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Second annual Core Day to showcase HSC shared resources

Learn about intriguing technologies and services available at the Health Science Center at the second annual Core Day. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the School of Medicine lecture hall foyer. Posters will be manned by facility staff members from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This event is sponsored by the office of the vice president for research. Institutional core research facilities and related research support departments will display dozens of posters detailing some of the Health Science Center’s most interesting research resources. Individuals from each resource will be available to answer questions and describe their area of expertise.

Core Day is designed to inform investigators of research resources and to support departmental activities. The event will benefit everyone involved in research.
For more information, send an e-mail to Minnie Mendez, of the office of the vice president for research, at MendezMM@uthscsa.edu.

The following is a list of some core/departments that will participate:

Office of the vice president for research
CTSA/Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science
Institutional Review Board
Office of technology ventures
Environmental health and safety
Office of sponsored programs

Laboratory animal research
General Clinical Research Center
Research Imaging Center
Biomolecular NMR
Molecular interactions

Cytogenetics and genetics
Flow cytometry
Mass spectrometry
Microarray
Nucleic acids

Optical imaging
Transgenic service/Genetic mouse models
X-ray crystallography
Knock-out mouse
Children’s Cancer Research Institute small animal imaging facility
Instrumentation services



WFA to hold Fall Meet and Greet

The Women’s Faculty Association (WFA) is pleased to announce its Fall Meet and Greet, from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, in Room 209L of the School of Medicine building.

Meet the newly elected members of the WFA:

President: Merry Lindsey, Ph.D., assistant professor of cardiology
Vice President and President-elect: Ana Vallor, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the infectious disease division
Treasurer: Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology
Secretary: Amy Bowles, M.D., assistant professor of rehab medicine

The association will discuss its plans and programs for the year, including “Mentoring: The gender generation gap, balancing work and home,” and “Negotiating Skills: How to ask for (and get) what you want.”

Light refreshments will be provided.

For more information, send an e-mail to Dr. Bowles, BowlesA@uthscsa.edu.



Friends of Historical Library welcome Pulitzer Prize winner to San Antonio

The Health Science Center is pleased to welcome 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner David M. Oshinsky, Ph.D., as the featured speaker at the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library’s 36th Annual Dinner-Presentation. The event will take place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.14, at the Double Tree Hotel, 37 Northeast Loop 410.

Dr. Oshinsky holds the Blanton Chair in History at The University of Texas at Austin and received the Pulitzer Prize in History for his famed book, “Polio: An American Story.” The author discusses the panic that occurred in the early 1950s when polio struck the country.

The cost to attend the dinner-presentation is $40 per person. Students can purchase tickets for $20. For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Pennie Borchers, librarian II, at (210) 567-2400 or send her an e-mail at Borchers@uthscsa.edu by Nov. 7.