UCSF CCMBM Core Services Newsletter - October 2024 | | |
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CCMBM Cores:
Featured Services
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The Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology & Medicine (CCMBM) defines itself
by emphasizing musculoskeletal-specific education and services that are critical to its members but not available elsewhere in the university system.
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"I greatly value CCMBM and its activities. I have attended numerous seminars and used CCMBM core equipment. The uCT core is crucial for our past and ongoing collaborative research and has led to multiple publications. We are very lucky to have a community like CCMBM at UCSF!”
--Jeffrey Bush, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, UCSF
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Interested in analyzing human genomic data to identify biological associations with musculoskeletal traits? The CCMBM EBSD Core is organizing a monthly genomics working group to assist investigators in performing genomic analysis.
All musculoskeletal researchers performing or thinking about performing genomic analyses are welcome. Coaching will have an initial focus on genome-wide germline genetic variation and gene expression. We will cover steps from gaining access, developing analysis plans, data cleaning, data analysis, and interpretation. If interested, contact Dan Evans.
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Application Deadline: December 20, 2024, 12:00PM PST
Proposals reviewed and funded on a rolling basis.
CCMBM is pleased to announce the CCMBM Junior Investigator Travel Award, which is intended to support the travel of trainees to develop expertise, network, or acquire skills in a field at a scientific conference that the applicants may otherwise be unable to attend. The award is particularly designed to encourage travel to a conference where the trainee may not be presenting an abstract, but where interactions with other attendees and participation in conference activities can serve as a springboard for trainees to transition to the next stages in their scientific careers.
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Travel awards may only be used to cover economy airfare for up to $200 per award and travel to be completed by March 31, 2025. | | | |
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The Grant Development Award provides funding for a junior CCMBM member to host a meeting (e.g., lunch or dinner) with 1-3 UCSF faculty members who are outside of the trainee’s current lab to:
1) brainstorm/solicit informal feedback on a study idea or research direction
2) learn about the latest methods and techniques used in related fields
3) identify potential collaborators
4) promote inter-disciplinary MSK research
5) expand the trainee’s professional network
If you are not a member, you may concurrently apply for membership while your Grant Development application is being reviewed.
Apply via the online application form today! Contact Noah Bonnheim for questions on this funding opportunity.
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The CCMBM would like to help investigators strengthen their grant proposals in advance of any upcoming NIH deadlines. We invite CCMBM members to participate in the Grants Review program to receive 1:1 feedback and/or live panel review with peers as well as coaching from experienced investigators. If you are not a member, you may concurrently join during your grants review period.
Upcoming NIH Cycle III deadlines include:
R01 & U01 Grants: November 5, 2024
K Series Grants: November 12, 2024
R03, R21, R33, R21/R33, R34, R36, U34, UH2, UH3, and UH2/UH3 Grants: November 16, 2024
Fill out the sign up form to attend an upcoming session.
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The Imaging Core is offering service discounts to Early Stage Investigator and Trainee members. The Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Study Design Core is also offering up to 6 hours of free UCSF Clinical and Translational Institute (CTSI) consultation time for all CCMBM members. Please contact each Core to utilize these member discounts.
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October 31, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus, HSW-302
ImmunoX Journal Club
Kai Trepka, BMS Graduate Student, Turnbaugh Lab, UCSF
Zachary Earley, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cyster Lab, UCSF
Hosted by ImmunoX
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October 31, 12:00-1:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
BBC Seminar Series
Evelyn Strickland, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Weiner Lab, UCSF
"Clements Lecture: How many cooks is too many? How neutrophils collectively decide when enough is enough"
Watch via livestream.
Hosted by the PhD Degree Program in Biophysics
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October 31, 12:00-1:00pm; Parnassus, HSW-302
BMS Journal Club
David Raleigh, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, UCSF
Julia McBride, BMS Graduate Student, UCSF
Hosted by the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
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November 1, 7:00am PT; Virtual Event
Avioli Musculoskeletal Research Seminar Series
Abdul Malik, PhD, Senior Scientist, Orthopaedic Surgery Research, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Register to receive Zoom details.
Hosted by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Musculoskeletal Research Center
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November 1, 9:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
Python Background for Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing
This workshop will provide a review of the Python programming skills and techniques used in the upcoming Machine Learning and Natural Language processing workshops. Topics will include string manipulation, data types and conversion, pandas dataframes, and data formatting and preparation. Programming tools will include Jupyter Lab, Google Colab, and Generative AI coding assistants.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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November 1, 12:00pm; Parnassus, HSW-1057
Diabetes Seminar Series
Veronica Cochrane, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Parent Lab, UCSF Diabetes Center
"In vitro Maturation of SC-islets: Lessons from MAFA"
Hosted by the UCSF Diabetes Center
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November 1, 4:00-5:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series
Adrienne Boire, MD, PhD, Neuro-Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
"Fortune Favors the Bold: Cancer in an Extreme Microenvironment"
Hosted by the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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NSF 24-582: NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Fast-Track Pilot Programs (SBIR-STTR Fast-Track)
Application Deadline: November 6, 2024
The NSF SBIR/STTR and SBIR/STTR Fast-Track pilot programs support moving scientific excellence and technological innovation from the lab to the market. By funding startups and small businesses, NSF helps build a strong national economy and stimulates the creation of novel products, services, and solutions in private, public, or government sectors with potential for broad impact; strengthens the role of small business in meeting federal research and development needs; increases the commercial application of federally supported research results; and develops and increases the US workforce, especially by fostering and encouraging participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small businesses.
To learn more, view the program solicitation here.
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UCSF Human Performance Center Seed Grant
Application Deadline: November 15, 2024
The Human Performance Center serves primarily as a research facility, partnering with other research labs, scientists, and companies around UCSF, and the entire Bay Area, to carry out studies in the areas of biomechanics, exercise physiology, and sleep & athletic performance.
This grant will provide “seed” opportunities for faculty, researchers, and trainees that have research needs involving biomechanics and/or exercise testing of which the HPC can provide and might lead to future funding. Proposals with novel ideas as well as proposals that are an add-on to a current research study will be considered if the goal is to acquire pilot data for possible future funding.
The maximal amount of funds available for this fiscal year is $5,000 in HPC Services.
Learn more on the HPC website, and direct any application-related questions to Brooke Schultz.
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RFA-DE-25-004: Collaborative Science to Achieve Disruptive Innovations in Dental, Oral and Craniofacial (DOC) Research (RM1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: November 19, 2024
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is designed to support highly integrated research teams to address challenging questions with the potential to significantly advance dental, oral and craniofacial (DOC) fields of research. Each project should have a unified and well-defined scientific goal within the NIDCR mission that requires a team with diverse perspectives and expertise in a variety of intellectual or technical areas and is beyond the experience and capabilities of one or two investigators. Teams are encouraged to consider transformative, and disruptive innovative objectives with defined 5-year outcomes/deliverables. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) requires a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP).
To learn more, view the NOFO here.
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs)
Application Deadline: November 21, 2024
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are a set of programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. These programs may repay up to $100,000 of qualified student loan debt for a 2-year award to those committed to a career in biomedical research. The goal of these incredible and potentially life-changing programs is to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals in research careers by lessening the burden of student loans.
About 50 percent of LRP applications are funded each year and the mean award is $57,582. Many researchers have had all their student loan debt repaid by the NIH LRPs (over several awards).
Learn more about the different eligibility programs here.
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Recognizing the need for collaboration of MSK scientists with experts outside of the MSK field, we are providing support to MSK Center members to host a meal for a creative and enjoyable in-person networking meeting to stimulate these interactions and to further develop new research ideas and plans to fund them. Faculty, staff, and trainees who are MSKC/CCMBM members are encouraged to apply to host an event.
If you are not a member, you may concurrently apply for membership while your Open MIKE application is being reviewed.
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UCSF Talks is a new resource for anyone interested in learning about the latest seminars happening at UCSF. It lists all seminars open to the entire UCSF community including regular seminar series, special seminars, supergroups, and thesis talks. If you would like to receive weekly event listing emails, you can sign up for the USCF Talks Google Group. To add an event to the website, please contact Jon Zhang.
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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.
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