The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at the fourth Lunch Pitch of the season. Tanvir Shaikh will give a pitch about electron microscopy data curation, and Ryo Morimoto will pitch about adaptive immunity from an evolutionary perspective.
To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place on a Wednesday.
This Lunch Pitch will be held in GALAXEN - Sirius, instead of the regular KBC Glasburen location.
Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 24 March at 10am.
Note! The default lunch option is vegan. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.
Modern transmission electron microscopes can routinely collect on the order of 5 terabytes of data per day. Until recently, this rate was only achievable for the "single particle" reconstruction method, but recent data-collection strategies have made it possible to collect data at a much faster rate for electron tomographic reconstructions as well. The ability to curate data, however, has not kept up our ability to collect data, which is one of the goals of my software package SNARTomo.
Interested in: Expertise in software & algorithms for image analysis & related data management
Adaptive immunity is a recent innovation in evolution, found only in vertebrates. This sophisticated system offers advantages such as specific immune responses against a vast array of pathogens and the ability to form immune memory. However, it comes with significant risks, including potential damage to genome integrity and the possibility of autoimmunity. To mitigate these risks, the system eliminates a large number of non-functional components, resulting in substantial energy costs. Our goal is to explore the origin of adaptive immunity by comparing immune systems at different evolutionary stages.
Interested in: Connecting with researchers curious about immunity and evolution, particularly those interested in combining theoretical modelling and biology to evaluate the evolutionary advantages of adaptive immunity from a metabolic perspective.
Galaxen, Sirius, ground floor of the Universum building. Find your way to the venue (mazemap link)
IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and lunches and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination.
