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Opportunities: Visitor Program

The New Mexico Center for the Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Signaling Networks (STMC) invites short-term visitors to participate in our programs and learn our technology and software.

The STMC focuses on quantitative measurements and the mathematical, statistical and computational modeling of complex intracellular and intercellular signaling pathways contributing to immune disorders and cancer. The anchoring biology addresses signaling through the high affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI), a key player in allergies and asthma, and through the ErbB family of receptors implicated in multiple cancers. STMC biologists emphasize the development of new fluorescent and electron dense imaging probes and expressed engineered proteins as well as quantitative biochemical methods to provide quantitative data for modeling. STMC engineers and physicists are creating new imaging and microfluidics-based technologies for improved observation and measurement of signaling pathways. STMC computational scientists are developing improved tools for the statistical analysis of fluorescence and electron microscopy images and new mathematical models for signal initiation and propagation that can be tested using quantitative data sets.

Visiting scientists are welcome for periods ranging from a few days to several months. Projects should be agreed upon ahead of the visit by interactions between the proposed visitor and individual STMC members and should benefit both partners. The STMC can assist with travel and short-term accommodation and will provide lab space and access to computers, materials and equipment.

Inquiries can be directed to specific STMC members or to the PI, Janet M. Oliver (joliver@salud.unm.edu).

Recent visitors have included:

U.S.A.

Michelle Itano, graduate student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Visited: A. Neumann lab May/June 2012
- Project: "Super resolution imaging studies on C-type lectins at cell-cell contacts between fungi and human dendritic cells"

Qi Yan, graduate student, Waggoner lab, Carnegie Mellon University
- Visited: K. Lidke lab Sept/Oct 2010
- Project: Develop Equilibrium Localization Microscopy (ELM)

Canada/Latin America

Emanuel Salazor Cavazos, graduate student, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnio Nacional, Monterrey, MX
- Visited: B. Hlavacek team March-August, 2012
- Project: "Modeling the dynamics of phosphorylation of proteins involved in early IgE receptor signaling through computational modeling and data analysis."

Dr Nicolas Robidoux, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Enrique Ortega, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City

Asia/Pacific

Arfu Guo, grad student, Jin Yang team, the CAS-Max Planck Institute for Computational Biology, University of Shanghai, China
- Visited: W. Hlavacek group, July-Sept 2010
- Project: Developing network-free simulation methods
Wenhong Hou, grad student, Jin Yang team, the CAS-Max Planck Institute for Computational Biology, University of Shanghai, China
- Visited: W. Hlavacek group, June-August 2012
- Project: Further developing network-free simulation methods
Dr. Graham McKay, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Jin Yang, the CAS-Max Planck Institute for Computational Biology, University of Shanghai, China

Europe/Middle East

Dr. Ramit Mehr, Computational Biology Lab, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Visiting: B. Wilson group June/July 2012
- Project: Modeling FcγR signaling in NK cells
Richard Pepermans, Masters student from Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Visited: D. Lidke Lab, Jan-Aug 2012
- Project: Single quantum dot tracking of Met
Dr. Berndt Rieger, University of Delft, Holland
Dr. Tomasz Lipniacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England
Dr. Andre Leier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Tatiana Marquez, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Alessandra Cambi, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands
Robert Nieuwenhuizer, graduate student, Rieger lab, Delft University
- Visited: K. Lidke lab Nov/Dec 2010
- Project: Develop Resolution Measurements for Single Molecule Super-resolution Microscopy
Mathias P. Clausen, graduate student, Southern Denmark University
- Visited: Lidke lab June/July 2011
- Project: Introduction to super-resolution microscopy
Koen van den Dries, graduate student, The Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
- Visited: Lidke lab July/August 2011
- Project: Super resolution imaging of podosomes