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Vaccines Against Infectious Agents, Ebenezer Tumban
Vaccines Against Infectious Agents, Ebenezer Tumban
TechTalks
Peptide or subunit vaccines (antigens) are safer than attenuated vaccines. However, peptide vaccines are less immunogenic and require large multiple doses of peptides plus exogenous adjuvants to elicit an immune response. The immunogenicity of peptide antigens can be enhanced if the peptides are immunized in the context of an antigen complex that mimics a virus in terms of size, morphology, and adjuvanticity. Virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from bacteriophages (PP7, MS2, and Qβ) possess these features and as such, they are excellent platforms for peptide vaccine designs. In this seminar, I will discuss how we have exploited these platforms to enhance …
Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Forest And Ecology Applications, Curtis Edson
Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Forest And Ecology Applications, Curtis Edson
TechTalks
In the summer of 2017 three new research projects were started using remotely piloted aircraft (drone) to collect forest and ecological data. In Michigan Technological University's research forest (Ford Forest) we began a forest biomass study by collecting imagery, including visible spectrum from a drone, as well as hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery from a human pilot aircraft; in the Hiawatha National Forest we collected visible and near-infrared (NIR) imagery for invasive species remediation and coastal wetlands mapping; and in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta Canada we collected visible and NIR imagery in support of an ongoing ecological study observing interactions …
Prepare Lignin For Carbon Fiber Production, Xinfeng Xie
Prepare Lignin For Carbon Fiber Production, Xinfeng Xie
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Climate Mitigation Through Food-Energy-Water (Few) Conservation, Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Climate Mitigation Through Food-Energy-Water (Few) Conservation, Kathleen E. Halvorsen
TechTalks
Climate change is our biggest challenge to date. Moving toward mitigating or reducing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change is therefore critical. We need to engage all the "wedges" or strategies we can to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and achieve this, including increased energy conservation, consumption of low carbon renewable energy sources, and carbon sequestration. Research integrating social, natural, and engineering sciences that includes non-academic organizations is key to reducing emissions across the energy production and consumption supply chain. This presentation describes such research studying greenhouse gas emissions reductions through household scale food-energy-water consumption in the USA and Netherlands.