EVENTS

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
"The Tenure Process: Lessons Learned from the Trenches"

Thursday, November 19, 2009,
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC

Flyer [PDF]

Dr. Megan McEvoy, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Andrea Romero, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Human Development
Dr. Celestino Fernandez, Professor of Sociology

Each month UA ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Elsa R. Flores, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at the University of Texas, MD Andersen Medical School

Monday, December 7, 2009
9:00 - 10:00AM
Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium, Room 2951 (Refreshments Served)

Dr. Elsa R. Flores from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Speaker and will present a lecture as part of the Cancer Biology Seminar Series in the Arizona Cancer Center. Dr. Kirsten Limesand, Assistant Professor in the Nutritional Sciences Department, nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Dr. Flores' work focuses on the role of the p53 family members, p63 and p73, in tumor suppression. Pinpointing the influence of p63 and p73 in tumor suppression has been very controversial because of the structural complexity of these genes. The specific role of each p63 or p73 isoform is not yet known and therefore these isoforms have been found to be upregulated or down regulated in a multitude of different human tumors. Dr. Flores' laboratory takes an in vivo approach using mouse models and tissue derived from human tumors to unravel the mechanisms of the multiple p63 and p73 isoforms. Her recent work has started to shed some light on this issue by evaluating aged mice heterozygous for p63 and/or p73. These mice are indeed tumor prone and genetic analysis revealed that the tumors from these mice exhibited loss of heterozygosity (LOH). When p63+/- and p73+/- mice are intercrossed with p53+/- mice, these mice displayed an increased tumor burden and rate of metastasis compared to p53+/- mice suggesting that p63 and p73 play a role in tumor progression and metastasis. In addition to Dr. Flores' outstanding scientific attributes, she has presented eloquently at many national meetings and is very approachable to discuss future collaborations.

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
"Navigating Departmental and Institutional Politics"

Thursday, January 21, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC

Dr. Randy Richardson, Professor of Geosciences, Faculty Associate to the Provost, and UA ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator

Each month UA ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series 2009-10

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Amy Childress, Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno

Career Discussion Session, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 (Details TBA)
Public Lecture, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:00AM Modern Languages Bldg, Room 310

Dr. Amy Childress, Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Childress was nominated for the award by Dr. Glenn Schrader, Professor and Head of Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department here at UA. She will give a 50-60 minute public lecture on her research as part of the ChEE Department's lecture series, and an informal career talk with graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty.

Dr. Childress is an accomplished researcher and leader in the field of water and wastewater treatment. In particular, she has significant research that parallels UA efforts in water desalination, brine reduction and membrane technologies. Desalination will be critically important in the future of Arizona water as Colorado river water has a high salt content.

In addition to her research, Dr. Childress is the President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. This group promotes excellence in education, research and service in the environmental field.

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Joan B. Rose, Homer Nowlin Endowed Chair of Water Research at Michigan State University

Career Discussion Session, Monday March 8, 2010 (Details TBA)
Public Lecture, Monday March 8, 2010 (Details TBA)

Dr. Joan B. Rose, Homer Nowlin Endowed Chair of Water Research and Director of the Center for Water Sciences at Michigan State University and University of Arizona Alumni will visit us as a UA ADVANCE Distinguished Speaker on March 7, 2010. She was nominated for the Distinguished Speaker award by Dr. Charles (Chuck) Gerba, Professor of Soil, Water & Environmental Sciences, Public Health, and Microbiology and Immunology. Dr. Rose will give a 50-60 minute public lecture on her research as part of the SWR's lecture series, and an informal career talk with graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty.

Dr. Rose is the leading scientist in the world in the study of emerging waterborne diseases, the effect of climate change on waterborne diseases and microbial risk assessment. In the last year she was awarded the International Water Associations Outstanding female in Water Science Award, outstanding female Professor at the University of Michigan, and Outstanding Scientist in the College of Agriculture and Michigan State University. She is director and co-director of several centers dealing with water, health/climatic change and risk assessment at the University of Michigan. She has conducted research and teaching of courses on almost every continent in the world and is currently an advisor to several countries on water quantity issues. She played a major role in the investigation of the largest waterborne outbreak in U. S. history in 1993 which affected more than 400,000 people, and is documented in the popular book The Blue Death. She has mentored numerous students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior professors and is very interactive on a personal basis.

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Rita Colwell, Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:30-2:30 Public Lecture Talk
2:30-3:30 Career Talk
Location TBA

Dr. Rita Colwell, Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Distinguished Speaker. She was nominated for the award by Dr. Mary Kay ORourke, Associate Professor of Public Health and UA ADVANCE Leadership Workgroup member. Dr. Colwell will give a 50-60 minute public lecture on her research as part of the College of Public Health's lecture series, and an informal career talk with graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty.

Dr. Colwell's interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world. Dr. Colwell served as the 11th Director of the NSF, 1998-2004. In her capacity as NSF Director, she served as Co-chair of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. One of her major interests include K-12 science and mathematics education, graduate science and engineering education and the increased participation of women and minorities in science and engineering.

Dr. Colwell has held many advisory positions in the U.S. Government, nonprofit science policy organizations, and private foundations, as well as in the international scientific research community. She is a nationally respected scientist and educator, and has authored or co-authored 16 books and more than 700 scientific publications. She produced the award-winning film, Invisible Seas, and has served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Megan Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chair, Department of Physics, Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Yale University

Career Discussion Session, Spring 2010 (Details TBA)
Public Lecture, Spring 2010 (Details TBA)

Dr. Megan Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Urry was nominated for the award by Dr. Jill Bechtold, Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer at the Steward Observatory. She will give a 50-60 minute public lecture on her research as part of the Astronomy Department's lecture series, and an informal career talk with graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty.

Dr. Urry's scientific research concerns the study of supermassive black holes and the co-evolution of black holes and normal galaxies, crucial pieces of the galaxy evolution puzzle that is just now starting to take shape. She has made seminal contributions to our understanding of quasars - black holes that are actively accreting material from their surroundings. She discovered a large number of X-ray-emitting galaxies, which are very faint or even undetected at optical wavelengths. Her work combines multiwagelenth observations from NASA's Great Observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope. Principal investigator on over 60 approved proposals for space observations, Urry has authored 140 publications in referred journal and 29 book chapters and invited reviews. Dr. Urry is the first woman chair in physics at Yale.

Junior Scientist Lecture Series 2009-10

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES

Dr. Alicia Soderberg, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow and Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at Princeton University

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Location TBA

Dr. Alicia Soderberg from Princeton University will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Speaker and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Astronomy Department Lecture Series. Dr. Jill Bechtold, Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer at the Steward Observatory nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Dr. Soderberg received her PhD in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in June 2007. Her research focuses on the endpoints of stellar evolution, especially the deaths of stars 10 to 20 times more massive than the Sun. These stars live very brief lives by cosmic standards - a million years or less - then explode catastrophically, as supernovae or gamma-ray bursts. Why only some supernovae develop the relativistic jets characteristic of gamma-ray bursts is one of the interesting unsolved questions in astronomy, and Dr. Soderberg is a leading scientist working on this problem. Cosmic explosions capture the public's imagination, and Dr. Soderberg has described her research in numerous public forums, through interviews for the BBC, articles in Skyu and Telescope, Science Magazine, Astronomy Magazine, Science News and New Scientist. She is the winner of the 2009 Annie Jump Cannon prestigious award given by the American Astronomical Society for "outstanding research and promise for future research".

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Zsuzsanna Major, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

Friday, November 6, 2009
3:00 p.m., Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 224

Dr. Zsuzsanna Major from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Physics Department lecture series. Dr. Erich Varnes, Associate Professor of Physics nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Dr. Major works in the field of intense pulsed lasers, with a focus on laser-matter interactions at extremely high fields. In addition to the fundamental physics interest of such studies, there are potential applications of this work to cancer therapy. Among physicists in this area, Dr. Major is noted as a very articulate expert who also has a good understanding of the experimental details of her field. Her current involvement is with tuning the Atlas MPQ laser, which is set to become one of the most intense ultra-short pulse lasers in the world this Fall 2009.

In recognition of her work, Dr. Major was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2005, and the Therese von Bayern Prize in 2009.

The UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Lecture Series aims to increase the visibility and ultimately the number of promising early career female scientists in STEM fields. These notable junior scientists are asked to give a presentation on their research as part of their nominating department's lecture or colloquia series, as well as participate in any events or meetings coordinated by the nominating department.

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Elsa R. Flores, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at the University of Texas, MD Andersen Medical School

Monday, December 7, 2009
9:00 - 10:00AM
Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium, Room 2951 (Refreshments Served)

Dr. Elsa R. Flores from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Speaker and will present a lecture as part of the Cancer Biology Seminar Series in the Arizona Cancer Center. Dr. Kirsten Limesand, Assistant Professor in the Nutritional Sciences Department, nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Dr. Flores' work focuses on the role of the p53 family members, p63 and p73, in tumor suppression. Pinpointing the influence of p63 and p73 in tumor suppression has been very controversial because of the structural complexity of these genes. The specific role of each p63 or p73 isoform is not yet known and therefore these isoforms have been found to be upregulated or down regulated in a multitude of different human tumors. Dr. Flores' laboratory takes an in vivo approach using mouse models and tissue derived from human tumors to unravel the mechanisms of the multiple p63 and p73 isoforms. Her recent work has started to shed some light on this issue by evaluating aged mice heterozygous for p63 and/or p73. These mice are indeed tumor prone and genetic analysis revealed that the tumors from these mice exhibited loss of heterozygosity (LOH). When p63+/- and p73+/- mice are intercrossed with p53+/- mice, these mice displayed an increased tumor burden and rate of metastasis compared to p53+/- mice suggesting that p63 and p73 play a role in tumor progression and metastasis. In addition to Dr. Flores' outstanding scientific attributes, she has presented eloquently at many national meetings and is very approachable to discuss future collaborations.

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Anita Tam Layton, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Duke University

Friday, January 29, 2010
11:00-12:00 p.m., Arizona Health Sciences Center, Room TBA

Dr. Anita Tam Layton from Duke University will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Speaker and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Physiology department's lecture series. Dr. Thomas Pannabecker, Research Assistant Professor of Physiology nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Dr. Anita Tam Layton has held the sole female tenure-track position in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University since 2007. Her research involves developing numerical methods for complex fluid dynamics and multi-scale problems, and modeling renal physiology. Her modeling work has contributed to a better understanding of some of the longest-standing mysteries in traditional physiology, including the mechanism by which mammals produce a highly concentrated urine. Anita is a mentor of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the faculty advisor for the undergraduate chapter at Duke. For the past four years, she has been an active member of University-wide and Departmental initiatives devoted to recruiting women and minority students into Duke Math and Science programs. At the national level, she has participated in organizing programs for increasing participation of women and minorities in atmospheric and computational sciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Toronto.

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Mya Breitbart, Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography at the University of South Florida

Monday, February 1, 2010
Time and Location TBA

Dr. Mya Breitbart from the University of South Florida will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Seminar Series. Dr. Matthew Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Viruses outnumber all life on earth about 10 to 1 and represent the largest unexplored genetic reservoir on the planet. Dr. Breitbart has spent her career using genomic and metagenomic techniques to map diversity in these populations, as well as uncover entirely new viral types and new ways in which viruses manipulate host metabolisms. At only age 32, she already has over 30 publications including the first viral publications using metagenomic techniques in PNAS, as well as contributing to 2 publications in Nature, 2 in PLoS Biology and 1 in Nature Protocols. Dr. Breitbart is a driver in the field of viral ecology and recently has turned her attention towards studying human viruses in blood in addition to mapping wild populations of ssDNA and RNA ocean viruses.

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Yana Yunusova, Assistant Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto

Monday, February 08, 2010 12:00-1:00 p.m., Speech & Hearing Sciences Building, Room 2005

JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Julia C. Lee, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University

Spring 2010 (Details TBA)

Dr. Julia C. Lee from Harvard University will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Department of Astronomy's lecture series. Dr. Jill Bechtold, Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer at the Steward Observatory nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.

Dr. Lee obtained her PhD in astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, in the UK, and held postdoctoral positions at MIT and Harvard. She received the prestigious Chandra postdoctoral fellowship to study quasars at X-ray wavelengths using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Europe's XMM-Newton Observatory. Quasars are super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, where gas and stars spiral inwards, heating up and emitting enormous amounts of electromagnetic radiation and expelling relativistic particles in collimated jets.

In 2007, Dr. Lee was part of a large team that won the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. Although the Gruber prize has only been awarded since 2000, it is widely regarded as perhaps the most prestigious prize in astrophysics, second only to winning the Nobel prize in physics.

Career Discussion Series 2009-10

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
"The Tenure Process: Lessons Learned from the Trenches"

Thursday, November 19, 2009,
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC

Flyer [PDF]

Dr. Megan McEvoy, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Andrea Romero, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Human Development
Dr. Celestino Fernandez, Professor of Sociology

Each month UA ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
"Navigating Departmental and Institutional Politics"

Thursday, January 21, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC

Dr. Randy Richardson, Professor of Geosciences, Faculty Associate to the Provost, and UA ADVANCE Co-Principal Investigator

Each month UA ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
"Grant Writing 101"

Thursday, February 25, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC
Details TBA

Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
Title TBA

Thursday, March 25, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC

Dr. Elizabeth Boyd, Assistant Vice President, Research Compliance and Policy, Office of Vice President for Research and Clinical Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science

Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
Panel Discussion on Interdisciplinary Research

Thursday, April 22, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC

Jeffrey Dean, Professor School of Anthropology & Professor Dendrochronology
Jonathan Chorover, Professor Soil, Water & Environmental Sciences
Joaquin Ruiz, Dean College of Science & Professor Geosciences

Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.

Data Blitz Series 2009-10

DATA BLITZ SEMINAR
Imaging

Thursday, November 5, 2009
3:00-5:00 p.m., Ventana Room, SUMC

UA ADVANCE hosts a data blitz of imaging with three notable junior faculty members from different departments and schools. Dr. Seraphin Supapan, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & UA ADVANCE Leadership Workgroup Co-Chair will facilitate this session.

Leilei Peng from the College of Optical Sciences, Rusell Witte from the Department of Radiology, and Jinhong Zhang from the Department of Mining & Geological Engineering will each present a 10-minute synopsis of their research within the context of imaging, followed by five minutes for questions. A reception with refreshments will follow, and the audience can network with the researchers and other guests.

If you are interested in presenting your research related to "Imaging" in this seminar, or your know someone that may be interested, please email us at advance@vpr.arizona.edu.