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Related pagesJAZZ at the LABS Jazz at the Labs supports science in the classroom (2006) Not your typical science classroom (jazz preview 2005) Jazz at the Labs supports science in the classroom (2004) OPEN HOUSE Open House 2007
Open House 2005 Open House 2003 Global impacts of "Bug Station's" century of research 100 Years of Exploration and Discovery - University of Washington Friday Harbor Labs Centennial Exhibit Centennial celebration included dedication of the Centennial Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center NECROPSY STORY: | |
$2.1 million grant awarded to UW FH Labsposted 07/14/02
The grant will fund Garrett Odell and co-workers Jonathan Alberts, Victoria Foe, Eli Meir, Ed Munro, George von Dassow, and Alan Trimble, a team with roots in the UW's Department of Zoology, to establish a Center of Excellence in Computational Biology at the UW's marine research facility at Friday Harbor, on San Juan Island. The Center includes an ongoing collaboration with Clare-Waterman Storer's lab at the Scripps Research Institute. One of the next great challenges in biology is to figure out how networks of interacting molecules cooperate to endow cells with behavior -- enabling cells to change shape, to crawl, to divide, and to acquire then pass on to their descendents the ability to build specific organs. Odell's team has pioneered methods for translating molecular details into realistic mathematical models, taking advantage of the power of modern-day computers to explore the often-surprising behaviors that emerge spontaneously from assemblages of interacting molecules. The mission of the NIH Center of Excellence at FHL is two-fold: to promote cross-disciplinary training of young scientists in mathematical modeling and experimental biology techniques; and to assemble an interdisciplinary team of 14 biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists focusing their combined skills on case studies of cell crawling, cell division and cell fate specification. The Center will also run yearly research apprenticeship teams for students selected from diverse international institutions, recruit visiting sabbatical professors, and run workshops, all with the goal of developing mathematics and computer modeling as a tool in basic biology and medicine. The Center will include new laboratory, imaging and computing facilities at FHL. Locating this Center on San Juan Island will take advantage of the extraordinary biological diversity in the surrounding waters, and FHL's facilities for finding and culturing marine organisms and their embryos. Embedding the Center in FHL's natural setting, away from distractions, is intended to focus and inspire its researchers on the difficult task they have undertaken to understand how mere molecules animate living cells. |
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