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Applications for the 2016 Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellowships are now open!
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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)
- February 23: Morgridge Family Stanford Bio-X SIGF Fellow Bethany Percha’s Thesis Defense – “Biomedical Text Mining from Context”
- February 24: Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell’s Thesis Defense – “Monitoring Population Dynamics Among Closely Related Organohalide-Respiring Bacteria Towards a Rational Understanding of the Long-Term Survival of Vinyl Chloride-Respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi”
- February 25: ReMS Lecture – Hans Clevers, “Lgr5 stem cell-grown organoids and their applications”
- February 25: CEC Talk – John Campbell and Alex Reben, “Social Robots”
- February 29: Biology Seminar – Betsy Arnold, “Fungal endophytes from the tropics to the tundra: clues to the evolution of plant-fungal symbioses”
- March 8: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Joseph Liao, introducing Dr. Jeff Tza-Huei Wang’s work (see below)
- March 10: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – Jeff Tza-Huei Wang, “Discerning Rare Disease Biomarkers by Micro- and Nanotechnologies”
- March 10: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Sophie Dumont, UCSF
- 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
Unfolding the Brain
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ellen Kuhl, partially supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant:
Can the way the brain folds determine how you think? Engineer Ellen Kuhl explains how mechanical forces affect the wrinkles in your brain. The work is partially supported by a 2014 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Understanding Gyrification Dynamics in the Human Brain.
Researchers discover previously unknown bacterial species in dolphins
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Relman and Susan Holmes:
The findings could help scientists detect potential health problems facing marine mammals due to climate change, as well as answer a mystery about how dolphins digest whole fish.
5 Questions: Frank Longo on Alzheimer’s, new neuroscience center
Interview with Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Frank Longo, highlighting work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Greicius, Tony Wyss-Coray, and Thomas Rando:
In a recent interview, neurologist Frank Longo discussed Alzheimer’s disease, recent research breakthroughs and the new Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, which he co-leads.
Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the Great Dying, Stanford researchers find
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Payne:
Analysis of ancient seabed rocks from disparate locations reveal that life did not rebound until anoxia had fully ebbed.
Journal publishes paper by video-gamers who derived scientific rules from Stanford online RNA game
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Rhiju Das:
Video-gamers have co-authored a paper describing a new set of rules for determining the difficulty of designing structures composed of RNA molecules.
February 23: Morgridge Family Stanford Bio-X SIGF Fellow Bethany Percha’s Thesis Defense
Speaker: 2013 Morgridge Family Stanford Bio-X SIGF Fellow Bethany Percha
Department: Biomedical Informatics
PI: Russ Altman
Title: “Biomedical Text Mining from Context”
Time/Location: 2:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium
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 Nanotechnologies”
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.
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.
February 24: Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell’s Thesis Defense
Speaker: Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, Spormann Lab
Title: “Monitoring Population Dynamics Among Closely Related Organohalide-Respiring Bacteria Towards a Rational Understanding of the Long-Term Survival of Vinyl Chloride-Respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi”
Time/Location: 2:00PM, Clark S360
Contact: Vannina Champenois
February 25: ReMS Lecture
Speaker: Hans Clevers, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht
Title: “Lgr5 stem cell-grown organoids and their applications”
Time/Location: 12-1 PM, Munzer Aud.
Contact: Scott Reiff
Lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.
February 25: CEC Talk
Speakers: John Campbell, Philosophy, UC Berkeley, and Alex Reben, Stochastic Labs
Title: “Social Robots”
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).
February 29: Biology Seminar
Speaker: Betsy Arnold, University of Arizona
Title: “Fungal endophytes from the tropics to the tundra: clues to the evolution of plant-fungal symbioses”
Host: Dr. Erin Mordecai
Time/Location: 4:00PM, Clark S360
Contact: epierson@stanford.edu
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.
