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Applications for the 2016 Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellowships are due tomorrow!
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The Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 13th annual competition for Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships and for Stanford Neurosciences Institute (SNI) and ChEM-H Fellowships.
To be considered for review, complete applications must be submitted online, with all required materials emailed or received, not postmarked, by March 9, 2016 at 5pm. PST.
We are now accepting Letters of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program, Round 8!
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The Stanford Bio-X IIP awards provide seed funding for high-risk, high-reward collaborative proposals including basic research leading to fundamental discoveries, as well as innovative technology.
Letters of Intent must be received by: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 by 5:00 PM (PST).
Upcoming Events (Click Event to See Details)
- March 8: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Joseph Liao, introducing Dr. Jeff Tza-Huei Wang’s work (see seminar below)
- March 9: CEC Talk – Eric Schwitzgebel, “Crazyism about Consciousness, Morality, and the Self”
- March 10: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – Jeff Tza-Huei Wang, “Discerning Rare Disease Biomarkers by Micro- and Nanotechnologies”
- March 10: ReMS Lecture – Marius Wernig, “Insights into white matter diseases using cellular reprogramming” and Jan Liphardt, “Towards real-time dynamics of cell transitions via CRISPR-tagging of transcription-factors”
- March 10: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Sophie Dumont, UCSF
- March 14: Biology Seminar – Cecilia Lo, “The central role of cilia in the genetic landscape of congenital heart disease”
- March 16: EMBS Meeting – J. Donald Hill, “The Evolution and Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Congestive Heart Failure”
- April 5: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Bianxiao Cui, introducing Dr. Chandra Tucker’s work (see below)
- April 7: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – Chandra Tucker, “Optical Control of Protein Activity Using Engineered Photoreceptors”
- April 7: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Mark Brynildsen, Princeton University
- September 12-14: Stanford Bio-X Annual Symposium: Crossing Boundaries to Propel Tissue Engineering into the Clinic – apply to register now!
Curiosity leads Stanford bioengineers to discover the inner workings of a novel mode of insect flight
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Manu Prakash and 2013 Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Haripriya Mukundarajan:
A chance observation of a water lily beetle skimming across a pond inspired researchers to investigate the mysterious and sophisticated mode of flight it employs to overcome the physical challenges of flying over water.
Stanford scientists report new insights into HIV's evolution that can improve pharmaceutical testing techniques
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Dmitri Petrov, Robert Shafer, and Susan Holmes and 2015 Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Alison Feder:
Using two decades of HIV data, Stanford scientists found that effective treatment caused the virus to evolve differently than less effective treatments. They hope this insight will improve testing of new drugs.
Vitamin D deficiency contributes to spread of breast cancer in mice
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Brian Feldman and Megan Albertelli:
Researchers have found evidence that vitamin D suppresses the expression of a gene known to accelerate the growth of breast cancer.
March 8: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar
Speaker: Joseph Liao, Associate Professor of Urology, Stanford University
Attend the pre-seminar to learn more about Thursday's seminar topic!
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S361
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Contact: C. Huber
March 10: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
Speaker: Jeff Tza-Huei Wang, Professor of Mechanical Enginering, Biomedical Engineering, and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
Title: “Discerning Rare Disease Biomarkers by Micro- and Nanotechnol-ogies”
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S360
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Host: Joseph Liao, Associate Professor of Urology, Stanford University
Contact: C. Huber
March 10: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar
Speaker: Sophie Dumont, Assistant Professor of Cell & Tissue Biology and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF
Time/Location: 2:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium
To sign up for the mailing list, please send a blank message to frontiers-qbiojoin@lists.stanford.edu.
Series partially sponsored by Stanford Bio-X.
March 14: Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie SIGF and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Wendy Ni’s Thesis Defense
Speaker: 2012 Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie SIGF and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Wendy Ni
Department: Electrical Engineering
PI: Greg Zaharchuk
Title: “Quantitative Brain Tissue Oxygenation Mapping using Magnetic Resonance Spin Relaxation”
Time/Location: 10:00 am (refreshments at 9:45 am), CIS-X Auditorium (Allen-101X)
April 5: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar
Speaker: Bianxiao Cui, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
Attend the pre-seminar to learn more about Thursday's seminar topic!
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S361
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Contact: C. Huber
April 7: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
Speaker: Chandra Tucker, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Colorado at Denver
Title: “Optical Control of Protein Activity Using Engineered Photoreceptors”
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S360
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Host: Bianxiao Cui, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
Contact: C. Huber
April 7: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar
Speaker: Mark Brynildsen, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Time/Location: 2:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium
To sign up for the mailing list, please send a blank message to frontiers-qbiojoin@lists.stanford.edu.
Series partially sponsored by Stanford Bio-X.
March 9: CEC Talk
Speaker: Eric Schwitzgebel, Philosophy, UC Riverside
Title: “Crazyism about Consciousness and Morality”
Time/Location: 4:30 PM, Barwise Room, Cordura Hall, Stanford University
Contact: paulsko@stanford.edu
More info: http://csli-cec.stanford.edu
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center Radway Workshops Program and the Center for the Explanation of Consciousness (CSLI).
March 10: ReMS Lecture
First Speaker: Marius Wernig, Associate Professor of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
Title: “Insights into white matter diseases using cellular reprogramming”
Second Speaker: Jan Liphardt, Assoc- iate Professor of Bioengineering
Title: “Towards real-time dynamics of cell transitions via CRISPR-tagging of transcription-factors”
Time/Location: 12-1 PM, Munzer Aud.
Contact: Scott Reiff
Lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.
March 14: Biology Seminar
Speaker: Cecilia Lo, University of Pittsburgh
Title: “The central role of cilia in the genetic landscape of congenital heart disease”
Host: Professor Kristy Red-Horse
Time/Location: 4:00PM, Clark Auditorium
Contact: epierson@stanford.edu
March 16: EMBS Meeting
Speaker: Dr. J. Donald Hill, Founder, Thoratec
Title: “The Evolution and Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Congestive Heart Failure”
Time/Location: 7:30 PM, Room M-114, Stanford University Medical School
Optional dinner location: Stanford Hospital cafeteria, 6:15 PM (no host, no reservations)
Contact: ckdoniger@yahoo.com
2016-2017 Seminar Series
Accepting Nominations Now
Nomination period runs through March 15, 2016
The Stanford Neurosciences Institute Seminar Series lineup of speakers has been consistently excellent and relevant to our neurosciences community because the speakers were nominated by you. Please take a few minutes to nominate your favorite speakers.
The Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) Postdoctoral Program has available positions in the Department of Neuroscience at Cambridge, MA. We encourage applications from candidates who wish to pursue a career in academia or industry.
The Neuroscience Department has 2 open positions for postdoctoral scholars interested in the areas of: 1) neurodegenerative and 2) psychiatric diseases. The first project focuses on identifying core disease mechanisms that drive pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with the ultimate goal of developing disease-modifying therapies for FTD and related neurodegenerative disorders. The major goal of the second research is to elucidate the underlying molecular basis of disease in patients with 22q11 deletion syndrome (DS), the most common genetic cause of schizophrenia and autism, and to identify new targets for drug development in these psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases. We encourage applications from candidates with neuroscience, molecular/cellular biology and related disciplines.
For more details about our postdoctoral program, mentor profiles, and information on how to apply these positions, please visit: http://postdoc.nibr.com/ricardo-dolmetsch.html, http://postdoc.nibr.com/rajeev-sivasankaran.html, http://postdoc.nibr.com/taeho-kim.html.
