In Brief

TSRI Postdoc Awarded ASPET Fellowship

Research Associate Jacques Nguyen, a member of the Taffe Lab, was selected for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Washington Fellows program. As an ASPET Fellow, Nguyen visited the California Congressional delegation in Washington D.C. on May 22 to advocate for biomedical research, support of international research scholars, and increased funding for the National Institutes of Health. Meetings were held with the offices of Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris and of Congressmen Scott Peters and Darrell Issa. Nguyen will continue to represent early career scientists as an ASPET Washington Fellow throughout 2017.

Meet the Alumni: Michael Sykes, Bioinformatics Scientist

Join the TSRI Career and Postdoctoral Services Office (CPSO) and TSRI alumnus Michael Sykes for the next Meet the Alumni chat, to be held June 20, 2017 from 4 to 5 PM in the CA Graduate Office Dining Room.

Sykes served as a postdoctoral researcher at TSRI from 2006 to 2011. He then got a job as a scientist at Sequenom, where his projects included developing algorithms to perform genotyping and writing new scripts for mass spectrometry systems. Sykes currently serves as senior bioinformatics scientist at LaserGen, a growing company focused on nucleotide chemistry and next-generation sequencing.

Attend the event to chat with Sykes and learn more about his career trajectory. RSVPs are required at https://hris.scripps.edu/training/class/MTA1404CPD.

Andrew Ward to Present Faculty Lecture on June 14

Andrew Ward, associate professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at TSRI, will continue the Faculty Lecture Series on Wednesday, June 14, with a lecture titled, “Nailing down moving targets: Structural studies of viral envelope glycoproteins.”

The lecture will begin at 4:00 PM in the Committee Lecture Hall in the Skaggs/Molecular Biology Building (MBB2N), followed by a reception in the Beckman Building first-floor galleria.

For further information, see the Faculty Lecture Series webpage. The series is supported by an endowment from the Cochrane-Cartan families, established by TSRI Professor Emeritus Charles G. Cochrane.

CA Biosafety Committee Meeting Materials Due June 23

To receive consideration at the next TSRI Institutional Biosafety Committee, registration documents must be submitted to Environmental Health and Safety by Friday, June 23, via email to rachellv@scripps.edu. The meeting will be held Wednesday, July 12, 2:30 to 3:30 PM, Building 3301, P2 conference room.

CA Onsite Clinic Scheduled for June 28

The next onsite immunization clinic on the California campus will be held Wednesday, June 28, 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 vaccinations 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.

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Research Associate Jacques Nguyen. (Image courtesy ASPET.)

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TSRI Associate Professor Andrew Ward. (Photo by John Dole.)

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