Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and valuable. Please do let us know your feedback on how we can improve this newsletter.
OSCON22 (USA): OpenSpecimen Community Meet
Reserve your seat for the OSCON22 (Sept 19-20th). This meeting is co-hosted with the Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis). Join us to get in-depth knowledge about OpenSpecimen and connect with fellow biobankers. Click here for registration and more details.
Upcoming Webinar: Performing Bulk Operations
Our upcoming webinar is focused on increasing the efficiency of OpenSpecimen users. Join us on Aug 10th to learn how to add, edit, and update data in bulk. We will also cover the bulk operation enhancements done in recent versions of OpenSpecimen. Click here to watch recordings of old webinars.
OpenSpecimen Highlights
- Webinar: Performing Bulk Operations – Aug 10th
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OSCON22:
- USA: St. Charles (MO) – Sept 19-20th
- Australia: Perth – Oct 18th
- Recent webinar recording:
Fresh of the Biobanking Press
- Uni. of Florida Diabetes Institute to establish a novel biobank to study heart and kidney disease in diabetes
- My Healthy Maryland Biobank will use health data from 250,000 volunteers to help prevent and treat diseases
- Biobank helps researchers find personalized treatments for UCHealth patients
- Uniformed Services University creates biorepository to study deadly dermatology diseases
- Lifespin taps Biobank Graz, Medical University of Graz, for oncology patient samples
- Sweden to implement a new biobanks act
Recent Research Papers
- Improving Public Trust in Biobanking: Roundtable discussions from the 2021 ISBER annual meeting
- Rejuvenating the human gut microbiome
- Establishment of a patient-derived organoid model and living biobank for nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- The International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank (ISCIB): A biorepository and resource for translational research
Biobank Job Alerts
- Research Lab Supervisor: Siteman Cancer Center, Washington Uni.
- Informatics Analyst I – OpenSpecimen/Nautilus LIMS: Emory Uni.
- Research Technician II: Baylor College of Medicine
- Mesothelioma BioBank Officer: Asbestos Diseases Research Institute (Syndey)
- Tissue Bank Research Assistant: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne)
Upcoming Events
- OSCON22 (USA): Sept 19-20th – (St. Charles, MO)
- OSCON22 (Australia): Oct 18th – (Perth)
- SLAS 2022 Americas Sample Management Symposium: Sept 15-16th (CA, USA)
- Nordic Biobank Conference – Sept 6-8 – (Gothenburg, Sweden)
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