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Date Posted: 21:12:22 11/05/03 Wed
Author: Science Alliance
Subject: New York Academy of Sciences

Edwards Edge
Visit our brand new blog by Chris Edwards, created specially for Science Alliance. Respond to several weekly, highly opinionated postings on the culture, politics, agonies, and ecstacies of life in and out of the lab, with a healthy dose of practical advice. His most recent offerings are:
Postdoc: A Job with Distinction (posted 11/04)
The Woes of Middle Eastern Students (posted 11/03)

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Upcoming Science Alliance Events

What Can You Be With A PhD?
A Career Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Date: November 15th, 2003
Place: NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Ave
Time: 9AM-6PM

This forum will provide graduate students and postdocs with the necessary skills and knowledge to maneuver into a successful career path. The all-day event will include workshops and seminars presented by professionals from academia, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and industry. In addition, representatives from several organizations will be on hand to discuss career opportunities.
Check the What Can You Be With a PhD? web site for the day's agenda and a list of confirmed speakers and exhibitors. Space is limited, so REGISTER online TODAY!

The Coming Revolution in the Publication of Scientific Papers
Open Access, PLoS, and the Financial and Cultural Barriers to Success
Date: November 25th, 2003
Place: New York Academy of Sciences
Time: 6PM-7:15PM, reception to follow discussion

Speaker: Harold Varmus, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Public Library of Science and President & Chief Executive of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Come hear from one of the most vocal proponents of open-access publishing. He will explain the rationale of the Public Library of Science and answer questions regarding this relatively new form of scientific publishing. This is a tremendous opportunity to discuss how such initiatives will impact your career and professional development, as well as the dissemination of scientific information on a global scale.

To register for this event, please send an email to sciencealliance@nyas.org and include your name, institution, and position (grad student, postdoc, other).

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Upcoming Academy Events

Readers & Writers
With its well-informed membership and long history as a forum for stimulating talks, the New York Academy of Sciences is a natural meeting ground for science authors and their readers.This fall, the Academy launched a program to bring these two groups together, both on the our web site and in person - the Readers & Writers forum.

Featured books have included Better than Prozac by Samuel Barondes, and Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells by Jane Maienschein .

Tomorrow (6:00-7:30PM at the Academy) will be the third event, with author Robert Crease speaking about his highly acclaimed new book, The Prism & the Pendulum: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science. Follow this link to read a preview about the author and his work on our web site, and also read about the other books featured in ! the series.

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Discussion Group
Date: November 11th, 2003
Place: New York Academy of Sciences
Time: 4-8PM, reception to follow event

Program
4:00: Introduction
4:05: Themis Lazaridis, City College of New York, "Elementary Exercises in Physics-Based Membrane Protein Structure Prediction."
4:45: Steven Schwartz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, "Chemical Reaction in an Enzymatic Environment�The Role of Quantum Mechanics."
5:20: Christina Leslie, Columbia University, "String Kernels and Motif Extraction for Protein Classification."
6:00�:00: Informal discussions (sandwiches and refreshments will be served).

Space is limited. Make your reservation today by going to EVENT RSVP.

Identification and Characterization of a New Coronavirus Associated with SARS
Date: November 19th, 2003
Place: New York Academy of Sciences
Time: 6-7:30PM, reception to follow event

Speaker: Thomas G. Ksiazek, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sponsored by theMicrobiology Section
Space is limited. Make your reservation today by going to EVENT RSVP.

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