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CONFERENCES/TALKS DURING JULY
| Journal Clubs/Research Talks |
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Time | Location |
| New Fellows ID Course | 3, 5, 6, 7 | All day | South Campus Center Rm 342 |
| ID Division Picnic |
5 | 4:30 pm | Magnuson Park |
| Principles of STD/HIV Research Course | 17-27 | All day |
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S to Thomas Hawn, who received the 2006 Dade Behring MicroScan Young Investigator Award
from the American Society for Microbiology at its recent general meeting. This award honors outstanding clinical research and potential
in a promising young scientist in clinical microbiology, clinical immunology, or infectious diseases. Dr. Hawn was recognized for his work
on genetic determinants of susceptibility to infection, in particular Legionnaire's disease and tuberculosis.
N E W B A B Y : Congratulations to Scott McClelland and his wife Lauren on the birth of a new baby boy, born June 6th, weighing
in at 6 lbs. 10 oz, and 20" long.
N E W F E L L O W S : Special welcome to the new Fellows joining our program July 1st: We look forward to meeting everyone at
the picnic.
ANTICIPATED
NAME MD RESIDENCY MENTOR
Chad Achenbach,MD,MPH NW Univ Univ of Chicago Kitahata
Jared Baeten,MD,PhD UW Mass Gen Hosp Celum
Robert Choi,MD,MH Johns Hopkins U Yale Farquhar, McClelland or John-Stewart
Linda Gorgos,MD,MSc Johns Hopkins U Mass Gen Hosp Marrazzo
Gregory Morlin,MD Univ of Missouri Univ of Iowa TBD
Warren Phipps,MD Harvard UCSF Corey
Jayant Rajan,MD Univ of Rochester UW Aderem
Special thanks to David Spach, Tim Dellit, Corey Casper and Darlene Goodwin for organizing the Infectious Diseases New Fellows
Orientation Course July 3, 5, 6, and 7 and to all the guest speakers: Wes Van Voorhis, Walter Stamm, Sherilyn Smith, Tim Dellit,
Masa Narita, Fred Buckner, Ajit Limaye, Tom Hawn, Paul Pottinger, David Spach, Shireesha Dhanireddy, Morgan Hakki, Corey
Casper, Bob Harrington, Chia Wang, Sherry Dodson, Jan Hirschmann, Shawn Skerret, Christina Marra, and Kieren Marr.
P R O M O T I O N S : Congratulations to Matt Golden and Kieren Marr, on being promoted to Associate Professor; and to Oleg
Denisenko on being promoted to Research Associate Professor, all effective July 1st.
N E W A P P O I N T M E N T S : Welcome to Papa Salif Sow, Affiliate Professor; to Sheila Dunaway, Full-time Clinical Instructor;
and to Susan Graham and Lynn Connolly, Acting Instructors, all effective July 1st.
F E L L O W S H I P M A T C H : We matched an excellent group of fellows for July 2007:
NAME RESIDENCY RESEARCH INTEREST
Ashok Cattamanchi UW Internationl, Molecular Epidemiology
Julia Dombrowski UCSF STD Epidemiology
Obinna Nnedu UCSD Malaria Epidemiology
Christian Ramer Duke HIV
Florence Roan Wash Univ Immunology
Alison Roxby Stanford HIV
Devika Singh UW STD Epidemiology
A N N U A L P I C N I C : The Annual Coliform Cookout to meet new fellows and their families will be held July 5th, 4:30pm, at
Magnuson Park, Shelter One, south of the boat launch. Thanks to Tim Dellit for organizing this important event.
S T D / H I V P R I N C I P L E S C O U R S E : The 14th annual Principles of STD/HIV Research Course will be held July 17-27th.
There are 120 participants registered for the course, including 49 participants from 25 foreign countries. The course directors are
Dr.s Lisa Manhart and Scott McClelland. The course was first held in 1993 with the aim of offering an intensive overview of the skills
needed to pursue a research career in the field of STD. The course offers introductory training in behavioral, clinical, epidemiologic,
statistical and pathogenesis research by providing a practically oriented overview of the language and skills common to these broad
disciplines. Faculty for the course are drawn from well-established UW investigators as well as outside experts. Please see
www.seattlestdhivptc.org for more information or Contact Christine Cavaness at 206-731-4630, email: ccavanes@u.washington.edu
for more information.
G R A N T S . g o v : Please see OSP's home page for updates.
http://www.washington.edu/research/oris/grantsgov/index.html
Downloadable applications: PC: http://www.grants.gov/DownloadViewer
MAC: http;//www.grants.gov/MacSupport
Other Training Opportunities:
OSP: http://www.washington.edu/research/osp/gg_training.html
N I H C O N V E R S I O N T A B L E : The new NIH grant forms require person months versus percent time on the budget
pages as well as the Other Support. To convert percent of time and effort to person months, use the interactive conversion table
found at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/person_months_conversion_chart.xls
Federal Training Demonstration link: http://www.grants.gov/CompleteApplication#demo
L A B O R A T O R Y S A F E T Y S E M I N A R : The 2006 Laboratory Safety Seminar dates are Monday, September 25th and
Tuesday, September 26th. The seminar schedule and topics include:
Laboratory Safety Practices at the UW 8:00-10:20am offered each morning.
Fire Extinguisher Training 10:30-11:30am offered each morning.
Managing Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace 12:30-2:30 Monday ONLY.
Bloodborne Pathogens for Researchers 2:45-4:45pm Monday ONLY
Biosafety Training 12:30-2:30 Tuesday ONLY.
Field Research Health Hazards 2:45-4:45pm Tuesday ONLY.
The link for registration is at http://ehs.washington.edu/training/
If you have questions, please call 543-7201.
C I A T R A I N I N G : The CIA year is from May 1 through April 30, each year until 2009. Training completed before April 2006
was for year 2; training done after May 1, 2006, is for year 3. New providers must take year 1 training (6-hour online course).
M A R K Y O U R C A L E N D A R S :
December 6 and 7: William M.M. Kirby Dinner and Lecture
______________________________________________________________________________________________________Please send items for future newsletter to Myrna Izidor, Box 356523, email: myrnai@u.washington.edu