HHMI at Stanford

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HHMI at Stanford

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HHMI Mission Statement

• The primary purpose and objective of the Howard
  Hughes Medical Institute shall be the promotion
  of human knowledge within the field of the basic
  sciences (principally the field of medical
  research and medical education) and the effective
  application thereof for the benefit of mankind.

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Overview

• Administrative office to support the local
  investigators and field staff
• Very much like any academic department however,
  we are without teaching components graduate
  students
• Unique approach to research management
• Functions
• Human Resources
• Purchasing
• Budgeting Finance
• Health Safety
• Equipment asset management
• Facilities space allocations
• Host Inter/Intra-departmental relations

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HHMI Stanford SOO

• Location Beckman Center , Room B202
• Phone Number 650.723.5083
• Fax Number 650.723.9546
• www.hhmi.org
• Staff
• John P. Kennedy, Manager 650.725.7542
• Nancy Wolowski, Human Resources
  Assistant 650.723.5083
• Cathie Silva, Contract Administrator HQ
  Team 650.725.8252

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Staff

• Nancy Wolowski Human Resources phone
  650.723.5083
• email wolowski_at_hhmi.org
• Human Resources
• New hires, Associate appointments renewals
• Benefits administration
• Visa and work authorizations
• Assist with Time Reporting Issues
• Policy dissemination
• Office Administrative Support
• Travel advance reimbursement
  coordination/processing
• Payee, misc. reimbursements
• On-Campus reconciliation support
• Material Transfer Agreements Letters of
  Assignment
• Policy dissemination of general nature
• Daily mail activities

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Staff

• (off site)
• Luis Valdez Purchasing (Stanford labs) phone
  858.534.4779
• Purchasing email valdezl_at_hhmi.org
• Procurement of goods services for the lab
  from AN non-AN vendors
• Utilizing Purchase orders, Credit Card, Web
• Advise lab upon requests for maintenance
  repairs
• Problem resolution for returns, damaged goods,
  mis-shipments, etc
• Problem resolution for vendor issues
• ProCard reconciliation
• Monitor update open encumbrance issues
• Coordination of capital equipment requests
• New user training coordination with trainer
• (on site)
• Cathie Silva Purchasing phone [phone]
• Contract Administrator- HQ Team email
  silvac_at_hhmi.org
• Working with Lead on Commodities team to
  negotiate new terms, review for compliance

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Staff

• John P. Kennedy Administration phone
  650.725.7542
• Customer Service email kennedyj_at_hhmi.org
• Conduit of information
• Manage SOO implement staff back-up
  procedures
• Management consultation guidance
• Budget and Finances
• Personnel management
• Policy administration for HHMI, Host
• Health Safety Coordination, Compliance,
  Oversight
• Facilities Project (renovation) management
• Coordinate space inventory reporting
• General Administration
• Local Representative
• Establish relationship w/regional office, HQ,
  Host, investigators employees
• Understand and operate w/in academic setting
• Advocate for investigators and staff
• Liaison w/Hosts

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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Philip A Beachy, Ph.D.
• Hedgehog Signaling in Development, Regeneration,
  and Disease
• Biochemistry
• Dominique Bergmann, Ph.D.

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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Axel T. Brunger, Ph.D.
• Structural and Functional Studies of Synaptic
  Vesicle Fusion
• Molecular Cellular Physiology Neurology
• Gerald R.
  Crabtree, M.D.
• Genetic Regulatory Circuits in Vertebrate
  Development
• Pathology

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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Mark M. Davis, Ph.D.
• Molecular Approaches to Lymphocyte Recognition
  and Differentiation
• Microbiology Immunology
• Karl Deisseroth, MD., Ph.D.
• Optogenetics Development and Application
• Psychiatry Bio-Engineering

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Investigators - - Stanford University

David M. Kingsley, Ph.D. Genetic Control
of Vertebrate Skeletal Development
Developmental Biology
Mark A. Krasnow, M.D., Ph.D. Genetic
Control of Lung Development Biochemistry
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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Liqun Luo, Ph.D.
• Genetic Analysis of Neuronal Circuit Assembly
• Biological Sciences
• Tirin Moore, Ph.D.
• Neural Circuits of Cognition
• Neurobiology
• William T. Newsome, Ph.D. Neural
  Mechanisms Underlying Visual Perception and
  Visually Based Cognition
• Neurobiology

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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Roel Nusse, Ph.D.
• Signaling by Wnt Proteins During
  Development and Regeneration
• Developmental Biology
• Jonathan K. Pritchard, Ph.D.
• Causes and Consequences of Human Variation
• Genetics

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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D.
• Innovations in Brain Imaging
• From Miniaturized to Massive Parallel
  Instrumentation
• Biological Sciences
• Kang Shen, Ph.D.
• Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic
  Target Selection and Synapse Formation
• Biological Sciences
• Krishna Shenoy, Ph.D.

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Investigators - - Stanford University

• Thomas C. Sudhof, M.D.
• Synapse Formation and Function
• Molecular Cellular Physiology
• Julie Theriot, Ph.D.
• How to Build a Cell
• Biochemistry

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Investigators - - University California Santa
Cruz
David Haussler, Ph.D. Algorithms for Genome
Analysis Center for Biomolecular Science
Engineering