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2018 Oct 26

Reproducibility for Everyone

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library, Classroom #403

Countway Library Open Access Week Program 

eLife Ambassadors Workshop

Sponsored by Countway Library, Office for Postdoctoral Fellows, eLife Ambassadors

Join eLife Ambassadors’ workshop on practical approaches to achieving rigour and reproducibility in science! The workshop is designed to provide actionable advice, equipping participants with tools that they can implement in their own work. 

The workshop is part of a larger initiative to help researchers...

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2018 Oct 26

For reproducibility, we need the methods behind the data: A hands-on workshop with protocols.io

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Countway Library, Classroom #403

Countway Library Open Access Week Program 

protocols.io Workshop

Sponsored by Countway Library, Office for Postdoctoral Fellows

The recent attention to the challenges of reproducibility is new, but the problem itself is as old as science. Fortunately, over the past decade, a range of tools and resources have been created to help scientists communicate more easily and clearly, helping to make our work easier to build on, for ourselves and other researchers.

This workshop will...

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2018 Oct 24

Introduction to Amazon Cloud and UNIX basics

10:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Countway Floor L2: 025

Introduction to Amazon Cloud and UNIX basics

This workshop is an introduction to Amazon cloud Computing and UNIX basics. The workshop will help you to get setup and build windows or unix computer on Amazon cloud computing. Attendees will be exposed to hands‐on experience and by the end of the course one should be able to confidently use the command line interface on Unix system. They should be able also be to navigate around the Unix file system from the command line and use a number of basic Unix commands.

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2018 Oct 10

Affymetrix and Illumina microarray data analysis using R/Bioconductor

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Countway Floor L2: 025

Affymetrix and Illumina microarray data analysis using R/Bioconductor

The course is a general introduction to Microarrays and the use of R/Bioconductor to carry out microarray data analysis. Following introduction the workshop starts with hands‐on exercise on how to install R and Bioconductor GUI packages. The course is mainly based on the use of Bioconductor open source packages for analyzing single channel and two channel data sets. Only basic R coding will be introduced since most the analysis are performed using OneChannelGUI, a graphical interface to Bioconductor tools...

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2018 Oct 25

Countway Presents: Sharing Research: PrePrints & Data

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library, Ballard Room #503

Sponsored by Countway Library, Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS), HMS Office of Basic Science

Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. However, many researchers are encountering both technical (lack of resources and tools) and cultural (sensitive data, uncomfortable sharing) difficulties in the application of this exciting new approach.

In this session we will hear from four professionals on their work to bring new research...

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Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP)

The Health Professions Recruitment & Exposure Program (HPREP) at Harvard Medical School is a high school science enrichment program aimed at recruiting high school students from the Boston area, particularly those from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds, into science and medicine.

[GSAS] Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching - New resources for students

October 2, 2018

We believe that Harvard students have a unique role to play in education innovation – both at Harvard and beyond. Our goal with this initiative is to lower the bar to entry for students who have new ideas related to teaching, learning, and education innovation broadly. Whether you are trying to start a new student organization on campus or trying to launch a venture in the free market, we aim to help students from all schools and from all levels navigate the breadth of resources on campus, meet other students who are interested in similar issues, get support, and – most importantly – get...

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[HILS] Join the Harvard GSAS Business Club leadership team!

September 28, 2018

 

Harvard GSAS Business Club (HGBC) is recruiting new members for our leadership team! We are a student-run club dedicated to maintaining a vibrant and connected community of GSAS students who are interested in pursuing business-related careers. To this end, we provide an assortment of career development, networking and educational resources that are geared toward graduate students in non-business disciplines. Among the activities organized by HGBC are a 10-session mini-MBA course, offering an overview of the material typically covered in the first year of an...

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2018 Oct 10

Harvard Biotech Club 101 Series: Business Development

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

TMEC 227

Wondering how new technologies and devices make it from bench to business?

Join us to learn about the art and science behind Business Development with Business Development expert, Dr. Mahala Burn!

Mahala Burn, Ph.D.

Associate Director Corporate Development and Strategic Financing Lead

Wednesday, October 10th, 5pm-6pm

TMEC 227 (HMS Quad)

~Refreshments will be provided~

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[HILS] Harvard Antimicrobial Resistance Network Symposium

September 28, 2018

The Harvard Antimicrobial Resistance Network (HARN) is hosting its inaugural annual symposium at Harvard Medical School on Thursday, November 1, and we'd love to see you there! 

HARN is a community of students and fellows from across Harvard with an overarching interest in antibiotic resistance. We host lectures and seminars to promote discussion on research, practice, and policy pertaining to antimicrobial resistance, with the goal of fostering new collaborations across the university and the Greater Boston Area.

The theme of our symposium this...

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[HILS] Therapeutics Graduate Program Information Session

September 27, 2018

To the HILS PhD Student Community,

You are invited to The Therapeutics Graduate Program (TGP) information session. The TGP is a HILS-wide certificate program. All 1st and 2nd and 3rd year (G1-G3) graduate students from any of the HILS graduate programs are eligible to apply.  

All attendees are invited to stay for the TGP paracurricular activity that will be held immediately following the information session: a student panel about recent internship experiences.

Therapeutics Graduate Program Information Session...

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Agathon Career Fellowship

The Agathon Career Fellowship is a program run by the Harvard University GSAS Effective Altruism Student Group. The Fellowship recruits and trains grad students in practical tools and concepts that will help them build a satisfying career in which they do the most good for the world with their talents.
2018 Oct 23

Preparing Competitive Applications for Life Sciences Doctoral Programs and What to Expect from Doctoral Training (for HMS Master's Students and invited undergraduates)

Registration Closed 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Warren Alpert Building, Room 563, Longwood Medical Area

“Preparing Competitive Applications for Life Sciences Doctoral Programs and What to Expect from Doctoral Training”

Tuesday October 23, 2018 ** 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm ** WAB 563 ** Harvard Medical School

 

WORKSHOP. 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM

Jason Heustis (Program in Graduate Education)

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