The Biology Department offers cutting-edge research opportunities in high-tech laboratories.
Students engage in research projects in molecular biology, microbiology, ecology,
cell biology, and physiology. NMT biology graduates are also well-prepared for medical,
dental, and veterinary school.
"From scientist to an entrepreneur: how to start and run your own company."
Momo Vuyisich spent 12 years as a scientist at LANL. His team developed technologies
that they translated into a start-up, Viome. Less than 3 years old, Viome has 170
employees and global customers. The LANL-developed technologies allow them to make
sense of the human body and one day eliminate chronic diseases with personalized nutrition
and lifestyle. Momo will describe what it takes to transition from an academic career,
focused on papers and grants, to a fast-paced entrepreneurial lifestyle that focuses
on product development, applied science, and rapid global expansion. The technical
side of the talk will cover systems biology, machine learning, and personalized diet
and lifestyle.
Note: Seminar in MSEC 103
Rescheduled for 10/28 in MSEC 101
9/23/2019 Seminar Owen Cortner, MS
4pm, Jones-Annex 218 (Ananda)
Owen Cortner is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Boston University's Global Development Policy
Center and will be attending ETH Zürich for his Ph.D. in Environmental Policy. His
talk is: "Land Cover and Land Use Change in Georgia and the Caucasus"
Abstract:
Georgia, a former Soviet Union Republic, has experienced more political, economic
and social change in the last 30 years than most countries. But the environmental
implications of these extreme events remain largely unknown - the region is understudied,
and no national forest inventory has been completed in 15 years. This work provides
a comprehensive analysis of Georgia’s land change patterns and terrestrial carbon
dynamics during its dramatic modern history. We analyze the impacts of shifting policies,
globalization, and economic and political turmoil by mining the rich archives of satellite
observations from NASA and other space agencies, as well as national census data and
local inventories. An investigation based on time series analysis of satellite observations
of surface reflectance that allows us to track the pixel-level land dynamics over
the last 30 years will provide a comprehensive understanding of how Georgia’s recent
history has impacted land use. Based on the history of land use, we will model the
associated carbon dynamics using a spatiotemporal carbon bookkeeping model. Panel
regression models will explore how local and global socioeconomic change has influenced
land change. These analyses, together with estimates of potentially available cropland,
will inform projections of future forest and cropland dynamics under different socioeconomic
and climate scenarios. Using these data, local collaboration and implementation will
aim at informing policy for more sustainable land use.
9/30/2019 Seminar Robert K. Johnston, Ph.D. SNL
4 pm, MSEC 101
NMT alumnus and post-doctoral researcher at Sandia National Labs. His talk is "Monitoring the Revolution: Anti-CRISPR Based Biosensing Platform for CRISPR-Cas9 Detection"
10/7/2019 Seminar Richard Prince, Ph.D. Now BioPharma
4 pm. MSEC 101
Dr. Richard Prince is the Founder and CEO of Now Biopharma, LLC, a boutique Clinical
CRO and Life Science consultancy that specializes in drug development, clinical research,
regulatory affairs, scientific management, quality operations, and GxP regulatory
compliance.
His talk is “Critical Success Factors for Life Science StartUps”
10/21/2019 Seminar
Eric Denkers, Ph.D. UNM
4 pm. MSEC 101
Title TBD
10/28/2019 Seminar Momchilo Vuyisich, Viome Inc.
4pm. MSEC 101
"From scientist to an entrepreneur: how to start and run your own company."
Momo Vuyisich spent 12 years as a scientist at LANL. His team developed technologies
that they translated into a start-up, Viome. Less than 3 years old, Viome has 170
employees and global customers. The LANL-developed technologies allow them to make
sense of the human body and one day eliminate chronic diseases with personalized nutrition
and lifestyle. Momo will describe what it takes to transition from an academic career,
focused on papers and grants, to a fast-paced entrepreneurial lifestyle that focuses
on product development, applied science, and rapid global expansion. The technical
side of the talk will cover systems biology, machine learning, and personalized diet
and lifestyle.
