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West African Ebola Epidemic panel discussion

With the confirmation of Ebola cases in the United States, many are now concerned about the global ramifications of the West African Ebola epidemic. On Wednesday, October 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora, University of Florida faculty will provide varying perspectives on the potential impacts and current…

NIH is cleaning house to improve lab safety. Are you?

Sally Rockey, Francis Collins, Lawrence Tabak, and Amy Patterson writing for Rock Talk, NIH’s Office of Extramural Research blog: As you may know from recent news reports, there have been lapses in safety practices at federal laboratories involving potentially lethal microbes such as avian flu (H5N1) and anthrax, including an…

Too many science PhDs? Not if unis train them for careers outside academia

I once spent three years inserting extremely slender glass electrodes into rat neurones. I was trying, mostly in vain, to understand how neurones’ properties change when they are stimulated, a phenomenon that might underlie certain kinds of memory. In order to minimise vibration and electrical noise, my experiments were conducted…

Too Few University Jobs For America’s Young Scientists

Imagine a job where about half of all the work is being done by people who are in training. That’s, in fact, what happens in the world of biological and medical research. In the United States, more than 40,000 temporary employees known as postdoctoral research fellows are doing science at…

PNAS: Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws

The long-held but erroneous assumption of never-ending rapid growth in biomedical science has created an unsustainable hypercompetitive system that is discouraging even the most outstanding prospective students from entering our profession – and making it difficult for seasoned investigators to produce their best work. This is a recipe for long-term…

Grantsmanship Workshops at UF on April 29 and 30

NOTE: All logistics and registration details will be handled by the UF/IFAS Office of Conferences and Institutes. Please direct questions to Sharon Borneman by email: spb@ufl.edu or by phone: 352-392-5930. To promote grantsmanship skills and to help improve success in securing extramural funding, I am pleased to announce that…

Register Now: Free Grant Workshops, December 9 & 10, 2013

Please circulate as widely as possible: The Office of Research is pleased to announce Grant Writing Workshops presented by Dr. Robert Porter.  Date: Monday and Tuesday December 9-10, 2013  Location: UF/IFAS Straughn Extension Center (map attached).  These workshops are free for participants and open to all UF…

NIH Operations Under Sequester

ROCK TALK– Helping Connect you with the NIH perspective NIH Operations Under Sequester –  http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2013/03/04/nih-operations-under-the-sequester/…

2013 COM Celebration of Research – Call For Posters

The College of Medicine invites you to submit posters for the 2013 Celebration of Research Poster Session which will be held on Monday, March 11th from 5:30-8:30p in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.  Instructions for submitting posters:  From a UF COMPUTER click on  https://intranet.ahc.ufl.edu/wwa/research/researchaffairs/Abstract%20Submission%20Form%202012/Forms/AllItems.aspx  At the login window,…