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Friday, November 13, 2009 (how can you resist?) Because...
SAVE THE DATE: HST WOMEN'S GROUP ALUMNAE PANEL Thursday, December 3, 2009 Panelists include: Dr. Jodie Babitt (MD '99) -- Mass General This program is supported by a Graduate Student Life Grant through the MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate Education.
PROGRAM
TO EMPOWER GRADUATE WOMEN
LIST CENTER GALLERY TALK AND GRAD STUDENT RECEPTION Thursday, November 12, 2009 Graduate students are invited to a gallery talk and reception featuring
List Center curator, João Ribas, exhibiting artist Tobias
Putrih, and architect/designer Michael Meredith, on the List’s
current exhibition, Tobias Putrih & MOS: Without Out.
The exhibition features the artist’s extended investigations
into the relationship between art and architecture through a collaboration
with MOS, a collective of designers and architects that use customized
tools of parametric design to produce simple but highly complex
structures and buildings.
BU NEUROSCIENCE STUDENT MAGAZINE SEEKS SUBMISSIONS The Nerve is Boston University's new neuroscience magazine, a multidisciplinary publication interested in fields ranging from biology to philosophy to computer science to sociology. The premiere issue is available at the magazine's website, people.bu.edu/ombs. For the next issue, the magazine is seeking submissions for review papers and short articles pertaining to neuroscience and related fields from universities in the Greater Boston area. To submit an article, send submissions (as attachments) to ombs@bu.edu.
Info session: The MIT Residential Life Programs office has begun recruiting and
selecting Graduate Resident Tutors for undergraduate residential
communities for the 2010-2011 academic year. GRTs play an integral
role in the lives of students and have the opportunity to make a
positive impact on the community . THINK
AHEAD: MIT GRADUATE STUDENT LIFE GRANTS Anyone at MIT is eligble to apply for a grant; proposals are due on January 22, 2010. For complete information, see http://web.mit.edu/gslg.
Students, if you feel new symptoms that may
be the flu, including some or all of the following: fever, chills,
cough, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, headaches, tiredness,
diarrhea, or vomiting, PLEASE do not: Harvard students can find advice and information at http://huhs.harvard.edu/NewsAndEvents/Announcements/Announcement.aspx?id=200164; students with MIT insurance may find further information at MIT Flu Central, http://medweb.mit.edu/about/news/flu/index.html
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BRAINMAP
SEMINARS Sock Lew, PhD, Research Fellow in the HMS Department of Radiology, will give a talk entitled Finite element volume conductor and source analysis: dipole model, tissue conductivity estimation, and MNE-NeuroFEM integration. For complete information on the BrainMap series of the HST Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, see http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/training/brainMap_2009-2010.php.
INTERESTED IN LASERS, DEMATOLOGY, PHOTOMEDICINE OR MORE? Thursday, November 12, 2009 · Want Research Funding? Then come to the Faculty Poster Session for Wellman Center for Photomedicine, hosted by HST. See item directly below for more information.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 An Open House with the faculty of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (http://www2.massgeneral.org/wellman/) is this week's 590 program. For the full schedule of HST.590, see http://hst590.pbworks.com/.
Friday, November 13, 2009 SHBT Co-director Bertrand Delgutte, PhD, and Ken Hancock, PhD,
Eaton-Peabody Labs, will discuss Neural coding of interaural
time differences with bilateral cochlear implants. Come to the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
Open House and learn how you can become involved with the Center's
programming, about applying to be a Legatum Fellow or for a Legatum
Seed Grant, and about volunteer opportunities. This Open House includes
an information session with Legatum Center staff and current Legatum
Fellows and a summer seed grants poster showcase: see how teams
of MIT students used grants from the Legatum Center this summer
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NASA
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The deadlines are February
1, 2010 for new applications and March 15, 2010 for renewal applications.
For details, see the NESSF call for proposals and submission instructions
at HST affiliates interested in applying for this NASA funding should contact HST Graduate Administrator Laurie Ward. Please note that while the maximum award is $30,000, not all awardees receive that full amount. This award is intended to offset some, but not all, research support costs; research supervisors will be expected to pay for the resulting funding shortfall.
The growing threat
of blasts from IEDs makes protection of the brain a very high priority.
This lab's approach to protection, by means of a fluid-lined helmet,
builds on its proprietary technology which uses fluid in the channels
of a helmet liner to protect the wearer against localized impact.
Interested candidates should send a CV to Liz Zotos.
The Lemelson Student Prize serves as a catalyst to increase awareness
of students' inventions and the
RA IN CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AT MGH A post-doctoral fellow position is available in the Cardiovascular
Research Center at Mass General Hospital. The lab uses zebrafish
and small animal models in order to understand basic aspects of Applicants should send their CV and contact information for three references to David Milan, MD, at DMilan@partners.org.
RA IN HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Research opportunities are available in Partners HealthCare's Clinical
Informatics Research & Development group and the Brigham and
Women s Hospital Division of General Medicine. The RA will support
studies involving computerized clinical decision support, electronic
clinical narrative data, and temporal reasoning. Two projects underway
are to: 1) develop and evaluate methods and applications in the
field of natural language processing and temporal reasoning to facilitate
the use of electronic clinical narrative data in order to improve
the correctness and completeness of structured medication lists
in electronic medical records; and 2) develop innovative methods
and techniques to process time-oriented clinical and medication
data and build time-dependant decision support rules.
RAs IN LAB OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY Research assistantships for masters or PhD students available in the Laboratory of Computational Physiology (Prof. Roger Mark). Projects in physiologic signal processing, modeling, and development of predictive monitoring systems in critical care. Details are available at: http://lcp.mit.edu, http://lcp.mit.edu/research-opportunities.shtml, and http://mimic.mit.edu. To apply, contact Prof. Mark (rgmark@mit.edu or 617-253-7818).
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NEEDED FOR 6.022/6.522/2.792/2.796/BEH.371/BEH.471/HST.542, QUANTITATIVE
PHYSIOLOGY: ORGAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
HAROLD M. WEINTRAUB GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student
Award recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies
in the Biological Sciences. Those chosen will participate in a scientific
symposium, which will include scientific presentations by the graduate
student awardees and informal gatherings of students and faculty,
that honors Hal Weintraub and his commitment to innovative science.
Graduate
RA ON GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASES HST student sought for research using techniques in genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics to understand the specific genes and mechanisms that confer auto-immune disease. Work will be conducted at the Broad Institute (Medical and Population Genetics Group) and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Rheumatology Division). The research will be conducted in Dr. Mark Daly’s lab in conjunction with Dr. Soumya Raychaudhuri. Candidates should be interested in applying basic statistical and probability concepts, genetics, and be familiar with a basic scripting (python, perl, R) or programming language. To apply, please contact Soumya Raychaudhuri (soumya@broadinstitute.org).
DOE
OFFICE OF SCIENCE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship is open to students who are U.S. citizens and pursuing a degree in a number of science/engineering fields. The fellowship pays the recipient's full tuition, heath care and the following stipends: $30,500 the first year, $31,000 the second and $31,500 the third. Applications must be submitted by 1:00 pm on January 4, 2010. For more information, see http://ndseg.asee.org/.
NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS National Science Foundation
Program Announcements and application forms for 2010 are now available
on the foundation website. Eligible applicants must be: SMART SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SERVICE PROGRAM Applications are now available for the Science, Mathematics, And
Research for Transformation Defense Scholarship for Service Program
(SMART) sponsored by ASEE. The SMART Program was established by
the Department of Defense (DoD) to support the education and recruitment
of undergraduate and graduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics (STEM) fields. RA POSITIONS IN NEUROENGINEERING HST Principal Research Scientist Chi-Sang Poon has several Graduate
RA positions in neuiroengineering available immediately in the Poon
Lab. Students in MEMP, SHBT, or MEBE are all welcome to apply. For
information, contact Dr. Poon at cpoon@mit.edu. RESEARCH
ASSISTANTSHIP IN CRITICAL CARE PATIENT MONITORING
PhD ASSISTANTSHIP IN CARDIOVASCULAR MRI The Cardiac MR Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center seeks applicants for research assistantships in cardiovascular MR imaging and image guided electrophysiology. For information, and to apply, send CV and contact information for three references to: Reza Nezafat, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine.
RESEARCHER NEEDED FOR VOICE-COMMANDABLE WHEELCHAIR PROJECT Professor Nick Roy of Aero/Astro and CSAIL, Dr. Bryan Reimer of
the MIT AgeLab, and Professor Seth Teller of EECS and CSAIL are
working to develop a voice-commandable robotic The group is seeking an HST PhD student to join this effort. Information
about the project can be found at http://rvsn.csail.mit.edu/wheelchair/.
If interested, contact Prof. Nick
Roy or Prof. Seth Teller. Research assistantships available for full
time MEMP PhD students interested in working at the interface of
bioengineering/biophysics/imaging and cancer. Projects include angiogenesis
and lymphangiogenesis in tumors; engineering blood and lymphatic
vessels; intra-vital microscopy; molecular and functional imaging;
delivery of nano-medicine to tumors; stem cell biology and applications;
probing tumor microenvironment using nano-technology; and mathematical
modeling. Funding is available immediately. For further details,
see http://steele.mgh.harvard.edu.
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TISSUE ENGINEERING POSTDOCS AT HARVARD Postdoctoral positions are available in the Disease Biophysics Group in the Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute at Harvard. Expertise in cell and molecular biology, tissue engineering, or electrophysiology are required. Projects in cardiac cell and tissue engineering, vascular cell and tissue engineering, and neural cell and tissue engineering are available. To apply, please forward CV, examples of first-author publications, and the names and contact information of three references electronically to Kit Parker, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Applied Science at SEAS.
INSTITUT PASTEUR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS The Pasteur Foundation administers this fellowship program to bring US postdoctoral researchers to the 130+ Institut Pasteur laboratories in Paris. This program is open to American citizens who are not already in France. The three-year fellowship package provides $70,000 annually: $55,000 fellowship plus $15,000 bench fees to support the research. The first step for a candidate is to identify a host laboratory
at the institute to sponsor the application. Dossiers must be received
by February 12, 2010; notification of candidates will be in April
2010, and recipients must begin the fellowship by December 1, 2010.
For more information, see the application guidelines at www.pasteurfoundation.org.
The Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center seeks a postdoctoral
fellow for design, fabrication, and in vitro characterization of
controlled release systems to be used in treating acute perioperative
and chronic heart failure. The project will also involve in vivo
pharmacologic testing in small and large animals using Millar catheters
to characterize contractility and other hemodynamic indices.
BIOINFORMATICS
MANAGER / SPECIALIST, ALLEGRO DIAGNOSTICS The Cardiac MR Center at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center is seeking applicants for open positions at the level
of post-doctoral fellows, research scientists or engineers. The
main focus is in the area of cardiovascular MR imaging and image
guided electrophysiology. Prior experience in MRI, X-ray/CT imaging
or medical image processing is desired. Applicants should hold a
PhD degree in biomedical, electrical or computer engineering with
strong background in signal processing and mathematics. Prior experience
in MR pulse sequence development is desired. Applicants with strong
computer graphics/vision with significant programming experience
are strongly encouraged to apply. The candidate is expected to participate
in both independent and collaborative projects with the clinical
collaborators. POSTDOC IN PROTEIN TURNOVER DYNAMICS IN THE INNER EAR A postdoctoral fellowship is available immediately to study the dynamics of protein turnover in the inner ear in health and after noise trauma. The project is a collaboration among HMS researchers in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Department of Neurobiology and the National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectrometry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The fellow will learn auditory biology with a focus on inner ear imaging and physiology. Candidates should have a recent doctoral-level degree. To apply, send CV, statement of research interest, reprints, and contact information for three references to Sharon G. Kujawa, Ph.D., Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
RESEARCH
TECHNICIAN, STEM CELL RESEARCH FOR MAMMALIAN ORGAN REGENGERATION
A postdoctoral position in the area of pain and neuroscience is available in the Anesthesiology Research Laboratory at Dartmouth College, Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School (Lebanon, NH). The NIH-funded project is focused on the molecular mechanisms of spinal cannabinoid receptor type 2 activation for induction of analgesia in models of neuropathic and postoperative pain. The Anesthesiology Research Laboratory is interested in the responses and modulation of glial cell function in pain states. Candidates should have a PhD or MD in the biosciences or a health professional degree. To apply, send CV, names and contact details of three references, and a brief letter describing your research experience to Dr. Alfonso Romero-Sandoval.
STARTUP OPPORTUNITY IN TROPICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES A life sciences startup exploring novel drug targets in Neglected
and Tropical Infectious Diseases (NTID) is searching for a candidate
to become a member of its founding team. There are several infectious
/ tropical diseases that independently do not command adequate market
share to justify R&D, but collectively represent a sizeable
sector that has remained unfulfilled. We plan to fill this developmental
void by leveraging a variety of unconventional funding sources to
commercialize our proprietary technology.
POSTDOC IN ORGAN ENGINEERING AVAILABLE The Systems-based Consortium for Organ Design & Engineering (SysCODE) has an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship available immediately. SysCODE integrates developmental biology, computational and genome sciences, and tissue engineering to create molecular blueprints for building organ parts from stem cells. As a SysCODE postdoctoral fellow, your interests will span more than one discipline by conducting research in the laboratories of two SysCODE mentors, pursuing questions at the interfaces among disciplines and contributing to the design and engineering of cardiac valves (for valvular heart disease), pancreatic islets (for Type 1 diabetes), or tooth germ (for tooth loss). Fellows will have a Harvard, MIT, Boston University, or Vanderbilt appointment. To apply, please send your CV and three reference letters to TrainingProgram@SysCODE.org. For more information, see www.SysCODE.org.
CONTRACT SCIENTIST POSITION, RNAi LEAD DEVELOPMENT Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has a position for a scientist to perform cell based assays and screen to identify candidate RNAi compounds as part of a high throughput RNAi lead development group. Key responsibilities include: in vitro screens of siRNAs in cultured cells; quantification of the effects of siRNAs on gene expression (RNA and protein levels); cell based assays to evaluate cellular phenotypic changes; and cloning and ectopic expression of genes in mammalian cells. PhD or BS and MS in molecular biology, with
two to three years' experience (preferably in POSTDOC AT MEEI DEVELOPING INNER EAR DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE Postdoc fellowship available immediately in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary to develop an inner ear drug delivery device in animals for ultimate use in patients. The fellow will learn auditory biology with a focus on physiology and pharmacology, and will gain experience in the integration of engineering and biology. The position, in the laboratories of Sharon Kujawa and William Sewell, is focused on interdisciplinary work to develop and test mechanisms for the safe and sustained delivery of bioactive compounds directly to the inner ear. Candidates should have a recent doctoral level degree. To apply, send CV, statement of research interest, reprints, and contact information for three references to: Sharon G. Kujawa, PhD
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