Seven UCSF Core Staff to Receive CTSI Core Professional Development Awards 2010

The awards, provided by the Core Leader's Advisory Committee (CLAC), support training opportunities for staff of UCSF core facilities. Among this year's awardees are:

  • William Walantus, Microscopy Core, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research; Workshop training for The Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy, Image Acquisition and Optimization, Multi Spectral Imaging, and Introduction to FRET and FRAP
  • Elise Sambrano, Core Immunology Lab, Department Of Medicine, Workshop training for the measurement of LPS (endotoxin) by the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) method
  • Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Lab of Clinical Virology, Dept. of Medicine HIV/AIDS, AIDS Research Institute-UCSF, Workshop on next generation sequencing of viral and host genes and how it applies to current research questions in HIV/AIDS studies.  It will cover fundamental concepts in study design and analysis of large datasets
  • Jo Dee Fish, The J. David Gladstone Institutes, Histology and Light Microscopy Core, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Immunohistochemistry and Microscopy Short Course
  • Sebastian Peck, Biological Imaging Development Center, Department of Pathology, Workshop training in Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy
  • Kirsten Copren, Genome Analysis Core, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center - Liquid Handling Bootcamp: Hands on Introduction to Laboratory Robotics
  • Hikari Yoshihara, Biomedical NMR Lab, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Biomolecular NMR - Advanced NMR techniques for Studying Macromolecules and Metabolites 

Awards were made in 2 areas:

  • Training in technology or assay-based courses and classes: Support to attend a class or a course in a technology currently offered by the applicant’s core or in a technology the core is planning to adopt in the near future. For example, classes in the use of instrumentation such as microscopes, flow cytometers etc or in the use of novel software. If technology based classes are offered at a scientific conference, a portion of the cost of attending the conference will be considered if this is the only practical way to gain the necessary training. Funds may be used to pay for course tuition, travel, and accommodation, and meals and incidentals in accordance with UC Administrative Policy 300-37, General University Travel.
  • Transfer of new Technology to a UCSF core: Awards will be made to applicants who wish to travel to a non-UCSF laboratory in order to learn a new technology or assay not currently available at UCSF. The intent of the visit must be to transfer the new technology or assay back to the applicant’s core at UCSF. Funds may be used to pay for travel and accommodation in accordance with UC Administrative Policy 300-37, General University Travel.

Previous awardees include:

  • Steven Chen, Small Molecule Discovery Core, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry: Workshop training, Designed Experiment for Life Science Software.
  • King Chui, Neurological Tissue Core, Deparment of Neurological Surgery: Fundamentals of Immunohistochemistry for Ventana BenchMark XY.
  • Emile Jalbert, TTR Core Immunology Laboratory, Department of Medicine: Immunologic Memory and Host Defense of T cell immunology to identify, isolate or track cells of the immune system.
  • Timothy Schmidt, ARI-UCSF Laboratory of Clinical Virology, AIDS Research Institute: ABI 3100/3130 Systems Capillary Sequencer Training.
  • Donghul Wang, Preclinical Therapeutics Core, Comprehensive Cancer Center: Advanced Surgical Techniques in Mice: Jugular Vein & Carotid Artery Cannulations and Thymectomy, Nephrectomy & Kidney Capsule Implant.
  • Tara Rambaldo, Laboratory for Cell Analysis, Comprehensive Cancer Center: Immunofluorescence and Confocal Microscopy.
  • Caroline Miller, Histology and Microscopy Core, Gladstone Institutes: Advanced imaging using the Zeiss Axiovision software.
  • Josh Arnold, Stem Cell Core, Gladstone Institutes: Maintenance and differentiation of human and mouse embryonic stem cells.
  • William Walantus, Microscopy Core, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research: Theory and Application of Confocal Microscopy, Image acquisition and Optimization, Multi-spectral Imaging, Introduction to FRET and FRAP.
  • Chris Perry, Sample Processing Lab, CTSI-CRC: Designing and Operating a Biospecimens Repository.
  • Valerie Steps, Flow Core, Gladstone Institutes: Flowcyte Flow Cytometry Training Workshop.
  • Hilla Wahnishe, Pre Nuclear Ooptical Imaging, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging: microPET CT and microSPECT CT.