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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)
- March 7: Biology Seminar – Hunter Fraser, “The evolution and genetic basis of complex traits”
- 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: 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
- September 12-14: Stanford Bio-X Annual Symposium: Crossing Boundaries to Propel Tissue Engineering into the Clinic – apply to register now!
'Squishiness' can indicate embryo viability, Stanford researchers find
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Camarillo and Barry Behr, partially supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant:
A team of bioengineers and physicians has found that the squishiness of an hour-old fertilized egg can predict its viability, a metric that could lead to safer, more successful IVF pregnancies. The work is partially supported by a 2012 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Mechanical Biomarkers of Oocyte Maturation and Embryo Viability .
Glucose-guzzling immune cells may drive coronary artery disease
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy:
Excessive glucose uptake by inflammatory immune cells called macrophages, which reside in arterial plaques, may be behind coronary artery disease.
Stanford engineers use rust to build a solar-powered battery
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nicholas Melosh:
Heating simple metal oxides, like rust, could become the foundation for a solar technology that would make and store electricity by separating the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make up water.
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 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
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 7: Biology Seminar
Speaker: Hunter Fraser, Stanford University
Title: “The evolution and genetic basis of complex traits”
Host: Dr. Tim Stearns
Time/Location: 4:00PM, Clark Auditorium
Contact: epierson@stanford.edu
March 9: CEC Talk
Speaker: Eric Schwitzgebel, Philosophy, UC Riverside
Title: “Crazyism about Consciousness, Morality, and the Self”
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).
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.
