In Brief

Sunitha Rangaraju Awarded Muscular Dystrophy Association Grant

Sunitha Rangaraju, a research associate at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has been awarded a three-year development grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for her project, "Improving ALS phenotypes by targeting aging pathways."

Muscular Dystrophy Association development grants are awarded to “exceptional postdoctoral candidates who have the best chance of becoming independent researchers and future leaders of neuromuscular disease research,” according to the association’s website.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular protein aggregation disease that progresses with age. Rangaraju, who works in the Petrascheck lab, will study whether small molecules that delay aging could also delay or improve ALS-like symptoms in worm and mice models.

Library Tip: Not the Corresponding Author? Thinking ‘Not My Problem’? Not So Fast

If you have NIH funding, you already know that qualifying NIH-funded articles must be deposited into PubMed Central. But did you know that for any published paper that arose from your NIH grant—even if you are not the corresponding author, even if you are not an author at all!—you still are ultimately responsible for ensuring its deposit? If it is not deposited, your funds may be put on hold. NIH officials have announced they may begin enforcing this policy more strictly starting this Spring. (See "Upcoming Process Change”.)

The corresponding author typically initiates the required submission of an article to PubMed Central. But if the corresponding author has not, or is unable, to fulfill this role, it may put your funding in jeopardy. Now there is a mechanism to allow you to assume control and complete the steps required to fully comply with the NIH policy and protect your funding.

If the publisher (on behalf of the corresponding author) has submitted the author manuscript version of your paper to the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) System, and the manuscript has been assigned an NIHMS ID, you may follow the progress of the submission when you log into the NIHMS System at http://www.nihms.nih.gov with your eRA Commons/NIH log-in and password. Notes regarding the status of the manuscript can be found in the "In Process" or "Attention" tabs. If there has been inaction (if steps have been left unattended), there will be a button that will allow you to request that the manuscript be reassigned, enabling you to complete the steps required to obtain a PMCID (PubMed Central ID number).

If you find your manuscript is not listed in the NIHMS account, you may need to contact the publisher or obtain the peer-reviewed version of the author manuscript and do the submission yourself, depending on the copyright agreement with the publisher.

For more information or for assistance, contact the Kresge Library Help Desk at (858) 784-8705 or helplib@scripps.edu.

CA Feast on This Grill Updates Menu, Offers Online Ordering

The Feast on This Grill, located at 3300 Torrey Pines Court on the California campus, has updated its menu options and instituted online ordering services.

New menu additions feature healthy, seasonal lunch options, including salads, flatbread pizzas, sandwiches and wraps. A selection of Daily Special Favorites, including the popular meatloaf, now appears on the regular menu. A Value Meal option includes items such as quarter-pound Angus Beef Burgers, Garden Burgers, Chicken Tenders and cheese quesadillas, with sides of fries, chips or fruit. The daily lunch special and salad-of-the-day choices continue.

Online ordering for breakfast and lunch with pickup at the Torrey Pines Court location is now available through www.feastonthisgrill.com. Same-day lunch delivery is offered free to:

3040 Science Park Road
3215 Merryfield Row (CarrB)
3545 Cray Court (MEM)

Orders received by 10 AM are delivered between 11 AM and noon. Payment is required at time of ordering.

Feast on This Grill also now works with local small businesses for supplies of fresh ingredients. Artisan breads used for the Grill’s menu are delivered daily from the family-owned and operated O’Brien’s Bakery in Del Mar.

Daffodil Orders Arrive March 20 on CA Campus

This year’s donors to the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Daffodils Days campaign may pick up their flowers Wednesday, March 20, beginning at 7:30 AM, at the Skaggs/Molecular Biology building, room 105C on the California campus. For further pick-up information, contact Leslie Madden, ScrippsAssists project leader, at lmadden@scripps.edu.

Lunch & Learn: Love, Relationships and Money

The disharmony in relationships caused by financial issues will be addressed at the next Lunch & Learn presentation, “Love, Relationships and Money,” scheduled for Thursday, March 28, from noon to 1 PM in the Beckman building’s Keck Amphitheater.

Sponsored by the Office of Counseling and Psychological Services, the seminar will feature speaker and author Peg Eddy, a certified financial planner and president of San Diego-based Creative Capital Management.

Seminar attendees will learn how to:

Identify, reframe and refine their personal money mindsets
Determine financial fitness levels
Become better financial partners
Avoid financial infidelity
Improve money conversations with family members
Reduce money-related stress

For more information on the Lunch & Learn series, visit the Counseling and Psychological Services website.

CA Biosafety Committee Meeting Materials Due

The TSRI Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, April 10, in the Faculty Club Tennis Court Room. To receive committee consideration, registration documents must be submitted to Environmental Health and Safety via email to rachellv@scripps.edu by Friday, March 29.

CA Onsite Clinics Scheduled for April 1 and 3

The next California campus onsite immunization clinic will be held on Monday, April 1 and Wednesday, April 3, from 9:30 to 11:30 AM in its new location, Building 3366, room 240. Conducted by Sharp Rees-Stealy staff, the clinics provide hepatitis B vaccination free of charge to all TSRI employees. Appointments are not needed.

Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Occupational Medicine must pre-authorize all other procedures based on the employee's working conditions. These procedures include: tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap) vaccines; the one-visit Quantiferon tuberculosis test (see the Center for Disease Control TB Fact Sheet); and other titers, immunizations and procedures.

After EH&S pre-authorization, individuals who cannot attend the onsite clinic may visit the Sharp Rees-Stealy occupational medicine clinic by calling (858) 526-6150. The clinic is located at 10243 Genetic Center Drive, off Mira Mesa Boulevard. For further details, contact Sunny Gold Schmidt, gschmidt@scripps.edu or x4-9299.

Send comments to: mikaono[at]scripps.edu

TSRI Welcomes Prospective Graduate Students

TSRI’s Kellogg School of Science and Technology recently hosted 136 prospective graduate students from 28 states and 8 foreign countries at its annual recruitment weekends on both Florida and California campuses, featuring meetings with faculty, interaction with current students and tours of labs and facilities. Top: Dean Jamie Williamson lunches with prospective students. Bottom: A member of the Scripps Florida campus presents his research.

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