April 14-18, 2025 | Vol. 11, Issue 15
In this issue:
- Living & Working in Canada
- GWIS Meeting
- Neuroscience Retreat 2025
- 36th Annual Genetics Day
- GWIS Spring Travel Award 2025
- myHub Travel Award
Living & Working in Canada
��️ Monday, April 14 | ⏱️ 3pm | �� Virtual
Join the final info session about living and working in Canada on Monday, April 14, at 3pm. During the session permanent resident pathways, express entry, the work permit process, and more will be discussed. This info session has same content as the first two sessions. Multiple times and days were offered to accommodate various schedules.
GWIS Meeting
��️ Thursday, April 17 | ⏱️ 3-4pm | �� Adolph Lower Aud (1-7619)
The next GWIS meeting will be held on Thursday, April 17 at 3:00pm in the Adolph Lower Auditorium. The invited speaker is Nadya Dimitrova, PhD, an Associate Professor with the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Dimitrova will also be presenting a seminar in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics series on Wednesday, April 16, titled "Long Noncoding RNAs: Strength in Numbers" at 2pm in K-307.
Neuroscience Retreat 2025
��️ Friday, April 25 | ⏱️ 8am | �� Memorial Art Gallery
36th Annual Genetics Day
��️ Monday, April 28 | ⏱️ 8:30am-4:30pm | �� Class of '62 Auditorium & Flaum Atrium
The keynote speaker will be Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to the keynote lecture, this event will include talks by faculty and trainees as well as a poster session.
CALL FOR POSTERS
We invite you and your colleagues to present posters in the Genetics Day poster session (1:00 – 3:00pm). To present a poster and be eligible for a poster prize, submit your registration by 12pm on Monday, April 21st, 2025
GRC Spatial Workshop Part I
��️ Tuesday, April 29 | ⏱️ 10am-2pm | �� SMD Large Auditorium (2-6424)
This is the first session in a multi-part workshop series on spatial transcriptomics presented by the Genomics Research Center. This workshop is open to the community. Part I will involve both wet-lab and bioinformatics GRC staff and focus on the following topics:
- Overall technology review for Visium, Xenium, and GeoMx with ideal use cases (Pros, cons, limitations, strengths, etc.)
- Experimental/Sample Preparation Considerations for each platform
- Introduction to standard analysis in freely available software (i.e. Loupe Browser, DSP Analysis Suite, and Xenium Explorer)
- Self-Exploration using provided datasets - NOTE: no coding required
- Q&A, Discussion, and Introduction to Part II (Coming in June 2025) - further analysis outside of available software (i.e. using Seurat) - NOTE: coding experience will be required for Part II.
Please reach out to URGenomics@urmc.rochester.edu with any questions about the GRC Spatial Workshop Series.
Grad Students for Brand Research
Thank you for your leadership at the University of Rochester and for putting your trust in us for your graduate academic experience. As the University evolves its brand for greater impact, input from students like you is an invaluable part of the process.
Before sharing our refreshed brand with the world, we want to ensure that our story is clear, compelling and credible among those who know us best. To that end, we will host a 1-hour virtual focus group to discuss our brand strategy, and we welcome you to participate.
This session will be held over Zoom on April 24th from 9am-10am. Our team will follow up with a separate email to provide meeting details.
�� Gain Real-World Experience — And Get Funded! ��
Are you a Master’s, PhD, or Postdoc trainee in the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and looking to explore career paths outside your lab/research experience?
myHub offers funding support for internships and job shadowing experiences!
Whether you want to:
✅ Test-drive a career in industry, government, not-for-profit, academia
✅ Shadow a professional to gain insider knowledge
✅ Build your resume with hands-on experience
…this opportunity is for YOU!
�� Apply for funding to support for short-term, career-focused experiences that align with your goals. Flexible options are available year-round.
Have questions or want help brainstorming an internship or shadowing site? Email myHub@urmc.rochester.edu — we're here to help!
GWIS Spring Travel Award 2025
The deadline for the GWIS Travel Award application is Tuesday, April 22nd at noon. You must be a graduate student in years 1 through 5 and an active participant in GWIS. Travel will be sponsored on the basis of scientific merit (thus it is key that you describe your past and ongoing research), need (explain why the requested travel is important for your scientific growth), and regular participation at GWIS meetings as evidenced from the meeting registrations and sign-in sheets. To date, 78 GWIS members have received Travel Awards.
There are two steps for completing an application:
Step 1. Submit a completed Application Form along with a copy of your C.V. and copies of your peer-reviewed publications to stephanie_scoville@urmc.rochester.edu by noon on April 22nd.
Step 2. Request that your Ph.D. mentor and one of your Ph.D. advisory committee members each forward a letter of reference to stephanie_scoville@urmc.rochester.edu by noon on April 22nd.
Successful applicants for a GWIS Travel Award can also use funds to attend and participate in virtual meetings.
myHub Travel Award
myHub is sponsoring a travel award for Master and Ph.D. students and postdoctoral appointees in the School of Medicine and Dentistry. The award is intended to help build skills, learn new techniques or explore career pathways relevant to current or future career endeavors. This award is not intended for academic research related conferences and/or skill development trainings related to your academic research.
Application deadline is May 16, 2025, by 12:00pm
The CIRTL Network
Are you starting to think about post-degree career paths? Every spring CIRTL brings together alumni who have gone into different types of work to hear about their pathway from degree to employment, the moments in their graduate careers that helped them figure out their professional priorities, and the challenging and rewarding parts of their academic careers. This online event series includes the following panels:
��️ Tuesday, April 15 | ⏱️ 12-1pm - Exploring Academic Careers Beyond the Professoriate
Free Subscription for the Sol App!
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Free Safer Sex Supplies
Don’t forget to stock up on FREE safer sex supplies before the semester ends! Anonymously order through Safe Sex Express and have supplies delivered directly to your campus mailbox. Orders typically take 5-7 business days to arrive, so don’t delay!
| NSF I-Corps Regional Course Information |
MECCC
NSF I-Corps Regional Courses are for university-based STEM researchers and early-stage startup founders who are interested in exploring the market potential of their work and learning entrepreneurial skills. Participants learn to apply “customer discovery” methodology to evaluate the potential for translating their technology innovation from the lab into a successful product and/or service.
This week’s social media spotlight features Dr. Nathan Smith's video from the Graduate Giving Gala. Click on the picture to watch.
Accommodations
The University of Rochester is committed to providing inclusive experiences and equal access to programs and services. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation, please contact Mary Beth Kitzel. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations.
OTE Submission Information
Submissions for the weekly Monday edition of OTE are due by Thursday at 5:00 pm. Please submit materials to myHub@urmc.rochester.edu.
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