Title: Linking structure to biomechanical behaviors of plant primary cell walls Daniel J. Cosgrove, Tian Zhang, Yao Zhang and Sulin Zhang, Department of Biology and Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, Pennsylvania State University Abstract: How the molecular organization of the plant primary cell wall accommodates…

For the Spring 2020 Quarter all seminars will be hosted online over Zoom. Links can be obtained by emailing event organizers - those email links will be provided as events are posted. We look forward to continuing our sharing and collaborating.

Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota Mysterious Duality   “Mysterious Duality” was suggested by Iqbal, Neitzke, and Vafa in 2001. They noticed that (already mysterious for any mathematician) toroidal compactifications of M-theory lead to the same series of combinatorial objects as del Pezzo surfaces (equally mysterious…

Dr. Michael Young at Iowa State will give a colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics at UCR on Feb 26. While his research area is  in combinatorics, he started a  successful postbac program at Iowa State, and he was recently awarded an NSF grant to work on the issue of helping under-represented minority to overcome…

The Professor Dimitrios Morikis Memorial Symposium is a tribute to the work and accomplishments of Professor Dimitrios Morikis. Professor Morikis was a founding faculty member of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside and his scientific energy was vital in shaping the program into what it is…

The conference will provide an opportunity for diverse research groups from leading Southern California academic campuses to showcase their current research activities and promote collaborative interactions in all areas of Systems and Computational Biology. The conference format will consist of short faculty talks and a poster…