Upcoming Events

For those in the Boston metro area.

First up, next Friday, November 9th, there will be a conference being held here at the Medical Campus entitled Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Publishing in the Biosciences. Not only is fellow blogger Anna Kushnir part of the organizing committee, but Bora Zivkovic (from A Blog Around the Clock) is one of the invited panelists.

Here is the program:

"Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Publishing in the Biosciences"
Friday, November 9, 1:00 - 6:00 pm
TMEC Walter Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School
260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
www.harvardpublishingforum.com
This is a student-organized conference that will convene experts from across the world to discuss the state of publishing in the biological sciences.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Harold Varmus, M.D.
Nobel-Laureate and Co-founder of PLoS, former Director of the NIH, and CEO of Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Varmus will draw on his experience as Director of the NIH and as a co-founder of the Public Library of Science to reflect on the current and future state of scientific publishing.

PANELS:
The State of Publishing will critically assess the impact that scientific publishing has on scientific research.
Panelists include:
⢠Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Library, Wellcome Trust
⢠Isaac Kohane, Director, Countway Library, Harvard University [tentative]
⢠Emilie Marcus, Editor-in-Chief, Cell Press and Editor, Cell
⢠Stuart Shieber, Professor, Harvard University

Publishing 2.0 will examine the future of publishing in an increasingly digital world.
Panelists include:
⢠Moshe Pritsker, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Journal of Visualized Experiments
⢠Hilary Spencer, Product Manager, Nature Precedings
⢠John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons
⢠Bora Zivkovic, Community Manager, PLoS ONE

We also want to know what you think! Please take a moment to complete a brief online poll at www.harvardpublishingforum.com and register (optional, but strongly encouraged) for this half-day event.

A reception, sponsored in part by the Nature Publishing Group/Nature Network, will follow the forum.

This forum is generously sponsored by the Harvard Biophysics Program and the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) Program. Questions?

All are invited so please forward widely!

Second I'd like to highlight another event that was stated in the above anouncement. Following the talks, Nature Network Boston is sponsoring another "Pub-Night" that will be held here at Harvard Medical School in the T-Mec courtyard. See Corie's entry for details.

Third on the 20th of November we are hosting the next instalment of the New England RNA Club (NERD Club). The program will include:

Caryn Navarro, Lehmann Lab, NYU
Ruth Zearfoss, Ryder Lab, U Mass Worcester
William Abraham, Rao Lab, HMS

It starts at 6PM in the Cannon Room, Building C here on the Harvard Medical School Quad. For more info visit the website.

Fourth, a week after NERD comes BAYM, or Boston Area Yeast Meeting. A tip of the hat to Marcelo Vinces, from the Verstrepen Lab, who revived the club and put up this great website. It's taking place Thursday November 29th, 2007 @ the Broad Institute. Speakers include:

Amy Rowat
Department of Physics/HSEAS, Harvard University (Weitz Lab)
"Microfluidic tools to study single cell lineages and growth "

Kyle Brown
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (Hartl Lab)
"Fitness effects of a naturally occurring expression QTN in S. cerevisiae"

Dinner 6pm-6:30pm
Talks begin at 7pm.

OK that's all I have for now. (It looks like November will be action packed.)