Dr. Michael L. Raymer: Thursday, 1st November

Dr. Michael L. Raymer will be delivering a talk at IUS on Thursday, 1st November 2007 at 12:15 in LF348. There will be punch and pie.

Interesting Linguistics/Informatics Article

Read about the evolutionary "regulation" of verbs:

http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense

13th Annual Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference, Friday, November 30, 2007 at IUS

The 13th Annual Friday Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on November 30, 2007 at IU Southeast.

Participate in an informal roundtable, share a poster or present an oral paper. Share your research with other undergrads throughout the IU system.

Abstracts (200) word for The Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference should be submitted to Dr. Ramachandran by Thursday, 11 October.

September 28, 2007 BiRG Lab Meeting

Agenda

• October 5th: NSF Day at Buter University
• October 19th: Statistics Every Informatician Should Know, Part I
• Perl Basics Presentation by Shawn Hanes

BiRG Trip to NSF Day at Butler University

On Friday, 5 October, 2007, BiRG will be traveling to Butler University in Indianapolis, IN for NSF Day. We will meet at 4:45am in the parking lot just outside of the Life Sciences building and plan to arrive at Butler at 7:15am.

Statistics Every Informatician Should Know

On October 19th, 2007, Professor Manwani, BiRG Statistician, will present an introduction to statistics that every Informatician should know. Please feel free to stop by The BiRG Lab (LF264) at 6pm for the presentation. All interested parties are welcome to attend.

Shawn Hanes Presentation on Perl Scripting

Common Experience Competition

Indiana University Southeast's Common Experience Competition presents an exciting opportunity students to share essays, poetry, research papers, dimensional art pieces and/or photography illustrating one's identity in a multi-cultural world.

Cash prizes of $300.00, $200.00 and $100.00 will be awarded.

This is an opportunity to win money for The BiRG by approaching from the perspective of a Social Informatician.

See http://www.ius.edu/commonexperience for more info.

September 21, 2007 BiRG Lab Meeting

Agenda

• Dr. Michael Raymer will be visiting on November 1st
• BiRG lab meeting will be held on Thursday, November 1st instead of regularly scheduled Friday meeting
• Presentation: Junk DNA by John Lannon

Dr. Michael Raymer To Visit IUS on November 1st

Presentation: Junk DNA by John Lannon

Click here to download Powerpoint presentation

September 14, 2007 BiRG Meeting

Agenda

• New BiRG PCs Acquired
• Printer Still Pending Setup
• Mutation & Evolution Discussion

Three new BiRG PCs

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Ramachandran, Dr. Hollingsworth and Shawn Hanes, BiRG now has 3 fully-functioning research machines running Ubuntu, Censor and WU-Blast. Additionally, an Unbuntu-powered general use machine and an IBM integrated Monitor/CPU running DamSmallLinux are available. BiRG still also has its original two Windows machines for general research use. The 3 special purpose research stations are:

• DNA - for John's research project
• RNA - for Shawn's research project
• Protein - in progress

And, then there's:

• Mutation - practice Linux machine; training dock for new BiRGers
  

Mutation and evolution discussion

Stay tuned for update