|
|
CCMBM Events and Opportunities
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.
|
|
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES |
|
September 10, 8:00-9:00am; Virtual Event
Investigators can present their clinical research grants or data and receive feedback and informal consultation from peers and senior investigators. Please contact Lucy Wu for more details!
---
- Application Deadline - September 10, 5:00pm PST
- Travel must occur by March 31, 2021
Planning on traveling to a scientific conference this fall or winter? Apply for the 2021 Fall Cycle CCMBM Junior Investigator Travel Award Program. This award is intended to support the travel of trainees to develop expertise, network, or acquire skills in a field at a scientific conference that the applicant may otherwise be unable to attend.
---
- Next available session – September 14
|
|
September 24, 1:00-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Brent Richards, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Human Genetics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Quebec
Genetics to Identify Drug Targets for Osteoporosis
---
- Application Deadline - September 27, 2:00pm PST
Established Investigators - $50,000 max; Junior Investigators - $40,000 max. Research topics should be translational in nature and related to musculoskeletal disease. If you have any research questions in regards to applying, please email Pui Yee Law.
|
|
PARTNER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
|
|
- Application Deadline - September 27, 5:00pm PST
- Notifications - mid-November 2021
- Trainee/Staff Pilot Award - up to $10,000 for one year; Faculty Pilot Award -up to $150,000 for two years.
The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (BCMM) seeks to advance the field of microbiome research at UCSF by funding proposals that develop novel tools, promote understanding of microbial-host interactions, and foster translational research. Proposal guidelines can be found on the BCMM website.
Hosted by the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
|
|
September 2, 2:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurology, UCSF
Personalized Brain Stimulation for Refractory Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Hosted by the Core Center for Patient-centric, Mechanistic Phenotyping in Chronic Low Back Pain (REACH)
---
Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds – Save the Dates in September
Neha Dole, PhD – September 8
Michael Davies, MD – September 15
Mohammad Diab, MD & Rosanna Wustrack, MD – September 22
Emil Schemitsch, MD, FRCSC – September 29
Hosted by the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
---
September 8, 9:00-10:00am; Virtual Event
Vicki Rosen, PhD, Professor and Chair of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
BMP2 regulation of peristeal stem cell niche
Hosted by the Harvard Center for Skeletal Research
---
September 10, 12:30-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Jeroen Eyckmans, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Engineering biomedic models of soft tissue repair
Cheng-Chia (Kathy) Tang, PhD, Endocrine Unit Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dual targeting of salt inducible kinases and CSF1R uncouples bone formation and bone resorption
Hosted by the Harvard Center for Skeletal Research
|
|
September 15, 1:00-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, UCSF
The Future of Stem Cell Therapy: The Future of Hypoimmune Cell Products
Hosted by QB3
---
September 17, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Join the DEB Digital Health Initiative on designing digital health studies, including usability testing; deploying technologies in and outside of clinical practice; ecological momentary assessment methods; and monitoring data quality before, during, and after interventions.
Hosted by the UCSF Department for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
---
September 23, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Katherine Fantauzzo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Craniofacial Biology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Hosted by the UCSF Program in Craniofacial Biology
|
|
September 10, 9:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will provide an introduction to programming in Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. We will cover basic variable assignment, loops, conditionals, lists, and functions. Exercises will be hands on and use the Jupyter notebook environment.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 10; 11:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
In this workshop participants will be able to use PubMed to quickly incoroporate evidence-based information into clinical practice. Topics of this course include keyword searching, medical subject headings (MeSH), filters, and clinical queries.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
--
September 15, 3:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
Go beyond Google search methods to get a handle on database logic. Build complex search strategies; try some PubMed tricks and tips and set up alerts to stay informed when new articles are published in your field.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 16, 3:10-4:00pm; Virtual Event
Over two sessions material will be covered from the self-paced R for Everyone Series such as R & RStudio, computer programming, and variables/conditions/loops.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 17, 9:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a follow up course to Introduction to Python, Part 1. Participants will build on core programming skills and learn to use common Python libraries for data analysis including Pandas for tabular data analysis and matplotlib for graphing and plotting,
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 17, 3:10-4:00pm; Virtual Event
Over two sessions material will be covered from the self-paced R for Everyone Series such as functions, vectors/matrices, and data frames.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 21, 10:30am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This hands-on class will cover prevalent trends in open science including open access publishing, open research data, open protocols, and open code. We will introduce emerging biomedical funder and publisher requirements for open science, describe how you can get credit and citations for your work, and share best practices for integrating open science practices into your research workflow.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
|
|
September 23, 4:10-5:00pm; Virtual Event
Hacky Hours are designed to be inclusive, and we welcome data science beginners and experts alike to attend. Attend to listen in on presentations on data science and apply what you’ve learned to solve a data science challenge.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 24, 9:00-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This course will provide an introduction to SQL, the structured query language used to access relational databases. Learn how to import data into a database, run queries, filter results, aggregate data, and join multiple tables based on a common element.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 27, 11:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This hands-on workshop covers how to use ggplot2 for common visualizations using the R programming language. Learn to use ggplot2 for describing single variables and plotting simple relationships (e.g. scatterplots), visualizing more complex relationships and model results (e.g. heatmaps with clustering), and creating and exporting publication-quality graphs.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 29, 11:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This hands-on workshop covers how to describe single variables and test for relationships between two variables using the R programming language. Learn how to describe single variables easily using dplyr functions (e.g. summary statistics, distribution tests), test for association between two variables (e.g. t-tests, correlations), and correct for multiple testing.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
September 30, 11:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This hands-on workshop covers common regression modeling techniques using the R programming language. Learn how to run and visualize results from simple and multivariable regression models for continuous outcomes, binary outcomes, and survival outcomes
Hosted by the UCSF Library
|
|
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS ONLY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT |
|
September 10, 12:00-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Participants will learn and apply basic concepts of business strategy (e.g. identifying stakeholders, determining value proposition, and defining vision) in academic and industry settings. This workshop is geared towards graduate students and postdocs pursuing a career in industry or business of science or planning to start an academic lab.
Hosted by the UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
