Is it spring yet?

It’s been a long and cold winter in Rochester, but there are still lots of interesting things going on in the lab’, so we don’t have to think about the weather too much…

– Jimmy Zhang (MD/PhD student who rotated in the lab’ last year) has decided to come back and pursue his PhD with us, starting this June.

Marcin Karcz, a resident in the Department of Anesthesiology, wrote a fellowship grant proposal to FAER (The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research), so if that gets funded then he’ll be joining us for a year of research starting this July.

– Isaac Fisher, a Pharm/Phys graduate student, is just now completing his rotation project, doing some drug screening for regulators of cardiac metabolism.

– Paul’s paper entitled “Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action” was accepted at Peer J, so should be in press by the end of March. The title pretty much says it all, but I’ll post more details once it’s out.

– Paul gave an interview to Science Careers, about how to walk the fine line between being a whistle-blower and maintaining an academic career.

– Andrew Wojtovich resubmitted his K99/R00 application, and Chad Galloway resubmitted his K01 application. Also Andrew’s review on optogenetic control of ROS came out in the new SFRBM open access journal Redox Biology.

– On March 12th URMC is hosting Nicholas Steneck, a guru in the area of research integrity (having been involved in the establishment of ORI guidelines on responsible conduct of research), for the annual bioethics visiting lectureship. This is part of a one day CTSI workshop about ethics in translational research.

– Graduate student Owen Smith is off to Yale for a week, to work with our collaborator ‘Liz Jonas on mitochondrial ion channels.

– Most of the lab will be headed to Michigan in May, for the wedding of former graduate student David Hoffman, who now works at Cayman Chemical.

– Now if we could just understand our metabolomics data…..