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2012 INBRE Pilot Projects Program
Proposals Due June 1, 2012
The goal of the SC INBRE Bioinformatics Pilot Project Program is to stimulate interest in the application of genomics and bioinformatics methods to undergraduate and graduate student research throughout the INBRE and South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute (SCTR) networks. Funded projects will generate preliminary data for presentations, publications and grant proposals by faculty and their students.
2012 AREA Grant Workshop
The SC INBRE AREA workshop was held at the USC School of Medicine on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Workshop materials are available on the SC INBRE website on a password-protected page that will soon contain downloadable AREA-specific institutional data for the preparation of the "resources and environment" section of AREA grant proposals. In addition, we have established a panel of reviewers that will be happy to pre-review the specific aims page or the entire draft of your R15 application, if it is submitted to them at least one month before the NIH deadline. If you are interested in these materials, and/or would like to avail yourself of the pre-review, please send an e-mail to Kiona.Thomas@scra.org.
USCB Target Faculty Eric Montie is back in the news!
USCB Students Study May River Ecology - Bluffton Today 4/17/12
8th Annual Workshop on Basic Confocal Microscopy
The
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Instrumentation Resource
Facility and the
Clemson University Microscopy Facilities will be hosting the
8th Annual Workshop on Basic Confocal Microscopy (pdf) at Clemson
University from June 11th through the 15th. The workshop is directed
towards beginning and intermediate users of confocal microscopes and
involves a series of lectures (specimen preparation, labeling
strategies, proper set-up of instrument operating parameters, proper
handling of 2D and 3D confocal images in programs such as Adobe
Photoshop and AMIRA), hands on specimen preparation, and time on a
number of different point scanning and spinning disk confocal
microscopes. Companies scheduled to have instruments and applications
experts on-site include Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Perkin Elmer, Zeiss and
Intelligent Imaging Innovations (3i).
Faculty will include
Dr. Jay Jerome of Vanderbilt University,
Dr. Ralph Albrecht of the University of Wisconsin Madison,
Dr. John Mackenzie of North Carolina State University,
Dr.
Tom Trusk of the Medical University of South Carolina, and
Dr. Bob Price of the University of South Carolina.
For further information please see:
http://dba.med.sc.edu/price/irf/irf.htm or contact Anna McNeal
(anna.mcneal@uscmed.sc.edu), Bob Price (bob.price@uscmed.sc.edu) or JoAn
Hudson (joanh@clemson.edu)
CUR - Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs
May 23-25, 2012
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The purpose of the CUR institute is to provide directors of undergraduate research programs the means to develop and effectively run their programs. Recognizing the different models of offices of undergraduate research offices, we encourage applications from those that run programs on full and/or part-time basis as well as from committees that might have this responsibility on their campus. Models will be from all types of institutions; PUI, regional comprehensive to Research I institutions. For more information and to apply, visit http://www.cur.org/institutes/isurp.html.
2012 SC INBRE Scientific Symposium
The 2012 SC INBRE Symposium was held on February 23 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, SC. For more information about the Symposium, visit the Symposium page.
2012 Diversity Summit: Promoting Excellence in Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The 2012 Diversity Summit was held on February 22, 2012 in Columbia, SC to explore the diversity landscape in South Carolina and discuss prospecting, recruiting and hiring strategies as well as creating a favorable environment for faculty retention.
AREA Grants Program Announcement Released
The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions, otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in NIH research programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, to expose students to meritorious research projects, and to strengthen the research environment of the applicant institution.
Scientific Seminars
Participating institutions in SC INBRE regularly offer scientific seminars. For upcoming seminars, please visit the events page of the SC INBRE Facebook page. They are open to everyone, and if you're interested in having one broadcast by videoconference, please contact the SC INBRE office in advance.
Newsletter
The October 2011 issue of the SC INBRE newsletter is now available.