UCSF CCMBM Events & Opportunities Newsletter - July 2022
UPCOMING EVENT
Next session: Thursday, July 7
Sign up for an upcoming virtual review session to receive live peer review as well as coaching from experienced investigators. These reviews will help with your proposal development and/or provide feedback for working drafts for NIH grant applications and upcoming RAP Fall cycle deadline. Sign-up spots are limited and are on a first come, first serve basis.
PARTNER EVENTS
July 6, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Rosanne Rafferty, PhD, Research Fellow in Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital
Harnessing the Power of IPSCs to Study and Repair Cartilage
Contact csrmail@partners.org for Zoom details.
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
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July 13-16, 2022; Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
This course is designed to be interactive with didactic lectures given by leaders in the spine community as well as a hands-on bioskills lab. Participants will review and practice surgical principles and techniques in the treatment of complex spinal disorders. Expert lecturers will describe the state-of-the-art treatment for a variety of Pediatric and Adult Spinal Disorders. Interactive case presentations will allow learners to apply knowledge to improve decision making for complex spine pathology.
Registration required.
Presented by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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July 14, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Marc Wein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Kathy Tang, PhD, Research Fellow, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Gene editing and cell signaling
Contact csrmail@partners.org for Zoom details.
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
July 19, 4:00-5:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a joint meeting of the HDFCCC Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy Program and the Parnassus Research-in-Progress Seminar. These seminars provide post-doctoral fellows with an opportunity to present their preliminary data to the immunology community.
Hosted by the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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July 21, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Drop by and ask us questions you may have about recruitment, learn more about services provided to help you with recruitment, and access free resources designed to help you reach your recruitment goals. Contact prp@ucsf.edu for more info.
Hosted by UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute
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July 29, 7:00-8:30am; Virtual Event
The course will specifically emphasize challenges unique to resource-limited settings. The expert panel will feature Dr. David Shearer from UCSF, along with Drs. Abdirashid Ismail from Somalia, Pak Baidoo from Ghana, and Faseeh Shahab from Pakistan.
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
July 1, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
We'll cover the basics of machine learning in R.
Part 1 will teach Machine Learning Basics, Train, Validation, and Test Data, and Features vs Labels.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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July 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27, 2:00-3:00pm or 3:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
The DSI Help Desk is a place to ask your general questions about data science. No appointments required, walk-ins are welcome.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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July 8, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
We'll cover the basics of machine learning in R.
Part 2 will teach Unsupervised Learning and Clustering.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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July 12 & 14; Virtual Event
The scripting language R is considered one of the most powerful languages for quantitative analysis, statistics, and graphics. This workshop will help you get started using R to analyze your datasets and create graphs for visualization. You’ll do hands-on exercises to demystify data analysis using R.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
July 14, 11:05am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Learn about R programming concepts and discuss them with peers over lunch. We welcome R beginners and experts alike to attend.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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July 15, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
We'll cover the basics of machine learning in R.
Part 3 will teach Supervised Learning, Classification, and Regression.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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July 21-22; Virtual Event
This 2-day hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to a typical bulk RNA-seq protocol and focus on the data analysis steps for recovering actionable insights.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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July 22, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
We'll cover the basics of machine learning in R. Part 4 will teach Model Interpretation and AI Bias.
Hosted by the UCSF Library


STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS ONLY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT
July 12, 3:00-5:00pm; Mahley Auditorium
Learn from Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator and President Emeritus at Gladstone Institutes, on how to give the most effective scientific presentation. In this session, you’ll learn: how to structure the elements for a successful lecture, how to build a story, and how visuals can make or break your talk.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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July 26, 3:00-4:30pm; Mahley Auditorium
Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator and President Emeritus, Gladstone Institutes.
Your chalk talk is an important part of the academic job interview, but this piece of the process can seem mysterious to many applicants. Demystify the chalk talk and set yourself up for success.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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ACKNOWLEDGING THE CCMBM

If you have received a CCMBM grant, used one of our cores, or formed a collaboration at one of our events that led to a publication, please acknowledge our Center in related publications and presentations. We suggest stating:

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30AR075055. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.