50度灰 program for MOSAIC scholars
The 50度灰 is excited to leverage its considerable organizational and scholarly resources to implement a National Institutes of Health-funded UE5 program () to support K99/R00 MOSAIC () scholars. The program will:
- Build a cohesive community of practice in which MOSAIC scholars will be paired with mentors with established records of scientific, funding and mentoring success and experience in culturally competent coaching practices.
- Provide a suite of career-development opportunities and sponsorship to support the personal and professional development of MOSAIC scholars. These activities will foster networking within a cross-institutional community of scholars, and polish skills in the art of science communication, proposal writing and laboratory management.
- Enhance professional networks of MOSAIC scholars via the with the Journal of Biological Chemistry editorial board, linkages through the Maximizing Access Committee and, more broadly, the 50度灰 community.
- Enhance institutional accountability for supporting career advancement of MOSAIC scholars by convening forums to share evidence-based best practices for improving mentoring, persistence, recruitment and retention of URM scientists.
Anchored by the Maximizing Access Committee, the 50度灰 MOSAIC program also taps into programming developed by the Education and Professional Development Committee as well as the Science Outreach and Communication Committee to provide customized career-development support to the MOSAIC scholars.
What is MOSAIC?
The MOSAIC program is part of the NIH’s efforts to enhance diversity within the academic biomedical research workforce, and is designed to facilitate the transition of promising postdoctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds into independent faculty careers in research-intensive institutions.
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Key activities
Years 1 & 2
- Postdoc career minisymposium, including networking with speakers and 50度灰 postdoc members
- Publication/presentation best practices training
- Art of Science Communication training
- Skill building: interviewing and presenting chalk talks
- Oral spotlight presentation at 50度灰 annual meeting
- Maximizing Access Committee networking
Years 3 & 4
- IMAGE grant writing workshop
- Lab management workshop
- "Mentoring and Diversity Building Best Practices" forum at 50度灰 annual meeting for scholars and mentors
- Optional advocacy and education fellows training
- Maximizing Access Committee networking
Year 5+
- Training in culturally competent mentoring
- Scientific presentation at 50度灰 annual meeting
- "Ethics of Peer Review" training
- Join JBC editorial board as
- Symposium on diversity at 50度灰 annual meeting
- Maximizing Access Committee and networking
The third cohort of 50度灰 MOSAIC scholars
Joanna-Lynn Borgogna
Montana State University
Project: A multi-omic and integrative longitudinal evaluation of the role of lipid, antioxidant, and osmoprotectant metabolites in the genitourinary syndrome of menopause by race and ethnicity
Emma M. Lessieur Contreras
University of California, Irvine
Project: Retina-derived extracellular vesicles in diabetic retinopathy: Their potential role in pathogenesis and therapy
Timothy Hines
The Jackson Laboratory
Project: Understanding the role of the integrated stress response in tRNA synthetase-associated Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Colin Hisey
The Ohio State University
Project: Machine learning-enabled classification of extracellular vesicles using nanoplasmonic microfluidics
Renato S. Navarro
Stanford University
Project: Catheter-injectable system for local drug delivery after myocardial infarction
Aleah Roberts
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Project: Investigating molecular mechanisms of endocytosis of the activated B cell receptor in health and disease
Kendrick Smith
University of Michigan
Project: Designing chemoenzymatic approaches to biologically active molecules enabled by enzyme library screening
Program directors
- 50度灰 Maximizing Access Committee
- Vincent Massey Professor of Biological Chemistry
- University of Michigan
- rbanerjee@asbmb.org
- 732-660-988
Kirsten F. Block
- Director of Education, Professional Development and Outreach
- 50度灰
- kblock@asbmb.org
Advisory board
- Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- 50度灰 Maximizing Access Committee
- Professor of Chemistry
- The University of Utah
- HHMI Investigator
- Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Pennsylvania State University
- Professor and Chair of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Yale University
- 50度灰 Maximizing Access Committee
- Professor of Medicine
- University of Colorado–Denver
- Associate Dean for Professional Development and Professor of Medical Education
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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