View this newsletter as displayed over email
Stanford Bio-X News & Events
Welcome to the Bio-X weekly newsletter! To learn more about Stanford Bio-X, please visit our website. For more news stories on research by Bio-X affiliates, please visit our Highlights page. To submit events, please contact Cici Huber.
Upcoming Events (Click Event to See Details)
- April 19: Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Ryosuke Kita’s Thesis Defense – “Evolution of Gene Expression in Humans and Yeast”
- April 20: Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow James Notwell’s Thesis Defense – “Exploring the genomic landscape of human disease”
- April 20: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Meeting – Jonathan Sorger, “A History of Robotic Surgery, Controversy and Future Developments”
- April 21: ReMS Lecture – Vittorio Sebastiano, “Single-cell analysis and spatial reconstruction of the human blastocyst: the Rosetta Stone to interpret early development and pluripotent stem cell biology” and Jill Helms, “Discovery is just the first step: one drug’s journey to market”
- April 21: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Lingchong You, Duke University
- April 21: 2016 McConnell Lectureship – Herman Gaub, “Force and Function: How Do Biomolecules Do It?”
- April 25: Biology Seminar – Richard Tsien, “A cardinal enzyme family plays unexpected roles in learning and memory”
- April 26: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Ovijit Chaudhuri, introducing Dr. Linda Griffith’s work (see below)
- April 28: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – Linda Griffith, “Move Over, Mice: How Integration of Systems Biology with Organs-on-Chips May Humanize Therapeutic Development”
- May 2: Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Soah Lee’s Thesis Defense – “Biophysical Properties of Extracellular Matrix: an important regulator of cell fate decision process”
- May 5: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute
- May 17: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Alexander Dunn, introducing Dr. Roger Kamm’s work (see below)
- May 19: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – Roger Kamm, “In Vitro Vascularized Models for Metastatic Cancer”
- September 12-14: Stanford Bio-X Annual Symposium: Crossing Boundaries to Propel Tissue Engineering into the Clinic – apply to register now!
Keeping memories intact requires plenty of sleep
Feature on research by 2015 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Meagan Shinbashi, under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member H. Craig Heller:
To find out what time of day is best for learning, undergraduate Meagan Shinbashi spent late nights in the lab giving memory tests to mice.
Technique could help identify patients who would suffer chemo-induced heart damage
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Joseph Wu, Joshua Knowles, Helen Blau, Daniel Bernstein, and Russ Altman:
Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy drug used to treat many cancers, but it causes serious heart damage in some patients. Heart muscle cells made from the skin cells of breast cancer patients can be used to study this phenomenon.
How magnetic nanoparticles can be used as medical sensors
Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Shan Wang, Samuel So, and Sam Gambhir:
A team of researchers tracks disease the way naturalists track animals in the wild.
Stanford researchers create super stretchy, self-healing material that could lead to artificial muscle
Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao and Christian Linder:
Researchers show how jolting this material with an electrical field causes it to twitch or pulse in a muscle- like fashion. This polymer can also stretch to 100 times its original length, and even repair itself if punctured.
Study ties recently discovered immune cell to disease
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy:
Deficits in a recently discovered immune cell’s function may trigger a rare age-related auto-inflammatory disease — and perhaps far more common ones, too.
How miniaturized electronic devices can be used as medical therapeutics
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ada Poon:
Inspired by personal experience, an engineer pioneers the development of ‘electroceuticals’ that can dispense treatments or monitor functions deep inside the body.
Scientists suggest appealing to human psychology to create solutions to climate change
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Marcus Feldman:
Targeting aspects of human psychology that can create barriers to effective climate change action may be the key to promoting environmentally friendly choices in both individual practices and national policies, Stanford scientists say.
Stanford and Wikimedia researchers create a tool to boost article creation in local language Wikipedias
Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jurij Leskovec:
Wikipedia exists in nearly 300 languages but many versions are small and incomplete. In one experiment, computer scientists tripled article creation by recommending missing entries to editors.
April 19: Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Ryosuke Kita’s Thesis Defense
Speaker: 2013 Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Ryosuke Kita
Department: Biology and MSTP
PI: Hunter Fraser
Title: “Evolution of Gene Expression in Humans and Yeast”
Time/Location: 10:00 AM, Clark Center S360
April 20: Affymetrix Stanford Bio-X SIGF James Notwell’s Thesis Defense
Speaker: 2013 Affymetrix Stanford Bio-X SIGF James Notwell
Department: Computer Science
PI: Gill Bejerano
Title: “Exploring the genomic landscape of human disease”
Time/Location: 11:00 AM, Clark Center Auditorium
April 21: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar
Speaker: Lingchong You, Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering, Duke 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.
April 26: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre- Seminar
Speaker: Ovijit Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 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 28: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
Speaker: Linda Griffith, S.E.T.I. Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Title: “Move Over, Mice: How Integration of Systems Biology with Organs-on-Chips May Humanize Therapeutic Development”
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S360
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Host: Ovijit Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Contact: C. Huber
May 2: Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Soah Lee’s Thesis Defense
Speaker: 2012 Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Soah Lee
Department: Materials Science & Engineering
PI: Fan Yang
Title: “Biophysical Properties of Extracellular Matrix: an important regulator of cell fate decision process”
Time/Location: 1 - 3 PM, Clark Center S360
May 5: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar
Speaker: Wolfgang Baumeister, Head of the Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute
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.
May 17: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar
Speaker: Alexander Dunn, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 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
May 19: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
Speaker: Roger Kamm, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Title: “In Vitro Vascularized Models for Metastatic Cancer”
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S360
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Host: Alexander Dunn, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Contact: C. Huber
April 20: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Meeting
Speaker: Jonathan Sorger, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Title: “A History of Robotic Surgery, Controversy and Future Developments”
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
April 21: ReMS Lecture
First Speaker: Vittorio Sebastiano (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Title: “Single-cell analysis and spatial re-construction of the human blastocyst: the Rosetta Stone to interpret early development and pluripotent stem cell biology”
Second Speaker: Jill Helms (Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
Title: “Discovery is just the first step: one drug’s journey to market”
Time/Location: 12-1 PM, Munzer Aud.
Contact: Scott Reiff
ReMS lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.
April 21: 2016 McConnell Lectureship
Speaker: Professor Hermann E. Gaub, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Title: “Force and Function: How Do Biomolecules Do It?”
Time/Location: 4:30PM, Braun Lecture Hall, S.G. Mudd Building
Contact: chemistry-events@stanford.edu
April 25: Biology Seminar
Speaker: Richard Tsien, New York University School of Medicine
Title: “A cardinal enzyme family plays unexpected roles in learning and memory”
Host: Professor Kang Shen
Time/Location: 4:00PM, Clark Center Room S360
Contact: epierson@stanford.edu
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.
Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection Seed Grants
The Canary Center at Stanford for cancer early detection, is soliciting new Seed Projects from Canary Center Faculty, Associates, and collaborating investigators. The vision of the Canary Center is to foster research leading to the development of blood tests and molecular imaging approaches to detect and localize early cancers.
The objectives of the Canary Seed Grants are to encourage new projects with a potential for impact on early cancer detection.
Eligibility: Stanford based Canary Center Faculty or Associated Faculty members (those with UTL, MCL, NTL-Research or Instructor appointments). If you are not currently associated with the Canary Center, we encourage you to partner with our faculty or associate faculty in order to apply for this grant. Please find a list of Canary Center Faculty and Associate Members here: http://canarycenter.stanford.edu/people/full-members.html
Application Deadline for 2016: Friday, May 20th
Amount of Funding: Up to 4 projects at $20,000 in total direct costs for a 1-year duration
For more information and to submit an application, please see: http://canarycenter.stanford.edu/grants/seed-grants.html
