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CA Society of Fellows welcomes new officers

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(Photo courtesy SoF)

The Society of Fellows (SoF), the postdoctoral association on The Scripps Research Institute’s California campus, welcomed its new executive committee at the end of 2017. Pictured above (left to right): Sergey Shnitkind, website manager; Jessica Rabuck-Gibbons, vice president; James Ferguson, Vendor Show chair; Rebecca Berlow, Executive Committee member; Verena Albert, Open Mic Night chair; Jessica Mayeux, Executive Committee member; Jerome Eberhardt, social co-chair; Benjamin Leach, Executive Committee member; Luca Gebert, Executive Committee member; Joseph Kuo, treasurer; Daniel Murin, president. Not pictured: Sebastian Raemisch, social chair; Sierra Simpson, Vendor Show co-chair; Irem Nasir, Industry Bridge Program chair; Matthew Holcomb, Executive Committee member; Michael Ledbetter, Executive Committee member, and Aaron Feldman, Distinguished Lecturer Committee chair.

SoF is a nonprofit, all volunteer organization designed to encourage both professional and social exchange within TSRI, and with postdocs from other scientific institutions in San Diego. The association supports a series of academic events at TSRI, including a Distinguished Lecture Series and an annual Research Symposium. The SoF general meeting is typically held on the first Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. in the Hazen building classroom. Lunch is provided for all attendees. Learn more


Matthew Disney to present Faculty Lecture on Jan. 10
Matthew Disney, PhD, TSRI professor in the Department of Chemistry, will continue the Faculty Lecture Series on Wednesday, Jan. 10, with a presentation titled “Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA.” 

The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. 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.


Upcoming Lunch & Learn Series: “Assisting Community Members in Crisis”

TSRI’s People Services Office along with the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), is pleased to announce the next series of “Lunch and Learn” presentations for the La Jolla campus, titled “Assisting Community Members in Crisis.”

Presented by: Jennifer Crosby and Daphne Lurie, PhD
First presentation: Tuesday, January 16 from 12 PM - 1:00 PM
Where: TSRI Auditorium, Hazen Campus
Who: All TSRI employees

By the end of this workshop, the audience will learn:

  • how to identify signs of someone in distress 
  • ways to be helpful with community members in need of support
  • about the development of the threat assessment team on our campus 

For more details on the series, please click here. Note that presentations will vary by date, location and invited audience.


Dixon Lecture featuring Robert Schreiber scheduled for February 6

The 2018 Frank J. Dixon Memorial Lecture, featuring a presentation by immunologist Robert Schreiber, PhD, will be held Tuesday, February 6, 4 PM, at the Auditorium at TSRI.

Schreiber is the Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Director of the Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs and co-leader of the Tumor Immunology Program of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Schreiber is renowned for his contributions to our understanding of the role of the immune system in controlling and shaping cancer. His studies focus on elucidating the biochemistry and molecular cell biology of cytokines and defining the role they play in promoting immune responses to cancer. He has been honored with several awards, including the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research, the Lloyd J. Old Prize in Cancer Immunology and the Balzan Prize (shared with James Allison). Schreiber is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences (USA), has served on various Scientific Advisory and Editorial Boards and has authored more than 300 research articles. Schreiber will speak on “Cancer neoantigens as targets for natural and therapeutic anti-tumor responses.”

The annual lecture honors Frank Dixon, MD, a pioneering immunologist who for many years led the research division of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (predecessor organization to TSRI). He passed away in 2008 at the age of 87.

For directions and inquiries, please contact vogtadm@scripps.edu.





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TSRI Professor Matthew Disney, PhD (Photo by James McEntee)