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We are now accepting Letters of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program, Round 8!
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)
- March 16: EMBS Meeting – J. Donald Hill, “The Evolution and Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Congestive Heart Failure”
- March 17: ReMS Lecture – Kazutoshi Takahashi, “Dissecting the mechanism of transcription factor-induced human cellular reprogramming toward pluripotency”
- 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
- April 21: Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar – Lingchong You, Duke University
- 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”
- September 12-14: Stanford Bio-X Annual Symposium: Crossing Boundaries to Propel Tissue Engineering into the Clinic – apply to register now!
Protein increases signals that protect cancer cells
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Dean Felsher and Irving Weissman and 2014 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Rachel Do:
Researchers have identified a link between the expression of a cancer-related gene and cell-surface molecules that protect tumors from the immune system.
Stanford scientists make renewable plastic from carbon dioxide and plants
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Matthew Kanan:
The new technology could provide a green alternative to petroleum-based plastic bottles and other polyester products.
Misleading p-values showing up more often in biomedical journal articles, study finds
Feature on research by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member John Ioannidis:
A review of p-values in the biomedical literature from 1990 to 2015 shows that these widely misunderstood statistics are being used increasingly, instead of better metrics of effect size or uncertainty.
Q&A: Stanford water expert on lessons of Flint, Michigan, crisis
Interview with Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Richard Luthy:
The lead in Flint, Michigan's water was due to a failure of government responsibility and a lack of water systems knowledge, says Richard Luthy, but the health crisis can provide strategies for improving the nation's aging water infrastructure.
The powerhouse behind Stanford’s global cancer effort
Feature on work by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ami Bhatt:
Ami Bhatt is mobilizing Stanford experts to fight the growing threat of cancer in the developing world.
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 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
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.
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
March 16: EMBS Meeting
Speaker: Dr. J. Donald Hill, Founder, Thoratec
Title: “The Evolution and Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support for Congestive Heart Failure”
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
March 17: ReMS Lecture
Speaker: Kazutoshi Takahashi, UCSF
Title: “Dissecting the mechanism of transcription factor-induced human cellular reprogramming toward pluripotency”
Time/Location: 12-1 PM, Munzer Aud.
Contact: Scott Reiff
Lecture series sponsored by Bio-X.
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.
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.
