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iBiology, “Take Your Skills Up a Notch”

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iBiology offers a number of free online courses for professional development:

Promo image for Let's Experiment course: drawn man, woman, mouse, plant and molecule with title of the course

Goal: Effectively design and execute your wet lab experiments
You: Senior undergrads, grad students or postdocs looking to learn or brush up on your experimental design skills
Why?? Real scientists + real case studies + useful tools and templates = powerful experimental skills building
Link: http://bit.ly/LE-self-paced

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Goal:  Develop a great scientific question and build your research plan around it 
You: Senior undergrads, grad students or postdocs looking to learn or brush up on how to design research projects or build achievable plans
Why?? Fantastic scientists give you the skills to tackle the exciting unknown of research
Link: http://bit.ly/PYSJ-self-paced

Promo image for Business Concepts for Life Scientists course: drawn lightbulb surrounded by science-related icons: microscope, flask, molecules

Goal:  Learn the core principles of business in a course built for scientists  
You: Senior undergrads, grad students or postdocs looking to move into business roles or bring key business concepts to your research
Why?? Practicing businesspeople, all trained scientists from diverse backgrounds, show you what you need to know about business
Link: http://bit.ly/BCLS-self-paced

Spring Career + Internship Fair 2020

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Friday, January 31, 2020 ~ 11:00am – 3:00pm
Bodek Lounge & Hall of Flags, Houston Hall
3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

General Information

  • Dress is business casual. Please bring copies of your resume.
  • Participating industries include Consumer Products | Consulting | Education | Engineering / Manufacturing | Financial Services | Insurance | Government | Healthcare / Biotechnology / Pharmaceuticals | Real Estate | Retail | Technology | AND MORE!

To see a list of registered employers online, please visit: https://upenn.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs/13047

Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation in Biomedicine

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University Nomination Required
Campus Nomination Deadline: 10AM on February 3, 2020

Penn is invited to nominate two graduate students for the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation, which recognizes excellence in biomedicine, broadly defined. Each year, one graduate student and one postdoctoral fellow are selected to receive the prize, which includes a check for $50,000 and a $5,000 donation to their home institution to help support their seminar series. Semi-finalists and finalists receive $5,000. To be considered for Penn nomination, applicants must submit the Regeneron Application Form and a Recommendation Request Form that will, upon completion and submission by the applicant, send a recommendation request to your Penn faculty advisor. Applicants should not submit the application directly to Regeneron.

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Aaron Olson at CURF, aolson@upenn.edu.

NCBI Tools and Databases for Bioinformatics (11/19) & Introduction to BioCyc (11/26) workshops

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NCBI Tools and Databases for Bioinformatics workshop

If you are interested in learning about the types of resources NCBI –home to Pubmed– offers in bioinformatics, then come to my NCBI tools and databases workshop that is being held in the training lab (G3) at the Biomedical Library on November 19 at noon.

The primary goal of this one hour workshop is to provide an introduction to the various databases and tools that are available through NCBI. In addition to an overview, I will be exhibiting demos on a select few tools and databases.

​Date: November 19, 2019 at noon    
Location: Training lab (G3) of the Biomedical Library
Register HERE

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Introduction to BioCyc workshop​

Come learn to work with BioCyc: a collection of Pathway Genome Databases (PGDBs) that provides information on genomes and metabolic pathways for thousands of organisms.

This one hour workshop will provide an introduction to BioCyc and showcase the various features BioCyc supports. In addition, there will be an interactive demo that complements the overview on BioCyc.

​Date: November 26, 2019 at noon 
Location: Training lab (G3) of the Biomedical Library
Register HERE

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the workshops please contact Subin George (Bioinformatics intern) at sgeo@pobox.upenn.edu

Open Science event at Van Pelt Library Oct. 23rd

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Open Science is a collaborative effort to improve open access to scientific research through multimodal platforms. Open scientific research is in demand not just for those who do not have access, but also creators and researchers who believe in the potential it has to offer. Please join us for a series of presentations to learn more about the evolution of scientific research and open access.

Our diverse panel of speakers will feature: Theodore Satterthwaite M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Daniel Himmelstein, Postdoctoral Fellow at Greene Lab, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania; and Jennifer Stiso, PhD Candidate for Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Each speaker will give a short presentation, which will be followed by a Q&A session with all three speakers. We look forward to your attendance and participation!

Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Location: Class of 1955 Conf. Room, 2nd Floor, VPDLC

https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/wicshops/openscience