To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place every other week.
Where: KBC Glasburen
Pitch 1: Kelly Swarts, Assistant professor and DDLS fellow at Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU
Predicting missing growth from tree increment cores
Interested in: Seeking ML and time-series expertise to detect and validate missing growth rings.
Pitch 2: Morgan Jones, Associate professor at Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience
SvalClime: Deep-time paleoclimate archive opportunities in and around Svalbard
Interested in: Seeking collaborators to strengthen SvalClime and co-develop ICDP drilling proposals.
Pitch 3: Chinmay Dwibedi, Research Fellow at Department of Clinical Microbiology
Reconstruction of Alpha genomes of human gut bacteria
Interested in: Method development for graph-based assemblies combining sparse genes.
Note: Chinmay Dwibedi's pitch is not recorded.