Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah, the former US Ambassador to China, will deliver a lecture at UK on Thursday, February 20th, 2014, at 7:30 pm in Memorial Hall. This lecture will address the possibilities and challenges represented by the current US relationship with China. A Q&A period will follow the lecture. Please encourage your students to attend if the topic is relevant to your courses or the workplace for which we are preparing our students.

 

The lecture will be free of charge, and is sponsored by the Office of the President, UK International Center, and the UK Confucius Institute. The lecture title and complete information will be forthcoming in January.

Free Play!



Join the students of FR 410 for a performance of "Paris, Ma Muse", an original play written during the course of Fall semester, on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 6:30 pm in the Commonwealth House (Gaines Center for the Humanities on Maxwell St).



A reception will follow the performance.

Title: Informatics and Modeling Platform for Stable Isotope-Resolve Metabolomics



Abstract: Recent advances in stable isotope-resolved metabolomics (SIRM) are enabling orders-of-magnitude increase in the number of observable metabolic traits (a metabolic phenotype) for a given organism or community of organisms.  Analytical experiments that take only a few minutes to perform can detect stable isotope-labeled variants of thousands of metabolites.  Thus, unique metabolic phenotypes may be observable for almost all significant biological states, biological processes, and perturbations.  Currently, the major bottleneck is the lack of data analysis that can properly organize and interpret this mountain of phenotypic data as highly insightful biochemical and biological information for a wide range of biological research applications.  To address this limitation, we are developing bioinformatic, biostatistical, and systems biochemical tools, implemented in an integrated data analysis platform, that will directly model metabolic networks as complex inverse problems that are optimized and verified by experimental metabolomics data.  This integrated data analysis platform will enable a broad application of SIRM from the discovery of specific metabolic phenotypes representing biological states of interest to a mechanism-based understanding of a wide range of biological processes with particular metabolic phenotypes.

Over the years, Dr. Tamanoi has researched, from an anthropological perspective, broad historical issues of Japanese Empire/"Manchuria" as a transnational space of contacts, conflicts, and negotiations.  This lecture will build on her research and will become a truly exciting occasion that is relevant and attractive to a wide range of audience.  

From the Scholar:

"I began the research on the Japanese agrarian immigration to Northeast China in the mid-1980s, and published Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai'i Press) in 2009. Like any scholar, I began this research with the big questions—how ordinary Japanese embodied the state power in Japan’s puppet-state of Manchuria and how they remembered their power in postwar Japan. However, during this long process of research and writing (that lasted for over two decades), I met (and still meet) so many people, who changed not only THE questions but also how I conducted my research in many small and big ways. In my presentation, I would like to “look back” this long process of my own research and share some lessons I learned from my own memories with the audience."