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Core Workshop Series

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In lieu of the CVI Seminar Series this Spring, the Penn Cardiovascular Institute will host a Core Workshop Series. This will be a 3 part series in which the Metabolomics Core, iPSC Core, and Mouse Cardiac Phenotyping Core will each present to you their core offerings and examples of how they can provide service to you. The schedule and BlueJeans information is below. All seminars will be during the lunch hour, beginning at noon. Upcoming seminars include:

Tuesday, April 14, C-TRIPS: Terren Niethamer and Ashwin Nathan

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/154337264
Meeting ID
154337264

Thursday, April 23, Metabolomics Core: Chris Petucci

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/492476728
Meeting ID
492476728

Tuesday, April 28, iPSC Core: Wenli Yang

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/222470128
Meeting ID
222470128

Tuesday, May 5, Mouse Cardiac Phenotyping Core: Swapnil Shewale and Kendra McDaid

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/400407949
Meeting ID
400407949

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Citation Management Workshops

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Welcome | Penn Libraries

Penn Libraries are hosting a remote series of Citation Management Workshops. See details and registration links below:

Want to have an easier time writing your research paper? Worried about citing sources incorrectly? Looking for tips and tricks to put together your bibliography? 

We will have three virtual workshops on citation management tools the week of April 13. 

  • Using Zotero for Citation Management, Monday, April 13, 1 – 2 PM
    Introductory workshop for anyone: Zotero is a free, open-source, flexible research management tool with a diverse support community.
    Register here.
  • Using Mendeley for Citation Management, Tuesday, April 14, 1 – 2 PM
    Introductory workshop for anyone: Mendeley is a “freemium” research management tool with robust PDF integration.
    Register here.
  • Advanced Tools & Techniques for Citation Management, Wednesday, April 15, 1 – 2 PM
    For people working on thesis, dissertations, and other major research projects. This workshop will explore best practices, great tools, and advanced techniques to collect, organize, and cite your sources.
    Register here    .

Overleaf now available from Penn Libraries

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Welcome | Penn Libraries

Penn Libraries now offers institutional access to Overleaf, the online collaborative LaTeX editing platform. All Penn faculty, staff and students may now set up free Professional accounts, or link to existing personal Overleaf accounts.

Instructions on how to access are found in the section “Sign up for Overleaf Pro with Penn Libraries” in this LaTex/Overleaf web resource:
https://guides.library.upenn.edu/LaTeX

We are excited to offer this new collaborative resource to the Penn Community. Please contact us if you have any questions.

THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK SYMPOSIUM

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The Penn Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emerging Pathogens will be hosting its first symposium, titled “The Coronavirus Outbreak” on Friday, April 3 from 11am to 5pm. The symposium will feature insights on coronaviruses from Penn experts. A detailed agenda of the symposium can be found here. 

The symposium will be presented online and is accessible from a web browser, mobile browser, or phone. See below for access instructions.

The Art of Grant Writing: 03/31 @ Noon!

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The Institute of Regenerative Medicine is hosting a special “Socially Distanced Seminar (SDS)” on Tuesday, March 31 at noon featuring Leslie King, Ph.D., the Scientific Director for Grant Development for the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. King is an accomplished grant writer who will be walking us through some strategies for putting together appealing applications. This should be a very relevant talk for the many of us at home working on grants right now, especially trainees!

Call information is below. Additional details can be found on the SDS Page.

Meeting URL: https://bluejeans.com/563102678
Meeting ID: 563 102 678

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Postdoc Opportunity – Treisman Lab, Crick Institute

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The Treisman Lab is seeking a highly motivated, bright and creative, and skilled postdoc with experience in gene regulation, signalling and biochemistry. The project will investigate how transcriptional activation by the MRTF transcriptional coactivators is controlled by their interaction with G-actin in different settings.

The lab usually comprises 2-3 postdoctoral research fellows and 2-3 graduate students, supported by 3 postdoctoral level research assistants.

Please see the attached flyer. For more information visit: https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-t-u/richard-treisman/

Closing date for applications is April 16, 2020. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype.