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#UCDavis iGEM 2016 Applications are Open

Just got this announcement and am posting here:

Apply to join the 2016 UCD iGEM team to participate in a synthetic biology project to address real world problems using cutting edge techniques in chemistry, molecular biology, and computer science.

You will gain valuable interdisciplinary training in computatonal and experimental biology, including laboratory skills!

You will have the opportunity to travel to Boston in November 2016 to meet and compete with teams from around the world!

The UC Davis iGEM team has received an iGEM Gold Medal six years in a row. Be part of the next generation of award winners!

No previous biology experience is needed. All majors are welcome to apply—Computer Science, Biology, Engineering, Art, English, Communications, and more!

Apply here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UCD_2016_iGEM Applications Due February 1st 2016

2016_flyer_final.pdf

Postdoctoral Position, Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Davis.

Postdoctoral Position, Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Davis.

Post-doctoral position available in the area of Evolutionary Genomics applied to mosquito vectors of human malaria, starting January 2016. Qualifications include expertise in comparative evolutionary and population genetics approaches for the study of genome architecture and its consequences for adaptive evolution. Candidate should be capable of engaging in the study of genomes to tackle key problems in the genetics and evolution of fundamental biological processes, such as insecticide resistance, pathogen susceptibility, physiological adaption, symbiosis, response to a changing environment, invasiveness, behavior, signaling, stress tolerance and/or speciation/extinction. Ideally, the candidate will be proficient at developing novel bioinformatics approaches to the comparative study of genomes. Researchers that utilize techniques such as advanced statistical methods and computer-programming skills are desired. The successful candidate will join a vibrant research group in the Vector Genetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. The VGL has links to multiple Graduate Groups and Centers on the UC Davis campus, including the Center for Population Biology, Department of Evolution and Ecology and One Health Institute. The successful candidate will also have access to modern campus facilities in genomics/bioinformatics, proteomics and microscopy. Opportunities for conducting field work at sites in sub-Saharan Africa are available. Consult http://popi.ucdavis.edu/vgl/ for details about the VGL. Applicants will be assisted in the pursuit of extramural funding and will be expected to contribute to mentoring select undergraduate students. A Ph.D. and demonstrated excellence in research are required.

Applicants should send material by e-mail to: Gregory Lanzaro, gclanzaro Please include: a curriculum vitae and separate statements of research interests. Evaluation of applications will begin immediately, but the position will remain open until filled.

Today in SPAMMY Editorial Board Invitations: Sci Forschen Inc

Dear Prof.Jonathan Eisen ,
Greetings!

Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases: Open Access

Introduction

Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases: Open Access is an open access peer reviewed journal presents the advances and role of Autoimmunity. Journal is an open source the researchers, clinicians and academicians and provides a common platform to exchange and update the current knowledge.

Coverage Includes

Auto Immunity, Molecular Mechanism of Autoimmunity, Immunobiochemistry of Autoimmunity, Basic Immunology, Alopecia Areata, Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Dermatomyositis,,, Diabetes (Type 1), Forms of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Glomerulonephritis, Graves’ Disease, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Myasthenia Gravis, Some Forms of Myocarditis, Multiple Sclerosis, Pemphigus/Pemphigoid, Pernicious Anemia, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Polymyositis, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener’s) , etc.

Invitation for Editorial Board Members

We are glad to invite you as an Editorial Board Member for the journal. We strongly believe that you are one of the well known researchers in the field of “Autoimmunity”, hope your contribution and unmatched experience will help the journal to add more advantages and get international reputation as well.

Please let us know your willingness by sending us your CV, Biography, research interest and photograph to update our website.

Thank you in advance

Looking forward

With regards

Jessie Weston

Managing Editor

Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases: Open Access

Sci Forschen Inc

Pubmed to trial new collaboration status tool to block interaction with ex-collaborators

Bethesda, MD. November 23, 2015.

Pubmed is to ease de-collaboration (when one stops working with a collaborator) woes by tweaking its ‘Collaboration Status’ function – allowing ex-collaborators to disappear from view without users removing them as a colleague.

The literature network will trial the new collaborator tool in the United States, with plans to roll out the changes worldwide after receiving feedback.

David Lippmann, product manager for Pubmed, said in a statement: “Starting today, we are testing tools to help researchers manage how they interact with their former collaborators on Pubmed after their collaboration has ended. When researchers change their collaboration status to indicate they are no longer in a collaboration, they will be prompted to try these tools.

“The work is part of our ongoing effort to develop resources for scholars who may be going through difficult moments in their lives. We hope these tools will help people end collaborations on Pubmed with greater ease, comfort and sense of control.”

The tools will allow users to limit the papers, data sets or status updates that an ex-collaborator will see. Without having to de-collaborate or block a former research partner, Pubmed will also make sure their name and ORCID ID do not appear in the site’s paper feed.

Their name will not be suggested either when users tag researchers in papers.

Users will also be able to edit who can see past papers with a former collaborator and untag from papers written with that person.

Today in SPAMMY conference invitations #2

Dear Dr. Jonathan A Eisen,

Greetings!

The purpose of this letter is to invite you to be as a Speaker for the upcoming 6^th
International Conference & Expo on Proteomics during March 29–31, 2016 Atlanta, USA.

The aim to deliver a global platform to share knowledge and expertise with the scientific
community on the advancements in the field of Proteomics. The conference anticipates
leading worldwide researchers, scientists, academic scientists, industry researchers, scholars,
decision makers and other professionals from across the globe.

The theme of the conference is Revealing The Novel Innovation of Life Science, To Meet
EmergingChallenges.

Benefits:

1. Personal interaction with the Organizing Committee Members, Keynote speakers and other
eminent personalities for our future course of work.

2. Opportunity to conduct workshop/symposium with your team and colleagues based on your
research expertise.

Some confirmed speakers for World Proteomics 2016:

Steven Pelech, President of Kinexus Bioinformatics Corp, Canada.

Krishna Dronamraju, President of Foundation for Genetic Research, USA.

Desmond Fitzgerald, Vice-President for Health Affairs, UCD, Ireland.

Laszlo Takacs, CEO of Biosystems International Kft, Hungary.

Cheorl-Ho Kim, Director, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea.

Sixue Chen, Director of Proteomics, University of Florida, USA.

Jochen Schwenk, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

S.K. Jain, Head of Biochemistry, Hamdard University, India.

Raju Ravikumar, Professor, NIMHANS University, India.

Kian Kani, University of Southern California, USA

Ahmed Aldarmahi, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia.

For more details please visit http://www.proteomicsconference.com/america/

In closing, we would be pleased and honored if you would consent to be speaker at the World
Proteomics 2016 Conference.

I look forward to receiving your reply

Please feel free to contact us for further details on the conference.

Respectfully,

Mark Henry Jane

5716 Corsa Ave, Suite110

Westlake, Los Angeles

CA-91362-7354, USA

Ph. 1-702-508-5200 Ext:8033

E-mail:worldproteomics@omicsgroup.com

Today in SPAMMY confereonce invitations

Dear Dr. Eisen,

On behalf of the Conference Chairs and Committees, it is my great pleasure to invite you to deliver an invited talk at the EMN Meeting on Membranes, which will be held in Novotel World Trade Centre Hotel, Dubai–United Arab Emirates, on April 05-08^th, 2016.

Updated information about the EMN Meeting on Membranes can be found at http://emnmeeting.org/membranes/

The main purpose of EMN Membranes Meeting is to describe and discuss the newadvancement in Membranes Technology with its well-recognized and promising applications. We hope to bring together leading scientists, researchers, scholars and engineers from academia, R&D laboratories and industry around the world to exchange, share and learn the most interesting work done recently.

The workshops emphasis on promising aspects of Membrane usage are as follows: Bio absorbable Nano fiber Membranes, Membranes for Energy Conversion such as Fuel Cell, Gas Separation, Membrane Assembly and Translocation, Osmosis and Nano filtration Membranes, Membranes for Computing, Proton Exchange Membranes, Power Generation by Pressure Retarded Osmosis, Membranes for Environmental Protection and Membranes for Process Intensification and General in this broad field.

I do hope you can make time in your busy schedule to act as an invited speaker share your ideas on this topic. Your experience and comments will add an important dimension to what’s potentially a very important discussion for the field.

Please directly reply this email with your contact information, a tentative title of your invited presentation and which workshop is more appropriate for you or you can recommend other workshop for your talk if you could accept our invitation.

We are looking forward to hear from you and it will certainly be our pleasure and honor to see you in Dubai soon. Thanks!

Best Regards,

Mr. Muhammad Umar Farooq

Conference Assistant
Email: emnmembranes@hotmail.com
membranes@emnmeeting.org

Today at 4:10pm Andrew Sierfert Intraspecific trait variation, soil microbial communities, and plant community assembly

Tuesday, November 17, 4:10pm in 1022 Life Sciences *****

November 17, 2015: Andrew Siefert
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
Title: “Intraspecific trait variation, soil microbial communities, and plant community assembly”
Host: Sharon Strauss

UCSC Genome Browser Workshop: Next Month at #UCDavis!

There are just a few seats left. Don’t miss out!

UCSC Genome Browser Workshop, December 7-8, 2015

This workshop is co-hosted by the UC Davis Bioinformatics Training Program and the Data Intensive Biology Training Program.

Instructors: Dr. Robert Kuhn and Angie Hinrichs, UCSC

General Information … The UCSC Genome Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/) is a powerful tool for interacting with genome assemblies of many organisms. This workshop will introduce you to the wealth of data contained in the browser and related databases, and will allow you to integrate and compare results of your genomic and transcriptomic experiments.

Who should attend? … Prior workshop participants have included faculty, post docs, grad students, staff, and industry researchers. There are no prerequisites.

Where is the workshop? … It will be held in Gladys Valley Hall on the UC Davis campus and will run from 9am to 5pm on Monday Dec. 7 and Tuesday Dec. 8.

What do I need to bring? … A laptop! The UCSC Browser works best on recent versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (in that order).

How much does it cost? … The registration fee is $75 and includes all workshop materials, coffee, lunch, beverages and snacks, but does not include dinner, lodging or parking fees.

How do I apply? … Registration is “first-come, first-served”. There is no application process. More information and the direct link to the registration site can be found at: http://training.bioinformatics.ucdavis.edu/2015/07/14/ucsc-genome-browser-workshop-december-7-8-2015/

Questions? … email us at bioinformatics.core

We hope to see you in December!

The UC Davis Bioinformatics Core Team

http://training.bioinformatics.ucdavis.edu

http://bioinformatics.ucdavis.edu/