CCMBM Fall Update
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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Spatial bias in cAMP generation determines biological responses to PTH type 1 receptor activation
Check out the new study by CCMBM members, Wenhan Chang, Christian Santa Maria, Zhiqiang Cheng, and Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Core Managers Chia-Ling Tu and Nicholas Szeto: doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.abc5944. With their coauthors, they elegantly show the importance of precise spatial localization of PTH receptor signaling within distinct subcellular compartments, a discovery that could improve rational drug design to treat osteoporosis. Read more >>
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SPOTLIGHT YOUR HIGHLIGHTS & SUCCESSES |
Let the CCMBM and UCSF Musculoskeletal Center help promote your science discoveries. Tag @ucsfmskcenter in your posts for a retweet, or provide Pui Yee Law with the following for creation of a twitter post:
1. Link to your article
2. Twitter handles for you and your UCSF coauthors
3. An image from (or related to) your article
4. A suggested tweet (280 characters or less – shorter is better)
We are also interested in spotlighting your trainee highlights and lab successes.
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Congratulations to the following members on their CCMBM awards! |
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Nafisa Elghazali
PhD Candidate
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Award: Junior Investigator Travel to ORS ISFR Meeting in Tampa, Florida (Feb 2022)
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Lazaros Lataniotis, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurology
Award: Junior Investigator Travel to the Emerging Cellular Therapies/Keystone Symposia in British Colombia, Canada (February 2022)
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Saghi Sadoughi, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Project: Establishing Time-Lapse HR-pQCT technique for Determining Total Bone Turnover in Patients with CKD
Award: Tools & Technology
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Liping Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professional Researcher
Department of Medicine
Project: Spatial Profiling WNT Signaling Pathway in PTH-treated Mouse Bones
Award: Tools & Technology
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We would like to recognize CCMBM members who participated and/or received awards during the October 2021 ASBMR Annual meeting in San Diego, California. Congratulations to the following:
ASBMR 2021 William F. Neuman Award
Steve Cummings, MD
ASBMR 2021 Annual Meeting Most Outstanding Basic Science Abstract Award*
Neha Dole, PhD
We are delighted to have over 40 members attend ASBMR, representing both UCSF and the CCMBM. Read more about each member’s participation.
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December 2, 1:00-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Michelle McDonald, PhD, Bone Microenvironment Group Leader of the Bone Microenvironment Group
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
"Osteomorps and Osteoclast Recycling: A Mechanism for Rebound Bone Loss Following Withdrawal of Denosumab Therapy"
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December 9, 4:10-5:00pm; Virtual Event
Join us for the final session of our book club to discuss "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein.
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December 10, 10:00-11:00am; 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.
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December 10, 12:30-2:00pm; Virtual Event
Kelly Wentworth, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Single Cell RNA Sequencing in Fibrous Dysplastic Bone
Rosanne Raftery, PhD, Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital
Articular and growth plate cartilage differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells at single cell resolution
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December 14, 12:00-1:00pm; Parnassus, N-217
Christopher J. Hernandez, PhD, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
"Microbes in Orthopaedic Biomechanics"
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December 1, 10:00-11:00am; Parnassus, N-225
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University
Revisiting immune gateways to the brain
Hosted by Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
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December 6, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus, N-225/ Zoom
Hosted by ImmunoX
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December 2, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Olga Boudker, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Substrate discrimination and transport determinants in plasma membrane glutamate transporters
Hosted by UCSF Biophysics Graduate Program, and the Chemistry and UCSF Chemical Biology Graduate Program
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December 9, 9:00-10:00am; Virtual Event
Frederik J. Beekman, PhD, Chief, Department of Biomedical Imaging, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Synergistic Imaging from 1eV to 1MeV: Integrated Ultra-High Definition Optical Tomography, PET, SPECT & X-ray CT
Hosted by Dept of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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December 10, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Join us for an engaging discussion about machine learning for health equity research, Bayesian imaging analysis, and combining machine learning with large scale epidemiological and clinical research methods.
Hosted by Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
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December 13, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus, N-225/ Zoom
Hosted by ImmunoX
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December 17, 12:00-1:00pm; Parnassus, CS-0101/ Zoom
Speaker TBA
Hosted by The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
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December 1 - Application Deadline
UCSF is hosting a matchmaking event for trainees who currently have or will have a bachelor's degree by June, 2022 and who are eligible for an NIH Diversity Supplement to meet UCSF investigators and discuss research opportunities funded through diversity supplements. Trainees who apply will have the opportunity to have short, 10-minute interviews with faculty in related research areas.
Faculty interested in attending will have an opportunity to have short, 10-minute interviews with trainees at the post-baccalaureate stage who are interested in pursuing a career in research and qualify for funding through the NIH Diversity Supplement mechanism. Typically, this provides salary support for the trainee to work in your lab as a Junior Specialist for 1-2 years.
Hosted by Post-baccalaureate Research Opportunity to Promote Equity in Learning
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December 2, 10:30am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
hands-on class will cover some of the most 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
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December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 11:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
It's an open session for any questions you may have about navigating iLab; Join us, whether your role includes reserving core equipment, managing a Lab or reconciling PI Funds.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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December 3, 9:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
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.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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December 7, 4:00-5:00pm; Virtual Event
After just 30 minutes, you will be able to use PubMed to quickly incorporate evidence-based information into your clinical practice. We’ll get there by showing you how to use: keyword searching, medical subject headings (MeSH), filters, and Clinical Queries.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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December 10, 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. Empahsis 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
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December 14, 2:00-3:00pm; 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. And try two other databases: Web of Science and Embase.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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December 15, 2:00-5:00pm; Virtual Event
In this workshop, we will provide a brief review of the concepts underlying power and sample size analysis. Following this, we will use R for hands-on programming practice with power and sample size calculations for several different types of analyses, including parametric and nonparametric tests using both analytical and simulation approaches.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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December 17, 9:00-11:00am; 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. Although we will populate and evaluate a machine learning text classification model, empahsis will be on the programming work involved in preparing text to build and populate the model rather than algorithms or analysis.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS ONLY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT |
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December 1, 5:00-6:30pm; Virtual Event
In this workshop, we'll help you answer the two most common questions asked by UCSF students and postdocs during the faculty negotiation process: What should I ask for? How can I ask for it?
Hosted by Office of Career and Professional Development
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December 7, 10:00-11:00am; Virtual Event
These informal group meetings are aimed at helping participants improve the quality of their (K Award) proposals and assisting them in navigating through the application process.
Hosted by Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
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December 16, 3:30-4:30pm; Virtual Event
This series will cover the "score-driving" sections of an NIH F grant application, particularly the research strategy section. Speaker: Katie Stone, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF.
Hosted by Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (CCMBM), 513 Parnassus Avenue, S-1161, San Francisco, CA 94143 |
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