National Postdoctoral Association Request for Information

The National Postdoctoral Association wants your help in gathering information about the need for a postdoctoral professional master's degrees in bioscience management. Recognizing that today many postdoctoral scholars pursue careers in industry, the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a new NPA member, is looking to create the nation's first such professional master's degree.

We recently invited NPA postdoc members to complete a survey regarding their interest in the proposed program. Some of you may also have received that e-alert. I would like to invite you to share this survey with postdocs at your institution who may or may not have received the previous e-alert. KGI will share the aggregate results with NPA members.

Please consider sharing this new link with postdoctoral scholars at your institution: Postdoctoral Focus Group Survey

All responses will be kept confidential. At the end of the survey, the respondents will have an opportunity to share their contact information if t hey are interested in learning more about the program or participating in a focus group or on the Design Team. Their contact information will be stored separately from their responses and will not be shared with any third parties.

Best regards,
Cathee Johnson Phillips
Executive Director

We need your vote for our new JHPDA executive committee officers!

Hello Postdocs!

JHPDA is making a transition to a brand new executive committee for the 2009-2010 academic term. We are very happy to let you know that a good number of enthusiastic postdoc and clinical fellows have joined the JHPDA for this term.

Just like every year we want you to give your vote/consent for the postdocs who have boldly taken up the executive committee officer positions of President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. Your consent is very valuable to us.

This voting will take only 10secs. Vote HERE.

We will be reviewing the results on Tuesday Aug 18th at 12PM so please vote before this date and time.

JHPDA is always looking for new officers so if you are interested in joining us it is never too late. Just shoot us an email at postdoc@jhmi.edu.

Thanks a lot for your contribution!

JHPDA

JHPDA is recruiting new officers!

The JHPDA is recruiting new officers for the next academic term (Aug ’09- Aug’10). Please go through this presentation to know more about the different positions.

If you are interested in any of the officer positions or if you have questions please contact any of the following officers:
• Il Minn (President for the next academic term) at Iminn1@jhmi.edu
• Anjali Mishra (Current Co-President) at amishra3@jhmi.edu
• Erin Vasudevan (Current Co-President) at vasudevan@kennedykrieger.org

We are specifically looking for the following positions (although you are free to volunteer for any position which spikes your interest):
• Secretary
• Heads for the following committees: Programs, International Affairs, Scientific Seminar and Communications.
• Co-VPs for the following committees: Program, International Affairs, Scientific Seminar, Communications and Professional Development.

Please let us know about your interest within a week if possible.

If you would like to contribute to improving lives of postdocs at Hopkins (without compromising on your busy schedule) and at the same time make contacts, make friends, gain leadership and organizational skills and have something to add to your CV, joining JHPDA is the right move.

Thanks,
JHPDA

Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association Annual BBQ + Outdoor Movie

Please join JHPDA and all the postdocs for Great Food and a fun, relaxed evening on August 19th at it Annual BBQ and Outdoor Movie event.
This is one of the very popular events and people turn up in huge numbers.

For more information on Location, Time, Tickets and Menu please click here.

Special Edition Water Bottle on Sale.

Limited-edition JHPDA water bottle will be available during the Annual BBQ and Movie event. These 24 oz bottles are finely detailed piece stamped with Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association logo. Once they sell out, they are gone! Cost: Only 6$ each. For images please click here.

Postdoc Ambassadors Program

In an effort to better serve the international postdoc community here at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the International Society & the JHPDA are joining forces to initiate the Postdoc Ambassadors Program. More...

University Health Services Committee

Post-docs are represented on the University Health Services Committee by Gehua Zhen with Theresa Evans-Nguyen as a back-up. More...

Annapolis Trip

The Johns Hopkins International Society invites you to join us on our ANNAPOLIS TRIP
Saturday, August 22, 2009
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets : $15 per person
Tickets can be purchased in the OIS Office in Reed Hall (cash only)
For more information click here.

Upcoming Career Events at Hopkins

McKinsey presentation at Johns Hopkins
Wednesday, August 5, 6:00PM
Wood Basic Science Auditorium- 725 N. Wolfe Street, Basement floor
Click here for more information

Business of bioscience career panel
Wednesday, August 12, 4:00-5:30PM
Mountcastle Auditorium (Pre-Clinical Teaching Bldg., 1st floor)
Click here for more information

Careers in Consulting- panel discussion
Wednesday, August 26, 4:00-5:30PM
Mountcastle Auditorium
Click here for more information

Launching a career in science writing & editing
Thursday, September 10, 4:00pm, Bodian Room, Suite 2-200, 1830 Building
RSVP, email jhmipdo@jhmi.edu
Click here for more information

The 2009 Scientific Seminar Series Awards Reception was held in the Turner concourse Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 from 4:15 to 6:30.

After 5 months of presentation and 37 outstanding posters, here the names of the winners of the 2009 Scientific seminar series.

2009: Third Scientific Seminar Series:

First place ($500): Jonathan Jun "Hypoxia-induced lipolysis as a novel
mechanism of hypercholesterolemia" Department of Medicine.
Second places (tie, $300 each):
Kalyan Srivastavam "Platelet Factor 4 mediates inflammation in cerebral malaria" Department of molecular and comparative pathobiology.
Mingui Xiang "Discovery of two novel Na+/H+ antiporters: candidate genes for essential hypertension" Department of Physiology.
Third place ($200): Yingli Fu "Mesenchymal stem cell delivery and engraftment tracking using multifunctional perfluorinated microcapsules" Department of Radiology and Radiological Science.

2009: First Poster Session:

Clinical Poster Category
First place ($250): Stephen M. Sozio "Multiple Markers of Inflammation Are Not Associated With Risk of Cerebrovascular Events in Patients Initiating Dialysis" Department of Medicine/Nephrology.
Second pace ($100): Michael E. Nottidge "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Triage" Department of Emergency Medicine, ACCM

Basic/Translational Poster Category
First place ($250): Ye Yan "The antioxidant enzyme Prdx1 controls motor
neuron differentiation by thiol-redox dependent activation of GDE2" Department of Neuroscience.
Second place ($100): Zhi Xie "Global Analysis of Human Protein-DNA Interactions Reveals Preferred Binding Sites for Both Annotated and Unconventional DNA-binding Proteins" Department of Ophthalmology.
Third place (tie, $75 each): Nilkantha Sen "GOSPEL: A novel neuroprotective protein that binds to GAPDH upon S-nitrosylation" Department of Neuroscience.
Jianyang Wang "TbPIF8, related to a yeast mitochondrial helicase, is required for trypanosome viability and kDNA organization" Department of Biological Chemistry

Poster Peoples’choices (3 way tie, $75 each):
Abhinav Sidana (Clinical) "Cryoablation and cyclophosphamide combination for cryoimmunotherapy of metastatic cancer: an interim analysis of Phase I trial" Department of Urology.
Jahn N. O’Neil (Basic/Translational) "Bilateral Effects of Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Congenitally Deaf Cats: A critical period for synaptic plasticity" Department of Otolaryngology.
Marianne Stefanini (Basic/Translational), "The increase of plasma VEGF
following an anti-VEGF intravenous injection explained by a computational model" Department of Biomedical Engineering.