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M-EID Events and Announcements
M-EID Meeting - 1st Tuesday of the Month
Date: Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 11:00amLocation: Health Sciences 108
M-EID Practicum
Date: Thursday March 6th, 2008 at 2:00pmLocation: DHC 023
M-EID Journal Club
Date: Friday March 7nd, 2008 at 3:00pmLocation: DHC 023
M-EID Forum
Date: Friday March 7nd, 2008 at 5:00pmLocation: DHC 023
1st Friday Forum of the Month will include all Faculty/Staff and Trainees reviewing the administration of the program, i.e. business meeting.
Departmental Events
IMB Seminar
Date: Monday March 3, 2008 at 4:10pmLocation: Skaggs Building 117
Speaker: Trish Hartzell, University of Idaho.
Topic TBA.
OBE Seminar
Date: Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 12:10pmLocation: Skaggs Building 117
Speakers: Ashley King and Cameron Naficy
IMB Faculty Meeting
Date: Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 2:10pmWBIO Seminar
Date: Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 4:10mLocation: University Center - Theater, 3rd Floor
Speaker: Chris Wilmers, UC Santa Cruz.
Topic: "Climate change and population dynamics."
Upcoming Conferences -
Please note that all MEID Fellows can receive up to $1,000 a year in funding to attend relevant conferences and symposiums.Symposium on the Landscape Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Dates: April 7th, 2008Where: Madison, Wisconsin
To be held April 7th, 2008 at the annual meeting of the United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) in Madison, Wisconsin.
Who should attend? Biostatisticians, ecologists, epidemiologists, geographers, medical entomologists, microbiologists, parasitologists, and other health scientists who are interested in learning about novel geographic approaches to infectious disease research.
In addition to this symposium, the US-IALE conference will feature sessions on a variety of relevant topics including satellite remote sensing, spatial analysis, land cover/land use change, and species distribution modeling.
NIH/NIAID-sponsored travel awards are being offered to graduate students from the health science fields who have an interest in geographic and ecological approaches to the study of infectious diseases and human health, but have had limited exposure to the science of landscape ecology. Applications are due by February 15th, 2008.
Wildlife Society's 2008 Northwest Section Conference
Dates: March 19-21, 2008Where: Spokane, WA
The Northwest Scientific Association
Dates: March 26th - March 28th, 2008Where: Missoula, MT
The Northwest Scientific Association, in conjunction with the NW Lichenologists and The UM’s Division of Biological Sciences, is having their 2008 annual conference in the University Center on The University of Montana’s campus. The conference will be during the end of UM’s spring break, March 26th-March 28th.
For a mere $35 (students) or $70 (non-students) for registration, you can participate in a multi-discipline meeting that covers 16 different areas of science:
Anthropology; Aquatic Biology; Botany; Community Ecology; Fisheries; Forest Canopies; Forestry; Geology; Hydrology/Geomorphology; Lichenology; Mathematical Modeling; Paleontology; Plant Ecology; Soils; Wildlife Biology; Zoology.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 7, 2008.Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference
Dates: June 3 - June 6, 2008Where: Chania, Crete, Greece
The general topics and the special sessions proposed for the Conference include but are not limited to: Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic Chaos, Chemical Chaos, Data Analysis and Chaos, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas, Optics and Chaos, Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits, Chaos in Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biology and Chaos, Neurophysiology and Chaos, Hamiltonian systems, Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chaos and Solitons, Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems, Neural Networks and Chaos, Ecology and Economy.
The deadline for Abstract/Paper submission is March 10, 2008
Jobs
Epidemiologist
Description: The MT Tobacco Use Prevention Program is seeking an
epidemiologist to work with a motivated team of professionals.
Responsible for designing program evaluation, managing a tobacco
surveillance contract and analyzing surveillance data pertaining to
tobacco use and attitudes; designing, coordinating, and managing special
surveillance and/or evaluation procedures; evaluating surveillance
systems to asses the quality and effectiveness of these systems;
research current literature and professional publications and review the
practices of other states and nations; collaborating with tobacco
program managers to ensure evaluation/surveillance strategies, meet
program management and evaluation needs; developing, establishing and
maintaining standards and guidelines for statewide public health data
collection, analysis, and evaluation applications; and performing a
variety of complex statistical and epidemiologic analyses.
Salary: $43,666 - $54,582
Employer: State of Montana
Contact: www.dphhs.mt.gov/jobs
Deadline: Open until filled; 1st review deadline 3/6/08
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