Optimizing participation from different universities!

One of the challenges in organising a meeting of this nature is how to maximize participation from the target audience in different universities and institutes. Using the information on the sign up sheet on the June 11 meet (likely a subset of total participation) we plotted the participation as a function of distance of instituition from location of meet. Considering only the large instituitions with comparable number of post-docs in life-sciences(unverfied), it would seem that participation falls off roughly exponentially with commute distance. If true, ideas will be necessary to make commute distance a less important factor. Have a suggestion? Let us know!

Talks from the Young Investigator Meet UCSF, June 2009 on the available and growing opportunities in India

Talk by Dr MK Bhan, Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology

Talk on the Bangalore cluster - NCBS and Stem Cell Institute- by Drs K. Vijayraghavan and Satyajit Mayor

Talks on the Delhi Cluster - THSTI, Regional Center for Biotechnology,VIDRC and Child Biology Center - by Drs Martha Gray (MIT), Dinakar Salunke (NII), Sudanshu Vrati (NII) ans Satyajit Rath (NII)

Pictures from the SF June 11 meet

http://picasaweb.google.com/youngindianinvestigator/Yimeet_sf_09#

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Research grants in India

Applying for grants: In addition to the DBT, DST and ICMR programmes a major new programme of the DBT in Wellcome Trust offers many new programmes for those returning to India.
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Getting to UCSF for June 11 meeting

Driving:

The websites below include driving directions.

http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/directions/

Parking around mission bay:

http://www.parking.ucsf.edu/transportation/parking/public/mb/

Public Transit:

The public transit options from anywhere in the Bay Area to 600, 16th Street, San Francisco can be found using either http://maps.google.com/ or www. 511.org

In addition, you may also avail of the shuttles services that UCSF has to connect its different campuses.

1. If you take BART, you would take it to 16th Street Station and catch the Red Shuttle from in front of the Burger King on 16th Street and Mission. (shuttle schedule below).

http://www.parking.ucsf.edu/transportation/shuttles/timetables/schedules_0907/RED-Temp.pdf

2. If you take Caltrain, you can take the Teal Shuttle from near Berry Street and Third Street

http://www.parking.ucsf.edu/transportation/shuttles/timetables/pdf/teal.pdf

Destination:

Here is a map of the Mission Bay campus:

http://www.ucsf.edu/maps/

When you get to Mission Bay, enter Genentech Hall on the Koret Quad (grassy area) side of the building, to the left of the large set of stairs, and check in at the Security Guard station. Byers Auditorium is next to the security desk.

Planned biotech clusters in India (Apr 2009 issue of Biotech News)

Indian Biotech Science Clusters

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