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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)
- January 7: ReMS Lecture – Pedro Batista, “RNA epigenetics: new mechanisms controlling cell fate transition” & Maria Barna, “Specialized Ribosomes: a new frontier in gene regulation, organismal development, & evolution”
- January 11: Biology Seminar – Max Nachury, “Getting into and out of cilia”
- January 12: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Kang Shen, introducing Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz’s work (see below)
- January 14: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, “Cell Survival Under Starvation”
- January 14: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Nikta Fakhri, Biophysics, MIT
- January 21: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Irene Chen, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara
- February 9: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar – Michael Lin, introducing Dr. David Schaffer’s work (see below)
- February 11: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar – David Schaffer, “Novel Technologies to Investigate the Stem Cell Niche”
- February 17: Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Symposium
- February 25: Collective Behavior in Biology – speakers include: Nicholas Ouellette, Deborah Gordon, Dan McFarland, Tobias Meyer, Mary Teruel, & Manu Prakash
Research, Awards, and Highlights
Please visit the Bio-X website for more news updates.
Building Collaboration
Feature on the James H. Clark Center, hub of Stanford Bio-X, which began a trend of creating spaces where interdisciplinary interaction produces innovative discoveries:
Includes insights from Vice Provost and Dean of Research Ann Arvin, David Starr Jordan Director of Stanford Bio-X Carla Shatz, prior Director of Stanford Bio-X Matthew Scott, Harman Family Provostial Professor and Vincent V. C. Woo Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute William Newsome, Martha Meier Weiland Professor in the School of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Biodesign Program Paul Yock, Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor and Director of Stanford ChEM-H Chaitan Khosla, Professor of Education Daniel McFarland, and Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the William Alden Campbell & Martha Campbell Professor Jeffrey Koseff.
New microscopy technique maps mechanical properties of living cells
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Manish Butte and Olav Solgaard, partially supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant:
Researchers have developed a new way to use atomic force microscopy to rapidly measure the mechanical properties of cells at the nanometer scale, an advance that could pave the way for better understanding immune disorders and cancer. The work is partially supported by a 2010 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Examining the threshold of T cell memory by AFM-based receptor mapping.
Stanford researchers develop microscope that allows first-ever look at live muscle units in action
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and Clark Center building residents Scott Delp and Mark Schnitzer, partially supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant:
The basic process of force-generation in muscle has been known for decades, but until now no one has ever seen it work at a microscopic level in a living human. The new microscope could provide unique insights into treating muscular degenerative diseases. The work is partially supported by a 2006 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Inventing a Microendoscope to Measure Sarcomere Lengths in Humans.
Stanford scientists look deeper into the body with new fluorescent dye
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Hongjie Dai and Zhen Cheng and 2013 Mona M. Burgess SIGF and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Bo Zhang:
Glowing dyes help scientists see inside the body and diagnose ailments, but they needed a certain type of molecule to improve the imaging depth. They invented a long wavelength near-infrared fluorescent molecule, and it works.
Stroke recovery in mice improved by Ambien, study shows
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Gary Steinberg, John Huguenard, and Stephen Smith:
Zolpidem, better known by the trade name Ambien, increased the rate at which mice that had strokes recovered their pre-stroke sensory acuity and motor coordination.
U.S. needs a new approach for governance of risky research, Stanford scholars say
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Relman:
The United States needs better oversight of risky biological research to reduce the likelihood of a bioengineered super virus escaping from the lab or being deliberately unleashed, according to Stanford scholars.
January 12: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar
Speaker: Kang Shen, Professor of Biology and Pathology, 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
January 14: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
Speaker: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Distinguished NIH Investigator, Section on Organelle Biology – NICHD
Title: “Cell Survival Under Starvation”
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S360
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Host: Kang Shen, Professor of Biology and Pathology, Stanford University
Contact: C. Huber
January 14: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar
Speaker: Nikta Fakhri, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
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.
January 21: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar
Speaker: Irene Chen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara
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 9: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar
Speaker: Michael Lin, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, 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
February 11: Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
Speaker: David Schaffer, Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley
Title: “Novel Technologies to Investigate the Stem Cell Niche”
Time/Location: 12:15pm, Clark Center Room S360
Small lunch to be provided at 12:00pm
Host: Michael Lin, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University
Contact: C. Huber
February 17: Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Symposium
Speakers: Drs. Ada Poon, Jin Hyung Lee, Mary Teruel, Ovijit Chaudhuri, Peter Kim, Daniel Spielman, Mark Kay, and Nicholas Melosh
Time/Location: 1:00pm-4:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium
Poster Session: 4:00pm-5:30pm, Nexus Café
Contact: C. Huber
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty, students, postdocs, and lab members: contact C. Huber to present a poster!
February 25: Collective Behavior in Biology
First Meeting
Speakers include: Nicholas Ouellette (Civil Engineering); Deborah Gordon (Biology); Dan McFarland (Graduate School of Education); Tobias Meyer (Chemical & Systems Biology); Mary Teruel (Chemical & Systems Biology); Manu Prakash (Bioengineering)
Time/Location: 11:00am-2:00pm, Clark Center S361
Lunch to be provided.
Please RSVP here!
Contact: Daniel Cohen
Series partially sponsored by Stanford Bio-X.
First Speaker: Pedro Batista (Dermatology)
Title: “RNA epigenetics: new mechanisms controlling cell fate transition”
Second Speaker: Maria Barna (Genetics & Developmental Biology)
Title: “Specialized Ribosomes: a new frontier in gene regulation, organismal development, & evolution”
Time/Location: 12:00-1:00 PM, Munzer Auditorium
Contact: reh@stanford.edu
Lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.
Speaker: Max Nachury, Stanford University
Title: “Getting into and out of cilia”
Host: Professor Tim Stearns
Time/Location: 4:00 PM, Clark Center Auditorium
Contact: epierson@stanford.edu
OIA Seed Grant: Invite Your International Collaborator to Stanford
The Office of International Affairs is pleased to announce another round of seed grants available to faculty to invite their international collaborators to Stanford. For more information about this funding opportunity, please see the announcement on our website.
To learn more about OIA seed grants, feel free to visit our website for a full list of previous grant recipients and a brief description of their projects.
Proposals are due by 4PM on January 22, 2016.
Contact: Pauline Larmaraud, Assistant Director, Office of International Affairs, plarm@stanford.edu or 650-723-1984
Neurotechnologies for Analysis of Neural Dynamics (NAND)
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows:
Neurotechnologies for Analysis of Neural Dynamics (NAND) is an intensive 4-week summer course designed to introduce physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists to the major questions and techniques of modern neuroscience, with a special emphasis in both lecture and laboratory components on neurotechnologies.
Grants from the NIMH and Burroughs Wellcome Foundation will help to meet the full financial needs of all admitted students.
Course Dates: June 12, 2016 – July 9, 2016
Application Deadline: February 1, 2016
Details: nand.princeton.edu
Contact: Alan Gelperin, Princeton University.