BSJC: Chronicle

MCDB Graduate Symposium

Oct. 11th

Stem Cell Biology
Dates: Oct. 20-21, 2006
Location: Stadium Club and ATLAS
Topics include:
Legislation for Stem Cell Research
Embryonic and Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Reparative Properties of Stem Cells

To attend, you must register by Oct. 16th.
A full schedule is available on the MCDB Graduate webpage (linked above)

Meeting Change	Oct. 11th
Since our meeting-after-next falls on Oct. 31st (Halloween), I would like to move it to the following Thursday, Nov. 2nd. Does this work/not work for everyone? Let us know on the facebook forum.

Page One Editorial Services

Oct. 11th

Thought some might find this useful.

Page One Editorial Services
"Scientific Writing Experts"
Revise manuscripts review, grants

Mailing List	Oct. 2nd
The mailing list is up and running! To subscribe send an email to listproc@lists.colorado.edu, leave the subject blank and in the body type: subscribe bsjc <your full name> eg subscribe bsjc Sean Houlihan

Change of Plans

Sep. 28th

Change of plans. Since the Graduate Symposium (on the 23rd, anyone else attending?) is focusing on Stem Cell Biology, I thought it would be pertinent to do the same. Jason will be presenting two papers that he described as "...a couple medium-length papers. if you want to learn about the consensus understanding of stem cell plasticity and utilization, these 2 papers are great. the studies are done by the same group and with the same model so there is an easy transition from one to the next. and eventhough there is a disease component to these papers, only minimal introductory background will be necessary."
The articles are available for download under the "Literature to be discussed" section to the right =>

Advertising

Sep. 20th

Now that things are starting to come along, it's time to think about how to make the BSJC's existence know to interested parties. I am much more concerned with maintaining a small number of high caliber participants than establishing a large member base. As such, word-of-mouth is probably going to be the most effective advertising technique at present, so tell your friends about the Oct. 3rd meeting.
Additionally, I'm going to make an announcement in my Evolution and Creationism class next week (all MCDB seniors) and tell my academic advisor to refer us to interested students. Depending on what degree of interest we see in the first few meetings, we can up- or down-regulate our efforts to reach out to the student populous. If you have any other ideas, please let us know.