Science Researcher Update: Spotlight on Meetings, Conferences, and Events

NYAS Webinar: 'Grantsmanship for Graduate Students and Postdocs'

 
 
 
Seminar - New York, United States
  
The ability to write research grants is now more important than ever. Therefore, graduate students and postdocs should be practicing grant writing skills early in their careers by applying for fellowships. Moreover, concise and persuasive writing skills are not only vital for a career in academia, but are essential for all career opportunities.
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Tags: 2014, New York, United States, Educational Event, October, Seminar

New Frontiers in the Neurobiology of Mental Illness

 

Conference - New York, United States

One in four Americans suffers from mental illness such as schizophrenia, depression, fear and anxiety disorders, autism, and other psychiatric disorders. These numbers pose an enormous socioeconomic burden: adult suicide rates are rising steadily; many at-risk mentally ill patients experience homelessness and incarceration rather than hospitalization; and global costs of mental illness—which often affect otherwise healthy, working-age adults—are estimated to exceed US $16 trillion by 2030.

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Tags: 2014, New York, Medicine, United States, Neurobiology, October, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Conference, Neurology

Early-Life Influences on Obesity from Pre-Conception to Adolescence

 

Conference - New York, United States

The double-burden of under- and overnutrition has grave effects on human health globally. According to the World Health Organization (2013), obesity and diabetes rates have almost doubled since 1980 worldwide and more than 40 million children under 5 were overweight in 2011.

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Tags: 2014, New York, United States, September, Metabolism, obesity, Life Sciences, Conference

What Every International Student & Postdoc Should Know About US Employment - Webinar

 

Workshop - Online

Dan Beaudry is the author of the book Power Ties: The International Student's Guide to Finding a Job in the United States.

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Tags: 2014, New York, Workshop, United States, September, Webinar

Click Chemistry in Biology & Medicine: New Developments & Strategies

 

Symposium - New York, United States

Inspired by the complexity that nature achieves from a just handful of building blocks, K. Barry Sharpless began looking for a reliable method for discovering new chemical connectivity in the mid-1990s. In 1998 he coined the now-familiar term "click chemistry".

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Tags: 2014, New York, Medicine, Biology, United States, September, Symposium, Chemical Sciences, Chemistry

International Food (Dietary) Supplements Seminar

 

Seminar - New York, United States

Learn about international regulations in the dietary supplements industry at this new seminar from Leatherhead Food Research.

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Tags: 2014, food science, New York, United States, September, Seminar, Research

Fifty Years of the Genetic Code: A Symposium to Honor the Legacy of Marshall Nirenberg

 

Symposium - New York City, United States

In the fifty years since the landmark presentation of the preliminary identification of all 64 codons that make up the genetic code (at the IUB meeting in New York City, July 31st, 1964), the deciphering of the code has opened a universe of opportunity in scientific and medical discoveries.

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Tags: 2014, New York, Cancer, July, United States, Symposium, Genetic, Alzheimer's, Life Sciences, Genetics

Demyelination and Remyelination: From Mechanism to Therapy

 

Conference - New York, United States

Demyelinating diseases and disorders affect millions of people worldwide.

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Tags: 2014, June, Translational Research, New York, brain research, United States, clinical trials, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, science research

Targeting VEGF-mediated Tumor Angiogenesis in Cancer Therapy 2014

 

Conference - New York, NY, United States

A decade after the first cancer drug targeting VEGF signaling in tumor blood vessel formation received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), significant effort has been dedicated toward progressing the research, development, and clinical application of anti-angiogenic cancer therapies.

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Tags: 2014, June, Drug Discovery, Bioinformatics, Microbiology, Immunology, New York, Biochemistry, Cancer, Medicine, United States, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Conference, Biotechnology, NY, Life Science

Multi-disciplinary Thoracic Oncology: State-of-the-art & new directions

 

Conference - New York, United States

This one day CME accredited educational course will focus on significant updates on the state-of-the-art screening, work-up, diagnosis, staging and treatment of thoracic malignancies highlighting the need of multi-disciplinary management of complex diseases, such as small cell and non-small cell lung cancer, thymic malignancies and mesothelioma.

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Tags: 2014, June, cancer research, New York, Columbia University, Cancer, United States, Educational Event, Conference

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