UCSF CCMBM Core Services Newsletter - March 2022
Dr. Adam Ferguson
"The CCMBM has been a powerful entree into the rich collaborative environment of the orthopedic research community at UCSF. Therefore‚ as a neuroscientist and data scientist I likely would not have had these opportunities without CCMBM support.”

-- Adam Ferguson, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
Are you interested in incorporating automated image segmentation into your imaging studies?

The Imaging Core aims to 1) make CCMBM members aware of a deep learning segmentation tool developed by the Department of Radiology’s Center for Intelligent Imaging, and 2) facilitate access to this tool.

DioscoriDESS is a modular codebase for training, inferring, and deploying deep-learning segmentation networks in python using TensorFlow. Documentation and tutorials are available for viewing and download from this CCMBM box folder.

For questions and support, please contact CCMBM Imaging Core Director Galateia Kazakia.
Members only site
Did you miss our last seminar or technical workshop? Or are you looking for imaging equipment or skeletal biology standard operating protocols? Members have access to workshops and seminar recordings, protocols, and archived newsletters on the CCMBM Members Only Site. Never miss out on all things related to the Center!

For login assistance or questions on the members only site, inquire with Mary Tran.
Core discounts
Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics and Imaging Cores are 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.

Contact Mary Tran for eligibility questions. 
March 24, 4:00-5:00pm; CS-0101
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Research-in-Progress Session
David Kohn, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Professor of Dentistry, University of Michigan
Bone matrix composition: from an unexpected result to a diagnostic path
Join via Zoom
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alliston Lab
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March 28, 9:00am; N-225/Virtual Event
Ming Li, PhD, Immunologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by ImmunoX
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March 29, 10:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
Keren Lasker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute
The PopZ Condensate: From Cytosol Organization in Bacteria to Synthetic Applications in Human Cells
Hosted by Integrative Microbiology Program
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March 30, 7:30am; Virtual Event
Ryan Freshman, MD, Resident Physician, Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
Foot Journal Conference
Join via Zoom
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
March 30, 4:00pm; Virtual Event
Victor Torres, PhD, Director, Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Unraveling the adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus during bloodstream infection
Hosted by the UCSF Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
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April 1 - Application deadline
Funding is open to UCSF Faculty in any series (Clinical X, In Residence, Ladder Rank, Adjunct, and Health Sciences Clinical) for the following categories:
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April 21, 1:00-2:00pm PT/4:00-5:00pm ET; Virtual Event
Gabriel Mbalaviele, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
Parsing the Paradoxical Pyroptotic and Osteoclastogenic Fates of Macrophages
Register to receive Zoom details.
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.