The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC-Chapel Hill is excited to announce the next event from Accelerating Collaborative Team Science (ACTS) — a Team Science educational program.
ACTS functions as a connector, bridging the gap between researchers, coordinating centers, and other parties involved in practicing and promoting collaborative team science theory and practical applications across the scientific research landscape. With twenty years of experience coordinating team science efforts, RENCI provides a unique vantage point for those seeking to understand the role of the coordinating center and the challenges specific to large, geographically dispersed scientific teams.
In today’s complex research landscape, outstanding science capabilities are important, but they aren’t enough. For collaborative teams, the ability to drive real-world impacts relies on good science communications practices. In this follow-up to a previous webinar on bridging the gaps between science and the public, four science communication experts will engage in a series of mini-fireside chats and a Q and A, addressing how research teams can leverage science communication to accelerate collaboration, appropriately amplify discoveries, and connect meaningfully with those beyond their research fields.
This session will help collaborative science teams engage in the clear, consistent, audience-aware communications to advance research goals and translate their work to the larger scientific community and beyond. Join the RENCI ACTS team and their invited experts as they unpack the practices, mindsets, and strategies that make science communications such a force in collaborative research.
Learn more at renci.org/team-science/.
Please join the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases for a PAUSE Seminar featuring Tessa Andermann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, discussing anaerobic antibiotics, the gut microbiome, and CAR-T outcomes. Connect with colleagues. Bagels and coffee provided at the in-person seminar.
Location: Bioinformatics Building, room 1131
Cluster analysis
The NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series is appropriate for those with a basic familiarity with statistics. These seminars introduce topics not often included in STATS 101. In this seminar, Jeff Laux, PhD, will discuss how to recognize clusters of patients that are similar, or not, to each other.
Please note: This event will not be recorded. Materials such as slides or handouts will be shared with documented attendees only. Attendance may be determined through Zoom meeting attendance reports.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Roland RJ van Kimmenade, MD, PhD
Cardiologist, Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Take a glance through recent news or social media and you would be hard-pressed not to see mentions of chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI) methods aimed at generating text, images and other content. Recent work by Eloundou and colleagues (2023) explored the potential impact of these types of generative AI on labor markets, and survey research, specifically was among the top two most impacted industries. In light of this finding, naturally, we wonder: how will this tech change the work in our field? How might chatbot technologies or related software be leveraged to support, enhance, or expand our work by assisting with a common research approach within the social sciences: surveys. And even still, how might survey and social science, more broadly, contribute to the improvement of large language models (LLMs)? In this workshop we will describe how LLMs work and showcase some of the current ways that these models are being used within the survey research process chronicling their applications in the design, collection, and analyses of survey data based on a large-scale systematic review of the social science, AI and computer science literature. We will also discuss some limitations of this technology as it relates to applications within the survey research process. We will also pose some relevant ideas around how survey research can also contribute to the development and refinement of large language models. And we note that no part of this abstract was generated using a chatbot.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Andrea J. Cook, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Lynn L. DeBar, PhD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Patricia M. Herman, PhD, ND
RAND
Join the Children's Research Institute for a seminar with Nadia Hoekstra, MD, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellow in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Participate in the seminar at 3116 Mary Ellen Jones Building (with lunch provided). A zoom option is available by request.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Jeffrey A. Spaeder, MD
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer
Senior Vice President
IQVIA
Adrian F. Hernandez, MD, MHS
Executive Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Vice Dean,Duke University School of Medicine
This all-day, in-person event will have various presentations, breakout sessions, and panel discussions. NRP members will also have an opportunity to have a professional headshot taken (if you’re on the NRP listserv, then you are a NRP member—keep an eye on the NRP listserv for more information closer to May). Join NRP at nrp.tracs.unc.edu/communication/.
Learn more about the conference and explore the full agenda at nrp.tracs.unc.edu/research-conference.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Ankeet S. Bhatt, MD, MBA, ScM
Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Division of Research
Adjunct Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine