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CSUPERB Newsletter - Issue #27

On Tuesday (7/30, 2 pm) we'll be hosting a one-hour Informational webinar about the Trilemma Challeng
CSUPERB Newsletter - Issue #27
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On Tuesday (7/30, 2 pm) we’ll be hosting a one-hour Informational webinar about the Trilemma Challenge for this year’s CSUPERB Ideas Lab. The “dean” of this year’s Ideas Lab, Dr. Ray Rodriguez (UC Davis), will talk about challenges local communities have optimizing the balance between healthy ecosystems, healthy communities and food production. While attendance isn’t mandatory for applicants, we hope it will jumpstart the system-wide conversation. You can register to get an email reminder here (https://bit.ly/2ZbhKvV), or just tune in via Zoom at: https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/391125975 Ideas Lab applications are due Friday, August 2nd.
As summer research projects wrap up and the 32nd Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium poster abstract deadline looms on SEPTEMBER 16 (Monday, by 5 pm), I wonder if you’ve seen this new poster design making its way onto scientific conferences worldwide. Look to the CSUPERB website for symposium information as it becomes available right after the FCG/SPC meetings the first week in August!
This newsletter comes to you from Goiânia, a city in the state of Goiás, Brazil! I’m at NUCLEO'19 - the southern hemisphere counterpart to CSUPERB’s symposium. I gave the opening keynote this evening to an audience of 350 biotechnology students from public (federal) universities all over Brazil. I’m also evaluating entrepreneurship teams tomorrow and running a I-Corps Ideation Workshop on Saturday for faculty, regional entrepreneurs, and administrators. It’s been a great trip and it’s so interesting to see how much is the same and where the differences are in our biotech “ecosystems.” The photo below is me with the student organizing committee for NUCLEO'19. I hear there are many more photos on Instagram with #nucleo19 or #lina Biotec hashtag variants! Boa noite!

The NUCLEO'19 organizing committee with Susan Baxter (CSUPERB) after the opening session of the conference, July 25, 2019.. The committee is made up of hard-working, undergraduate biotechnology students from federal (public) universities across Brazil.
The NUCLEO'19 organizing committee with Susan Baxter (CSUPERB) after the opening session of the conference, July 25, 2019.. The committee is made up of hard-working, undergraduate biotechnology students from federal (public) universities across Brazil.
Open CSUPERB Calls and Deadlines
Links to all requests for proposals (RFPs), award nominations and upcoming activities can be found at the CSUPERB home page (www.calstate.edu/csuperb). All deadlines are at 5 p.m. pacific time.

  • CSU Ideas Lab (Fresno) - Deadline: August 2, 2019.Find more information about this year’s theme, “Transformative Approaches to Optimizing the Food – Health – Ecosystem Trilemma” in the RFA (linked here) or at the webinar described above. Contact CSUPERB (619-594-2822; csuperb@sdsu.edu) if you have questions!

  • It’s a new academic year and symposium planning starts in earnest August 1st, so we’ve issued a new RFP for the Special Events Program. This program has a rolling deadline and will accept proposals throughout the academic year until the $10,000 budget is spent.
CSUPERB News
SDBN BUZZ Podcast with Stanley Maloy
SDBN BUZZ Podcast with Stanley Maloy
Stanley Maloy (SPC member) spoke on the new San Diego Biotechnology Network podcast about teaching entrepreneurship to biotech researchers.
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What We're Reading, Attending, and Listening To
Public Discussion Affects Question Asking at Academic Conferences
Public Discussion Affects Question Asking at Academic Conferences
We tried encouraging everyone at the symposium to ask questions - here is some research on the topic!
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Making invisible work in STEM more visible
Making invisible work in STEM more visible
“In fact, engaging in service to promote an inclusive environment is required for tenure and promotion [at Kenyon College], Hofferberth says. “We’re a teaching institution. If inclusive practices are part of teaching excellence, and you’re not using them, then you will not be promoted. I think it sends a really powerful message.”
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A special issue of Technology & Innovation, published last summer by the National Academy of Inventors, looks at the gender gap in academic inventions and technology transfer….“for those readers who are interested in change and advancing innovation utilizing the full range of available talent, the series of articles in this issue should be of value.”
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Academic conferences lack tools to prevent sexual misconduct, discrimination
Academic conferences lack tools to prevent sexual misconduct, discrimination
Study finds that over three-quarters of biology conferences do not have codes of conduct. The CSUPERB Strategic Planning Council is working to get us into the 25%.
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“Almost all failing and borderline students tell me that they are studying and studying hard (typically 10 to 15 hours per week for my course alone),” she writes in Teaching STEM to First Generation College Students: A Guidebook for Faculty & Future Faculty. “But I then follow up by asking how they are studying. And most frequently I find that students who report that they are working very hard, yet are doing very poorly, are simply studying in the wrong way.”
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Psychology Student Says He Has A Better Idea For Science Posters
Psychology Student Says He Has A Better Idea For Science Posters
Kendra Paquette (@KendraPaquette), a CSU Fullerton MARC student, is an early adopter of Poster 2.0. We can’t wait to see how many show up at the symposium!
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Xconomy Review: Inside the House of Lies at Theranos
Xconomy Review: Inside the House of Lies at Theranos
“Youth. Charm. Fearlessness. Ruthless focus. These can be positive attributes in an entrepreneur, but in a more rational world, technology investors investors wouldn’t overvalue them.” - Wade Roush
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Graduate Programs in Bioscience is proud to host the fourth annual CSU Summer Symposium at UCLA! Student registration is due JULY 26 (follow the link here)!
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“We continue to learn of other problematic conduct – reviewers sharing applications with others without first obtaining permission from the NIH Scientific Review Officer (SRO); reviewers asking others to write reviews for them; PIs contacting or attempting to contact reviewers prior to study section meetings in attempts to influence the outcome of review; and reviewers and PIs sharing confidential information with each other.”
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The CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology provides grant funding to seed research projects and curriculum redesign efforts. We also run CSU I-Corps to help researchers investigate biotechnology commercialization. We organize the annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium. The CSUPERB newsletter publishes the fourth Friday of each month. CSUPERB Data Dashboard: https://csuperb.org/grants/csuperb-data-dashboard/

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