The Purdue Integrative Data Science Initiative (IDSI) is hosting a Virtual Coffee Klatch today (May 7). The virtual meeting is second in the series on Data Science and COVID-19 pandemic modeling research at Purdue. Discussions will consider capabilities for detection and tracing of COVID-19 cases and explore opportunities for modeling epidemiological data sets.

Margaret L. Brandeau, Ph.D. Coleman F. Fung Professor of Engineering and Professor of Medicine (by Courtesy), Stanford University will present a distinguished lecture entitled "What Should We Do About the Opioid Epidemic? Models to Support Good Decisions"

Jessica Wagenseil, D.Sc. Associate Professor Director of PhD Studies Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Washington University, will present a distinguished lecture entitled "Elastin mechanobiology in aortic development."

W.E. Moerner, Harry S. Mosher Professor at Stanford University, will present a Purdue College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture entitled, "Single Molecules for Super-Resolution Cellular Imaging" on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 9:30-10:30 a.m. in MJIS 1001. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion, 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. in MJIS 2001.

Dr. Maria Dadarlat of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering will be the next speaker at Science on Tap on Thursday, February 20th.