Category: Misc.

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

Kelty 3-16-16.pdf

***** 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

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