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Just received this from the Moore Foundation

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please help us spread the word!

We have opened up the application period for the 7th year of CCST Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (see below) that places professional scientists and engineers in the California State Legislature for one-year appointments. We greatly appreciate your help spreading the word about the fellowship program to your colleagues at academic institutions with doctoral programs as well as federal state, and industry labs, alumni organizations and professional scientific organizations. Please forward this email to anyone you feel would be interested in the CCST Science and Technology Policy Fellowship.

The Fellowship program is proving to be an extraordinarily effective way of bridging the science and policy communities. Fellows are actively engaged in the most important policy issues being addressed in California. Energy, healthcare, water, business climate, conservation, security—you name it and we can point to a current or former Fellow in Sacramento working on the topic. See attached for the current cohort of fellows who just began their one-year fellowship.

Applications are due February 28, 2015.

Learn more here: ambermace or (916) 492-0996.

CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCIENCE POLICY DISCUSSION IN CALIFORNIA… BY APPLYING FOR A 2015-2016 CCST SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY FELLOWSHIP!

Offered by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), the CCST Science and Technology Policy Fellowship places professional scientists and engineers in the California State Legislature for one-year appointments. The program is designed to enable Fellows to work hands-on with policymakers in addressing complex scientific issues as well as assume all the other legislative responsibilities of full-time legislative staffers. The Legislature benefits from having the expertise of a trained Ph.D.-level scientist, who brings significant analytical, problem solving, research, and communication skills applied through the lens of the scientific method and the Fellows gain an invaluable, hands-on learning experience about the intersection of science, technology, and policy. Building on the successful and highly acclaimed national model of the Science and Technology Policy Fellowships offered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the federal public policy arena, the CCST Science and Technology Policy Fellowship creates a similar interface in the California Legislature. The fellows learn the intricacies of the California legislative process and serve as fulltime legislative staff to provide recommendations, answers to technical questions, and clarification of policy options for a wide variety of issues, including those with science and technology related attributes. Please explore our website to learn more about the CCST Science and Technology Fellowships and to complete the application and instructions.

Year 6 CCST S&T Fellows[2].pdf

MIC 291: Selected Topics in Microbiology

Work-in-Progress Seminars

Zachery Lewis
Exit Seminar
(Mills Lab)

"Influences on the Infant Intestinal Microbiome"

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

4:10 pm

1022 Life Sciences

Host: Prof. John Roth, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Lewis 12-10-14.doc

Just got this by email from Holly Bik who was a PostDoc in my lab until a few months ago ..
Dear Colleagues,

I wanted to bring to your attention a PhD opportunity in my group at the University of Birmingham, UK – apologies for any cross-posting:

Using ‘omic methods to determine how sediment communities of microbial eukaryotes respond to oil spills and environmental disturbance –http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=59530&LID=124

The focus of the project would span both shallow-water and deep-sea sediments, including natural hydrocarbon seeps and locations impacted by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The project would be ideal for candidates looking to develop skills in bioinformatics and computational biology.

This studentship is available to UK and EU candidates that meet NERC’s requirements for both academic qualifications and residential eligibility (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/studentships).

Regards,

Holly

Please join Innovating Communication and Scholarship (ICIS), the Center for Science and Innovation Studies (CSIS), and Science and Technology Studies for a lunchtime event with Evelyn Lincoln on:

Publication Anxiety in Early Modern Italy

When: Thursday December 11th from 12:10 – 1:30 PM

Where: Room SS&H 1246 (STS /CSIS Room)

Discussant: Alessandro Delfanti

Lunch provided. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Abstract: Publishing a book in

early modern Rome meant braving the Inquisition and the difficulties of

Renaissance business relationships to enter a conversation taking place

in print that was often less than civil.

Authors worried about being accused of claiming to be more

knowledgeable than they really were. On the other hand, they also

actually may have been presenting themselves as something they were not,

and worried about being found out. Some authors found themselves

with time on their hands as their books languished in the presses,

encouraging them to pen long blaming screeds against the publishers who

were forced to include them in the finished book. Strategies for

managing publication anxiety on the part of both publishers

and authors were inventive, original, and different in every book, and

they came to shape the combative and dialogical character of late

sixteenth-century Roman book printing.

Evelyn Lincoln is Professor of the History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies at Brown University. Her first book,

the Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker (Yale, 2000) traced the careers of pictorial printmakers in Italy in the first century of its development. Brilliant Discourse. Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome (Yale, 2014) looks at the role played by the publication of

illustrated technical manuals in forming networks of printers,

publishers, artists and patrons, all of whom were also readers. Her

research investigates knowledge networks formed through making

and using pictures in the early modern world.

After you RSVP, you will be emailed with the paper to be discussed.

Kelly Weinersmith

Exit seminar Tuesday (Dec 2nd) at 9AM in 2120J Wickson Hall.

"Parasite manipulation of host phenotype: mechanisms, behavior, ecology, and evolution."

Exit Seminar Flyer Weinersmith.pdf

UC Davis Women in Medicine and Health Sciences

WIMHS, in Partnership with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

PRESENTS:
Debra G.B. Leonard, MD, PhD Professor and Chair

“Leaning In and Moving Up”

January 22, 2015

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

(Broadway Café box-lunch provided)

FSSB Building, Room 2030 4800 2nd Avenue, Sacramento

Register Online:

https://somapp.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/academicaffairs /courses/secure/Courses.cfm?Status=10

Dr. Debra G.B. Leonard served as Chief Diversity Officer at Weill-Cornell Medical School. Dr. Leonard will discuss her experience with best practices and challenges in diversifying faculty from her perspective while at WCU.

Debra G. B. Leonard, MD, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Vermont Medical Center

WIMHS: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/wimhs/index.html WIMHSFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UC- Davis-Women–in-Medicine-and_Science/218743748158322

Jan_2015_WIMHS_Leonard_Lecture_Flyer.pdf

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is hiring a Program Officer for their Marine Microbiology Initative (see attachment). I love the Marine Microbiology Initiative and this could be a very interesting job. See http://www.moore.org/about/careers for more info.

MMI Program Officer job description.pdf