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Letters of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program, Round 8 must be submitted by TOMORROW!

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!

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)

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$10 million grant funds infection-focused center

The center will be directed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Markus Covert, with Bio-X affiliates Denise Monack and KC Huang as co-investigators:
The new center will explore intracellular and intercellular processes by which salmonella bacteria, responsible for more than 100 million symptomatic infections annually, infect immune cells.

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Extracting miniature diamonds from crude

Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nicholas Melosh, Jelena Vuckovic, and Steven Chu in collaboration with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:
Precisely flawed nanodiamonds could produce next-generation tools for imaging and communications.

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Decoy drug could prevent cancer’s spread

Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jennifer Cochran and Amato Giaccia, initially supported by a 2010 Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant:
Creating a molecular snapshot of the way proteins interact could help development of new cancer drugs. The work was initially supported by a 2010 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Imaging the Ovarian Cancer-Associated Protein AXL to Stage Disease and Monitor Therapy.

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Solving big questions requires big computation

Feature on computational research by Stanford faculty, including Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jonathan Pritchard, Michael Snyder, Brian Wandell, and Vijay Pande:
Understanding the origins of our solar system, the future of our planet or humanity requires complex calculations run on high-power computers. “There’s really very little research that isn’t dependent on computing,” says Ann Arvin, vice provost and dean of research. “Everyone we’re hiring is computational, and not at a trivial level,” says Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, who provided an initial set of servers at the facility. “It is time that we have this facility to support those faculty.”

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Unmasked: molecular mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis revealed

Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Cornelia Weyand:
Stanford rheumatologist and immunologist Connie Weyand and her colleagues have figured out what sparks the aberrant activation of the immune cells driving the angry inflammation and tissue damage that mark rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease.

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And one for the road: Why a single shot may not (always) be enough to stave off shingles

Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jorg Goronzy:
A new study led by Goronzy provides evidence as to why a single shot is insufficient for roughly half of those vaccinated for shingles, and suggests why, for them, booster shots might make vaccination more effective.

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Stanford’s Ronald Levy offers peek at future of cancer therapy

Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ronald Levy:
Stanford oncologist Ronald Levy and his colleagues wondered what would happen if they combined immunotherapy and targeted therapies as an alternative to cheotherapy.

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April 5: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisc-iplinary 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

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April 7: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisc-iplinary 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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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April 5: CEC Talk
Speaker: Matthew Smith, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University
Title: “The Rise of the Neural Subject”
Time/Location: 5:00 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).

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April 7: ReMS Lecture
First Speaker: Carla Shatz, David Starr Jordan Director of Stanford Bio-X and Sapp Family Provostial Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology
Title: “Saving the Synpase: synapse pruning in developmental plasticity and Alzheimer’s disease”
Second Speaker: Dan Jarosz, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
Title: “Gene regulation and evolution shaped by protein-based molecular memories”
Time/Location: 12-1 PM, Munzer Aud.
Contact: Scott Reiff
Lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.

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April 11: Biology Seminar
Speaker: Rama Ranganathan, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Title: “The Evolutionary ‘Design’ of Proteins”
Host: Professor Deborah Gordon
Time/Location: 4:00PM, Clark Auditorium
Contact: epierson@stanford.edu

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April 14: CEC Talk
Speaker: Ezequiel Morsella, Psychology, SFSU & Neurology, UCSF
Title: “The Function of Consciousness in the Nervous System: Passive Frame Theory”
Time/Location: 12:00 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).

Photos of Drs. Shatz and Jarosz.

April 14: Baxter Lecture
First Speaker: Eric Olson, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern)
Title: “CRISPR/Cas9 Genomic Editing and Regenerative Medicine to Correct Muscle Disease: The Future is Now”
Time/Location: 12-1 PM, Munzer Aud.
Contact: Scott Reiff
ReMS lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.

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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

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

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