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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Registration Now Open: CBC Tech Day
The CBC Tech Day, Small Molecule Discovery in Academia, will be held at Prentice Women’s Hospital (NU Chicago Campus), on Monday, July 9, 2012. To register click here. Registration deadline: Friday, June 15, 2012.
(Tech Day webpage)
(Tech Day flyer)
Save the Date: Chicago Drug Discovery Consortium
UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) will present the bi-annual Chicago Drug Discovery Consortium on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the UIC campus.
(Consortium description)
(Consortium flyer)
Save the Date: Science@theInterface Symposium
The Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University at Chicago invites all to the annual Science@theInterface Symposium, Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Biological Regulation to be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at the Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago.
(Symposium webpage)
New Program: CBC Exploratory Workshops
Applications are now being accepted for CBC Exploratory Workshops - a new program for faculty members to encourage collaborative interactions across the CBC institutions. Next deadline: Friday, June 8, 2012.
(Exploratory Workshops Program description and RFA)
Save the Date: 10th Annual CBC Symposium
The 10th Annual CBC Symposium, Epigenomics, will be held at Northwestern University, Evanston Campus, on Friday, October 12, 2012.
(Symposium webpage)
(Symposium flyer)
Today at NU, UChicago & UIC
TODAY is Friday, May 18, 2012
10:00 AM
UIC Physiology and Biophysics
Merry L. Lindsey, PhD, University of Texas
Cardiac Remodeling from the Extracellular Matrix Perspective
10:00 AM
UChicago Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology (Thesis Defense)
David Arnolds, PhD Candidate, Moskowitz Lab, University of Chicago
Transcriptional control of cardiac conduction system development and function
10:30 AM
UIC Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Brian Yeh, Mckinsey & Company
Title TBA
12:00 PM
NU Microbiology Immunology
Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
The Battle for Metal Between Bacterial Pathogens and Their Hosts
12:00 PM
UChicago Cancer Center
Donald J. Tindall, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
The Role of the Androgen Receptor in Progression of Prostate Cancer
12:00 PM
NU Department of Physiology
Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Mechanisms of Autoimmune Synaptopathies
12:00 PM
UIC Hematology/Oncology
Don Lavelle, PhD, University of Illinois
DNA Methylation and Globin Gene Expression
NEWS Highlights
CBC Scholars ‘Loop Connections’ in motion!
The inaugural CBC Scholars organized 'Loop Connections' Seminar took place on May 8, 2012 at the UChicago campus. The seminar, From ECM to cell motility, featured two local experts on epithelial biology: Jonathan Jones (NU) and Sally Horne-Badovinac (UChicago).
(full text)
(posted May 16, 2012)
How do cancers become resistant to chemotherapy?
Genetic mutations in cancer cells can lead to resistance to treatment, thereby potentially resulting in relapse. However, a new article, published April 3 in PLoS Biology, titled: "Nonheritable Cellular Variability Accelerates the Evolutionary Processes of Cancer", suggests that the converse may also happen. Steven Frank from the University of California, Irvine, and Marsha Rosner from the University of Chicago, propose that it may often be the case that a few cells become resistant before any genetic change, and then later acquire the genes to stabilize that resistance.
(full text)
Marsha Rosner is the co-receipient of a 2009 CBC Catalyst Award: "Cell Cycle Regulatory Networks: An Integrative Approach."
(posted April 5, 2012)
CBC model goes viral
In an article “Rowan or Rutgers: No need to change names to win grants” published March 12, 2012 in the Philadelphia Inquirer by Michael A. Palis, Joseph Martin, and Benedetto Piccoli*, the CBC is highlighted as a consortium role model that, if followed, could “leverage the existing strengths of four institutions and transform southern New Jersey into a hot spot for life-science and biomedical research in the region and the state.” They go on to state: “The consortium model has been implemented with great success elsewhere, including the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago); the Broad Institute (MIT, Harvard, and affiliated teaching hospitals); and the Research Triangle Park (Duke University, North Carolina State, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).” It’s nice to know that news of the CBC is spreading and inspiring other research communities to consider the power of collaboration.
(full text)
*Michael A. Palis is a professor of computer science; Joseph Martin is a professor of biology; and Benedetto Piccoli is Joseph and Loretta Lopez Chair of Mathematics at Rutgers-Camden.
(posted March 13, 2012)
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