The Genome Center Systems and Synthetic Biology Seminar Series present:
Uncovering mechanistic connections between the microbiome and the Immune system: new experimental designs meet new computational methods.
Speaker: Richard Bonneau
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
New York University and the Simons Foundation
Date: Friday, March 18th, 2016, 10am – 11am
Location: 1005 GBSF
The Provost’s Forums on the Public University and the Social Good Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Open Access, Piracy, and the Scholarly Publishing Market
Christopher Kelty
Professor in the Departments of Information Studies and Anthropology, and the Institute for Society and Genetics, at the University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Kelty pursues research in the cultural signi cance of information technology, especially in science and engineering. He is the author most recently of Two Bits: The Cultural Signifcance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles on open source and free software, including their impact on education, nanotechnology, the life sciences, and issues pertaining to peer review and research in the sciences and the humanities. He is trained in science studies (history and anthropology) and has written about methodological issues facing anthropology today.
In his lecture, Professor Kelty will provide necessary context by reviewing the politics and history of the challenges of scholarly publication; how publishing ts into knowledge production; how publishers have come to be a key component in the scholarly ecology and the political economy that sustain both universities and individual academic work; and the emergence of open access research and its links to other similar movements and technologies. Building on this context, Professor Kelty will focus on the struggle of some academics to create a viable form of open access, and the under-theorized indifference of the majority of academics to the open access question. Using his own experience in shepherding an open access policy through the University of California’s academic governance system, he will identify some of the reasons open access is simultaneously desired and resisted, and reflect on the assumptions beneath this tension. He will conclude by reflecting on the idea that we may not want the open access we are going to get.
Lecture:
3 to 4:30 p.m.
Alpha Gamma Rho Hall Alumni Center
Reception:
4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Library
Alumni Center
Sponsors Include: The Of ce of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, the Community and Regional Development Program, the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, and Science and Technology Studies
Resistance and tolerance are two ways an organism might interaction with a microbe. While this model has been been recognized for many decades by investigators interested in plant-microbe interaction, the emphasis for animal-microbe interactions has overwhelmingly centered on resistance, largely because of a focus on pathogens. Today’s seminar speaker has tried to enlighten a more broad perspective.
Janelle Ayers
Assistant Professor
Salk Institute
"The concept of tolerance defenses in host-microbiota interactions”
Friday March 11
12:00 Noon
GBSF 1005
***** CPB Seminar Reminder for Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 4:10pm in 1022 Life Sciences *****
Speaker: Jeremy Berg
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: “Tales from the land of human genetics: How selection, drift and pleiotropy have impacted quantitative trait evolution in humans”
Host: Graham Coop
The entire CPB Seminar schedule for Winter Quarter 2016 is available here.
The 1st candidate for the open position for Dean of the College of Biological Sciences will be presenting a public talk today.
Today Monday, March 7, 2016
CBS Dean Candidate Public Forum- All are invited to attend.
2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Public Forum Dean Candidate
Presentation Topic: Role of Biological Sciences in Research and Higher Education in the 21st Century
Activities and Recreation Center, Ballroom A
“Autism Genetics: a brief history and the current state”
Speaker: Megan Dennis
UC Davis
Monday, March 7, 2016
4:00-5:00 PM
1022 Life Sciences
A post of possible interest at Inside Higher Ed. By Ernesto Priego: Open Access Reinterpreted | University of Venus
Thanks to Art Shapiro for sending this to me.
Lots of interesting points and also an interesting response from Bjorn Brembs. Definitely worth a look.
Got this in email:
Dear Colleague:
We are writing to ask for your assistance in facilitating our efforts to get the word out about the University of California, Riverside’s (UCR) major new Cluster Hire initiative, which seeks to add three hundred (300) tenured and tenure-track positions in thirty-three (33) cross-disciplinary areas (clusters) as selected through a peer-reviewed competition. Specifically, our cluster hire committee is tasked with overseeing the cluster hire of five positions focused on African American Disparities at the Assistant, Associate and Full professor levels (please see enclosed job announcement).
Successful candidates will become core faculty in the newly established research initiative on African American Disparities. We seek applicants with a strong track record of cross-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, publications and funding (or funding potential) in African American Disparities for positions in one or more of the following areas: Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Public Policy, Business, History, Education, Anthropology, Biological and Medical Sciences.
Review of completed applications will begin on March 31, 2016 and continue until all positions are filled, with the first series of appointments scheduled to begin on July 1, 2016. Questions about the cluster hire positions should be directed to the Chair, African American Disparities Search Committee, Professor Carolyn B. Murray at carolyn.murray.
Your attention and consideration in this matter are greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Carolyn B. Murray,
Professor of Psychology
Chair, African American Disparities
Cluster Hire Committee
AA Disparities Colleague Letter 3_1_16.doc
AA Disparities Cluster Job Announcement Update03_01_16.pdf
UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center
T32 Post-doctoral Clinical Research Training Program
Call for Applications
Deadline to submit: Friday, April 1, 2016 at 5:00 pm
All applications and supporting documents must be submitted electronically in a single PDF file to:
Connie Koog at cdkoog
The CTSC is pleased to announce a call for Post-doctoral applicants to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored T32 Post-doctoral Clinical Research Training Program (CTSC-T32). The CTSC-T32 program is part of a fully integrated approach by the UC Davis CTSC to advance research education and training for multidisciplinary, clinical and translational investigators working to improve human health. The overall goal of the T32 program is to provide post-doctoral scholars with skills required to develop a career in multidisciplinary clinical and translational research relevant to human health. The CTSC-T32 training program is expected to strongly advantage scholars in preparing for successful careers in translational research.
Post-doctoral scholars pursuing health related research at UC Davis are eligible to apply. Scholars will be selected based on a competitive application process in which student academic qualifications, career goals, and the quality of the training environment will be important considerations for funding.
Applicants must work with a UC Davis faculty mentor and develop a proposed research plan in consultation with that mentor to be submitted with the application. Award recipients are required to make a two year (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2018) commitment to all components of the training program; which includes the proposed research, didactic instruction and exposure to clinical care. Scholars may earn a master’s in clinical research, if they choose, during the training.
Awardees will receive a stipend, funds for research and travel expenses. For those pursuing the MAS in Clinical Research, full tuition will be covered. Please be advised that the research budget must be administered under the current NIH directive with respect to clinical trial research and can only be used to offset research costs that do not directly support clinical trials. For example, T32 funds may not be used to pay subjects or purchase medications. In addition, all funds must be managed by UC Davis, and not by off-site entities. As always, direct billing for services is permitted. All budgetary items should be reviewed and approved prior to initiating studies.
PLEASE NOTE: All funding is contingent upon final NIH Notice of Award for the CTSC grant.
Eligibility Criteria:
· Current UC Davis postdoctoral scholar or eligible for recruitment to UC Davis
· U.S. citizen, noncitizen nationals, or have legal admission into the U. S. as a permanent citizen at the time of application
· Strong academic credentials and good communication skills
· Ability to commit to all requirements of the training program, including an observer in selected clinical rotations
· Proposed research project must be relevant to human health
· Interest in developing a career in multidisciplinary, translational biomedical research
· Identification of a faculty mentor and strong mentor support
Application Instructions:
Applications with supporting documents, which include: a copy of your CV, two letters of recommendation, one must be from your proposed faculty mentor and that mentor’s biosketch in a single PDF file; submitted by email to Connie Koog at: cdkoog. No paper applications will be accepted.
Applications will be reviewed by a CTSC committee chaired by program directors Dr. Nicholas Kenyon and Dr. Julie Schweitzer.
For questions, please contact Connie 916-703-9132 or cdkoog@ucdavis.edu.
2016 T32 Postdoc Call_Final.pdf
Jonathan Eisen's Lab 