Author: Katherine Thompson
-

“Curious Minds The Power of Connection” a new book by Professor Dani Bassett
In September 2022 Professor Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn will release a new book through MIT press. Curious Minds The Power of Connection is, “An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.“ Read more about here book here.
-

Professor Jennifer Cremins wins the Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator!
Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, Associate Professor and Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Bioengineering and Genetics, has been awarded the 2022 Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), the preeminent, global organization dedicated to stem cells research. Read more about the award here.
-

PICS Colloquium: “Driving Physics of Inverted Flag Flapping” with Andres Goza
On Friday, February 25 at 2:00 PICS will present a virtual colloquium with Professor Andres Goza, Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Title: Driving physics of inverted flag flapping Abstract: Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is ubiquitous in the natural and engineered world, and a better understanding of FSI systems can aid in…
-

Synthetic Antibiotic Derived from Sequences Encrypted in a Protein from Human Plasma
Presidential Assistant Professor Cesar de la Fuente, has a new paper out in ACS Nano. Abstract: Encrypted peptides have been recently found in the human proteome and represent a potential class of antibiotics. Here we report three peptides derived from the human apolipoprotein B (residues 887–922) that exhibited potent antimicrobial activity against drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Staphylococci both in…
-

“Quantifying the compressibility of complex networks”
Danielle Basset has a new paper out in PNAS! Abstract Many complex networks depend upon biological entities for their preservation. Such entities, from human cognition to evolution, must first encode and then replicate those networks under marked resource constraints. Networks that survive are those that are amenable to constrained encoding—or, in other words, are compressible.…
-

“Fracture of model end-linked networks”
The Riggleman Group has published a new study in PNAS! Abstract Advances in polymer chemistry over the last decade have enabled the synthesis of molecularly precise polymer networks that exhibit homogeneous structure. These precise polymer gels create the opportunity to establish true multiscale, molecular to macroscopic, relationships that define their elastic and failure properties. In…
-

Spring 2022 Events
Come and take a look at what PICS has scheduled for Spring 2022 Colloquium All Colloquium will be held at 2:00 in the PICS large conference room: PICS Room 5343401 Walnut Street, 5th floor (entrance next to the Starbucks) Andres Goza, Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Date: Friday, February 25 at 2:00 – PICS 534…
-

Learning Operators with Coupled Attention
The Perdikaris Group has a new paper available at arxiv.org/abs/2201.01032 Abstract: Supervised operator learning is an emerging machine learning paradigm with applications to modeling the evolution of spatio-temporal dynamical systems and approximating general black-box relationships between functional data. We propose a novel operator learning method, LOCA (Learning Operators with Coupled Attention), motivated from the recent…
-

PICS Winter 2021 Newsletter
News and Accolades Professor César de la Fuente and his group have a new paper out in Nature Methods, “Mining for encrypted peptide antibiotics in the human proteome,” they have also been working to create faster and cheaper COVID-19 Testing With Pencil Lead. Professor Danielle S. Bassett was named a 2021 American Physical Society Fellow and a 2021 highly cited researcher. Professor Vivek Shenoy was also listed…
-

Meet our newest member – Professor Kevin Johnson, 27th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor.
A pioneer of medical information technologies to improve patient safety, Johnson will hold joint appointments in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He will also serve as vice president for…
