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Congratulations and Farewell
Veronica Ruiz Xomchuk, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, and former postdoctoral association president, recently accepted a new position as a scientific programmer at Science Applications International Corporation, Inc., as part of the team in NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.
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Tri-Institutional Postdoc Retreat
The second postdoc retreat, partnered with Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, was held in the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, Jupiter campus, on Jan. 27. The event consisted of a panel discussion with a variety of former postdocs who discussed about their journeys to their current positions in the community, academia and industry.
One of the retreat breakout options included an informational presentation by Rhian Resnick, associate director of FAU Research Computing. For those unable to attend, Resnick provided a general overview of some of the resources FAU Office of Information Technology has available to support research computing needs. These resources are available to FAU researchers, including postdocs. For a copy of his presentation PPT,
see here. The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs will plan on featuring topics related to these resources in the months to come.
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Professional Development Workshop and End of Year Luncheon
On Dec. 9, 2022, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs hosted a professional development workshop on the postdoc-mentor relationship and how to develop and improve interactions. The workshop was conducted by Jeanne Viviani, director of research development. Participants received a tour of the Fabrication Laboratory in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, as well as a walking tour of the FAU Boca Raton campus.
Watch the full recording here.
Zoom password: wyN34R%y
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Annie Souza, Ph.D.
Bridging Sleep and Memory
Our permanent, long-term memories take time and rest to make. Annie Souza, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the FAU Stile-Nicholson Brain Institute, studies how this happens within the brain.
Ultimately, Souza said she hopes her work helps lead to the development of non-invasive methods to improve memory in disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Zoe Atherton, Ph.D.
Snoozing for Brain Health
Zoe Atherton, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the FAU Stile-Nicholson Brain Institute,, studies how sleep affects memory. While we sleep, we convert our experiences into long-term memories by storing them across the various parts of the brain and thus, stabilizing them, she said. A deep brain region called the thalamus mediates communication between multiple brain regions to make this happen. It’s this process that Atherton investigates.
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David Cinalli, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Research for the Future
As a neuroscientist, David Cinalli, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the FAU Stile-Nicholson Brain Institute,, studies how the brain forms and recalls different forms of memory. But his real passion is sharing science with the community — especially students — through the FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute’s Advancing STEM: Community Engagement through Neuroscience Discovery (ASCEND).
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Andre Luiz Campelo dos Santos, Ph.D.
Migration Routes in South America
New discoveries show a distinct relationship among ancient genomes from northeast Brazil, revealing that the settlement of the Atlantic coast occurred after the peopling of most of the Pacific coast and Andes, according to Andre Luiz Campelo dos Santos, Ph.D., first author, archaeologist and postdoctoral fellow in FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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Adaptive Learning
Rachel St. Clair, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the FAU Center for the Future Mind, and one of the first to earn a doctorate degree in computational neuroscience at the FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute.
She was recently awarded a grant from Cisco Systems for her research titled Using High-Dimensional Computing for Knowledge Graphs Towards Efficient General Intelligence.
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How to File Taxes as an International Postdoc
FAU's Center for Global Engagement is hosting a Sprintax Nonresident Tax Webinar for international students, scholars and professionals, covering topics such as, who must file taxes, tax residency, FICA, state returns, implications of misfiling and more.
Additionally, visit the IRS web site to learn more about free tax filing here. This free file program is available to individuals who have earned less than $73,000 in 2022.
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OIT Announcements for Researchers
Introduction of PowerScale parallel file system
to the Research Computing Infrastructure
In March and April the Office of Information Technology will be adding Dell/EMS PowerScale storage to the Research Computing Infrastructure on the Jupiter Campus. This new storage solution will provide Researchers with FAU’s first flash based parallel storage technology. This addition to our capability will result in blazing fast home directory and scratch file system performance.
All Research Computing users will gain access to this storage for home (10GB) and scratch storage (temporary 300GB). If you need additional storage it may be purchased based on your research needs. Please reach out so we can build storage requirements into your funding requests.
OIT Research Computing Storage Offerings starting in March of 2023
10 GB Home Directory
300 GB Temporary Scratch Storage
300 GB Archival Storage (Object based storage)
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Select weekdays through to May 16
1 p.m., March 16, virtual event
March 16-17, Boca Raton campus
- 10:30 a.m., March 23, Jupiter campus
- 10:30 a.m., April 20, Harbor Branch campus
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2023 Brainy Days
Autism Research, Education and Service: Moving the Needle — Right Now, Right Here!
5 to 7 p.m., March 2
Autism Speaks Walk
10 a.m., March 5
Responsible Conduct of Research Workshops - Spring 2023 (On Zoom)
noon to 2 p.m., March 14
noon to 2 p.m., March 3
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