dkNET community events and announcements in June, 2016

Dear dkNET Community,

dkNET provides updates on activities of interest to the NIDDK-supported community. You could keep up to date on these activities through our Twitter feed @dkNET_info, through our Community Calendar, or through dkNET e-mail list. If you have an event or funding opportunities you'd like to advertise, please contact us info_at_dknet.org.

Events in June, 2016

June 10-14, 2016

American Diabetes Association 76th Scientific Sessions 

The American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions offers researchers and health care professionals from around the world the unique opportunity to share ideas and learn about the significant advances in diabetes research, treatment, and care. Don’t miss this opportunity to join your colleagues at the world’s largest meeting focused on diabetes!

Location: New Orleans, LA, USA

More information: http://professional.diabetes.org/meeting/scientific-sessions/76th-scientific-sessions

June 10, 2016

Simulation Research in Gastrointestinal and Urologic Care: Challenges and Opportunities Workshop  

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) are jointly sponsoring a one-day workshop. The purpose of the workshop is threefold: (1) to explore and expand the basic research on the development and validity of simulation applications to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal and urologic disease; (2) to promote research on the use of simulation both to identify causes of error in detection and treatment and to assess methods to prevent complications and improve safety; and (3) to identify new methods to analyze the validity and usefulness of simulation applications in clinical care.

Location: Bethesda, MD, USA

More information: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/news/events-calendar/Pages/simulation-research-2016.aspx#tab-event-details

June 17, 2016

dkNET Workshop/Webinar: The NIDDK Information Network: a Community Research Data, Information and Resource Discovery Portal   

The NIDDK Information Network (dkNET; http://dknet.org) is an open community resource portal for basic and clinical investigators in diabetes, digestive, endocrine, metabolic, kidney, and urologic diseases. dkNET provides seamless access to a collection of diverse research resources, including data, information, materials, tools, funding opportunities, literature, services, events, news, projects, and organizations that advance the mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). dkNET functions as a “search engine for data, information, and resources”, searching across millions of database records contained in hundreds of databases and resources developed and maintained by independent projects around the world. dkNET makes it easy to find research resources relevant to your work, through a concept based search interface across NIDDK community resources as well as general biomedical resources. Building on dkNET’s core infrastructure, we have worked to implement standards to improve research reproducibility by providing data curation and research resource identification standards. To help researchers and resource providers to keep up to date with the community, we provide notification alerts updating users when new information is available according to their saved searches, and notify resource providers when their resources have been cited in the literature. We also provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to interact with dkNET. In this workshop, we will give an overview of the dkNET portal and show how dkNET can be used to address a variety of use cases that involve searching for research resources and connecting to the broader biomedical community. We will also provide information on how researchers can get involved with dkNET, keep up to date with the NIDDK community, and associated efforts such as using research resource identifiers (RRIDs) to promote data reuse and reproducibility.

Location: Bethesda, MD, USA (This workshop will be both on-site and webcast. Please register as a workshop or webinar participant)

More information: https://dknet.org/about/blog/352; Registration: dknet-workshop-201606.eventbrite.com

June 20, 2016

Early Registration Deadline: ISN (International Society of Nephrology) Forefronts Symposium 2016 

ISN Forefronts Symposium 2016: The metabolize and Microbiome in Kidney Disease. This symposium will focus on the interaction of the Metabolome and Microbiome and its connection to different disease states and how these approaches could be applied to kidney diseases. meeting goal is to foster greater communication and interaction between pancreatic islet cell biology investigators within the Midwest region.

Location: San Diego, CA, USA

More information: http://www.isnforefronts.org/sandiego/home

June 23-24, 2016

Functional Bowel Disorders Workshop 

Functional Bowel Disorders Workshop: Future Research Directions in Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. This workshop will focus on elucidating the research gaps in current knowledge and how to address these gaps in a timely and effective manner.

Location: Bethesda, MD, USA

More information: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/news/events-calendar/Pages/fbdworkshop2016.aspx#tab-event-details

Funding opportunities deadlines in June, 2016

June 5, 2016

NIH Funding Opportunity Application Due Date: Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine (R01)   

Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine (R01) application due date. This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions and organizations proposing research aimed at characterizing animal stem cells and improving existing, and creating new, animal models for human disease conditions. The intent of this initiative is to facilitate the use of stem cell-based therapies for regenerative medicine. The initiative focuses on the following areas: 1) comparative analysis of animal and human stem cells to provide information for selection of the most predictive and informative model systems; 2) development of new technologies for stem cell characterization and transplantation; and 3) improvement of animal disease models for stem cell-based therapeutic applications.

More information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-114.html