|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
June 2, 9:00am; Virtual Event
Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research (MQIR) Group Meeting
Saeed Jerban, PhD, Assistant Project Scientist, Radiology, UCSD
UTE MR imaging for cortical bone microstructure and quality
Jiang Du, PhD, Professor of Radiology, UCSD
Po-Hung Wu, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiology, UCSF
Multi-modality in vivo imaging of cortical bone vasculature
Hosted by UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
|
June 3, 12:30-2:00pm (PT)/3:30-5:00pm (ET)
Courtney Mazur, PhD, Research Fellow, Wein Lab, Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Trafficking of mRNA to Osteocyte Dendrites
Janet Lee, MD, MPH, MAS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF
Skeletal Considerations in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth Receiving Gender-Affirming Medical Therapy
|
|
Next session: Tuesday, June 14
Sign up for an upcoming virtual review session and receive live feedback from a panel of experienced investigators. Experienced musculoskeletal investigators can also offer, review and provide feedback for NIH grant applications. Sign-up spots are limited and are on a first come, first serve basis.
|
|
June 29, 1:00-2:00pm; Location TBD
Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh
Forever Young: Targeting Youthful Signals in Circulating Extracellular Vesicles through Engineering and Exercise
|
|
Letter of Intent deadline - June 1
Project award: $80,000-$200,000
This competitive research award program will provide funding to member institution faculty, especially early- and mid-career faculty to advance collaborative research projects in any of the Impact Themes: 1. Addressing the Next Generation of Business and Societal Challenges: Cybersecurity, 2. Transforming Healthcare: Computational Precision Health, 3. Accelerating Scientific Discovery: The Promise of Quantum Computing. Apply to be considered by the Institutional Leadership team. Contact Gretchen Kiser with questions. |
|
Application deadline - June 10, 2022, 23:59 PST
The Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund invites proposals to support major priorities: (1) Health Equity: Increasing representation of communities of color in clinical research and eliminating inequities in care delivery, (2) Workforce Diversity: Dismantling barriers to a diverse, inclusive and antiracist scientific and health care workforce. This is an open RFP (UCSF may submit an unlimited number of applications). Follow application instructions in RFP, conferring with your Industry Contracts Officer (aims 1&2) or Research Services Coordinator (aim 3) as needed. |
Pre-Proposals due June 17, 2022
The MRL SEEDS program is a MRL SSF initiative seeking research collaborations with academic researchers to advance the most innovative discoveries for therapeutic targets, pathways and technologies. Pre-proposals will be selected and invited to develop full proposals. |
|
June 1, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Henry Kronenberg, MD, Director, Center of Skeletal Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Bone Cells and Their Functions
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
---
June 2, 9:00am-5:00pm; Hybrid Event
Join for a full day symposium exploring the role of the microbiome in precision medicine. Research talks will center on drugging, modeling, and editing the microbiome.
Hosted by BCMM
---
June 2, 10:00-11:00am; Parnassus, N-225
David Erle, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Hosted by ImmunoX
---
June 7, 10:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
David Fiddock, PhD, C.S. Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Columbia University
Hosted by Integrative Microbiology Program
---
June 7, 7:00-8:30pm; Virtual Event
Ryan Rampersaud MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
Microbes and Mental Health – Mood Enhancing Effects of Gut Microbes
Hosted by BCMM and Osher Mini Medical School for the Public
---
June 8, 7:30am; Parnassus, N-225
Leah Demetri, MD, Resident of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
M&M
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
---
June 8, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Petra Simic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Calcium/phosphate Metabolism
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
---
June 9, 11:00-10:00am; N-225
Rosa Rodriguez, Graduate Student, Sil Lab, UCSF
Hosted by ImmunoX
---
June 10-11; Hybrid Event
June 10th will be a full day of fantastic speakers who will update us on a variety of sports medicine topics. June 11th will be in-person for a hands-on day of workshops at UCSF Mission Bay. We will also do a networking social to mingle with our UCSF faculty and exhibitors.
Hosted by the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
|
|
June 14, 10:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
Alexis Villani, Graduate Student, Bondy-Denomy Lab, Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
Elucidating the mechanism of heritable Restriction Endonuclease inactivation (iREN) in Pseudomonas
Hosted by Integrative Microbiology Program
---
June 15, 7:30am; Parnassus, N-225
Zubin Master, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic
Biologics discussion vs journal club
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
---
June 15, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Petra Simic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Calcium/phosphate Metabolism
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
---
June 16, 10:00-11:00am; Parnassus, N-225
Benjamin Lesch, Graduate Student, Bapat/Marson Labs, UCSF and Grace Hernandez, BMS Graduate Student, Perera Lab, UCSF
Hosted by ImmunoX
---
June 17, 12:10-1:00pm; Parnassus, CS-0101
Bryan Winn, MD, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Topical glaucoma therapy is associated with alterations of the ocular surface microbiome
Xiaofan Jin, PhD, Postdoc, Pollard Lab
Simulating gut spatial structure using a complex synthetic microbial community cultured with mucin microcosms
Hosted by BCMM
---
June 22, 7:30am; Parnassus, N-225
Rhonda Watkins, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
Education Committee
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
---
June 23, 10:00-11:00am; N-225
Jiapei Chen, BMS Graduate Student, Huang Lab, UCSF and Jerika Barron, BMS Graduate Student, Molofsky Lab, UCSF
Hosted by ImmunoX
---
June 23, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Eva Liu, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Vitamin D
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
---
June 29, 1:00-2:00pm PT; Virtual Event
Lamya Karim, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Biomechanics
Hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Skeletal Research
|
|
June 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 22, 27, 29, 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
---
June 3, 8:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
To deal with ambiguity and complexity from within and outside of the organization, we need mental maps that show us where to look and what to ignore.
Hosted by UCSF School of Medicine
---
June 3, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will provide a review of basic machine learning concepts, and will introduce Python and scikit-learn tools for machine learning. Emphasis will be on the programming work involved in preparing data, populating and building a ML model using scikit-learn libraries, and reading results.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 3, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
Over two sessions, we'll cover the material from the self-paced R for Everyone Series. Part 1 will cover R and RStudio, Computer Programming, and Variables, Conditions and Loops.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 8, 12:00pm-1:00pm; Virtual Event
In this final session of "PHDI Medicare Mini-Series: Make CMS Medicare Data Work for You", bring your project and we will help you brainstorm how Medicare Claims data can be used for your research.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 9, 11:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
Do you have questions about PubMed? This session can cover beginning or advanced topics, depending your skill level.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 10, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will review the process of preparing, cleaning, and formatting text for natural language processing projects. Topics will include stop words, n-grams, stemming, lemmatization, and other techniques for pre-processing text.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 10, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
Hosted by the UCSF Library
|
|
June 10, 12:00pm-1:00pm; Virtual Event
California’s Department of Health Care Access and Information has collected data on discharges from California hospitals for 30 years, including short-term acute, long-term acute, and specialty hospitals. Learn more about the data and how to access them in this webinar!
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 16, 10:00-11:00am; 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
---
June 16, 11:05am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Learn about R programming concepts and discuss them with peers over lunch (bring your own lunch). We welcome R beginners and experts alike to attend.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 17, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Participants will use scikit-learn to identify topic clusters in a collection of documents. Through hands-on programming exercises, we will investigate using ML algorithms such as k-means clustering to 1) categorized documents into different clusters and 2) analyze the voculabulary (words and terms) most frequent in each cluster.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 17, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
We'll cover ways to manipulate data in R.
Part 1 will teach about: The Tidyverse, Subsetting with select() and filter(), Transforming Variables with mutate(), Aggregating Data with group_by() and summarise(). You should be familiar with the materials from R for Everyone.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 22, 10:30am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This hands-on class is targeted at people who need to clean messy data, including spreadsheets of survey responses, patient encounters, financial records, or workshop attendance.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 24; 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
We'll cover ways to manipulate data in R.
Part 2 will teach about Relational Data, and Types of joins. You should be familiar with the materials from R for Everyone.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
---
June 28, 2:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
In this session John Borghi, project lead and manager of the R&I team, will present their methods and preliminary results and will discuss how the project has served as a mechanism for the team to get first-hand experience putting open science into practice.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
|
|
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS ONLY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT |
|
June 2, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Curious about careers in patent law and intellectual property? Come meet UCSF alums and their colleagues from the firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, to hear about career opportunities for grad students and postdocs.
Hosted by UCSF Office for Postdoctoral Scholars
---
Watch past Grand Rounds from UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery and subscribe for updates.
|
|
Helping you navigate your scientific journey, iBiology Courses is dedicated to bringing you courses that help you do good science and enhance your career and professional development. It is an online learning system by the Science Communication Lab.
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
