DEM Weekly Snapshot

Weekly Snapshot

Week of September 26, 2022 | Edited by: Meredith Lew Tan

UCSF COVID Policy Updates

UCSF Revises Return to On-site Work Guidelines:

With decreasing COVID-19 infection rates in the Bay Area and among UCSF employees and learners, the UCSF enterprise-wide COVID-19 impact level is now "Medium." The following updates/changes are now in place in the Daily Health Screener and COVID Hotline:

In addition to Color and PCR tests, home-based antigen testing is now an option for returning to work with COVID-like symptoms. This option requires TWO negative antigen tests performed at least 24 hours apart. Further details, instructions and Occupational Health Services (OHS) clearance letters are posted in the Daily Health Screener.

For persons with unprotected, close contact for more than 15 minutes with a COVID-confirmed individual in the previous 10 days, a negative COVID-19 test result is required before entering UCSF facilities. This can be achieved with a negative Color or PCR test, or with a negative home-based antigen test coupled with a Color test submitted on the first day onsite. Additional COVID tests will be required based on the number of days since first exposure. More details, instructions and OHS clearance letters are posted in the Daily Health Screener.

International Travel Guidance:

Post-international-travel testing is strongly recommended, but no longer required for entry to UCSF facilities.

Home Antigen testing documentation requirements: If home antigen testing is used to meet the testing requirements, the following steps are required:

Photos of both negative test result that include your name and date of birth must be emailed to COVIDOHSMZ@ucsf.edu prior to entry.
You can send one photo or two separate photos.
To capture this information in a photo, consider writing your name/date of birth on a piece of paper and placing the test result(s) on the paper.
BCH Oakland employees must send negative test results to eh-dept@ucsf.edu.

UC Open Enrollment - 10/27-11/18

Mark your calendars! 2023 UC Open Enrollment is from Oct. 27 – Nov. 18, 2022. You’ll be able to find what’s new or changing for this year along with additional information in UC Path.

Announcements

California Voter Registration Information

UCSF encourages all members of our campus community to actively participate in our democracy. VOTE!

You can register to vote online. The deadline to register is 10/24.

Science Policy Group Speaker Series

The Science Policy Group at UCSF is hosting a three-part speaker series. Connect with Meagan Olive in the Feeney Lab if you would like to attend in person.

NOVA12 Walk for Breast Cancer

NOVA 12 SF is a 12 mile walk around SF representing the 12% of women who develop breast cancer .The route highlights breast cancer disparities across our city. To donate and/or register, visit the NOVA SF website.

Gladstone Institute Special Seminar

Paul E. Turner

Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University; Microbiology Faculty, Yale School of Medicine

Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm

Location: Gladstone Institutes, Mahley Auditorium

"Phage therapy to combat infections by antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens"

Followed by a reception on the back patio. This is an in-person meeting. If you are unable to attend in person and would like to attend via Zoom, please contact Veronica Fonseca.

For Latinx Heritage Month 2022, all members of UCSF are invited to join the collective of organizations & the MRC in participating in their virtual ofrenda (offering) by placing an object, image, and words to dedicate to a loved one. Please honor and respect this place. Throughout the month there are several events being hosted at UCSF and ZSFG to celebrate together.

Incubator 4 Cleaning - Friday, 9/30/22

Please note, Incubator 4 in P2 Room 623 is being cleaned on Friday, 9/30 at 6AM. Please remove all cultures by the end of day on Thursday, 9/29.

Failure to move your cultures may result in their disposal.

FCS Express Training with CIL and CoLabs

Join FCS Express for this special training session to get a head start with FCS Express. The training will be followed by a special talk on Spectral Unmixing by Dr. David Novo.

Click here to review the flyer. Space is limited. Click here to RSVP.

UCSF COVID-19 Policy Updates

Be vigilant about masking at work, unless you are in a room by yourself. Food and drinks are permitted when staff are present together in in-door, non-clinical areas. Occupancy must not exceed 50% when food and drinks are consumed.

Visitors are required to be fully vaccinated. If they are not they will be required to have a negative COVID test before entering any building on the ZSFG campus.

Staff can obtain COVID testing at the OHS employee testing tent in the parking lot by Avon Breast Center, Mon-Sun from 6:30am-4:30pm or from the Color vending machine in Building 9.

Staffing Updates

Departures

Alice Wang - Rutishauser - SRA3

Arrivals

Lesley Hom - Javid - UC Visiting Student
Sion Yoo - Javid - UC Visiting Student
Sophia Miliotis - Henrich - BMS Rotation Student

Current Openings

Translational Research Faculty - DEM
SRA II - Ernst Lab
Postdoc - Feeney Lab
SRA II - Hunt Lab
Specialist (Flow Cytometry) - Hunt Lab
SRA II - Javid Lab (coming soon)
SRA II - Rutishauser Lab
SRA III - Rutishauser Lab (coming soon)
Postdoc (Genome Engineering) - Rutishauser Lab
Postdoc (ImmunoX Collab)- Rutishauser Lab
Postdoc - Rutishauser Lab
Professional Researcher - Rutishauser Lab (coming soon)
SRA I - Vasquez Lab

DEM in the News

Dr. Bryan Greenhouse was part of a collaborative that taught a one-week training on Malaria Genomic Epidemiology and Data Analytics in Kampala, Uganda.

Click here to see the press release by the African CDC.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resource

Offering Accessible Education is the First Step in Workforce Diversity

"The social justice demonstrations of summer 2020 awakened something in everyday Americans. Many people and companies vowed to do better — but if creating more diverse and equitable workplaces were as easy as making a lofty public pledge, the demographics of our workforce would already reflect those of the world around us.

Instead, Black employees comprise less than 5% of almost three-quarters of tech companies’ staff. Moreover, even though non-white racial and ethnic groups grew in size over the 2010s, Black (13.4%), Hispanic (18.5%), and Asian employees (5.9%) still make up just a fraction of the American workforce.

Click here to continue this opinion piece by Jeff Mazur of readwrite.