Jonathan Eisen

At #UCDavis Tue 10/4 – Andrew Moeller on The evolution of the human gut microbiome

CPB Seminar Reminder for Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 4:10pm in 1022 Life Sciences

Speaker: Andrew Moeller
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Nachman Lab, UC Berkeley
Title: “The evolution of the human gut microbiome ”

Seminar today at #UCDavis: Xavier Darzacq

Quantitative Ecologist – Cornell University

QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGIST

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cornell University

We invite applications for a tenure track position in quantitative ecology, at the level of Assistant or early Associate Professor. We seek candidates with expertise in analyzing large data sets or modeling of processes from the ecosystem to regional or larger scales, with an emphasis on the interactions of human-accelerated environmental change with ecological structure and function and sustainability. We will consider applicants with a strong theoretical, statistical, and/or computational background studying the interactions between organisms (including humans) and the environment as this influences biogeochemistry, ecological function, climate change, community assembly, or broad-scale patterns in biodiversity. The area of expertise could be in any ecosystem. We are particularly interested in individuals who are developing and applying quantitative methods, who are interested in understanding underlying ecological processes, who work at various scales, and who will collaborate with ecologists and evolutionary biologists as well as scientists in related disciplines across Cornell.

Faculty Position: Assistant or early Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Tenure track, academic-year (9-month) appointment with 50% research and 50% teaching.

Qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D., demonstrated excellence in research in some aspect of quantitative ecology, such as analyzing big data sets, remote sensing, ecological observation systems, or ecosystem-scale, regional-scale, or Earth system modeling. Candidates should have a strong interest in collaborative research, and a dedication to excellence in teaching. Post-doctoral experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be expected to develop a well-funded, innovative research program with a national and international reputation, to teach in an introductory ecology course, and to develop an advanced course in quantitative methods in his or her specialty area.

Salary: Competitive, commensurate with background and experience.

Start Date: July 2017

Application Procedure: Applications should be submitted via the website https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/8040. Candidates should submit a short cover letter, curriculum vitae, a research statement, and a statement of teaching interests and experience. Candidates should also arrange for three letters of reference. Inquiries can be directed to Search Committee Chair, Christine Goodale, at quantecolsearch@cornell.edu. Applications from women and minority candidates are actively encouraged. Review of applications will begin Nov. 1, 2016, and continue until the position is filled.

Cornell University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS) Presents: 2016-2017 CAMPOS Cafecito /Coffee Breaks – Oct. 26, Dec. 1, 2016 & Feb. 16, Apr. 6, Jun. 1, 2017

Please circulate widely

Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS) Presents: 2016-2017 CAMPOS Cafecito/Coffee Breaks

Oct. 26, Dec. 1, 2016

Feb. 16, Apr. 6, Jun. 1, 2017

All Cafecitos/Coffee Breaks: 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. | UC Davis ADVANCE Office 1100 Surge III “The Grove”

Pre-registration suggested.

For more information, visit edu/related-conferences-events or call 530-752-4792

Audience: Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students

Topics:

Exploring the Relationship between Stereotype Threat and an Inclusive Environment

· This presentation should benefit educators, students and staff interested in deepening their understanding of the experiences of health professions students related to stereotype threat. Our research findings suggest that faculty and peers have a big impact (positive or negative) on the climate of inclusivity as experienced by underrepresented students. Through this presentation and discussion we will explore inter-relational best practices that foster inclusion and student success.

Improving Equity, Diversity, and Workplace Climate Among Faculty at UC Davis

· This presentation will provide an overview of the two main activities of the Inclusive Campus Climate Initiative of the Advance Program: The STEAD workshops for members of faculty recruitment committees and the COACHE faculty job satisfaction survey. These activities aim to increase equity and diversity in faculty recruitment and to assess (and thereby help to improve) faculty members’ satisfaction with the many aspects of their work at UC Davis. The goals, approach, and outcomes of each effort will be presented and offered for discussion.

Mentorship: Its Role and Importance for Latinas in STEM

· Our interviews with Latina President Postdoctoral Fellows and other STEM scholars yielded powerful narratives of the importance of mentorship within and outside the academic context for the development of a scientist identity and academic success i. This presentation will discuss our preliminary analysis of these findings.

Institutionalizing Inclusion: Policies and Practices that Sustain and Enable Inclusive Climates

· The policy and practices initiative has been reviewing polices as well as practices related to faculty recruitment, advancement and retention with the goal of breaking down barriers to inclusion in the faculty ranks. Some suggested changes have already been implemented and others will be presented in our final report to the campus. Come to the cafecito to discuss the draft of the findings and recommendations of this final report.

Capital Resource Network-Helping to Attract and Retain the Best and the Brightest

· The Capital Resource Network is a program created at UC Davis that serves as a collaborative regional resource to recruit and retain highly competitive, educated, skilled and diverse talent, both academic and staff appointees. The fee-for-service program uses a proactive and intentional approach to welcome, introduce, and integrate top talent and their families to the region. Seeking to attract and retain the best and the brightest, the program’s dual career support efforts strategically recognize the importance of employment opportunities for the accompanying spouse or partner, who is critical to the decision-making process.

2016-2017 ADVANCE CAMPOS Cafecitos-Coffee Breaks Flyer FINAL.pdf

Yet another biased meeting from Oxford Global – their meetings should be shunned #YAMMM #GenderBias

Well, Oxford Global has done it again. They have found a way to be one of the most extremely gender biased conferences around. Their 2016 Genome Editing Congress Speakers. Their web site lists 20 speakers, 19 of which are men. (One of the men is listed twice – I am not sure if that is due to giving two talks or a mistake. So this may be 19 speakers~ 95, 18 of which are men). Regardless that comes to ~ 95% male speakers.

Andre Choulika, CEO Cellectis
Guna Rajagopal, VP – Global Head, Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences Janssen
Lorenz Mayr, VP & Global Head, Reagents & Assay Development Astrazeneca
Zheng-Yi Chen, Associate Professor Harvard Medical School
Daniel Anderson, Associate Professor MIT
Marcello Maresca, Associate Principal Scientist Astrazeneca
John Doench, Director; Associate Director, Genetic Perturbation Platform Broad Institute
Chad Cowan, Associate Professor Harvard
Pablo Perez Pinera, Associate Professor University of Illinois
Jim Collins, Professor MIT
Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Director, Transgenic Core Facility University of Nebraska Medical School
Danilo Maddalo, Senior Scientist and Lab Head Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Rodolphe Barrangou, Associate Professor North Carolina State University
Stephanie Mohr, DRSC Director Harvard Medical School
Robert Howes, Associate Director MedImmune
Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Director, Transgenic Core Facility University of Nebraska Medical Center
James Carothers, Assistant Professor University of Washington
William Theodorus Hendriks, Instructor in Neurology Harvard Medical School
Mark Osborn, Assistant Professor University of Minnesota
Jeff Chamberlain, Professor University of Washington

1 and 19 were counted at Genome Editing USA Congress #OxfordGlobal. Learn more at GenderAvenger Tally

Sponsors of the meeting should be contacted about this:

Sadly this is a consistent pattern for Oxford Global. See for example Oxford Global Sequencing Meetings: Where MEN Tell You About Sequencing #YAMMM and also Time to boycott Oxford Global meetings due to blatant sexism

Really – we need as a community to stand up to these types of meetings. Oxford Global meetings should be boycotted. And the companies that sponsor their meetings are complicit in their gender bias.

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UPDATE 10/2 12:56 PM – decided to look at another one of their meetings that is linked from this one

2nd Annual Next Generation Sequencing USA Congress
3-4 October 2016, Boston, USA

83 % male speakers. Grand.

James Knight, Director of Bioinformatics Yale University
John Quackenbush, Professor Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Shanrong Zhao, Director Pfizer Inc.
Nazneen Aziz, Research Professor Arizona State University
George Weinstock, Director and Professor Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Director Informatics Harvard Medical School
Rong Mao, Medical Director, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, ARUP Laboratories; Associate Professor, Pathology University of Utah School of Medicine
Mark Gerstein, Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Computer Science Co-Director of the Yale Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
James Willey, Professor of Medicine and Pathology University of Toledo
Neil R. Smalheiser, Associate Professor in Psychiatry University of Illinois College of Medicine
Mark Borodovsky, Regents’ Professor Georgia Tech
Scott J. Tebbutt, Associate Professor & Chief Scientific Officer University of British Columbia & PROOF Centre of Excellence
Michael Fraser, Program Director, Cancer Genomics, Radiation Medicine Program Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Justin Johnson, Associate Director and Principal Scientist AstraZeneca
Leonora Balaj, Instructor in Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Aleksandra Markovets, Senior Scientist AstraZeneca
Baohong Zhang, Director of Clinical Bioinformatics Pfizer, Inc.
Steven Hart, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic
Manolis Kellis, Professor and Head, MIT Computational Biology Group MIT
John Methot, Head of Scientific Computing Biogen
Andrew Hollinger, Associate Director: Scientific Communications Broad Institute
Yingtao Bi, Senior Manager in Statistics Abbvie Bioresearch Center
Paul Blainey, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT and Core Faculty Member Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

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UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2017-18

University of California
PRESIDENT’S POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
2017–2018 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

THE PROGRAM. The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program oﬀers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. The contributions to diversity may include public service towards increasing equitable access in fields where women and minorities are under-represented. In some fields, the contributions may include research focusing on underserved populations or understanding inequalities related to race, gender, disability or LGBT. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic and research careers the critical perspective that comes from their non-traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of members of groups historically underrepresented in higher education in the United States.

AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS. Fellowships are awarded for research conducted at any one of the University of California’s ten campuses. The award includes a salary starting at $47,844 depending on ﬁeld and experience, beneﬁts including health insurance and paid vacation/sick leave, and up to $5,000 for research-related and program travel expenses. Each award is for a minimum of 12-months and may be renewable for an additional term upon demonstration of academic/research productivity.

ELIGIBILITY. Applicants must receive a Ph.D. from an accredited university before the start of their fellowship. Successful applicants must present documents demonstrating that they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are encouraged to apply.

APPLICATION. Apply online at: ppfp.ucop.edu

DEADLINE: November 1, 2016

Berkeley Davis
Irvine
Los Angeles Merced
Riverside San Diego
San Francisco Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz

More information:
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of California
visit online: ppfpinfo

University Partnerships for Faculty Diversity – Partner Programs with University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, The California Alliance,UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs, and the UC-affiliated National Labs. Please visit: http://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/about-ppfp/partnerships.html

2017-18 Call for Applications.pdf

EMBO Practical Course on Plant Microbiota 26 March–7 April 2017

Of interest:

Dear colleague,

We are happy to inform you that we are organizing an EMBO Practical Course on the Plant Microbiota (26 March – 7 April 2017), a rapidly advancing research field. This Practical Course will cover a mix of lectures and hands-on training, including advanced bioinformatic analysis.

We would be pleased if you could encourage interested PhD students or post-docs to submit application documents at http://events.embo.org/17-plant-microbiota/

Please find the EMBO practical course poster attached. We kindly ask you to post it in your institution.

17-plant-microbiota.pdf

California State U.Computational Biology job

The faculty of the Biology Department in the College of Natural and
Behavioral Sciences at California State University Dominguez Hills invites
applications from individuals for a Tenure Track position in the Biology
Department. Applications will be reviewed starting October 1, 2016.

The Position
We are seeking either a marine biologist or computational biologist
who has passion for teaching biology and conducting research with
undergraduates and Master’s students. Teaching responsibilities may
include general education, introductory biology, non-majors courses,
as well as upper-division and graduate courses in the candidate’s
specialty.

Biology Department, College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences
The Department of Biology offers four baccalaureate programs, an M.S.
program, and two Minor programs. Recognizing the crucial role of research
in science education, the Biology Department is committed to offering
research opportunities to all interested and qualified students.
The Department also offers courses that satisfy General Education
requirements, and service courses for majors in Clinical Sciences,
Health Sciences, Liberal Studies, Physical Education, and Human Services.

Mission
The fundamental mission of the Biology Department is to provide an
intensive, progressive, and balanced learning experience in cell and
molecular biology, organismal biology, microbiology, and environmental
biology to serve a student population that is highly diverse, both in
educational and ethnic background, and in academic and career goals.

For more information see: http://www4.csudh.edu/biology/index

The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be committed to teaching, mentoring, and
advising a highly diverse student population. The position requires
the establishment of an active research program, as well as service to
the university. The candidate may have the opportunity to work with the
Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) to innovate K-16 education.

Qualifications
Background Checks
The successful candidate is required to complete a thorough background
check and the employment offer can be rescinded if the background check
reveals disqualifying or falsified information.

Minimum Qualifications
• A Ph.D. in biology or a related field is required.
• Experience in teaching undergraduates from diverse age,
socioeconomic, cultural, and academic backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications
• The applicant must have demonstrated potential for effective
teaching of lower and upper division undergraduate and graduate courses
in biology and related fields, with high academic standards using
a variety of methodologies. The applicant must possess scholarly
and professional competence as demonstrated by a record of research
publications. The applicant must be interested in mentoring and working
closely with undergraduate and Master’s students both in the classroom
and in research. The applicant must be willing to participate actively
in curriculum development and to work cooperatively within a multi-
disciplinary department and college. The applicant must have demonstrated
ability and/or interest in working in a multiethnic, multicultural
environment.

For more information please visit
https://my.csudh.edu/psp/paaprd/EMPLOYEE/HDHPRD/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?
Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId)43&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1