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Subject: Society for Mathematical Biology Digest
SMB Digest December 23, 2014 Volume 14 Issue 52
ISSN 1086-6566
Happy Holidays! ¡Feliz Navidad, Próspero Año y Felicidad!
Editor: Ray Mejía ray(at)smb(dot)org
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Issue's Topics:
Publications related to History of Mathematical Biology
Last Call: GRC SPECIATION 2015
First International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS)
Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2015
Modeling the Spread and Control of Ebola in W. Africa, Jan 22-23
MPDE'15, Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 25-29
Call for Papers & Abstracts: Workshop on Teaching Computational Science
Summer School: Statistical Physics of Complex & Small Systems
ToC: Molecular Based Mathematical Biology, Vol. 2, 2014
PhD Position: Topological methods in data analysis, U Glasgow
Postdoctoral Research Associate: CBMI, Harvard Medical School
Postdoc Opportunity: Theoretical Ecology, RMIT University, Melbourne
Lecturer Position: Applied Mathematics, University of Auckland
Cell Line Reproducibility Article, IDeA Awards, Funding Opportunities
SMBnet Reminders
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From: Maya Shmailov <
maya.shmailov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:57 AM
Subject: Publications related to History of Mathematical Biology
It is a great pleasure to share with you two publications related to the
history of mathematical biology.
The first publication is a book chapter in the recently published Outsiders
in Biology edited by O. Harman and M. Dietrich, Univ. of Chicago Press
(
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo16643152.html). The
chapter titled Nicolas Rashevsky's Paper and Pencil Biology (Chapter 9)
is a preview to my doctoral research in which I present the scientific
biography of Nicolas Rashevsky, the founder of Mathematical Biology in its
institutionalized form. Outsider Scientists and the chapter contributed by
me describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth
of the modern life sciences and discusses the role Rashevsky played in
bringing a new way of thinking to biology.
The second publication is a Tedx talk given this past October and titled "My
love affair with an outsider" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcH_d-9GI-E).
This talk is about Rashevsky and the role he played in my life.
I hope you will find these interesting. Feel free to contact me if you
would like to hear further on Rashevsky and history of Mathematical Biology.
Dr. Maya Shmailov
Science, Technology and Society Program
Bar Ilan University
Tel.:
+972-52-5548755
E-Mail:
maya.shmailov@gmail.com
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From: Åke Brännström <
ake.brannstrom@math.umu.se>
Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM
Subject: Last Call: GRC SPECIATION 2015
Dear colleague,
A few places are still available for SPECIATION 2015, a new Gordon Research
Conference (GRC) devoted entirely to speciation research, which will be held
from March 15 to 20, 2015, at the Four Points Sheraton Harbor Resort in the
beautiful coastal city of Ventura, California. The conference will be the
world's largest on speciation research and will feature an unprecedented
mosaic of interrelated talks by invited researchers, as detailed in the
conference program appended below.
The GRC conferences on speciation, of which this will be the very first, will
raise to a trans-Atlantic level a tradition of international conferences
on speciation research that has been initiated by the European Research
Networking Programme 'Frontiers of Speciation Research'. The two conferences
that have been held so far, SPECIATION 2010 and SPECIATION 2013, helped
facilitate bridge-building between disparate approaches to speciation
research and attracted more than 150 participants on each occasion.
SPECIATION 2015 will continue this tradition of scientific bridge-building
and promote integrative perspectives that interface empirical insights
with theoretical advances and bring together developments in ecology,
systematics, and genetics. Reflecting the aims of the GRC conference series,
and committed to a pluralistic perspective on the field, we have selected
invited scientists based on their complementary expertise in different areas
of speciation research. In this way, the conference will provide a platform
for comparing and orchestrating different approaches to speciation research.
In addition to about 30 invited presentations, the conference will prominently
feature a rich poster session, as well as selected poster introductions. The
topics that will be covered at the conference include the biodiversity
crisis, mechanisms of reproductive isolation, genetic constraints, ecological
drivers, genomic signatures, behavioral mechanisms, species cohesion, hybrid
zones, macro-ecological explanations, as well as integrative and synthetic
perspectives on speciation. Each of a total of nine conference sessions
will feature 3 or 4 invited presentations, with ample time for discussion.
Registration is open at
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16902 until
the few remaining open slots have been completely filled.
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From: Olivier Faugeras <
olivier.faugeras@inria.fr>
Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:58 AM
Subject: First International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS)
1st International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (ICMNS)
June 8 - 10, 2015
Antibes - Juan les Pins, France
https://icmns2015.inria.fr
The goal of this conference is to bring together theoretical neuroscientists
and mathematicians interested in using mathematical concepts and methods for
solving problems posed by neuroscience. It is motivated by the idea that many
outstanding questions concerning the functioning/dysfunctioning of brains at
multiple spatial and temporal scales will require the use of a wide range of
mathematical tools, including, but not restricted to, functional analysis,
dynamical systems theory, bifurcation theory, probability and statistics,
stochastic calculus, geometry, information theory, and numerical analysis.
It is also likely that neuroscience will spawn new areas of mathematics.
The conference will be single track. It will feature three keynote lectures,
oral presentations, and poster presentations.
The keynote lecturers are Susanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen,
Denmark), stochastic processes in neuroscience, Bard Ermentrout (University
of Pittsburgh, USA), neurodynamics, and Yves Frégnac (CNRS, France),
neuroscience of vision.
Call for contributions
Oral presentations will be selected from the submission of one-page
abstracts. Poster presentations will be selected from the submissions of
a half a page abstracts. Accepted oral contributions will be considered
for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Mathematical
Neuroscience.
See the page
https://icmns2015.inria.fr/accepted-papers/ for LaTeX and Word
templates and how to submit.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: February 2, 2015
Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2015
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From: Erik De Schutter <
erik@oist.jp>
Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:58 AM
Subject: Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2015
OKINAWA COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2015
Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors
June 8 - June 25, 2015
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
https://groups.oist.jp/ocnc
The aim of the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide
opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the
latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds
to have hands-on experience in computational modeling.
We invite graduate students and postgraduate researchers to participate
in the course, held from June 8th through June 25th, 2015 at an oceanfront
seminar house of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate
University. Applications will open on January 5th and are through the
course web page (
https://groups.oist.jp/ocnc) only; they will close February
8th, 2015. Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance in March.
The course has a strong hands-on component based on student proposed modeling
or data analysis projects, which are further refined with the help of a
dedicated tutor. Applicants are required to propose their project at the
time of application.
Like in preceding years, OCNC will be a comprehensive three-week course
covering single neurons, networks, and behaviors with ample time for student
projects. The first week will focus exclusively on methods with hands-on
tutorials during the afternoons, while the second and third weeks will
have lectures by international experts. We invite those who are interested
in integrating experimental and computational approaches at each level,
as well as in bridging different levels of complexity.
There is no tuition fee. The sponsor will provide lodging and meals during
the course and may support travel for those without funding. We hope that
this course will be a good opportunity for theoretical and experimental
neuroscientists to meet each other and to explore the attractive nature
and culture of Okinawa, the southernmost island prefecture of Japan.
Invited faculty:
Gordon Arbuthnott (OIST)
Axel Borst (MPI, Münich, Germany)
Erik De Schutter (OIST)
Kenji Doya (OIST)
Eugene Izihikevich (Brain Corporation, USA)
Bernd Kuhn (OIST)
Peter Latham (Gatsby Unit, UCL, UK)
Miguel Nicolelis (Duke University, USA)
Steve Prescott (University of Toronto, Canada)
John Rinzel (New York University, USA)
Jackie Schiller (Technion, Israel)
Greg Stephens (OIST)
Jeff Wickens (OIST)
Taro Toyoizumi (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University, USA)
Wako Yoshida (ATR, Japan)
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From: Joshua S. Weitz <
jsweitz@gatech.edu>
Date: Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:31 PM
Subject: Modeling the Spread and Control of Ebola in W. Africa, Jan 22-23
Modeling the Spread and Control of Ebola in W. Africa
Historic Academy of Medicine @ Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA, USA
Jan 22-23, 2015
Website:
bit.ly/ebm_gt
This meeting will highlight concepts, challenges, and results arising from
the use of models to predict the spread and facilitate the control of Ebola
in W. Africa with a focus on the following central themes:
1. Predicting and interpreting initial outbreak dynamics
2. Planning and evaluating interventions
3. Real-time monitoring and surveillance
4. Modeling as a tool for communication
The meeting will include panel discussions, break-out groups, a poster
session, and field-reports from W. Africa. Confirmed speakers include
scientists, public health experts and policy makers. Space is limited, so
please register early. A limited number of travel awards will be given,
with preference to graduate students, postdocs and participants from
developing countries.
Speakers: Ileana Arias (CDC), Gerardo Chowell (Arizona State University),
Zhilan Feng (Purdue University), Brian Gurbaxani (CDC), Richard Hatchett
(Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority), Martin Meltzer
(CDC), Lauren Meyers (UT-Austin), Samuel Scarpino (Santa Fe Institute),
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University), Karen Wong (CDC)
Organizers: Joshua Weitz (Chair, Georgia Tech), Rustom Antia (Emory), John
Drake (UGA), John Glasser (CDC), Jonathan Dushoff (McMaster), Pinar Keskinocak
(Georgia Tech), Lauren Meyers (UT-Austin), Fredrik Vannberg (Georgia Tech)
The meeting will begin at 8:30am on Jan 22 and conclude by 1:30pm on Jan 23.
Note that there is a $50 registration fee for all participants before Jan
8, 2015. This fee includes access to all events, as well as breakfasts,
lunches and coffee breaks for the 1.5 day meeting.
Please distribute to colleagues, questions should be addressed to:
ebola-modeling-workshop@gatech.edu
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From: Petrovskiy, Sergei (Prof.) <
sp237@leicester.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM
Subject: MPDE'15, Niteroi/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 25-29
First announcement
Models in Population Dynamics & Ecology 2015:
E^3 - bringing together Ecology, Epidemiology and Evolution
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), August 25-29, 2015
The 9th MPDE conference will address a broad variety of problems across
ecological sciences and is expected to explore the processes and mechanisms
ranging from the micro-scale of individual movement to the macro-scale
of populations and communities. This year, a special focus will be on
the interplay between ecology, epidemiology and evolution. MPDE'15 is
also expected to address similarities between the modelling techniques
traditionally applied in ecology and those used in other life sciences
with the purpose to enhance interdisciplinary approaches and to stimulate
further advances in mathematical ecology and population dynamics.
The scope of the conference is outlined by (although not necessarily
restricted to) the following topics:
* population dynamics and ecological complexity
* individual animal movement and dispersal
* biological invasions and spread of epidemics
* epidemiology and eco-epidemiology
* evolutionary ecology and evolution
* collective dynamics and ecological pattern formation
The program will consist of plenary (invited) talks, mini-symposiums,
contributed talks and a poster session. The talks are expected to be
mostly grouped around the above subject areas. However, we will be ready
and willing to consider any submission of a potentially high scientific
merit which does not exactly fall into the above list.
Organizers: Max Souza (Niteroi, Brazil) and Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester, UK)
Plenary speakers (up to date):
Stephen Cantrell (Miami, USA)
Marie Doumic-Jauffret (INRIA, France)
Alan Hastings (Davis, USA)
Johan van de Koppel (NIOZ, The Netherlands)
Mark Lewis (Edmonton, Canada)
Eduardo Massad (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester, UK)
Gauthier Sallet (INRIA, France)
Jonathan Sherratt (Edinburgh, UK)
Claudio Struchiner (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Ezio Venturino (Turin, Italy)
More information including the web address, important deadlines and the
registration details will be available soon.
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From: Shiflet, Angela B. <
ShifletAB@wofford.edu>
Date: Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:03 PM
Subject: Call for Papers & Abstracts: Workshop on Teaching Computational Science
The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2015) and the
workshop The Workshop on Teaching Computational Science, which will be June
1 - 3 in Reykjavík, Iceland, have extended the paper submission deadlines
to January 15, 2015. There are submission options for full paper and oral
presentation without a paper (abstract only). Please let us know if you
have any questions.
Hope to see you at ICCS,
Co-Chairs of "The Workshop on Teaching Computational Science":
Angela B. Shiflet, Ph. D. (
shifletab@wofford.edu), Wofford College, USA
Valerie Maxville, Ph. D. (mailto:
maxville@ivec.org), iVEC, Australia
Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, Ph. D. (mailto:
TiradoRamos@uthscsa.edu), U. of Texas
Health Science Center, USA
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From: Tomas Alarcon <
tomasalarc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 4:11 AM
Subject: Summer School: Statistical Physics of Complex & Small Systems
We are pleased to announce the Fifth Summer School on Statistical Physics
of Complex and Small Systems organized by the Grupo de Fisica Estadística y
No Lineal (GEFENOL) of the Spanish Physical Society. The School follows the
previous successful editions which took place in Palma de Mallorca (2011,
2013, 2014) and Benasque (2012).
The school, oriented to PhD students and young postdocs, is also open to more
senior researchers, and will take place at the Centre de Recerca Matematica
(CRM) in Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, on July 6-17, 2015. Over these two
weeks there will be a total of six courses by the following lecturers:
* Aurora Hernández-Machado, Biological membranes and biofluids at the
microscale, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
* Ignacio Pagonabarraga, TBA, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
* Stefan Thurner, TBA, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
* Albert Diaz-Guilera, Dynamics on and of complex networks, Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain
* Ton Coolen, Statistical physics of tailored random graphs: entropies,
processes, and generation, King's College London, UK
* Gunnar Pruessner, Field theory of reaction diffusion processes, Imperial
College London, UK
Additional keynote talks, hands-on sessions, and presentations by the
attendants are also scheduled.
Further details are posted at the web site of the school
http://www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2014-2015/Pages/SSSPCSS.aspx
Applications should be sent by e-mail to Neus Portet (
nportet@crm.cat)
including CV (in pdf format, with the name of advisor for PhD students)
and a motivation paragraph (in the text message), before March 8, 2015.
Acceptation of the applications will be communicated by the organization
before March 31, 2015.
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From: Zhao, Shan <
szhao@ua.edu>
Date: Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:56 AM
Subject: ToC: Molecular Based Mathematical Biology, Vol. 2, 2014
Table of Contents, Molecular Based Mathematical Biology, Vol. 2, 2014
Open access, full text PDF available at
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mlbmb
Discrete Groups and Internal Symmetries of Icosahedral Viral Capsids,
Richard Kerner.
The Knot Spectrum of Confined Random Equilateral Polygons,
Y. Diao, C. Ernst, A. Montemayor, E. Rawdon, U. Ziegler.
Modeling and Simulating Asymmetrical Conductance Changes in Gramicidin Pores,
Shixin Xu, Minxin Chen, Sheereen Majd, Xingye Yue, Chun Liu.
Modeling repulsive forces on fibres via knot energies,
Simon Blatt, Philipp Reiter.
Discrete thickness,
Sebastian Scholtes.
A Poisson-Boltzmann Equation Test Model for Protein in Spherical Solute Region
and its Applications,
Y, Jiang, Jinyong Ying, Dexuan Xie.
Properties of Topological Networks of Flexible Polygonal Chains,
J. Arsuaga, Y. Diao, M. Klingbeil, V. Rodriguez.
Modeling and computation of heterogeneous implicit solvent and its applications
for biomolecules,
Duan Chen.
Generating Vectors for the Lattice Structures of Tubular and Conical Viral
Capsids,
Farrah, Sadre-Marandi, Jiangguo Liu, Simon Tavener, Chaoping, Chen.
Efficient fidelity control by stepwise nucleotide selection in polymerase
elongation,
Jin Yu.
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From: Christina Cobbold <
christina.cobbold@glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:24 AM
Subject: PhD Position: Topological methods in data analysis, U Glasgow
A funded PhD position is available with Dr Liam Watson (Mathematics) and
Dr Kathryn Elmer (Evolutionary Biology), in the School of Mathematics and
Statistics at the University of Glasgow.
As part of the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scheme, a fully-funded 4 year
interdisciplinary PhD project is available on Convergence, connectivity,
and continuity - Topological perspectives for mining novel biological
information from 'omics data.
The project, housed in Mathematics, will interact closely with biology,
exploring molecular evolutionary patterns through topological methods in
data analysis. More information can be found via the following link:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/postgraduateresearch/scholarships/kelvinsmith/shortlistedscholarshipprojects/#d.en.240419
Applications should be sent before 31 January 2015, potential applicants
are encouraged to contact Liam Watson (
Liam.Watson@glasgow.ac.uk) and/or
Kathryn Elmer (
Kathryn.Elmer@glasgow.ac.uk) directly for more information.
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From: Doe, Aimee <
Aimee_Doe@hms.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:52 PM
Subject: Postdoctoral Research Associate: CBMI, Harvard Medical School
Job title: Harvard Medical School - Postdoctoral Research Associate Position at
the Center for Biomedical Informatics
Summary:
Imagine a dynamic dataset that encompasses comprehensive information about
a patient in the health care system: what diseases they have, their genomic
sequence, their social media messages (e.g, tweets and likes), and where
they live. How would you -a data hacker- store, retrieve, and analyze this
information to drive biomedical discovery to find a new way of predicting
disease or even a new therapy for a disease? The Center for Biomedical
Informatics (CBMI,
https://cbmi.med.harvard.edu) at Harvard Medical School
is looking for a data engineer to build cutting edge platforms and data
infrastructure to enable large-scale data-driven research to address
this question. We aim to integrate diverse data sources from geotemporal
information (e.g., HealthMaps.org and EPA AirData), individual genomic
sequence, social media data, and health claims information to paint a
comprehensive picture of individuals who are sick and healthy.
Responsibilities:
The Research Associate will be responsible for data harmonization and
developing APIs to enable integration across diverse data modalities. The
Research Associate will implement scalable statistical machine learning
algorithms for prediction and discovery of clinical, genetic, and
environmental factors related to disease.
The diversity of subject matter will require a creative mind and a candidate
capable of deploying imaginative strategies and who is dedicated to solving
complex and challenging problems within an interdisciplinary environment.
Requirements:
Candidates must have a PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics,
biomedical informatics, bioinformatics, computer science, or a related
quantitative field.
Preferences:
Preferred requirements for this position include experience designing
large software applications and infrastructure to store, retrieve, and
analyze large datasets. Industry experience with R, Python, SQL (Oracle),
JavaScript is preferred. Experience in hacking with cloud technologies
(e.g., Amazon, Hadoop) is a big plus and preferred.
Terms:
The position is available immediately and can be renewed annually.
How to apply:
Email applications including curriculum vitae, summary statement of personal
objectives the names and email addresses of 2-3 references to Chirag Patel
(
chirag_patel@hms.harvard.edu).
Harvard Medical School is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
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From: Lewi Stone <
lewistone2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:01 AM
Subject: Postdoc Opportunity: Theoretical Ecology, RMIT University, Melbourne
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a project that deals
with ecological modelling. The project will continue for two-years with a
possible extension depending on funding availability. The applicant should
have a good mathematics/statistics background as well as a strong interest
in ecology/biology.
The cooperative project is being run at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
led by PI's Lewi Stone, Ascelin Gordon, Yan Wang External Principal
Investigators: David Dowe, Monash University Robert Dorazio USGS, Andy
Solow Woods Hole
Project Summary:
Identifying how species are distributed over the landscape, interact and
self-organize into foodwebs are central goals in Ecology. This project
will provide innovative new modelling tools to improve our understanding
of species distributions and their foodweb networks. Broadly speaking, the
successful candidate together with the PI's will be developing a general
framework for extending species distribution models to deal with multiple
species, incorporating both their interactions as well as surveillance
errors in detection. Secondly, the candidate will develop modern network
approaches for analysing foodwebs. This is a loose guideline; there are
also possibilities for pursuing work on related research topics.
Applicants should send CV's plus the names of three potential referees
to Prof. Lewi Stone
lewistone2@gmail.com preferably before January 31,
2014. Enquiries are welcome.
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From: James Sneyd <
sneyd@math.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:55 PM
Subject: Lecturer Position: Applied Mathematics, University of Auckland
Applications are invited for a full-time permanent position at the Lecturer
level in Applied Mathematics within the Department of Mathematics at The
University of Auckland.
The successful applicant will be expected to establish their own research
portfolio that attracts external funding and graduate students as well as
collaborate with other researchers within and outside the University. Their
research expertise should complement existing research strengths in the
Applied Mathematics Unit, which focuses on dynamical systems, inverse
problems, mathematical biology, numerical algorithms, statistical methods
and PDEs, with applications to industry as well as in biology, engineering
and physics. They will also be expected to undertake high-quality teaching
in the general area of Applied Mathematics, and to perform service roles
for the Department of Mathematics.
The Department of Mathematics, one of the largest and most diverse departments
within The University of Auckland, offers a full range of courses at the
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It has a growing PhD programme
and a vibrant research culture spanning pure and applied mathematics and
mathematics education. More details about the Department may be found at
http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/
The Department of Mathematics strives to provide a collegial work
environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance and a stimulating
research atmosphere. It is committed to achieving a better gender balance
as well as being more inclusive for under-represented minorities.
Applicants should include in their application a Curriculum Vitae detailing a
full list of publications, and also a full list of teaching duties to date,
together with class sizes and the level of students. In addition we request
names and email addresses of three academic referees who may be contacted
in support of your application.
Informal enquiries about the position may be directed to Professor Hinke
Osinga <
h.m.osinga@auckland.ac.nz>.
More general enquiries about the Department and the University may be made
to the Head of Department, Professor Eamonn O'Brien <
e.obrien@auckland.ac.nz>
The official notice for this position (ID Number 16770), and details of
the application process, is at:
http://www.opportunities.auckland.ac.nz/
Applications must be submitted online and will be accepted until Sunday,
18th January, 2015. We expect to complete the appointment process within
2 months of the closing date.
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From: Dieffenbach, Ann (NIH/NIGMS) [E] <
DIEFFENA@nigms.nih.gov>
Date: Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:34 AM
Subject: Cell Line Reproducibility Article, IDeA Awards, Funding Opportunities
NIGMS Director Co-Authors Article on Cell Line Reproducibility
NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch, NIH Director Francis Collins, and 2014 American
Society for Cell Biology president Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, who is
also a researcher in the NIH intramural program, have written a policy
forum article titled "Fixing problems with cell lines" that appears in
the December 19 issue of Science magazine. The article, which is part of a
broader NIH initiative on enhancing reproducibility in scientific research,
describes issues with cell line reproducibility and discusses actions the
biomedical research community can take to address them.
The article is at
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6216/1452.full.pdf.
More on the NIH reproducibility initiative is at
http://acd.od.nih.gov/presentations/tabak-12122014.pdf.
Institutional Development Awards in FY 2014
A list of the 37 Institutional Development Awards we made last fiscal year
in 18 states is at
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/News/results/Pages/20141216.aspx.
The Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program builds research capacities
in states that historically have had low levels of NIH funding.
The FY 2014 grants are expected to total approximately $417.3 million over
the next 5 years.
Funding Opportunities
NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative Research Education: Massive
Open Online Course (MOOC) on Data Management for Biomedical Big Data (R25)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-15-001.html
NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative Research Education: Open Education
Resources for Sharing, Annotating and Curating Biomedical Big Data (R25)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-15-002.html
NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Biomedical Data Science Training Coordination
Center (U24)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-15-004.html
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