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Highlight: New Travel Funding Available for Peer Recruitment


The BioMed Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies is pleased to announce that in addition to travel funding for academic conferences, there are also funds available for graduate students and postdocs who are traveling to actively help recruit students to come to Brown for their doctoral studies or postdoctoral training. This is a great opportunity to not only promote Brown and its academic programs, but to also enhance your own professional development, networking, and communication skills. OGPS will reimburse up to $650 of eligible travel expenses for trainees who meet certain criteria; please visit the graduate student or postdoc travel pages for details. Please send any questions to OGPS@brown.edu.

Notices

Resource Identification Portal
This online tool supports the NIH's new guidelines for Rigor and Transparency in biomedical publications. Authors are instructed to authenticate key biological resources: Antibodies, Model Organisms, and Tools (software, databases, services), by finding or generating stable unique identifiers.

Science Careers: Postdocs Leaving the Lab
A Science Careers article profiles 5 former postdoctoral researchers that are now working in careers outside of academic research. The interviewees describe “how they used their postdoc time to figure out where they wanted to go, and to build the requisite skills and connections to make the move.”

Campus Events

Writing Data Management and Sharing Plans
Please register here
. Tuesday, December 13 from 12-1 PM in the Rockefeller Library - Digital Studio Seminar Room 160, 10 Prospect Street.

Providence Area Aging Research Forum (PAARF)
Speakers will be Tak Ito (Sedivy Lab) and Olin Liang (RIH). Tuesday, December 13 from 5:30-7 PM at the Biomed Center, Room 291 (Eddy Auditorium), 171 Meeting Street.

Introduction to the Open Science Framework (OSF)
Please register here
. Thursday, December 15 from 3-4 PM in the Rockefeller Library - Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, 10 Prospect Street.

Writing Data Management and Sharing Plans
Please register here
. Thursday, December 22 from 3-4 PM in the Rockefeller Library - Digital Studio Seminar Room 160, 10 Prospect Street.

Defending your Research Proposal
Dates: January 10, 11, 12, & 13
Time: 4:00pm- 6:00pm
Place: J. Walter Wilson, Room 201
Faculty Trainer: Jonathan Reichner
Senior Scholar: Hawasatu Dumbuya
Register: https://goo.gl/forms/rkaNjuUQakBGqybh1
Learn strategies for selecting a strong Ph.D. thesis topic, evaluating your progress, and giving & receiving advice.

The Three Rs: Research Data Management, Reproducibility, and Researcher Recognition
Dates: January 10, 12, 17 & 19
Time: 1:00pm- 2:30pm
Place: Rockefeller Library, Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137)
Faculty Trainer: Andrew Creamer
Senior Scholar: John Santiago
Register: https://goo.gl/forms/R1VKjNJYBiMdH8np2
Learn best practices for managing and sharing your research data to comply with research funders and publishers’ public access requirements.

For more information about events, visit the University Calendar

Events Outside Brown

mRNA Processing and Human Disease
The meeting will bring together scientists/physicians whose primary interests center on disease but who have become interested in RNA processing as a result, and scientists who study basic mechanisms of RNA processing and gene expression that have proven to be relevant to disease. For more information and to register, please visit the event's website.
March 5-8, 2017
Sagebrush Inn & Suites, Taos, NM 87571

New England Science Symposium - Call for Abstracts
This symposium provides a forum for postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly for African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) to share their biomedical and health-related research activities through oral or poster presentations, to engage in discussions related to career development in the sciences, to exchange ideas and to expand their professional networks. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 5, 2017. To submit abstracts or to register, please visit the event's website.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115

GapSummit 2017
GapSummit is Global Biotech Revolution’s (GBR) international and intergenerational leadership summit in biotechnology. At this immersive 3-day summit, 100 of the globe’s top young Leaders of Tomorrow competitively selected from 40+ countries will engage with 30+ world-class speakers & leaders in the life sciences industry to take on the most pressing challenges & gaps in the bio-economy. For more information and to apply to be one of the Leaders of Tomorrow selected to attend, please visit the event's website.
June 7-9, 2017
Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057

Community Events

The Providence Flea: 4th Annual Sunday Holiday Markets
The Holiday Markets will showcase over 80 local vintage vendors, small-batch makers, artisans, food purveyors and food trucks in all! Sunday, December 11 & 18 at Hope High School, 324 Hope Street, Providence.

Comedian Chris Kattan comes to the Ocean State!
From Saturday Night Live, A Night at the Roxbury, and more! Chris Kattan is coming to Rhode Island for one night only. General Admission tickets are $22. Sunday, January 8 at Comedy Connection, 39 Warren Avenue, East Providence.