UCSF CCMBM Events & Opportunities Newsletter - August 2022
UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
August 4, 8:00am-3:50pm; Virtual Event
This course will focus on updates and hot topics in osteoporosis, with an all-star faculty including experts here at UCSF as well other visiting faculty. The CCMBM EBSD Core is subsidizing the registration cost of CCMBM members: Trainees (students, residents, fellows) are fully subsidized, and faculty members are subsidized at 50%. Please contact Dr. Anne Schafer for instructions about receiving the discount.
Max award $150,000 total costs
C-DOCTOR will award funding to promising dental, oral and craniofacial tissue engineering and regenerative medicine technologies and help them advance toward human clinical trials through customized product development advice and core resources. Two-page pre-proposals will be accepted through August 7, 2022. View full RFP here.
Next panel sessions: August 4, 8:30am; August 9, 10:00am
>Sign up to receive live peer review as well as coaching from experienced investigators. CCMBM Grants Review will help with your proposal development and/or provide feedback for working drafts for NIH grant applications and/or upcoming UCSF RAP Fall cycle deadline.

August 18, 2022, 11:00-12:00pm (PT); Virtual Event
Dr. Yoni Ashar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Registration required
Consultations must be completed by September 9, 2022
CCMBM and CoLabs have partnered as RAP sponsors to encourage investigators to further musculoskeletal discovery and translation by utilizing the five CoLab Teams. Consult with the CoLabs Chief Strategist, Andrea Barczak for guidance on the appropriateness of your application idea within the framework of the CoLabs. Contact Pui Yee Law for questions about this program or eligibility guidelines.
PARTNER EVENTS
August 4, 3:00-5:00pm; Parnassus CS-0101
This workshop will combine a lecture, peer review, and discussion to demystify the NIH application process. This training will prepare participants to submit an NIH grant proposal that turns reviewers into advocates, positioning the applicant for success.
Hosted by the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
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August 4, 11, 18, 25, 12:00-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Schedule time to meet with an Educator. Bring your coding and documentation concerns. We are here to help you.
Hosted by Office of Ethics and Compliance
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August 10, 7:00-8:00am; Virtual Event
Join us for a grand rounds on diversity, equity and inclusion, featuring guest speaker Eric Cervini, PhD. Dr. Cervini is an award-winning author, producer, and historian of LGBTQ+ politics.
Hosted by UCSF Departments of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, and Surgery
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August 16, 8:30-9:30am; Virtual Event
Dan Vigneron, PhD, Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center Executive Committee Chair
Adam Autry, PhD, Clinical Translation of Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Imaging in Patients with Glioma
Nikita Sushentsev, MD, PhD, Hyperpolarised 13C-MRI for Targeting Glycolytic Tumour Core in Prostate Cancer
Hosted by UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
August 16, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
ESCape (Education Scholarship Conference) is a weekly group consultation for scholarly work in health professions education with CFE faculty and other members of the UCSF education community.
Hosted by Center for Faculty Educators
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August 18, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Stuck in a recruitment rut? 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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August 25, 2:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
The HDFCCC Office of Education and Training presents a Concept and Completion Seminar on "Protocol Structure and Review." Open to senior fellows, residents, and faculty, this seminar is part of the HDFCCC K12 Physician Scientist Program in Clinical Oncology (PSPCO).
Hosted by the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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August 21, 10:00am; Mission Bay, Benioff Children’s Hospital
The event, which raises both awareness and funding for the care and treatment of sarcoma (soft tissue and bone cancers), welcomes walkers and runners of all ages.For anyone unable to participate in-person, please join our team in a virtual 5K, which will run Aug. 18 to 25, 2002.
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sarcoma Center
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
August 4, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 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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August 5, 11:00am-2:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a hands-on workshop that covers how to use ggplot2 for common visualizations using the R programming language. It is not an introductory R programming workshop.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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August 11, 11:05am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Learn about R programming concepts and discuss them with peers over lunch. Lunch and LeaRn with DSI are designed to be inclusive, and we welcome R beginners and experts alike to attend.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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August 15-16, 1:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
In this 2-day workshop, you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of common hypothesis-testing concepts and terms, such as null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, type I error, type II error, p-value, and power.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes


August 18, 11:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
We will use R to analyze DNA variants from Variant Call Format files to identify those likely to have a functional impact. It is intended for those with intermediate R programming skills. 
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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August 19, 11:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
We will use R to analyze DNA variants from Variant Call Format files to identify those likely to have a functional impact. It is intended for those with intermediate R programming skills. 
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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August 15-16, 1:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
In this 2-day workshop, you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of common hypothesis-testing concepts and terms, such as null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, type I error, type II error, p-value, and power.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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August 23, 2:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
A template will be introduced that research groups can use to discuss, adopt and implement open science practices. Join us to discuss what else should be included, and how team agreements can be used to kickstart conversations on open science. Potential adopters are especially welcome.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS ONLY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT
August 4, 12:00-1:30pm; Virtual Event
Curious about careers in industry research? Come meet current Merck employees, including UCSF alums, to hear about career opportunities at Merck for grad students and postdocs. This is a great opportunity to get insider tips on how to be competitive!
Hosted by Office of Career and Professional Development Events
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August 9, 5:00-6:30pm; Parnassus, IRM Boardroom, Pod D
Kick off with two twenty-minute presentations by IRM postdocs about their current research, followed by Q&A. Pizza and drinks will aid the post-seminar discussions.
Hosted by UCSF Broad Stem Cell Research Center
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August 16, 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


August 30, 10:30am-12:00pm, Virtual Event
Applying for an academic position can be a daunting process. In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from new investigators who recently went through the process of interviewing and negotiating for academic positions.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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Why do we perform experiments? What conclusions would we like to be able to draw from these experiments? Who are we trying to convince? How does the “magic” of statistics help us reach conclusions? This talk, by Reuben Thomas and Michela Traglia of the Bioinformatics Core, is open to anyone interested in learning more about experimental design, biological and technical aspect to consider, confounding factors and power analysis. No background in statistics is required.
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.