Basic Research to Bridge Sensors

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Mehdi Kalantari Khandani at the University of Maryland has created a sensor system that constantly monitors different types of stresses on bridge structures and, when it detects anything unusual, alerts those who need to know. But Mehdi's initial research had nothing to do with bridges. This is the story of how Dr. Khandani's basic research on ultra-low-power sensor networks ultimately led to low-maintenance bridge sensors that can help keep an eye on the structural integrity of our...

Rita Colwell (University of Maryland) at the 2012 SFAF Meeting

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Rita Colwell on "Experimental Reservoirs of Human Pathogens: The Vibrio cholerae paradigm" at the 2012 Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting held June 5-7, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Science Nation - Silver Saver

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Conservation scientist Glen Gates at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is working on new ways to protect museum-quality silver from the ravages of time. Fine silverware and silver pieces on display at museums are exposed to air and tarnish just like our silver at home. Every time someone polishes the silver, even under the careful supervision of conservation experts, a little bit of the silver wears away. Gates and colleague, Physics professor Ray Phaneuf at the University of Maryland, are...

MICW - Metagenome Data Integration, Data Storage and Retrieval: Owen White

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University of Maryland's Owen White on "Metagenome Data Integration, Data Storage and Retrieval" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.

MICW - Assembly Quality Evaluation: Mihai Pop

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University of Maryland's Mihai Pop on "Genome Assembly Forensics: Metrics for Assessing Assembly Correctness" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.

Claire Fraser-Liggett on “Complex microbial communities: We’re not in Kansas anymore”

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Claire Fraser-Liggett, Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, gives the June 2, 2010 keynote at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM.

Owen White on Consensus Annotation at the GSC8

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Owen White of the University of Maryland talks about "Comparing Annotations: Towards Consensus Annotation" at the Genomic Standards Consortium's 8th meeting at the DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, Calif. on Sept. 10, 2009.

Weinstock on Human Microbiome Project and Wortman on the HMP DACC at GSC8

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George Weinstock from Washington University School of Medicine talks about the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) followed briefly by Jennifer Wortman from the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the Data Analysis and Coordination Center (DACC) portal to the HMP at the Genomic Standards Consortium's 8th meeting at the DOE JGI in Walnut Creek, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2009.

Niranjan Nagarajan on "Towards the $1000 genome"

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Niranjan Nagarajan from the University of Maryland discusses the impact of new technologies on finishing at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 28, 2009.

Rational Approaches of Data Management Across Boodles of Data

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Rational Approaches of Data Management Across Boodles of Data