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Teachers Explore Local Fossils with Paleontologists

Posted on February 18, 2016 by admin

Fossils and paleontology were the special topics this year for an exciting teacher workshop hosted at NIMBioS, the final event for Darwin Day Tennessee festivities. Lesson plans for K-12 on local fossils, developed by paleontologist Alycia Stigall of Ohio State … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Workshop Inspires New Theme Issue

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

A new theme issue published this week in Philosophical Transactions B was inspired in part by the recent NIMBioS Workshop on Evolution and Warfare. “Solving the puzzle of collective action through inter-individual differences: evidence from primates and humans” is compiled and edited … Continue reading →

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Nose Picking and Other Notes from the Microbiome Workshop

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

Did you know that nose picking is useful to science? Indeed, the nasal passages have been mined, so to speak, for new insights into pathogens and the microbiome. You can now view the dirty details about this topic and many … Continue reading →

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Prepare to Collaborate! Here’s How to Do It Well

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

What does it take to run a successful collaborative meeting? As a NIMBioS participant or organizer of an activity, you will meet and work with scientists from a variety of fields. Cross-disciplinary research can produce exciting results, but it also … Continue reading →

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Women in Math Focus of Workshop

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Women comprise less than a quarter of the STEM workforce in the US, and they are most likely to leave those jobs compared to men. The story is not much different on the nation’s campuses, where more than half of STEM … Continue reading →

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Modeling of Microbial World Comes of Age

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Catherine Crawley

The fruits of the labor of the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Individual-Based Ecology of Microbes: Observations and Modeling appear today in an opinion paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that individual-based models are … Continue reading →

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The Noes Have It

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Following a lively public debate on the role of warfare in early social evolution, a sea of hands waving blue cards with the words “anti-thesis” indicated that the majority of the audience believed the antithesis debaters had won the day: … Continue reading →

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SFI President Brings Anthropologist’s Perspective

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Mathematical modelers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and other social scientists are gathered at NIMBioS this week for the Investigative Workshop on Modeling Social Complexity. The aim of the workshop, co-hosted by NIMBioS and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, is to work toward … Continue reading →

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Postdocs Present at Workshop for Young Researchers

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows Orou Gaoue, Tony Jhwueng and Calistus Ngonghala are currently attending the 2011 Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology held at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University. The workshop exposes postdocs and early career … Continue reading →

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Metabolism and Body Weight Focus of Workshop

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Catherine Crawley

With more than two-thirds of Americans considered overweight and more than one-third categorized as obese, understanding mechanisms behind weight gain, loss, and maintenance is a major national goal. Thirty-five researchers from around the world are gathered at NIMBioS this week … Continue reading →

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