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October 22, 2021

Announcements

Pre-Award Submission Timeline

Please remember to email the Pre-Award team at least 4 weeks before your proposal’s deadline with the solicitation number and due date. This practice ensures that every proposal receives the attention it deserves. Please take a moment to review the full proposal submission timeline. An abbreviated version is below.

One more week to fill out BioSci's infrastructure survey

Infrastructure is always evolving and we need your feedback. The goal of BioSci’s annual infrastructure survey is to help the school map short-term needs and longer-term strategies. Please tell us your ideas, priorities, requests, and problems for shared equipment and core facilities by taking the survey by November 1.

Upcoming Seminars

October


28
Thursday
9AM-10AM

NIH Diversity Supplements Webinar #2

The University of California Global Health Institute will host a webinar on NIH Diversity Supplements featuring three recipients from UCI, UCSF, and UCM. Rob Rivers, NIH Program Director at NIDDK, will moderate the panel. Please register here. You can also check out Webinar #1 here.

November


1 - 4
Monday - Thursday

NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration

If you are an administrator, researcher, early-stage investigator, graduate student, or anyone new to working with the NIH grants process, then this seminar is designed specifically for you.

Click Here to Register

November


2
Tuesday
11AM-12PM

Neurobiology and Behavior James L. McGaugh Distinguished Lecture

Perturbations Reveal that Degenerate Circuits Hide Cryptic Individual Variability - Eve Marder, Ph.D.  

Dr. Marder is University Professor and Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. Her research aims to understand how circuit function arises from the intrinsic properties of individual neurons and their synaptic connections.


View Event
Please contact Naima Louridi for Zoom link

November


4
Thursday
10AM-11AM

Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar Series
Pretty Gutsy: Endocannabinoids in the Periphery Tell Us to Eat - Nicholas DiPatrizio, Ph.D.

Dr. DiPatrizio is Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at UC Riverside School of Medicine. His research emphasis is on identifying roles for the endocannabinoid system in food intake and reward, and dysregulation of these pathways in metabolic disease.


View event and register for Zoom link

November


5
Friday
3PM

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Fall Seminar Series

Amplifying Indigenous voices in invasive and climate change adaptation - Danielle Ignace, Ph.D.

Dr. Ignace is Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on how global change affects ecosystem patterns and processes.


Zoom link

Meeting ID: 963 6415 7692

Passcode: UCI-EEB

Getting Grants

NIH F-series services for graduate students and postdocs

Do you have or are you a postdoc or graduate student who intends to submit an F30, F31, F31-D, or F32 proposal to NIH? Staff with BioSci’s pre-award and research development teams will be hosting an information session on Friday, October 29, 2021 at 10AM. Trainees who intend to submit a proposal to the December 8, 2021 deadline or those interested in later deadlines are encouraged to attend. The workshop will take place in person, and the room number will be sent to those who register. Please register here and contact Justin Sarkis (sarkisj@uci.edu) with any questions.

Subject your grant proposal to peer review before submitting it to the sponsor.

A faculty member with the School of Biological Sciences can request subjecting their grant proposal to peer review before submitting it to an external sponsor. Contact bio-research@uci.edu to learn about this peer review process.

Funding Opportunities

Consider a NIH diversity supplement as an add-on to your existing NIH grant.

NIH diversity supplements are less competitive than other NIH peer-reviewed grant funding mechanisms and can provide an entry point for an upcoming researcher to begin their career. Diversity supplements seek to attract minority and disadvantaged trainees into research careers. This additional funding must support work within the scope of the original project but should not overlap. Parent grants must have more than two years remaining. Submit your supplement at least 10 weeks prior to the desired funding start date. Please check the IC-Specific Guidelines to determine the appropriate submission date for you and contact bio-research@uci.edu for more information.

New Grant Awards

Congratulations to the following graduate students who recently received new NIH fellowship awards!

Miranda Chappel-Farley (NBB; Dr. Michael Yassa) received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute on Aging to research Neurobiological Mechanisms of Sleep and Exercise Effects on Memory in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease.
Brendan Finicle (DevCell; Dr. Aimee Edinger) received an Individual Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) from the National Cancer Institute to research Targeting Intracellular Trafficking for Cancer Therapy.
Caden Henningfield (NBB; Dr. Kim Green) received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute on Aging to research Selective Targeting and Treatment of Plaque Associated Microglia in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease.
Tori Tucker (DevCell; Dr. Michael Parsons) received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to research Uncovering the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Driving B-cell Neogenesis During Regeneration.

Fund Fact

BioSci researchers submitted 237 new, renewal, and supplemental proposals in FY 2021.

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