursday, February 8th at 7:45pm. Feel free to stop by, eat some ice cream, and socialize with mentors and mentees!
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
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ASBME Mentoring Ice Cream Social
Thu, Feb 08, 2018 @ 07:45 PM - 09:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Join ASBME's Mentoring Program for an ice cream social at Baked Bear on Thursday, February 8th at 7:45pm. Feel free to stop by, eat some ice cream, and socialize with mentors and mentees!
Location: Baked Bear
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering
