Author: Jonathan Eisen

Plant Sciences Seminar Announcement…

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra (Plant Sciences, UCD) will be presenting “Adaptation in maize: domestication and beyond”.

Wednesday, May 6 from 12-1pm in 3001 PES.

Jeff Ross-Ibarra May 6 seminar flyer.pdf

MIC 291: Selected Topics in Microbiology

Work-in-Progress Seminars

Dr. Maeli Melotti
(Dept. of Plant Sciences)

"Cross-kingdom molecular battles in the phyllosphere"
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
4:10 pm

1022 Life Sciences

Melotto 4-22-15.doc

__________________Position Announcement_________________

Permanent position at NSF in Population and Community Ecology

The Division of Environmental Biology at NSF seeks applicants for a Program Director in its Population and Community Ecology cluster. This is a permanent position, with good benefits and a salary range of $107,325 – $167,252. Previous experience with NSF as a PI, panelist or rotator is helpful but not essential. The deadline is May 18, 2015 and the application process is relatively straightforward.

Applicants should have a PhD and expertise in at least one of the following: population ecology, species interactions, and community structure/dynamics in terrestrial, wetland or freshwater habitats.

For details, please see the USAjobs.gov posting (link below) or contact Doug Levey (dlevey@nsf.gov).

Members of underrepresented groups, including individuals with disabilities, are especially encouraged to apply.

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/399791500

Just got this announcement:

C-DEBI Seeks an Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager

The Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) is seeking a Program Manager to join its team. C-DEBI is a multi-institutional research and education center funded by the National Science Foundation with USC as its headquarters. In addition to the science of exploring microbial life beneath the seafloor, education and diversity are priorities to the Center’s efforts to strengthen the STEM pipeline by integrating research and educational programs for diverse future generations. The full-time Program Manager will serve as Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager, helping to create, coordinate, and lead our education, outreach, and diversity efforts to serve our students, postdocs, faculty, and other participants at USC and across the nation. The Program Manager will also direct day-to-day project operations and administrative activities of C-DEBI at USC.

The ideal candidate for the position of C-DEBI Education, Outreach, and Diversity Manager has:

• 5 years of experience developing and managing educational STEM programs with multiple institutions
• Leadership and strong oral and written communication skills
• Experience using social media for professional outreach
• Research experience at Ph.D. level

See the USC jobs website for more information on this posting ID 1003195:
http://jobs.usc.edu/postings/43150

REMINDER:

Interesting job posting to Bioinformatics.Org

RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides leadership and support to the highly visible, dynamic, trans-NIH initiative of biomedical discovery in an era of big data. Reporting directly to the NIH Director, ADDS has multiple responsibilities including the Big Data to Knowledge Initiative (BD2K) and a role in the emergent Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI).

ADDS is seeking a Senior Advisor for Clinical Data Science, with a background working with electronic health records (EHRs), to join a team of data science specialists with significant expertise in basic research dataworking on: developing an enterprise-level solution to support a 1 million plus patient cohort for precision medicine; developing the “Commons” — a conceptual framework to support biomedical basic and clinical data in the cloud and beyond; developing and maintaining clinical data standards, policies, and sustainability; training; innovating data science; improving internal processes for data centric grant review; and communicating and subsequently sharing actions with all stakeholders, notably other federal agencies, philanthropic organizations, the private sector, and international partners. Given the high visibility and priority of the PMI, the Senior Advisor will interact directly with both the ADDS and the NIH Director.

Duties include:
* Working with the PMI team on behalf of ADDS and the NIH Director to establish methods and standards for acquiring and transmitting clinical data derived from EHRs for PMI cohort research purposes.
* Advising on issues related to the use of mobile devices and mHealth apps for acquisition and management of research data and participant reported observations.
* Working with ADDS team, that have significant expertise in basic research data, to establish a synergistic exchange, such that best practices in handling unstructured research data can be translated into analogous best practices for research uses of clinical data.
* Having a trans-NIH role in communicating and fostering developments surrounding clinical data, including the development and adoption of common clinical data elements across NIH Institutes and Centers, and developing standards on behalf of the NIH as a whole, with a particular need to interface with the efforts of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
* Helping to inform policies and regulatory affairs surrounding research uses of clinical data with particular emphasis on the balance of clinical data availability versus the need to protect patient privacy.
* Advising on the development and maintenance of clinical data resources at NIH such as dbGaP, ClinVar, ClinGen and ClinicalTrials.gov.
* Supporting the ADDS team to foster of new innovations surrounding big data, notably the establishment of the Commons.
* Contributing to the design of intramural and extramural training programs that emphasize clinical data.
* Contributing to the design of extramural funding programs as part of the BD2K initiative.
* Working closely with the Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development to synergize clinical informatics developments across the NIH.

To learn more about the office of the ADDS, please visit: http://datascience.nih.gov/

REQUIREMENTS:
Required Qualifications:
Applicants must possess a Ph.D., M.D. or both in biomedical informatics, significant research experience in handling and analyzing clinical data, proven expertise working with and developing EHR systems, and strong interpersonal skills collaborating as part of a team. Applicants should be known and respected within their profession, as distinguished individuals of outstanding competence. The Senior Advisor for Clinical Data Sciencewill be appointed under Title 42(f) at a salary commensurate with qualifications. The work site location is the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland.

HOW TO APPLY:
Applications will be accepted through May 11, 2015. To be considered for this position, you must submit your curriculum vitae, bibliography, supplemental narrative statement that addresses the required qualifications, and the full contact details of up to five references by mail to Dr. Philip Bourne, National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, Building 1, Room 325, Bethesda, MD 20892 OR by email to philip.bourne@nih.gov. Applications must be postmarked by the closing date.

For further details please contact Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D., FACMI, Associate Director for Data Science at philip.bourne@nih.gov

POLICY:
HHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers

Special Seminar

Dr. Hanspeter Naegeli
(Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich)

"Nucleotide excision repair: Chromatin connections"

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

11:00 am

1022 Life Sciences

Just got pointed to this Wired article by Katie Collins — Eden Project’s ‘Human Biome’ is a gross, musical microbe showcase (Wired UK)

Fascinating project that I actually don’t think is gross in any way.  From the article

Invisible You: The Human Biome will explore the community of microbes that live in and on each and every one of us. Artistic and interactive displays will show bacteria, fungi and viruses, with 11 artists commissioned to create works for the exhibition.

I want to just quote the entire story but I think that is not allowed so let’s just say you really should read the whole thing and look at the gallery.