Dr. Christopher Vulpe | Vulpe Lab

Bio: 

Chris Vulpe, MD, PhD. is a Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville in the Center for Environmental

and Human Toxicology. Dr. Vulpe received his MD and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Vulpe’s group uses systems level approaches in eukaryotes from yeast to people to identify the functional

components that respond to and modulate the consequences of environmental stressors. Most recently, his laboratory is utilizing genome wide and targeted CRISPR screens to understand the mechanisms of toxicity of environmental chemicals. Dr. Vulpe is an author or co-author on >175 papers in peer reviewed journals and books. His group uses functional, genomic, and genetic approaches to provide insight into mechanisms of toxicity in diverse model systems including human models such as human cell culture, organoids, and rodents, as well as ecologically relevant organisms such as Daphnia magna.

 

By Richard LeComte 

LEXINGTON, Ky. --

Kurt Rademaker, an archaeologist and University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology alumnus, will present a colloquium titled “On the Trail of Early South Americans in the Andes” at noon Friday, April 14, in the Young Library Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The talk is co-sponsored by UK’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Human Evolution and Virutal Archaeology Lab. 

Rademaker is an assistant professor at Michigan State University. He is interested in human-environment dynamics, the initial settlement of South America, adaptations in extreme environment and hunter-gatherers. After graduating from UK, Rademaker worked as a professional archaeologist in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Basin regions of the United States with several private and federal entities, including the USDA Forest Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior.  

Between 2014 and 2015, he was awarded the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Research Prize in Germany. His current work, primarily in Peru, involves transdisciplinary collaboration with earth science colleagues to produce high-resolution paleoenvironmental records and with biological anthropologists and paleogeneticists to study how humans have adapted to live in high-elevation mountain regions, some of the most challenging environments on Earth 

“When and by which routes did people first enter South America and successfully adapt to diverse environmental zones?” Rademaker said. “Was the earliest dispersal along the Pacific Coast? How did people first explore and ultimately settle the high-elevation Andes? These intractable questions have challenged archaeologists for decades. In this talk I will review 20 years of my team’s research, including fieldwork at archaeological sites from the high Andes to the Pacific coast and analytical approaches from landscape to molecular scales.” 

2023 Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture winner Eric Eisner (Yale University) presents his award-winning essay, "Jewish Rights on Middle Ground: Race and the Religious Test in Antebellum Maryland."

The presentation will take place via Zoom. Please click the following link to register for this special event!

https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FR8l4qeLRB64l-R36LiDnw#/registration

Biography:

Eric Eisner is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. He has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MPhil in American history from the University of Cambridge. His work has appeared in Southern Jewish History and the Journal of Religious History.

About the talk:

The 1826 Maryland Jew Bill allowed Jewish men to hold political office and positions of public trust. Historians have previously situated the Jew Bill in the politics of Maryland and as part of the religious and legal history of the United States, but they have not considered the importance of race. Maryland, a slave state that also possessed the nation’s largest free Black population, was the country’s “middle ground,” and the state’s racial politics form a necessary context to understand Jewish rights and the redefinition of citizenship in Maryland and the United States.

Mathematics Alumni Day at the University of Kentucky brings together students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the Department of Mathematics to celebrate the accomplishments of our alumni.

Date and location

Date: Friday, April 7, 2022

Location: CB 208

Time: 2:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Speakers / Presenters

David Cook, Jiyoon Jung, Daphne Skipper

Summary

Three UK Math Department alumni will return to UK to share their journey with current faculty, math graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Name: Jiyoon Jung, Marshall University

Title:  Navigating the Academic Job Search Profess: From Applications to Appointments

Abstract:  As a graduate student in the Math Ph.D. program, you may wonder how to navigate the academic job search process effectively. This talk will provide practical advice on how to search for academic jobs, prepare job application documents, and stand out as a strong applicant.

I will cover the types of job application documents, the differences between research-oriented and teaching-oriented school application preparations, the processes by which search committees select candidates, strong applicants versus weak applicants, the basic tips on how to prepare for Zoom and campus interviews, the processes involved in the campus visit of final candidates, the important points to consider once you receive an offer, and the guidance on your first year of appointment.

Throughout the talk, I will share my and colleagues' personal experiences on academic job searches, including mistakes made and lessons learned, for your academic job search journey.

Name: Daphne Skipper, United States Naval Academy

Title:  Seeking Optimality

Abstract:  Three years post-PhD, surprises in both my personal and professional lives saw me without a job and starting a family. I will share my ensuing quest for an optimal balance between career and family, and recount my eventual climb through the ranks of academia: from teaching night classes at a local two-year technical college to earning tenure at the US Naval Academy. The discussion will visit some of the joys and challenges of teaching at a liberal arts college with a very unique mission, and include a side-trip into my recent work incorporating equity in facility location optimization.

Name: David Cook, Google

Title:  Everything is Problem Solving

Abstract:  Whether in academia or industry, everything is--at its core--problem solving. Mathematics gives us a language to formalize problems along with general purpose tools to solve them. In this talk, I will compare and contrast my experiences in problem solving in academia and industry.