NCTR squirrel monkey nicotine self-administration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/09/25/fda-halts-monkey-research-denounced-by-jane-goodall-as-shameful/?utm_term=.0d320de17a89
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2017-09-29
2017-09-28
[#DIV28SUPER] The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) Presents The Neuroscience Gateway, Friday, September 29, 2017, 2017, 11AM PST/2PM EST
The Neuroscience Information Framework https://neuinfo.org/ invites you to join a webinar series about various research resources on the web. Please put these down on your calendar. We hope to hold these weekly every Friday at 2PM EST. Future webinars to be announced and not listed here will be posted to https://neuinfo.org/about/UpcomingWebinars. NIF is supported by U24DA039832.
The Neuroscience Gateway, Subhashini Sivagnanam
Friday, September 29, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: The Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) portal facilitates access and use of National Science Foundation (NSF) High Performance Computing (HPC) resources by neuroscientists. Computational modeling of cells and networks has become an essential part of neuroscience research, and investigators are using models to address problems of ever increasing complexity, e.g. large scale network models and optimization or exploration of high dimensional parameter spaces. The NSG will catalyze such research by lowering or eliminating the administrative and technical barriers that currently make it difficult for investigators to use HPC resources. It will offer free computer time to neuroscientists acquired via the supercomputer time allocation process managed by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). The portal provides access to the popular computational neuroscience tools installed on various HPC resources. It also provides a community mailing list for neuroscientists to collaborate and share ideas.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/680856570
Friday, October 06, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Genomics applications in neuroscience are being dramatically impacted by new technologies that resolve features at the cell type or single cell level. In this webinar, Dr. Pavlidis will describe tools his lab has created to increase the availability and utility of brain transcriptomes, focusing on the cell-type resolved database NeuroExpresso (http://neuroexpresso.org/). We'll discuss how cell-type based expression can be used to help decipher patterns in transcriptomes obtained from mixed-cell-type samples from postmortem human brain ("bulk tissue"), introducing computational tools accessible in the R statistical computing environment. A preprint describing the NeuroExpresso project is available at http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/18/089219.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/127782912
The World Of NeuroMorpho.Org, Dr. Rubén Armañanzas
Friday, October 20, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Join us as we listen to Dr. Armañanzas in a webinar about NeuroMorpho.Org and related topics. NeuroMorpho.Org is a centrally curated inventory of digitally reconstructed neurons. It contains contributions from dozens of laboratories worldwide and is continuously updated as new morphological reconstructions are collected, published, and shared. The goal of NeuroMorpho.Org is to provide free access to all available neuronal reconstruction data in the neuroscience community.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/864847780
Friday, October 27, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Computational models provide a framework for integrating data across spatial scales and for exploring hypotheses about the biological mechanisms underlying neuronal and network dynamics. However, as models increase in complexity, additional barriers emerge to the creation, exchange, and re-use of models. Successful projects have created standards for describing complex models in neuroscience and provide open source tools to address these issues. Here I provide an overview of these projects and make a case for expanded use of resources in support of reproducibility and validation of models against experimental data.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/544538362
The Database Of Genotypes And Phenotypes (DbGAP), Mike Feolo
Friday, November 17, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: The database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) was developed to archive and distribute the data and results from studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype in Humans.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/914167630
Future and subsequent webinars TBA
The National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to listserv@list.nih.gov Copy and paste UNSUBSCRIBE NIDA_NEURO_SCIENCE-L in the message body of the email - You will receive a confirmation email if successful. If you have problems contact jpollock@mail.nih.gov 301-435-1309
2017-09-23
[#DIV28SUPER] Jane Goodall and White Coat Waste are wrong about nicotine addiction research – Speaking of Research
"... This open letter is from scientists and leaders in the addiction research community. If you'd like to join the signatories listed below, please do in comments at the bottom of this article. Please also share with others with an interest in research on addiction...."
2017-09-15
[#DIV28SUPER] CPDD Symposia, Workshops and Forums--applications due October 16th.
Now Accepting Scientific Symposia Applications
The College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc.
Annual Scientific Meeting
San Diego, CA., June 9-14, 2018
Don't miss your opportunity to present your symposium at the nation's leading research conference on addictions.
Review the criteria, and submit today!
Deadline for the 2018 CPDD symposium, forum and workshop proposals is Monday, October 16, 2017 at 11:59 PM Eastern time.
Please note that we have made a change to the submission process.
Faxed/emailed application forms or the jot-form system are no longer accepted. The online X-CD system will be used. This system was used last year for submitting CPDD abstracts. The links to instruction and applications appear below. Another change from last year is that you will create your session and enter overall details (e.g., title, abstract) in a parent page, then add speaker details in child pages. After you enter speaker information, you'll also need to answer a few questions under the "edit" option next to each presenter's name. Compile all information necessary for completing an application form in a word document prior to completion. With the new system, you will be able to save your work and edit it until the submission deadline. For questions, please contact the CPDD Program Chair (william.stoops@uky.edu) directly.
Workshop: https://www.xcdsystem.com/cpdd/abstract/index.cfm?ID=1P0IKWU
Forum: https://www.xcdsystem.com/cpdd/abstract/index.cfm?ID=JaoP9HD
Full Symposium: https://www.xcdsystem.com/cpdd/abstract/index.cfm?ID=2KU7yEq
Mini-Symposium: https://www.xcdsystem.com/cpdd/abstract/index.cfm?ID=cEGUm05
2017-09-13
[#DIV28SUPER] call for papers
Call for Papers: Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Special Issue for April 2018 on:
Neuroimaging Research: Understanding the Role of Neuropeptides in Psychiatric Disorders
This special issue will provide an overview of the current status of research using neuroimaging methods (e.g., task-based and resting state fMRI, PET, MEG, or EEG) to investigate the role of neuropeptides in psychiatric conditions; it will also address continuing gaps and challenges in this field. We encourage articles representing the broad area of preclinical and clinical models of psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, substance use disorders, and eating disorders. We also strongly encourage articles that address sex differences, which are often overlooked in this body of research. We would be particularly receptive to a collaborative position paper co-authored by a preclinical and clinical researcher addressing some of the strengths, weaknesses and possible future directions to improve the use of neuroimaging methods to study neuropeptide involvement in psychiatric disorders.
Laboratories engaged in research in this area may submit review articles or primary research reports to Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology to be considered for inclusion in this special issue. Manuscripts should be submitted as usual through the APA Online Submission Portal (http://pha.edmgr.com/), and the cover letter should indicate that the authors wish the manuscript to be considered for publication in the special issue on Neuroimaging Research: Understanding the Role of Neuropeptides in Psychiatric Disorders. All submissions will undergo our normal peer review. Manuscripts received no later than October 1, 2017 will be considered for inclusion in the special issue. We strongly encourage individuals to contact the guest editors in advance with their ideas and a draft the title and abstract.
Questions or inquiries about the special issue can be directed to the Guest Editors of the issue, Stephanie Collins Reed, PhD, at sc2432@cumc.columbia.edu or Gillinder Bedi, DPsych, at gb2326@cumc.columbia.edu, or the Editor, William W. Stoops, PhD at william.stoops@uky.edu.
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University of Kentucky College of Medicine
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University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences
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University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science
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2017-09-12
[#DIV28SUPER] The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) Presents a webinar series on Neuro-Tools
The Neuroscience Information Framework https://neuinfo.org/ invites you to join a webinar series about various research resources on the web. Please put these down on your calendar. We hope to hold these weekly every Friday at 2PM EST. Future webinars to be announced and not listed here will be posted to https://neuinfo.org/about/UpcomingWebinars. NIF is supported by U24DA039832.
RRIDs, what are they good for and how do I use them, Drs. Anita Bandrowski and Maryann Martone
Friday, September 15, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: The Resource Identification Portal was created in support of the Resource Identification Initiative, which aims to promote research resource identification, discovery, and reuse. The portal offers a central location for obtaining and exploring Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) - persistent and unique identifiers for referencing a research resource. A critical goal of the RII is the widespread adoption of RRIDs to cite resources in the biomedical literature and other places that reference their generation or use. RRIDs use established community identifiers where they exist, and are cross-referenced in our system where more than one identifier exists for a single resource.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/713924977
Neuroimaging Informatics Tools And Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), Dr. David Kennedy
Friday, September 22, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) is currently a free one-stop-shop collaboratory for science researchers that need resources such as neuroimaging analysis software, publicly available data sets, or computing power. Since its debut in 2007, NITRC has helped the neuroscience community to use software and data produced from research that, before NITRC, was routinely lost or disregarded, to make further discoveries. NITRC provides free access to data and enables pay-per-use cloud-based access to unlimited computing power, enabling worldwide scientific collaboration with minimal startup and cost. With NITRC and its components—the Resources Registry (NITRC-R), Image Repository (NITRC-IR), and Computational Environment (NITRC-CE)—a researcher can obtain pilot or proof-of-concept data to validate a hypothesis for a few dollars.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/155649613
The Neuroscience Gateway, Subhashini Sivagnanam
Friday, September 29, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: The Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) portal facilitates access and use of National Science Foundation (NSF) High Performance Computing (HPC) resources by neuroscientists. Computational modeling of cells and networks has become an essential part of neuroscience research, and investigators are using models to address problems of ever increasing complexity, e.g. large scale network models and optimization or exploration of high dimensional parameter spaces. The NSG will catalyze such research by lowering or eliminating the administrative and technical barriers that currently make it difficult for investigators to use HPC resources. It will offer free computer time to neuroscientists acquired via the supercomputer time allocation process managed by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). The portal provides access to the popular computational neuroscience tools installed on various HPC resources. It also provides a community mailing list for neuroscientists to collaborate and share ideas.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/680856570
Friday, October 06, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Genomics applications in neuroscience are being dramatically impacted by new technologies that resolve features at the cell type or single cell level. In this webinar, Dr. Pavlidis will describe tools his lab has created to increase the availability and utility of brain transcriptomes, focusing on the cell-type resolved database NeuroExpresso (http://neuroexpresso.org/). We'll discuss how cell-type based expression can be used to help decipher patterns in transcriptomes obtained from mixed-cell-type samples from postmortem human brain ("bulk tissue"), introducing computational tools accessible in the R statistical computing environment. A preprint describing the NeuroExpresso project is available at http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/18/089219.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/127782912
The World Of NeuroMorpho.Org, Dr. Rubén Armañanzas
Friday, October 20, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Join us as we listen to Dr. Armañanzas in a webinar about NeuroMorpho.Org and related topics. NeuroMorpho.Org is a centrally curated inventory of digitally reconstructed neurons. It contains contributions from dozens of laboratories worldwide and is continuously updated as new morphological reconstructions are collected, published, and shared. The goal of NeuroMorpho.Org is to provide free access to all available neuronal reconstruction data in the neuroscience community.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/864847780
Friday, October 27, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: Computational models provide a framework for integrating data across spatial scales and for exploring hypotheses about the biological mechanisms underlying neuronal and network dynamics. However, as models increase in complexity, additional barriers emerge to the creation, exchange, and re-use of models. Successful projects have created standards for describing complex models in neuroscience and provide open source tools to address these issues. Here I provide an overview of these projects and make a case for expanded use of resources in support of reproducibility and validation of models against experimental data.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/544538362
The Database Of Genotypes And Phenotypes (DbGAP), Mike Feolo
Friday, November 17, 2017,
Start Time: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
Synopsis: The database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) was developed to archive and distribute the data and results from studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype in Humans.
To Join: At the time of the conference click this link https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/914167630
Future and subsequent webinars TBA
The National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to listserv@list.nih.gov Copy and paste UNSUBSCRIBE NIDA_NEURO_SCIENCE-L in the message body of the email - You will receive a confirmation email if successful. If you have problems contact jpollock@mail.nih.gov 301-435-1309
2017-09-08
[#DIV28SUPER] New Funding Opportunity for Pain Research through OnPAR
Colleagues:
We would like to inform you about a new initiative called OnPAR (Online Partnership to Accelerate Research). This was launched by Leidos Life Sciences in March, 2016. It is a partnership with NIH that offers a new paradigm to provide funding for highly scored but unfunded NIH applications by matching them with interested non-government organizations (NGOs). Several different scientific areas have previously been funded using this approach, and OnPar has now expanded to include pain research projects.
If you have submitted an application to NIH for pain-related research that was not funded, this may be of interest to you. If you would like to have your application considered by OnPAR , please visit: https://onpar.leidosweb.com for more information.
Additional information from OnPAR:
The application process will take 5 minutes – here:
- Basic Registration – here (administrators can also submit for investigators)
- Submission of Public Abstract (in English): This is the public abstract that is submitted with your application
- Submission of Applications, Peer-Review, and NDA: if there is a match (funders review for interest), then, we request the full application (in original language), the peer-review (in original language) received from the agency (or other agencies) and a signed Non Disclosure Agreement (we provide). We don’t require investigators to re-write the unfunded application.
Once potential funders review, they will contact the investigator directly to discuss a partnership and funding.
It is free for all investigators to submit their material.
Please register here to receive updates about OnPAR.
Note that OnPAR has also identified other therapeutics areas of interest:
- Cardiology, Hematology, Oncology, Women’s Healthcare, Gynecological Therapy, Men’s Health, Ophthalmology, Radiology
- Diabetes and Complications
- Infectious Diseases
- Heart & Kidney
- Cancer: Breast, Lung, Prostate, Brain, Colon, Bone, and others
- Neurosciences (AD, PD, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Migraine, Huntingtons)
- Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriasis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis, Ankylosing spondylitis, Psoriatic arthritis, Lupus nephritis, Atopic dermatitis
- Devices
- Respiratory (COPD, Asthma)
- Osteoarthritis, Gastroenterology, Endocrine, Heart failure, Neurology
- Rare Diseases –many: Cystinosis, NF, Epidermosis Bullosa, Huntington, PSP, Alopecia Areata
- Animal Health
Also of interest are Discovery & Development Platforms:
- Cell & Gene Therapy, epigenetics, precision medicine, cell & protein science, chemistry and DMPK, and others
The National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to listserv@list.nih.gov Copy and paste UNSUBSCRIBE NIDA_NEURO_SCIENCE-L in the message body of the email - You will receive a confirmation email if successful. If you have problems contact jpollock@mail.nih.gov 301-435-1309
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