Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Bioinformatics: Transcriptome analyses of large next-generation sequencing datasets The Menden-Deuer and Rynearson labs at the University of Rhode Island invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in bioinformatics and computational biology. Project Overview: This project aims to examine, quantify and understand gene expression in marine plankton. Plankton are single-celled eukaryotes that […]
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Rhode Island School of Design Presents Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series
PROVIDENCE, RI – Rhode Island School of Design presents the inaugural Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series, kicking off with special guest Juan Enriquez on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 7:30PM in the RISD Auditorium [Canal Walkway at Market Square, Providence]. This event will be free of charge and open to the public, but advance […]
Continue reading "Rhode Island School of Design Presents Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series"Call to Mentors for SURF 2012
Rhode Island’s National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR) is pleased to solicit applications for mentors for the upcoming 2012 program for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF). NSF EPSCoR seeks to support a minimum of 35 SURF projects and has an aim of finding mentors at all nine EPSCoR-partner institutions in […]
Continue reading "Call to Mentors for SURF 2012"EPSCoR releases new Strategic Plan
After two strategic planning meetings with the wider EPSCoR community, the office staff have updated the previous Strategic Plan to reflect new initiatives, research, and recommendations from NSF and our affiliates. This adaptive plan focuses on the goals of EPSCoR for both the research and the broader impacts of our program in the coming years. […]
Continue reading "EPSCoR releases new Strategic Plan"EPSCoR Users have access to Brown’s Super Computing Facilities
All BioMed premium users have full access to 256 core with ‘normal’ priority. EPSCoR sponsored users also have access to additional 256 cores with ‘highest’ priority. All users have access to the 40+ bioinformatics software packages installed and tested on the system. Disk storage for data storage is the responsibility of the users. To be […]
Continue reading "EPSCoR Users have access to Brown’s Super Computing Facilities"Marine Life Science Facility receives a Flow Cytometer purchased by EPSCoR
The RI EPSCoR program has acquired a new BD Influx flow cytometer optimized for marine applications. The instrument is located in the Marine Life Sciences Facility at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus. Instrument Description: The Influx flow cytometer analyzes and sorts individual cells by measuring forward and sideward light scatter, and fluorescence […]
Continue reading "Marine Life Science Facility receives a Flow Cytometer purchased by EPSCoR"STAC releases RFP for Collaborative Grant
$800,000 of these funds are in collaboration with the RI NSF EPSCoR grant and will be dedicated to projects that focus on the research themes of RI NSF EPSCoR and/or utilize the existing three RI NSF EPSCoR Centers. Those themes are: marine life sciences, climate change effects on marine life especially in Narragansett Bay, and […]
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Continue reading "Dolphins spotted in Narragansett Bay!"EPSCoR Researcher Casey Dunn releases a paper in Nature and former SURF Caitlin Feehery is mentioned
Researchers at Brown University and partner institutions have compiled the most comprehensive evolutionary tree for mollusks to date. Their analysis surprisingly places two enigmatic groups, cephalopods and monoplacophorans, as sister clades. The team has also shown that there was a single origin for shelled mollusks. Results appear in Nature. Read the rest of the Brown press […]
Continue reading "EPSCoR Researcher Casey Dunn releases a paper in Nature and former SURF Caitlin Feehery is mentioned"EPSCoR and Metcalf Institute host Science Communication Workshop
Nineteen of EPSCoR’s science leaders from 7 partner institutions came together with Cornelia Dean, science writer for and former editor of The New York Times, and Camille Feanny, Senior Producer and Anthropologist working at Environment News Trust to learn how to effectively communicate with the media regarding their science and research. Workshop Info
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