In Brief

David Goodsell Wins Top Wellcome Images Award

An illustration of an Ebola virus particle by David Goodsell, associate professor of molecular biology at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has won the top prize in the 2016 Wellcome Image Awards, which recognize the most informative, striking and technically excellent images of biomedical science.

Goodsell’s watercolor painting was cited as “a stunning illustration of a deadly pathogen—a cross-section through an Ebola virus particle...[that] elegantly displayed the biological structure of a virus which has caused such devastation in West Africa.” His illustration was determined the best of 20 winners from a field of 1,500 submissions. In a Wellcome Images video, Goodsell describes how he creates intricate paintings of molecular structures.

Judged by experts in science communication, medicine and biomedical science, the winners were selected from all new images acquired in 2015 by Wellcome Images, a medical picture library and a source of images on medicine and its history. The 20 images are exhibited currently in venues across the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa.

A complete description of Goodsell’s winning image is available on the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics’s Protein Data Bank website, an online resource of 3D biological macromolecular structures. For information on Goodsell’s work, see his faculty webpage, lab website and molecular art/molecular science page.

Kresge Library Offers Additional Journal Resources

TSRI’s Kresge Library has added several new and highly requested journals available to institute faculty, students and staff. The new publications include:

Diabetes
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
Genome Research
Entire list of journals from Bentham Publishers, including Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Current HIV Research, The Natural Products Journal and others
Chemistry Select, a new freely available, open-access journal

For more information, contact the Kresge Library Help Desk, x4-8705 or helplib@scripps.edu.

FL Career Workshop: Social Media for Scientists

How to optimize a job search with use of social media will be explored in a Scripps Florida career workshop, “LinkedIn and Social Media for Scientists,” scheduled for Wednesday, March 30, from 3 to 4:30 PM in classroom B159.

Conducted by Briana Konnick, program coordinator for TSRI’s Career and Postdoctoral Office, the workshop will cover:

Developing a professional social networking identity, particularly on LinkedIn
Building and maintaining professional relationships via social media
Constructing a professional online presence on various social networking sites

Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops. The session is open to the entire Scripps Florida campus; reservations are required.

'Happy Birthday, Barry!'

Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless, W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at TSRI, was celebrated at a 75th birthday party on the TSRI campus following a two-day American Chemical Society symposium in his honor. Above, Sharpless (center) blows out the candles on a “cake” with the help of Peng Wu (left) and Jason Hein. (Photo by Cindy Brauer.)

CA Onsite Clinic: March 30

The next onsite immunization clinic on the California campus will be held Wednesday, March 30, from 9:30 to 11 AM, in the Hazen Theory building, rooms 203/205. Appointments are not needed.

Conducted by Sharp Rees-Stealy staff, the clinic will provide hepatitis B vaccination free of charge to all TSRI employees. Environmental Health & Safety Occupational Medicine must pre-authorize all other procedures based on the employee's working conditions. These procedures include tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccines and other titers, immunizations and procedures.

CA Biosafety Committee Meeting Materials Due April 1

To receive consideration at the next TSRI Institutional Biosafety Committee, registration documents must be submitted to Environmental Health and Safety by Friday, April 1, via email to rachellv@scripps.edu. The meeting will be held Wednesday, April 13, 2:30 to 3:30 PM, in the P2 conference room, Building 3301.

Appointments Available for April 14 CA Blood Drive

Appointments are now available for the next ScrippsAssists blood drive on Thursday, April 14, from 9 AM to 2:30 PM on the California campus. The San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) bloodmobile will be located in the parking lot adjacent to the Skaggs/MBB building, 10596 N. Torrey Pines Road.

Some 300 San Diego-area hospitals depend on blood donations collected by the SDBB.

Eligible donors are asked to make an appointment on the SDBB website. Walk-in donors will be welcomed. Guidelines and eligibility requirements are also listed on the blood bank website. Donors should bring photo identification, a record of medications they currently take and a list of locations visited outside the United States in the past three years.

All donors will automatically be entered into a prize raffle. For further information on the blood drive, contact project coordinator Leslie Madden at lmadden@scripps.edu.

At the Auditorium: Spring Jazz

The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s 2016 spring jazz series continues on Thursday, March 17, 7:30 PM, with Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza: Speaking in Tongues, featuring Souza on vocals and percussion, Lionel Loueke on guitar and voice, Gregoire Maret on harmonica, Massimo Biolcati on bass and Kendrick Scott on drums. See the Athenaeum’s website for additional program and ticket information.

The Auditorium at TSRI is located at 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego 92121.

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An illustration of an Ebola virus particle by TSRI's David Goodsell won the top prize in the 2016 Wellcome Image Awards for outstanding biomedical science images.