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*MCB News, Week of December 2, 2014* *MCB News* - *Faculty Advising, Peer Advising, and Major Declarations Ending for Fall Semester* - *2014 MCB TRANSCRIPT * - *UAO hosts Toys for Tots and Food Drive Bins* - *Summer Research and Graduate Funding: Resources * - *Purchase awesome MCB merchandise!* *Other News* - *Golden Bears in Golden Years * - *US Teaching Assistantship Austria 2015-16* - *2015 Regenerative Medicine Summer Internship Opportunities* - *Graduate School Life Science Munich * - *OSU RNA Center Summer Research internship * *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Upcoming Important Dates/Events* - December 5, Last day of formal instruction - December 5, Online Declaration no longer accepted - December 12, Faculty advising concludes for fall 14 - December 8-12, RRR Week - December 15-19, Final Exams Week - December December 22 - January 3, UAO Closed *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Faculty Advising, Peer Advising, and Major Declarations Ending for Fall Semester* - Peer Advising ends on December 5, 2014 and will resume at the start of the spring semester. - Faculty advising will end on Friday, December 12, 201. Please note that faculty advising is only available on specific days - plan accordingly. Faculty advising will resume on the first day of spring instruction. - MCB online declarations end on Friday, December 5 and will resume at the beginning of spring semester. Students who have already completed the online declaration must complete the process by Friday, December 12, 2014. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** 2014 *MCB TRANSCRIPT* The MCB Transcript is now available online! Meet some of our new faculty and get the latest news from UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Read the department's newsletter now. <http://mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-events/transcript/fall-2014-mcb-transcript> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *MCB UAO hosts Toys for Tots and Food Drive Bins* It's time once again for the Holiday Food and Toy Drive! This year the locations are: Barker Hall Stockroom LSA Mailroom for Food and 165 for Toys VLSB 3060 Undergraduate Affairs Office Reception Area! Final day for Drop Off is December 12th! Thank you all for making this so successful over the years! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Summer Research and Graduate Funding: Resources* *For Undergraduates:* Summer Research Opportunities on the MCB Website <https://mcb.berkeley.edu/undergrad/research/research/summer-research> Paid Summer 2015 Undergraduate Research Placements: Over 800 programs – REU, NASA and other paid summer research opportunities for undergrads http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/undergrads.aspx *For Financial Support in Graduate School:* Fellowships and graduate programs in a wide variety of STEM disciplines: http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/grad.aspx *For NASA-supported internships, fellowships and scholarships: * http://intern.nasa.gov *For tips on applying and associated resources:* http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/toolbox.aspx *For opportunities specifically in the Ocean Sciences:* http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/oceanscience.aspx *For opportunities specifically in Engineering:* http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/engineering.aspx *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Purchase awesome MCB** merchandise!* Interested in representing and supporting your MCB department? MCBcDNA is selling brand new quarter zip sweaters, sweatshirts, water bottles, and shot glasses this semester! Check out pictures of our merchandise and order online at http://goo.gl/forms/H93SdYURK <http://goo.gl/forms/H93SdYURKr>. If you have questions, please email mcbcdnafundrais...@gmail.com. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Other News* *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Golden Bears in Golden Years* The San Gabriel Valley Chapter of the California Alumni Association proudly announces “Golden Bears in Golden Years”, a new informational, mentoring, and networking program to connect current Cal students with Cal alumni. The inaugural event will be held at Monterey Hill restaurant in Monterey Park, CA (Los Angeles area) during the Cal winter break from 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM on Wednesday, January 14, 2015. It will feature a free gourmet dinner, multimedia lecture, fun, mentoring, and networking for current Cal pre-medical and pre-pharmacy students. Dr. David Lieu (Cal chemistry and MBA alumnus, physician, and UCLA clinical faculty member) will host the event and present a multimedia lecture entitled “The Road to Become a Physician: A View from the Baby Boomer Generation.” Students will learn what Cal was like in the 1970s, listen to music from that era, relive the most important events of the Baby Boomer generation, understand why medical school was the goal of so many students, and learn about current medical school admission requirements, costs, curriculum, the national internship and residency match, specialization, and medical practice. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. But most of all, it will make you think. After the lecture and dinner, students will have an opportunity to network with practicing physicians and pharmacists attending the event. The event is free for current Cal students but registration is required. Space is limited and the deadline to register is January 4, 2015. To RSVP, please visit the San Gabriel Valley Cal Alumni Club homepage and click on Golden Bears in Golden Years in the event pages section: http://my.berkeley.edu/site/Clubs?club_id=1162&pg=main You can go directly to the event page for Golden Bears in Golden Years at: http://my.berkeley.edu/site/Clubs?club_id=1162&sid=22771&pg=event You can go directly to the EventBrite sign-up page for the event at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/golden-bears-in-golden-years-tickets-13939195509 Join us for an exciting evening of delicious food, fun, camaraderie, friendship, and mentoring that shows why Berkeley is and always will be the greatest public university in the world! Dr. David Lieu practices medicine in Alhambra, CA. He is a cytopathologist and operates a fine-needle aspiration clinic. He specializes in performing ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration/core-needle biopsy of masses and microscopic examination of pathology slides to diagnose cancer. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *US Teaching Assistantship Austria 2015-16* Since 1962, the US Teaching Assistantship Program in Austria has provided US college and university graduates with opportunities to work at secondary schools throughout Austria as teaching assistants. You can find more information about the program, including how to apply, on our new website http://www.usta-austria.at/ Only online applications will be accepted. *Please note that the application deadline for the program year 2015-16 is January 15, 2015.* The following link directs you to our website, where you can find the *program description* and download an *informative flyer* about the program for 2015-16: https://www.usta-austria.at/site/programdescription/program The flyer can then which can be posted or distributed to interested students, either electronically or in paper copy. US teaching assistants not only enhance the instruction of English as native speakers; they are also important resources for first-hand information about the United States and the "American way of life." The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Women’s affairs (BMBF) finances this program, which is administered by the *Austrian-American Educational Commission* (Fulbright Commission). While the participants in this program contribute to the Fulbright goal of promoting mutual understanding, *this is not a Fulbright grant program*. For information on the Fulbright student program in Austria, please consult the Institute for International Education at http://us.fulbrightonline.org/or the website of the Austrian-American Educational Commission athttp://www.fulbright.at/ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *2015 Regenerative Medicine Summer Internship Opportunities* The SRF Summer Scholars Program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct biomedical research to combat diseases of aging, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and macular degeneration. Under the guidance of one or more scientific mentors, each Summer Scholar is responsible for his or her own research project in such areas as tissue engineering, genetic engineering, and science policy. The Summer Scholars Program emphasizes development of not only laboratory skills but also communication skills as well. Students participating in the program will hone their writing skills via periodic reports, which are designed to emulate text scientists commonly must produce. Additionally, a poster presentation at a SRF-sponsored conference at the end of the summer will provide students with an opportunity to present their results to scientists from other research institutions. - Paid positions are available at such world-renowned research institutions as: - Buck Institute for Research on Aging - Harvard Stem Cell Institute/Harvard School of Medicine - Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute - Scripps Research Institute, SRF Research Center - SRF Research Center - Stanford University - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine The online application and full descriptions of each research project can be found at www.sens.org/2015-summer-scholars. Applications will be accepted until 12 pm PST February 2, 2015. A downloadable program flyer is available at www.sens.org/2015-summer-scholars/flyer. Please share the flyer and/or email with your students or other departments who you think would be interested in this research opportunity. If requested, a low resolution version that is more amenable to posting can be provided. If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to contact me at greg.c...@sens.org *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *Graduate School Life Science Munich* The Graduate School Life Science Munich (LSM) is part of the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy of the Ludwig-Maximilans-University (LMU) of Munich. These faculties are ranked among the top biology and biochemistry educational institutions in Germany. The LSM seeks to prepare young motivated researchers by offering an international PhD program in life sciences covering areas of anthropology, biochemistry and cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, microbiology, plant sciences, systematics and zoology. We would be delighted if you could help spread the word about the next round of applications for 2015, among your students and colleagues through your own contact list. For your convenience, we have attached a poster with all relevant information, which you can print and post and/or send to interested 3rd parties. Please access the application page here: http://www.lsm.bio.lmu.de/application/index.html The deadline for applications is 7th of January 2015. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *OSU RNA Center Summer Research internship* RNA is a messenger that carries information from genes to proteins. It is a regulator of gene expression, it holds genes for many viruses and it can be an enzyme as well. RNA research spans biology, medicine, agriculture, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Ohio State’s Center for RNA Biology houses the single largest group of RNA experts in the country – more than 200 faculty, staff, students, and postdocs. The center’s mission is to advance life sciences research and education at the university by building on existing strengths in RNA biology, developing synergies through interdisciplinary initiatives and outreach, attracting and retaining outstanding faculty, and bringing the best students to the university. What do participants do? • Work with a faculty mentor from the center • Earn 2 semester credits for graduate school 4501 • Earn a $3,000 stipend for the 9-week session • Participate in weekly science talks by our center faculty • Participate in weekly journal club Program Eligibility Requirements: • 3.5 or better G.P .A. • Interest in pursuing a PhD in RNA biology • Students in junior or senior standing Application Process: Applications are available by request. Contact Zack Mikesell at mikesell...@osu.edu Application Deadline: Applications must be submitted by 02-10-2015 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** *MCB News/Infoline Submission Guidelines* Members of the campus community are invited to submit information about their group, event, etc for the weekly email. Submissions may not be longer than 8 sentences maximum, must include a link/contact email for additional information, and should not include attachments. 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