Posts Tagged ‘seminar’

Come join us for January’s Funding Focus seminar on Internal Funding Opportunities to learn about sources for pilot funds, career development awards, and emergency funding at OHSU. The seminar will be held from 12 to 1 p.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2013 in Mac Hall 2201. We will discuss: Sources of emergency funding including Presidential Bridge Funding. “Quasi-internal” funding opportunities such as those from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon and the Collins Medical Trust. Pilot … Read More

Come join us for the next workshop in the 2013 Vollum Career Development series taking place Tuesday, January 15 at 4 p.m. in the Vollum Institute Auditorium, room M1441. David Dawson, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology will discuss strategies pertinent to aspiring young investigators trying to develop a research project, and who are looking to get a leg up on the competition. Postdocs, grad students, and others interested in these topics are welcome and … Read More

Join us for the first of the 2013 Vollum Career Development Workshops on Tuesday, January 8 at 4 p.m. in Vollum M1441. Tom Soderling, Ph.D., senior scientist at the Vollum Institute, will discuss topics that are critical to being a scientist, but are not taught as part of a Ph.D. or postdoctoral training program. Topics include how to choose the best mentors, the importance of finding balance, and defining what success means to you personally. Postdocs, grad … Read More

Registration is open for the winter session of the Vollum Writing Program, an in-depth professional science writing course available to OHSU graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. The course focuses on the basic elements of good scientific writing, for both papers and grant proposals. It runs for six weeks, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning January 9, 2013. Six individual tutorials with the instructor are included. The course carries a fee … Read More

TED speaker and futurist Juan Enriquez, MBA, will join OHSU’s Brian Druker, Joe Gray, Mary Stenzel-Poore and Robert Hitzemann for a discussion on the “life code” revolution: reshaping the global economy. Speakers will speculate on the role of academic medicine and research in the 21st century as we adapt to the ever-changing political, economic, and cultural climates. When: November 14, 2012 – Noon Where: OHSU Auditorium For more information, visit the School of Medicine Research Voice. … Read More

Are you new to OHSU or just looking for a refresher on the resources we have available? Join us for a virtual tour of OHSU research resources at this month’s Funding Focus seminar on Thursday, October 11 from 12 to 1 p.m. in Mac Hall 2201. We’ll cover tools you’ll need for planning research projects as well as how to get your grant application through the OHSU system. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and administrators … Read More

The Knight Cancer Institute Seminar Series continues with a presentation on the “Characterization and Targeting of Leukemia Stem Cells” by Craig T. Jordan, PhD. Dr. Jordan is a Phillip and Marilyn Wehreim Professor of Medicine from the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center and Professor of Biomedical Genetics and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. The presentation will take place in the OHSU Hospital’s 8th floor conference room, 8B60, at 4 … Read More

Join Dr. Melanie Fried-Oken, professor of neurology, pediatrics, and biomedical engineering, for the Brain-Computer Interface symposium at the Center for Health & Healing on September 11, 2012. Dr. Fried-Oken’s NIH-funded research team is sponsoring the event. Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology is a fascinating field of neuroscience that has seen tremendous advances in recent years. Simply put, BCI technology provides a direct communication link between the brain and an external device that has the ability to detect, analyze, and classify changes in … Read More

The Knight Cancer Institute invites you to attend its latest talk featuring distinguished scientist and Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., a Morris Herztein Endowed Professor in Biology and Physiology University of California, San Francisco, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Dr. Blackburn will be discussing “Telomeres and their maintenance machinery: Ramifications for cells and organisms.” This seminar will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17 in the Old Library Auditorium. About Dr. Blackburn Dr. Blackburn is … Read More

Join us for the last Career Development Workshop of the year, this Wednesday, March 14 at noon in Vollum M1441. Mary Heinricher, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for research in neurological surgery and professor of behavioral neuroscience, will be sharing her experience doing Basic Science in a Clinical Department. Postdocs, grad students, and other young scientists are welcome to attend. For those of you on West Campus, we will be live streaming to VGTI’s 1st … Read More