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[Compbio-allhands] eMolecules presentation: Fri Jan 20th, 11 to 12 noon (tomorrow)
by John Irwin 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Dear Allhands eMolecules, a small molecule procurement company, will make a short presentation and take Q&A tomorrow for one hour starting at 11am (11:10am) in BH513. RSVP to me only jji(a)cgl.ucsf.edu so I can get an approximate head count. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. John

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[Compbio-allhands] 1/16/12 Seminar with Kristala Jones Prather
by Nicole Takesono Flowers 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

BBC Graduate Programs Seminar Series Bioinformatics Biophysics Chemistry & Chemical Biology Complex Biological Sytems Thursdays, 12 Noon Genentech Hall Auditorium Simulcast to Parnassus Campus S-161 Kristala Jones Prather MIT Parts, Devices, and Chassis in Support of Metabolic Engineering January 19, 2012 D. Booth, Host BBC Seminars are supported by the Biophysics, Bioinformatics, and Chemistry & Chemical Biology IFM, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, QBC, HARC Center, and the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology. Nicole Takesono Flowers CCB Graduate Program Assistant AMBER Software Administrator UCSF MC 2280 600 16th St. Genentech Hall Room 522 San Francisco, CA 94158-2517 Phone: (415) 502-6518 Fax: (415) 514-1546

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[Compbio-allhands] QBC Journal Club, Tuesday, January 24- 10:45AM, GH Aud
by Nicole Takesono Flowers 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

BMI ~ BP ~ CCB ~ PSPG Tuesday, January 24 10:45 am, GH Auditorium Megan Li, PSPG Therapeutic siRNA silencing in inflammatory monocytes in mice. Leuschner F et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2011; 29 (11): 1005-10 Patrick Harrigan, iPQB Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interactions partners. Burga, A. et al. Nature 2011; 480: 250-253. bioinformatics ~ biophysics ~ chemistry and chemical biology ~ pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics Nicole Takesono Flowers CCB Graduate Program Assistant AMBER Software Administrator UCSF MC 2280 600 16th St. Genentech Hall Room 522 San Francisco, CA 94158-2517 Phone: (415) 502-6518 Fax: (415) 514-1546

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[Compbio-allhands] QBC Journal Club, Tuesday, January 17- 10:45AM, GH Aud
by Nicole Takesono Flowers 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

BMI ~ BP ~ CCB ~ PSPG Tuesday, January 17 10:45 am, GH Auditorium Benjamin Spangler, CCB Chemically Crosslinking the Active Site of O-GlcNAc transferase. A neutral diphosphate mimic crosslinks the active site of human O-GlcNAc transferase Jiang, et al. Nature Chem. Bio. Amy Chang, iPQB Electrical Spiking in Escherichia coli Probed with a Fluorescent Voltage-Indicating Protein Kralj et al. Science. July 15, 2011. bioinformatics ~ biophysics ~ chemistry and chemical biology ~ pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics Nicole Takesono Flowers CCB Graduate Program Assistant AMBER Software Administrator UCSF MC 2280 600 16th St. Genentech Hall Room 522 San Francisco, CA 94158-2517 Phone: (415) 502-6518 Fax: (415) 514-1546

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[Compbio-allhands] Fwd: Institute for Advanced Study Offers Summer Program
by Andrej Sali 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

-- Andrej Sali, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California at San Francisco UCSF MC 2552 Byers Hall Room 503B 1700 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94158-2330, USA Tel +1 (415) 514-4227; Fax +1 (415) 514-4231 Assistant: Ms. Hilary Mahon, hilary(a)salilab.org, Tel +1 (415)514-4228; Lab +1 (415) 514-4233, 4258 Email sali(a)salilab.org; Web http://salilab.org Begin forwarded message: > From: Susan Higgins <shiggins(a)ias.edu> > Subject: Institute for Advanced Study Offers Summer Program > Date: January 9, 2012 10:38:49 AM PST > To: sali(a)SALILAB.ORG > > INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY > SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES > PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, USA > > Dear Colleague, > > From July 9-20, 2012, the Institute for Advanced Study will offer its annual Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) summer program on the Institute campus in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. > > The 2012 PiTP Program, "Computation and Biology," will explore, for the first time, a range of topics at the interface of theoretical computer science, statistical physics and quantitative biology. > > This program is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in all three fields of computer science, theoretical physics and quantitative biology. A list of topics to be covered, and the lecturers expected to speak on each topic, are noted below: > > - "Errors and codes": Måns Ehrenberg (Uppsala University) and Tsvi Tlusty (Institute for Advanced Study) > > - "Viruses and immunity": Guillaume Bonfante (Université de Nancy), Arup Chakraborty (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Arnold Levine (Institute for Advanced Study) > > - "Growth and form": Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary) and Enrico Coen (John Innes Centre, Norwich) > > - "Natural algorithms": Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University), Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Université Libre de Bruxelles), and Guy Theraulaz (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) > > - "Learning & robotics": Hod Lipson (Cornell University), Dario Floreano (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and Michale Fee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) > > Attached is a poster for the PiTP 2012 program, which we kindly ask you to please print and display as appropriate. Information about application procedures and a program schedule can be found on the PiTP website: www.ias.edu/pitp. > > We would be grateful if you would bring this program to the attention of students and postdocs in your department, as well as to the attention of colleagues in your department and elsewhere. In particular, we encourage the participation of women, minorities, and students from institutions with smaller programs in the areas of computer science, theoretical physics and quantitative biology. > > We hope that you will encourage any young researcher who would benefit from this kind of program to apply. > > Sincerely, > > Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University > David Huse, Princeton University > Stanislas Leibler, Institute for Advanced Study > > > > > >

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[Compbio-allhands] Fwd: Bioinformatics positions at Illumina in San Diego
by Jacobson, Matt 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Begin forwarded message: From: Ilya Chorny <ichorny(a)gmail.com<mailto:ichorny@gmail.com>> Date: January 4, 2012 5:00:14 PM PST To: "Jacobson, Matt" <Matt.Jacobson(a)ucsf.edu<mailto:Matt.Jacobson@ucsf.edu>>, <babbitt(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu>>, Andrej Sali <sali(a)salilab.org<mailto:sali@salilab.org>>, Ken Dill <dill(a)laufercenter.org<mailto:dill@laufercenter.org>>, "Crawford, Douglas" <douglas.crawford(a)qb3.org<mailto:douglas.crawford@qb3.org>>, Robert Stroud <stroud(a)msg.ucsf.edu<mailto:stroud@msg.ucsf.edu>> Subject: Bioinformatics positions at Illumina in San Diego Hi All, Happy New Year!! We have a bioinformatics position open in our group in San Diego. Please pass this along to any interested parties. They can contact me if they would like to know more about the position or working at Illumina. https://www.illumina.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.… Thanks, Ilya -- Ilya Chorny Ph.D. Matthew P. Jacobson Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences Director, Graduate Group in Biophysics UCSF MC 2540 1700 4th St., Byers Hall, Room 408E San Francisco, CA 94158-2330 matt.jacobson(a)ucsf.edu<mailto:matt.jacobson@ucsf.edu> jacobsonlab.org<http://jacobsonlab.org>

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[Compbio-allhands] QBC Journal Club, Tuesday, January 3- 10:45AM, GH Aud
by Nicole Takesono Flowers 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

BMI ~ BP ~ CCB ~ PSPG Tuesday, January 3 10:45 am, GH Auditorium Katherine Aull, iPQB Dynamic Exchange at Regulatory Elements During Chromatin Remodeling Underlies Assisted Loading Mechanism Voss et al, Cell 146:4 544-554. 2011 Weihan Li, iPQB Growth Rate-Dependent Global Effects on Gene Expression in Bacteria Stefan Klumpp, Zhongge Zhang, and Terence Hwa, Cell 139, 1366-1375. 2009 bioinformatics ~ biophysics ~ chemistry and chemical biology ~ pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics Nicole Takesono Flowers CCB Graduate Program Assistant AMBER Software Administrator UCSF MC 2280 600 16th St. Genentech Hall Room 522 San Francisco, CA 94158-2517 Phone: (415) 502-6518 Fax: (415) 514-1546

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[Compbio-allhands] Fwd: Four tenure track faculty positions in high end RNA research available at University at Albany!---Rama
by Andrej Sali 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

-- Andrej Sali, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California at San Francisco UCSF MC 2552 Byers Hall Room 503B 1700 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94158-2330, USA Tel +1 (415) 514-4227; Fax +1 (415) 514-4231 Assistant: Ms. Hilary Mahon, hilary(a)salilab.org, Tel +1 (415)514-4228; Lab +1 (415) 514-4233, 4258 Email sali(a)salilab.org; Web http://salilab.org Begin forwarded message: > From: Ramaswamy Sarma <rsarma(a)ALBANY.EDU> > Subject: Four tenure track faculty positions in high end RNA research available at University at Albany!---Rama > Date: December 19, 2011 10:12:58 PM PST > To: DNA-DYNAMICS(a)listserv.albany.edu > Reply-To: Ramaswamy Sarma <rsarma(a)ALBANY.EDU> > > My Dear Colleague: > > I could not be any more excited; we are indeed announcing the opening of FOUR tenure track faculty lines -three in the Chemistry Dept, and one in the Dept of Biological Sciences -- all with concentration in RNA chemistry and biology affiliated with the University at Albany's fast growing RNA Institute. > > http://www.albany.edu/rna/ > > The attached contains detailed descriptions of the positions open and how to apply. > > If you are a young RNA researcher looking for a starting faculty position in an urban University with great future, these openings are for you. > > You may know of some highly talented young professionals in RNA field, and if so, I will appreciate a great deal, if you will encourage them to apply. > > Within 2-3 weeks, we will commence planning for the 18th Albany Conversation, June 2013, and so I will be contacting you again soon. > > I thank you for your interest and help. > > Cheers > > > Rama > ****** > Prof. Ramaswamy H. Sarma > Department of Chemistry > State University of New York at Albany > Albany NY 12222 USA > > phone: 518-456-9362 > fax: 518-452-4955 > email: rhs07(a)albany.edu > > > > > >

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[Compbio-allhands] Scientific Web Applications Developer Wanted
by Custer, Ashley 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Hi all, The Babbitt lab has an urgent and immediate need for a web applications developer. If you know anyone looking for a permanent, temporary, or part-time position in this area, please pass it on. Thanks. Patsy Babbitt -- Patricia Babbitt Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences University of California, San Francisco UCSF MC 2550 Byers Hall Room508E 1700 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94158-2330, USA (CA 94158 for direct delivery by courier) Tel +1 (415) 476-3784 Fax +1 415-502-8193 Email: babbitt(a)cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu> <mailto:babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu> Web: http://babbittlab.ucsf.edu/ Assistant: Ms. Ashley Custer, +1 415-514-1214, 415-514-4861 Ashley.Custer(a)ucsf.edu<mailto:Ashley.Custer@ucsf.edu>

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[Compbio-allhands] Fwd: please advertise this postdoc position
by Andrej Sali 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

-- Andrej Sali, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California at San Francisco UCSF MC 2552 Byers Hall Room 503B 1700 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94158-2330, USA Tel +1 (415) 514-4227; Fax +1 (415) 514-4231 Assistant: Ms. Hilary Mahon, hilary(a)salilab.org, Tel +1 (415)514-4228; Lab +1 (415) 514-4233, 4258 Email sali(a)salilab.org; Web http://salilab.org Begin forwarded message: > From: Chandra Verma <chandra(a)bii.a-star.edu.sg> > Subject: please advertise this postdoc position > Date: December 13, 2011 6:37:25 PM PST > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > dear colleagues > > i would be very grateful if you could, when you have some time spare, please help by advertising this amongst those who you think may be interested. > > thanks very much > > chandra > > > a postdoctoral position is available in singapore for 3 years. the applicant should be good at computational chemistry/modelling/simulations in the field of biomolecular mechanisms. the successful applicant will work with teams of experimentalists. Projects will be focused with a view to developing mechanistic models and also designing small molecules/peptides. a major project here examines several aspect of the p53 pathway including peptide/small molecule design as well as mechanisms underlying basic biology, such as effects of post-translational mechanisms. most of our work is tested in the laboratories of collaborators.the job is expected to start early 2012. if interested, please email your cv and have 2-3 letters of reference sent to chandra(a)bii.a-star.edu.sg. > also open to experimentalists with biochemical/biophysical/structural training interested in switching to simulations. >

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