NC State University Undergraduate Microbiology Program

May 31, 2011

MB 420 issues

There has been some concern about changes in MB 420 scheduling and BTEC. Microbiology and BTEC are working to coordinate and finalize these changes, and will let you know when they are finalized.

However, you should be aware that BEC classes can be counted toward Microbiology restricted electives (in either the Micro major or minor) ONLY if these classes are cross-listed in Microbiology. BEC 420 can therefore be used as a restricted elective; BEC 463 cannot.

This being said, because it is a 400-level lab course, BEC 463 CAN be used in the Microbiology major to fulfill (in part) the Laboratory elective.

If you have any questions or concerns about this, PLEASE feel free to contact me at james_brown@ncsu.edu

May 30, 2011

Want to be Certified?

Interested in becoming a Certified Microbiologist? The ASM and American College of Microbiology administers the Certification exams in food safety and quality, pharmaceutical and medical device, and biological safety microbiology.

http://www.microbiologycert.org/nrcm.asp

May 30, 2011

Tech position available

Technician position available!:

1. Functional genomics on neuropeptide control of tick reproduction

2. Development of transport technologies for peptides and dsRNA

3. Bioassays for the detection of Bt toxins.

4. Neurogenomics of tick chemoreception.

If interested, please contact Mike Roe asap, Entomology, 515-4325, michael_roe@ncsu.edu.

May 30, 2011

Job/internship opportunities at Anderson

Medical device manufacturer Anderson Products, in Haw River, is looking for an intern to assist with sterility testing this summer. If you're interested, let me know and I'll pass you the job description and further info.

Anderson Products is also looking for a full-time recent Microbiology graduate to do sterility testing of medical devices. Interested? Ask, and I shoot you the info by email.

May 28, 2011

Does anybody look at this?

My impression is that the MB UG program Facebook page is a lot more useful than this weblog. So my plan is to continue to use this weblog ONLY to drop stuff that's to much for a Facebook posting, and link the FB posting to this page.

If you prefer to use this weblog over FB, please let me know - if more than a couple of people do so, I'll continue to post everything here as well.

Jim Brown

April 4, 2011

NEW MICRO COURSE

Microbiology majors!

Planning to go to Grad School? Want a tech job?

How do you learn basic lab techniques & processes so you can get an internship, REU, or get into a lab for undergrad research?

Take MB 495 section 2 this Fall!

Scientific Inquiry in Microbiology - At the Bench

3 credit hours, M W F, 10:15 - 11:05

• Lab set-up & equipment

• Lab routines

• Safety & protocol

• What to do in your first day in a lab

• Designing & making stock solutions

• Sterilizing & storing solutions

• Designing experiments

• Keeping organized

• What controls do you need?

• What does this #$%*&%@ data mean?

• How to keep a lab notebook

• Graphical representations of data

... and lots more

In other words, learn how to be a productive member of a research lab!

Can be used toward your Lab Elective or Microbiology Restricted elective requirement

More information available at www.mbio.ncsu.edu/MB495/

Limited to 12 students - contact Dr. Brown at james_brown@ncsu.edu

MB495 flyer.jpg

April 3, 2011

Undergraduate Research Symposium

NC State University Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium - at the McKimmon Center on April 12th from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. We will have approximately 60 posters from CALS students. Please email gerry_luginbuhl@ncsu.edu if you are interested.

April 3, 2011

Microbiology seminar

Microbiology Seminar

Michael R. Thon, Ph.D.

Fungal Bioinformatics and Genetics Research

Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias

University of Salamanca

Salamanca, Spain

Comparative Genomics of Filamentous Fungi

Thursday, April 14, 2011

11:00 AM

Stephens Room

3503 Thomas Hall

Dr. Michael Thon works on the molecular biology of fungi including fungal bioinformatics and genomics. He develops his activity in the Genetics group at CIALE (Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias), University of Salamanca. I am attaching a link to his web page "http://bioinformatica.vil.usal.es/".

Dr. Thon 4-14-2011.pdf

March 30, 2011

Temporary tech job

Bob Rose in Biochemistry would like to hire a temporary, half-time technician for 6 months. The person must have experience in protein purification. If you're interested, contact him ASAP.

March 30, 2011

Microbiology seminar

Genetics and Microbiology Seminar

Klaus Schughart, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Infection Genetics
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Braunschweig, Germany

Host Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A Infections - Using the Mouse Model

Thursday, March 31, 2011
11:00 AM

Stephens Room
3503 Thomas Hall

Dr. Schughart 3-31-2011.pdf

March 30, 2011

Job opportunity at CEM

The folks at CEM are trying to find someone for their Inside Sales Market Coordinator position. They are looking for applicants with a science background (Microbiology would qualify) right out of school. I have attached the job description/contact info below.

Contact info:
Jodie Martin
CEM Corporation
Payroll/Benefits Administrator
P-704-821-7015 Ext. 151
F-704-821-0491

Download file "Inside sales market coor.docx"

March 28, 2011

Biochem Seminar

Biochemistry Seminar
Will be presented by:
Dr. Ian Moleniux
Professor in Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Texas at Austin
“How a viral genome enters the infected cell”
March 31 at 4:00pm in Polk 128 (Tove Room)

Ian Moleniux.pdf

March 28, 2011

Health Career Expo TODAY

The CALS Health Professions Advising Center is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Health Career Expo to be held TODAY - Monday - March 28th - from 12-4 in the Talley Student Center Ballroom

March 24, 2011

GPH competition

NCSU Global Health Initiatives Announcement

CALLING FOR STUDENT PARTICIPANTS

2011 Global Health Case Competition

REGISTRATION DEADLINE – MARCH 28 (LINK BELOW)

Co-sponsored by the Triangle Global Health Consortium

April 5 – 9, 2011

Win cash, fame while working on a real life global health issues!

Cash Prizes for the winning teams:

1st Place: $1500

2nd Place: $500

3rd Place: $500

What is the Global Health Case Competition?

· A unique opportunity for NCSU students to compete with students from other Universities across NC to formulate and present the best solution to a major Global Health problem.

· Students will work on teams composed of 4 – 6 members from at least three different academic Colleges or disciplines (with at least one undergraduate and one graduate student on each team).

· Students can register either as an individual or as a team comprised of up to 6 members.

· NCSU will hold an internal competition to select 5 teams to compete at the TGHC event.

Register now at: https://sites.google.com/site/ncsuglobalhealthinitiatives/global-health-case-competition/register

For more information about the Case Competition, go to NC State’s Global Health Initiatives site at: https://sites.google.com/site/ncsuglobalhealthinitiatives/global-health-case-competition

**************************************

Marian G. McCord, Ph.D.

Director of Global Health Initiatives, NCSU

Associate Professor

Textile Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

North Carolina State University

Box 8301

Raleigh, NC 27695-8301

email: mmccord@ncsu.edu

skype: marian.mccord

Phone: 919.515.6571 (office)

Fax: 919.515.6532

March 24, 2011

CALS Career Expo

The CALS Health Professions Advising Center is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Health Career Expo to be held Monday - March 28th - from 12-4 in the Talley Student Center Ballroom

Highlights Include:
Almost 100 programs and 80 schools representing the fields of:
- Medicine: Allopathic, Osteopathic, and Podiatric Medicine from across the country and international programs
- Dentistry,
- Optometry,
- Physician Assistant,
- Pharmacy,
- Physical and Occupational Therapy,
- Nursing,
- Allied and Public Health,
- Chiropractic Medicine,
- Other post-bac graduate programs
- and the NCSU School of Veterinary Medicine
- and NCSU Graduate programs.

In addition, we will have evening breakout sessions as well as presentations to our pre-health interest groups - see attached flyer for details:

Topics include -

• Evening Information Sessions - 4:45 – 5:15 & 5:15 – 5:45
Session 1 - (A) Financing Your Education (B) Glide Year Options (C) Testing Strategies (D) What if NOT Med School
Session 2 - (E) DO - what is it? (F) Minority & Under Represented Ops (G) Applicant Mistakes (H) International Med School - What it Means

Program Specific Presentations Evening – 6:00 – 6:45
Medical, Dental, Optometry, PA, PT/OT/Chiropractic, Pharmacy & Minority Interest Group Meetings with Representatives

•Registeration Required for Evening Sessions – register at:

http://harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/applications/cals_registration/index.cfm?eventID=571

Please see the attached program flyer info, list of programs and representatives and event layout

Download file "Expo breakout sessions.xls"

March 21, 2011

Seminar Tuesday March 22 at 9AM

Microbiology Seminar

Jason R. Wilson

NCSU Microbiology

West Nile Virus Nonstructural Protein
1 Modulation of Innate Immunity

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
9:00 AM

Stephens Room
3503 Thomas Hall

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree.

Host: Dr. Frank Scholle - (919) 515-7574

March 20, 2011

Novartis ISPE meeting Thursday

ISPE Members and Potential Members,

The next general ISPE meeting will be this upcoming Thursday at 6pm at BTEC. There will be various representatives from the Novartis flu vaccine manufacturing facility in Holly Springs. Check the attached fliers for more details!

Free food @ 6pm!

March 20, 2011

MB 351 Honors this Fall

MB351 honors section (001) for Fall semester 2011 has been moved to 9:10AM in order to take advantage of the smaller class size to promote more interaction. In order to register for the MB351 honors lecture section registration in the MB354 inquiry guided section of general microbiology is required.

March 17, 2011

Planning to graduate this Fall?

If you do plan to graduate this December, you should start on the paperwork now.

Although it may seem early to start worrying about this now, an important reason to do this is to make sure you are registered for all of the classes this Fall that you need to graduate. If you find out in September that you're a class short, it'll be too late to fix it.

Attached is a "Student Guide to the Graduation Application" - this explains how you need to deal with the ONLINE Graduation Application:

graduationapp_guide.pdf

Next, you need to fill out as much of the PAPER CALS Graduations Clearance Form:

Graduation Clearance form 072209.pdf

You'll need to take this to your advisor to finish, so make an appointment to get this done. Your Summer/Fall advising appointment is a good time to do this. BUT BEFORE YOU MEET WITH YOUR ADVISOR, YOU'LL NEED TO VISIT ANY DEPARTMENT OFFICES YOU'LL BE GETTING MINORS FROM TO COLLECT THE APPROPRIATE "APPLICATION OF MINOR CERTIFICATION" FORMS.

If you have trouble getting the paperwork completed with your advisor, visit either Robert Davis in the Microbiology office or me in my office for help. Your advisor will check over your degree audit, and you'll fill out the form for any course substitutions that might be required. He or she will also fill out a "CALS Graduation Checklist" so we can follow your paperwork around. All of this stuff should be turned in together to Robert in the Microbiology office.

CALS graduation info, including the forms and directions for filling them out, can be found at:

http://harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/academic/index.cfm?pageID=1752

There is also useful information on the general NCSU web site about graduation at:

http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/graduation/index.html

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation!

March 17, 2011

Latino networking in CALS and NCSU

Hello students:

In conjunction with the NC Society of Hispanic Professional's Hispanic Educational Summit, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is holding a networking event for Latino faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students on Friday, March 25th from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. at the McKimmon Center.

Top 5 reasons why should you come and enjoy this time of food, fun, and fellowship? You will:
1. Meet the CALS Latino Faculty family of mentors (Network with the CALS Spanish Faculty family and find your mentor)
2. Meet other Latino graduate and undergraduate students.
3. Help us understand what we can do as Latino faculty in the college to better serve you.
4. Share how we can collectively work together to help and reach out to Latino high school and middle school students in the area.
5. Learn about resources in CALS and through NC State that are available for Latino students.

We hope to see you on Friday, March 25th at 12:00 noon at the McKimmon Center. It is okay if you can not stay the entire time due to classes. The McKimmon Center is a part of NC State and is located on the Wolfline bus route #5 (tell the driver you're going to McKimmon and the drop off/pick up is right in front of the building). There is also free parking if you would like to drive.

We hope to see you there!
Lisa A. Guion, EdD

Lisa A. Guion, Ed.D., CDP
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Outreach and Engagement
Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
NC State University
919-513-0489