» Events http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml BML Blog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:15:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Vitamin D and Cancer Talk http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/12/vitamin-d-and-cancer-talk/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/12/vitamin-d-and-cancer-talk/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:06:28 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/12/vitamin-d-and-cancer-talk/ Get ready for another timely and interesting talk in the UCSD Biomedical Library lunchtime seminar series. On September 26, 2008, Dr. Cedric F. Garland, a Professor from the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and member of the Moores Cancer Center, will present “Here Comes the Sun: Vitamin D for Preventing and Helping Cure Cancer” as part of the UCSD Biomedical Library lunchtime seminar series.

Dr. Garland will talk about recent advances in research on uses of vitamin D for prevention of breast and other types of cancer, and increasing the success of cancer treatment.

Dr. Garland is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He has a Doctor of Public Health degree from UCSD and studied epidemiology at Johns Hopkins.  His goal is to eradicate cancer.  He works closely on this goal with his colleagues, Drs. Frank Garland and Edward Gorham, and Sharif Mohr, M.P.H.  Dr. Garland is the author or coauthor of 150 abstracts, book chapters and research publications, mainly about breast and colon cancer and melanoma.  He and his coauthors have developed a novel cancer theory, the Devolution hypothesis, based mainly on their research on the role of vitamin D in reducing the risk of cancer and improving healthy survival of cancer patients.

Dr. Garland’s talk will be held in the Biomedical Library Events Room from 12-1 PM. Space is limited so please RSVP by September 24 to Vicky Anderson at vkanderson@ucsd.edu  Feel free to bring a discreet lunch; cookies and water will be provided.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/08/12/vitamin-d-and-cancer-talk/feed/ Donate Your Medical Textbooks http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/24/donate-your-medical-textbooks/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/24/donate-your-medical-textbooks/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:03:24 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/24/donate-your-medical-textbooks/ Donate your recent medical textbooks to a worthy cause!

Physicians in Iraq and Afghanistan have been working very hard to restore their medical education system at all levels and in all fields. In order to support this effort, the UCSD Medical Alumni Association has partnered with UCLA’s “Books Without Borders” program, which will provide textbooks needed to teach courses for physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, EMTs, and other health professionals. Your donations are needed!

The goal is to collect medical texts, including journals and reference materials, which will be sent to the Afghan National Military Hospital at the Medical University in Kabul. Books covering the basics of anatomy, physiology, nursing, physical therapy, and pharmacology are in demand, we well as publications on pediatrics, primary care, and OB/GYN. Multiple copies will be beneficial for medical schools and reference libraries.

Medical texts with current information dated 2000 and forward, and journals and reference materials published after 2005 will be accepted. Donations may be dropped off inside the UCSD Bookstore at the Medical Counter located on the first floor (look for the sign) between April 1-July 1, 2008.

For more information, contact Brooke Bain, Director of Medical Alumni Relations, UCSD School of Medicine, at babain@ucsd.edu or (858) 822-1210.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/24/donate-your-medical-textbooks/feed/ DNA Testing Talk on May 1 http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/18/dna-testing-talk-on-may-1/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/18/dna-testing-talk-on-may-1/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:25:36 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/18/dna-testing-talk-on-may-1/ Don’t miss George ”Woody” Clarke’s talk about “DNA Testing: 21st Century Justice” in the UCSD Biomedical Library Events Room on May 1, 2008 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.  Mr. Clarke will be available after the talk to sell and sign his new book, JUSTICE AND SCIENCE: TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF DNA EVIDENCE, recently published by Rutgers University Press.  Mr. Clarke is a Judge of the Superior Court for the County of San Diego.  More details about the topic and Mr. Clarke are located on our blog. 

This talk is part of the Biomedical Library lunchtime lecture series, and complements the current display in the library breezeway, “Forensic Science: Where Science Meets Law.”  Space is limited so please RSVP to Vicky Anderson at vkanderson@ucsd.edu as soon as possible to reserve a seat.  Feel free to bring a discreet lunch; cookies and water will be provided.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/18/dna-testing-talk-on-may-1/feed/ DNA Testing: 21st Century Justice http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/01/dna-testing-21st-century-justice/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/01/dna-testing-21st-century-justice/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:19:17 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/01/dna-testing-21st-century-justice/ Forensic DNA testing technologies have presented the criminal justice system with powerful and unique tools for the solution of crime. Small, often invisible, biological material can successfully be obtained from evidence items previously thought to be useless in criminal investigations. The development and use of polymerase chain reaction-based (“PCR”) techniques revolutionized the ability to exclude or include known individuals as the donors of the smallest evidentiary samples. The creation of local, state and national databases of DNA profiles of previously-convicted offenders has similarly resulted in the solution of thousands of suspectless cases. Comparison of DNA profiles obtained from biological evidence in such cases with statutorily-authorized databanks has permitted the discovery of the identity of attackers in cases otherwise not capable of resolution. Of greater importance is the now-common use of DNA typing technologies to examine older cases in which inmates have frequently served lengthy terms in prisons or penitentiaries. More than 200 inmates in the United States have been exonerated by modern DNA analysis of samples seized prior to the availability of DNA testing. 

Come hear George ”Woody” Clarke talk about “DNA Testing: 21st Century Justice” in the UCSD Biomedical Library Events Room on May 1, 2008 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.  Mr. Clarke will be available after the talk to sell and sign his new book, JUSTICE AND SCIENCE: TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF DNA EVIDENCE, recently published by Rutgers University Press, for the special price of $20. 

Mr. Clarke is currently a Judge of the Superior Court for the County of San Diego. He served as a Deputy District Attorney for the County of San Diego from 1982-2003. During that time he tried numerous serious felony offenses, including capital crimes. Since 1989 he has specialized in the use and introduction in court of scientific evidence, particularly forensic DNA testing results. As a result of his expertise, he was loaned to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and presented DNA evidence to the jury in the 1995 prosecution of Orenthal James (”O.J.”) Simpson. Mr. Clarke was appointed in 1998 by the U.S. Department of Justice to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, and in 2002 to the U.S. Attorney General’s Initiative on DNA Laboratory Backlogs. He has published and lectured internationally in the area of forensic DNA evidence to organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, John F. Kennedy School of Government, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, National College of District Attorneys, Harvard Law School and the armed services. He was honored in 2003 with “Prosecutor of the Year” awards by both the California District Attorneys Association and the San Diego County Deputy District Attorneys Association. He was recognized in 2000 by the San Diego County Bar Association as its “Public Lawyer of the Year,” by the San Diego County Deputy District Attorneys Association with its “Charles E. Nickel Award for Professional Excellence,” and by San Diego Magazine as one of “50 San Diegans to Watch in 2001.” 

This talk is part of the Biomedical Library lunchtime lecture series, and complements the current display in the library breezeway, “Forensic Science: Where Science Meets Law.”  Space is limited so please RSVP to Vicky Anderson at vkanderson@ucsd.edu as soon as possible to reserve a seat.  Feel free to bring a discreet lunch; cookies and water will be provided.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/04/01/dna-testing-21st-century-justice/feed/ The Great UCSD Campus Race http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/14/the-great-ucsd-campus-race/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/14/the-great-ucsd-campus-race/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:25:11 +0000 jreiswig http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/14/the-great-ucsd-campus-race/ Think you know the campus? Want to win $200? Bring your fast-footed friends out on April 12th to the Great Campus Race, which will begin at the Geisel Library, Forum level at noon. Details and team registration information are available online.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/14/the-great-ucsd-campus-race/feed/ CSI Biomed http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/08/csi-biomed/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/08/csi-biomed/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:13:09 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/08/csi-biomed/ Another CSI TV show? Not quite. The UCSD Biomedical Library has a new display in the breezeway: “Forensic Science: Where Science Meets Law.” Forensic science is a broad discipline that covers many areas including gunshot wounds, fingerprints, forensic entomology, drug abuse, and cybercrime, just to name a few.

One of the display cases focuses on historical aspects of forensic science (prehistoric to 1900) and another deals with modern forensics. Each one has a timeline that shows the progression of forensic developments. A number of the library’s forensic science books are on display, as well as a description of the superb online resource, FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE, which contains over 160 full-text forensic science and criminal justice handbooks (UCSD connections only).

Come over and see this fascinating display which will be available for about three months. Kudos to Penny Coppernoll-Blach and David Newbold for planning the display, and to Erik Matwijkow for rendering it so artistically.

Forensics Display

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/08/csi-biomed/feed/ Socioeconomic Status Gradients Among Mexicans in the US and Mexico http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/07/socioeconomic-status-gradients-among-mexicans-in-the-us-and-mexico/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/07/socioeconomic-status-gradients-among-mexicans-in-the-us-and-mexico/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:26:53 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/07/socioeconomic-status-gradients-among-mexicans-in-the-us-and-mexico/ Dr. Alberto Palloni will give a talk, “Socioeconomic status gradients among Mexicans in the U.S. and in Mexico: A new twist to the Hispanic paradox on health outcomes,” on Wednesday, March 12, at 3:30 PM in the Deutz Conference Room at the Institute of the Americas Complex.  Dr. Palloni is currently the Board of Trustees Professor in Sociology and is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.  He is co-principal investigator of two large research projects collecting information on elderly persons in Mexico (MHAS) and Puerto Rico (PREHCO).  He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California.  His current research interests include the relationship between early health status and social stratification and inequality and poverty in the United States, determinants of health and mortality disparities among ethnic groups in the United States, families and households in Africa and Latin America, aging and mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the application of mathematical and statistical models to the study of health and mortality determinants, fertility, social stratification, and the spread of disease, in particular for HIV/AIDS. 

There is no cost of admission.  The event is open to the public.  For driving directions, please visit the Center’s website.  For additional information, call Mr. Greg Mallinger at (858) 822-1696 or email him at gmallinger@ucsd.edu   

This seminar is jointly sponsored by the UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Center on Pacific Economies and the Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/03/07/socioeconomic-status-gradients-among-mexicans-in-the-us-and-mexico/feed/ Phil Bourne Talks About SciVee on Feb. 28 http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/28/phil-bourne-talks-about-scivee-on-feb-28/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/28/phil-bourne-talks-about-scivee-on-feb-28/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:04:37 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/28/phil-bourne-talks-about-scivee-on-feb-28/ Dr. Philip E. Bourne, a Professor in the UCSD Department of Pharmacology and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, will give a talk, “SciVee: A New Form of Scientific Communication and Dissemination,” on February 28 from noon to 1 PM at the UCSD Biomedical Library.

Today’s students, who are the leading scientists of tomorrow, are well-versed in the use of online video and social networking in their personal lives, yet these habits have yet to significantly impact their professional lives. SciVee (http://www.scivee.tv) is one of a number of internet sites that is attempting to bring about this change. A unique feature of SciVee is the integration of open access paper content with a video made by the paper authors in what is termed a “pubcast.” This and other features will be described in the context of whether the libraries might become the scholarly video store of the future.

Dr. Bourne is the Co-Director of the Protein Data Bank, and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal, PLoS Computational Biology.

This is the fourth talk in the Biomedical Library lunchtime lecture series.  Space is limited so please RSVP to Vicky Anderson at vkanderson@ucsd.edu by February 25.  Feel free to bring a discreet lunch; cookies and water will be provided.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/28/phil-bourne-talks-about-scivee-on-feb-28/feed/ Winter 2008 classes available http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/17/winter-2008-classes-available/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/17/winter-2008-classes-available/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:45:44 +0000 jreiswig http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/17/winter-2008-classes-available/ We’ve got over a dozen classes coming up this quarter including old favorites like PubMed and Google searching, EndNote and Refworks, as well as productivity courses on PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat and photo editing with Paint.Net. New this quarter, just in time for academic reviews, a session on finding out who has cited your work and the impact it has had. “Got Impact?” will be offered January 30th. Check them out and sign up on our Classes - Winter 2008 web page.

]]> http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/17/winter-2008-classes-available/feed/ Your Speaker Ideas Needed http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/10/your-speaker-ideas-needed/ http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/10/your-speaker-ideas-needed/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:09:40 +0000 nstimson http://blog.ucsd.edu/bml/2008/01/10/your-speaker-ideas-needed/ The Biomedical Library has a lunchtime speaker series. We’ve had three speakers so far: Last May, Dr. Sara Mednick spoke about the benefits of napping, in August Dr. Kimberly Brouwer talked about the uses of GIS in public health, and in November Dr. John B. West talked about high altitude physiology and Mt. Everest.

We have another talk lined up for February 28: Dr. Phil Bourne from the UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will discuss: “SciVee: A new form of scientific communication and dissemination.” Mark your calendars and stay tuned for further details.

Meanwhile, we’re looking for ideas for future speakers and topics. Do you know a UCSD faculty member or other researcher who is a good speaker and has something interesting to talk about? If so, please send your recommendations to Nancy Stimson at nstimson@ucsd.edu  Thanks for your help!

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