The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine will present Grand Rounds on Tuesday, January 12 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. Amit Gaggar, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will present “Collagen Fragmentation Controls Neutrophil Influx: Proteases, Products, and Role in Chronic Pulmonary Disease.” For more information, contact Cristina Flores at [email protected].

Nevis L. Fregien, associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Regulation of Human Airway Ciliated Epithelial Cell Differentiation” on Tuesday, January 12 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. For additional information, contact Nilcer Aviles at 305-243-6691 or e-mail [email protected].

The UHealth Sleep Program will present grand rounds on Tuesday, January 12 at 12 p.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Atul Malhotra, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the Sleep Disorders Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will present “Future Therapies for Sleep Apnea.” For more information, please contact Liz Primus at 305-243-5176.

This salary transfers class will cover the following topics: how to initiate a salary transfer to another account, forms to use, proper documentation, justification required by the government, deadlines for processing documents, and government rules for salary (cost) transfers. It will also cover several aspects of the payroll system such as: payroll default accounts, how to journal salaries out of default accounts, deadlines, forms, and the importance of clearing default accounts.

This two-day class will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 12 and 13, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Dominion Towers, tenth-floor conference room. Register for this workshop through ULearn. If you have any questions and/or a problem with registration, please contact the Office of Education and Training at 305-243-5092.

Are you planning to submit an application to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2010? Did you know the NIH is implementing major changes to all competing applications with due dates on or after January 25, 2010? These changes include restructured application forms, new instructions that will affect your research plan and biosketch, and shorter page limits.

The Office of Research Education and Training will conduct an NIH update meeting on Tuesday, January 12 from 9 to 10 a.m. in the Flipse Building, Room 502, on the Coral Gables campus. Come and learn about the new requirements and how grant applications will be affected.

Registration is available through ULearn. For additional information, please contact the Office of Research Education and Training Team at [email protected] or 305-243-5092.