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Monday meeting
by Nicole Iverson 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hi everyone, I got sick last night and I’m still running a fever, so I’m not going to make it to today’s meeting. But, since it is a very special day, we are not going to cancel the meeting. Instead Omer is going to be in charge. We will be meeting in 145 Morrison this semester from 12 – 1:30 pm. Today’s agenda is pretty short and easy. We will go over some rules/guidelines and have discussions. Specifically: 1. This semester we are going to take ‘minutes’ of our meetings. Minutes are just notes of what is discussed. Certain aspects need to be more detailed than other aspects. I’m not an expert at this, maybe some of you are, but we are going to help each other learn. This will be performed on a changing basis (someone can volunteer to take minutes today, then they won’t have to do it again until the end of the semester). Please type these while we meet. 2. Besides the person taking minutes, nobody else should have their laptop/ipad/phone open except when we are reviewing the journal articles. And then it will only be to look at the journal articles. We are all going to try very hard to respect each other by not looking at our phones/emails during group meeting. This doesn’t mean that in the case of an emergency a person can’t check their phone, but in general, let’s put them away. 3. Please go around the room to introduce ourselves (name, grade/position, 1 fun thing we did over the winter break) 4. Omer will explain (and others can help) the idea of the 5 minute overview of a journal article. You will set a time for when the articles must be shared (will it be by 9 am Monday mornings, Sunday at 5 pm, etc.?). You will also decide how you want to share the articles (should we email the list, should we have a folder on SharePoint, etc.?). 5. Lab notebooks will be reviewed this semester during specific group meetings (listed on the schedule). If you are unsure what is needed in your lab notebook please ask/discuss. I would like them to be detailed enough so that when one person leaves the group we know what they did and did not try and we don’t have to repeat their work (for instance, what concentrations of LPS did Joey add to cells? What type of cells? How did he dissolve it? How was the LPS stored? What controls were used? What did the raw data look like? What did the analyzed data look like? What media was used for the cells? Was media, saline or PBS used for the actual experiment? Etc.). Please keep your lab notebook updated weekly (I recommend setting aside 2 hours every Friday/weekend to update your notebook, but that’s just what would work for me). We will exchange and check each others notebooks for the first time on 2/12 – please make sure you get all caught up before then! A couple of rules that I follow – 1) you do not need to sign each page (I can explain why if you don’t know), 2) you can type up/print out a copy of your protocol and tape it into your notebook (this allows for easy changes to the numbers/conditions that you are trying each time you run an experiment), 3) you need to use ink (not pencil) in your lab notebook, 4) if you forgot your notebook and wrote information on a different sheet of paper you can tape that into your lab notebook – you don’t have to re-write it, 5) you must have directions on where to find the raw data and the data analysis documents written down in your lab notebook (file path in SharePoint). What other rules should everyone follow? Please write these down so we can remember. 6. Omer will give a practice talk next week. After that I will give the first ‘overview of research’ talk with background about her so that you know what I’m looking for. Omer’s practice talk is for his formal seminars at other universities, so it will be slightly different than the rest of us. 7. Please discuss the Crucial Conversations book – what were your favorite parts, what was confusing, have you tried to use any of these tips/techniques and did they work for you? What else? 8. Anything that I’m forgetting? That’s it. If you have any questions please let me know. I might try to sleep today, so if I don’t answer my texts/email quickly please be patient. If there is an emergency you can call my phone – I typically will wake up for that. Thanks everyone!! Iverson [signature_3680010181] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 Cell: 732-648-3319 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/>

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Grant Writing Training for Graduate Students
by Portia Plange 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/gradstudies/16850/92192 Grant Proposal Writing on March 7, 2024 I think this will be useful for us graduate students, I plan on going! Regards, Portia

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Friday presentation
by Nicole Iverson 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Hi group, I’m giving a presentation tomorrow for the Chemical Engineering department where I’ll be talking about some of your work. If you are interested in attending you are definitely welcome to do so (2 pm Othmer B201). For those of you who are new to the group it might be a nice overview of some of what we are doing (I’m not able to present everything, but it will have a good amount of information). Iverson [signature_2793173075] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/>

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FW: UNL CoE BME Retreat!
by Nicole Iverson 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Please attend if you are available. [signature_2339879684] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/> From: Forrest Kievit <fkievit2(a)unl.edu> Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 11:36 AM To: coe_biomed_faculty(a)lists.nebraska.edu <coe_biomed_faculty(a)lists.nebraska.edu>, coe_biomed_students(a)lists.nebraska.edu <coe_biomed_students(a)lists.nebraska.edu>, bse-bme(a)lists.nebraska.edu <bse-bme(a)lists.nebraska.edu> Subject: UNL CoE BME Retreat! Thank you for your survey responses, which we have used to develop the agenda for our second annual UNL College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering (BME) retreat on Thursday, February 1st, 2024, 8:30 am to 1:30 pm in Morrison Life Sciences Center, Room 169. We are excited by the enthusiasm and support to continue this event and to find ways to connect, collaborate, and share our expertise with each other! An invitation for the retreat will follow this email. Please be sure to share with your group members and encourage them to come! Based on feedback from the survey, the retreat will allow time for both networking and presentations (lightning talks). Faculty, please sign up to present a talk here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tggXLXU… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tggXLXU9…> Each faculty member who signs up will have 10 minutes to describe their research program and research program needs and can use the 10 minutes as they see fit. If you want time for questions, plan for less than 10 minutes. Also, if slots all fill up and you want to present, just contact us and we will make sure we get you added! See you on February 1st! Forrest and Angie [http://kievit.unl.edu/UNL.png] Forrest Kievit, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Biomedical Engineer Department of Biological Systems Engineering University of Nebraska – Lincoln 262 Morrison Center 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900 402-472-2175 | fkievit2(a)unl.edu<mailto:fkievit2@unl.edu> | http://kievit.unl.edu/

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FW: BSE Colloquium
by Nicole Iverson 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

FYI in case you didn’t get this James – can you let me know if you get this email? There has been trouble with emails going to one of my classroom students named James instead of you. I hopefully fixed the problem, but I just want to check. [signature_4253775594] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/> From: Tracy Zimmerman <tracy.zimmerman(a)unl.edu> Date: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 8:49 AM To: BSEALL(a)LISTS.NEBRASKA.EDU <bseall(a)lists.nebraska.edu>, Wei Niu <wniu2(a)unl.edu> Subject: BSE Colloquium Please join us for the first colloquium of the spring semester! Dr. Wei Niu from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will be joining us (bio below). Note that food will not be served at the colloquiums this semester – feel free to bring your lunch. Dr. Wei Niu completely her B.S. degree in Chemistry and M.S. degree in Biophysics from Tsinghua University in China. She received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Michigan State University in 2004 under the supervision of Professor John W. Frost. After spending years in biotech companies, she returned to academia and joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2015. Her research focuses on synthetic biology with special interests in microbial metabolic engineering, protein engineering, and genetic code expansion. She is one of the team members of Genomatica Inc. to receive the 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Award for Bio-BDO project. [cid:image002.png@01DA4D0F.C41F8860]

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Reminder
by Nicole Iverson 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Remember that graduate students and post docs are expected to attend these department/university seminars. Undergraduate students are invited to attend, but do not have to. Iverson [signature_1154792259] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/>

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Spring meeting plans
by Nicole Iverson 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Hi everyone, I’ve put together a plan for our group meetings for this coming semester. This semester will be a little different than past semesters, but I think that it will be interesting/helpful. As you can see, our first meeting (on 1/29) will be an overview of the book we read last semester and an explanation of what is expected for the semester. Let me know if you have any questions. Iverson [signature_540699606] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/>

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Happy Holidays!!
by Nicole Iverson 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Hi team, As some of you know, I like to get a small holiday gift for everyone. I’m having trouble/delays with the rest of this year’s gift, so in the meantime I have set out the first half of the gift on the conference table in 258. I’m going to let everyone choose which of the three varieties they want, but there is enough for everyone to take one. If I get the other half of the gift worked out I will let you know. Happy (belated) Holidays!! Iverson [signature_569364026] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/>

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Group meetings
by Nicole Iverson 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Hi everyone, I’m putting together plans for our group meetings this semester. I would like us to finish discussing the book from last semester, but I know that I missed a couple of meetings, so I’m not sure what chapter we are on. How far did we discuss? What would you like to do this semester for group meeting? If you have suggestions please send them to me by 8 am tomorrow (Thursday) morning so that I can put together a plan. Thanks, Iverson [signature_4082008088] Nicole Iverson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources College of Engineering University of Nebraska–Lincoln 260 Morrison Hall, 4240 Fair Street, Lincoln, NE 68583 402-472-0884 | iverson(a)unl.edu<mailto:iverson@unl.edu>| engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab<http://engineering.unl.edu/iversonlab/>

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by Jacob Larsen 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Jlarsen22(a)huskers.unl.edu

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