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      <title>Using Tidyverse for Genomics workshop</title>
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      <title>Tidyverse workshop</title>
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      <title>Simple rules to make an effective scientific presentation</title>
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      <title>Join us!</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/joinus/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
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&lt;h1 id=&#34;open-positions&#34;&gt;Open positions&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;undergraduate-student-research&#34;&gt;Undergraduate Student Research&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are looking for highly motivated and quantitatively-minded undergraduate students to work on a research project developing computational approaches to accelerate drug-/vaccine-target discovery against infectious diseases. Currently, we prefer students coming in with fellowships/scholarships (&lt;em&gt;e.g.,&lt;/em&gt; SROP, ENSURE, other department/college-level awards).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are happy to train them in many aspects of data-intensive biology. A keen interest in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics/biostatistics, computer science, genetics, or related fields, and prior programming experience in R, Python, Perl, and/or C/C++ would be a huge plus. As part of this project, they will have the opportunity to work closely with a senior scientist and learn to: a) work with large datasets, b) write structured, well-documented code to analyze, integrate, and visualize these datasets, c) interpret the results in the context of pathogenesis, and d) communicate the results in the form of a paper and presentation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have high expectations for their level of commitment to research, and we are keen on incorporating their contributions into co-authored papers in conferences/journals. As an undergraduate student, if you are interested in discussing research opportunities, please send me &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:janani@msu.edu&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;an email&lt;/a&gt; to set up a time to talk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;graduate-student-research&#34;&gt;Graduate Student Research&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are looking for a highly motivated Masters student who is looking to do an internship or a long-term project (6mo–1yr) in developing computational approaches to accelerate drug-/vaccine-target discovery against infectious diseases. You will be a perfect fit if you have a background in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics/biostatistics, computer science, genetics, or related fields. Having programming experience in R, Python, Perl, and/or C/C++ is a huge plus. In addition to these technical qualifications, we are looking for someone who can work well in a team, work hard, and give/take constructive feedback.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This research experience will give you the opportunity to i) use data analysis and visualization to address key biological questions as pertaining to molecular evolution, diagnosis, and treatment (using R), ii) present at group meetings, journals, technical workshops and conferences, iii) develop high coding standards for writing efficient, clear, well-documented, version-controlled code, iv) equip yourself professional for your next career step.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Start a conversation&lt;/em&gt;
Please send me your latest CV and a cover letter that includes i) a summary of your academic/work experience, ii) description of relevant coursework, research experience (incl. publications, conference talks/posters), iii) a brief note on familiarity in the field of phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and comparative pathogenomics, iv) coding experience, if any. If you are already at MSU, please &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:janani@msu.edu&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; to set a time to &lt;a href=&#34;//jananiravi.github.io/#contact&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;meet&lt;/a&gt; and discuss your interest.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;visiting-scientist&#34;&gt;Visiting Scientist&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We welcome visiting scientists to come and collaborate with us for a short period (summer/6mo). If you have a burning question or an interesting idea that is directly related to or complements our research project(s), we would be glad to share our space, experience, and resources with you to develop your project and execute it. Having your own funding would be the easiest way to make this happen. There are some funding sources that you can apply to (e.g., &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;CoB&lt;/a&gt;). Please send me an &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:janani@msu.edu&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; to discuss this opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;collaboration&#34;&gt;Collaboration&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in any of our specific areas of research or have other great ideas that we could work on together, &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:janani@msu.edu&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; right away!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/#contact&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Contact details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>2018: Year in Review | RLEL</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/rlel-2018/rlel-2018/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
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&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who attended, participated or sponsored &lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R-Ladies East Lansing&lt;/a&gt; in 2018! We had a fantastic start &amp;amp; a very successful first 6mo &lt;a href=&#34;http://bit.ly/rlel-venue&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;on campus&lt;/a&gt;! We hosted 7 meetups since July 2018 including two very well-attended workshops (70+ attendees) and a DataViz challenge! Help us continue spreading the R &amp;amp; Data Science spirit across MSU in 2019! Contact us &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:eastlansing@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;eastlansing@rladies.org&lt;/a&gt; about co-hosting or sponsoring a meetup/workshop in Spring 2019. As always, R-Ladies events are open to all R-users across all levels of expertise including students, faculty and staff, and non-MSU folks.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;2018-year-in-review&#34;&gt;2018: Year in Review&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-team&#34;&gt;The Team&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Organizers&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Janani Ravi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://icer.msu.edu/about/directory/archer&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Camille Archer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Co-organizers&lt;/strong&gt;: Kayla Johnson, Arjun Krishnan, Nate Davis (~ &lt;a href=&#34;https://thekrishnanlab.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Krishnan Lab&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;meetup-presentations-material&#34;&gt;Meetup Presentations/Material&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/tree/master/presentations&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&#34;http://bit.ly/rlel-meetup-presentations-gd&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&#34;http://bit.ly/rlel-pics-2018&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;2018-sponsors&#34;&gt;2018 Sponsors&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/rlel-2018/index_files/rlel-sponsors-2018.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;&#34; /&gt;
Grand Traverse Pie (2018-12) | Business Analytics (2018-11) | SSDA (2018-10) |
Krishnan Lab (2018-09) | College of Veterinary Medicine (2018-09) |
BEACON (2018-08) | iCER (2018-07)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;2018-meetups&#34;&gt;2018 Meetups&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&#34;kickoff-meeting&#34;&gt;Kickoff meeting&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Welcome to RLEL | Who We Are | What We Do | Upcoming Meetups&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&#34;lightning-talks&#34;&gt;Lightning talks&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;aug-13-2018&#34;&gt;Aug 13, 2018&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Git &amp;amp; R by Melissa Dale&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Experimental languages w/ R by Le Ni La&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Having fun w/ Rcade by Kayla Johnson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Websites w/ R by Camille Archer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;UpSet plots w/ R by Janani Ravi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;BigDataIgnite conference promo&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;sep-10-2018&#34;&gt;Sep 10, 2018&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Morphospaces w/ #Geomorph by Acacia Ackles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Integrating Python &amp;amp; R w/ #Reticulate by Anna Yannakopoulos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Literature Survey w/ #Bibliometrix by Veronica Frans&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;GLM w/ #glmulti by Lauren Wisnieski&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cool #dataviz resources Data-to-Viz RGraph Gallery by Janani Ravi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;sep-24-2018&#34;&gt;Sep 24, 2018&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Spatial Humanities w/ R Rachael White&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;R/qtl Miranda Haus&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hyenas, Microbes &amp;amp; R Connie Rojas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Publication quality figures w/ #ggpubr by Taylor Dunivin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;R+LaTeX=knitr Cara Feldscher&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&#34;workshops&#34;&gt;Workshops&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intro to Tidy Data Workshop: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/tree/master/presentations/20181105-workshop-tidydata&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; • &lt;a href=&#34;https://bit.ly/rlel-20181105&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Data Visualization Workshop: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/tree/master/presentations/20181008-workshop-dataviz&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; • &lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tSrhZ_TymJfxeZbe8hAdtPjcmhoeAJls?usp=sharing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id=&#34;year-in-pictures&#34;&gt;Year in pictures&lt;/h2&gt;









  
  


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&lt;h1 id=&#34;you-r-ladies-east-lansing&#34;&gt;You &amp;amp; R-Ladies East Lansing&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Join the R-Ladies Community on Slack (&lt;a href=&#34;https://bit.ly/rlel-slack-#&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://bit.ly/rlel-slack-#&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lead (or team-lead) presentations/discussions in a meetup&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Help run the meetup(s) (help R-newbies, help pick up pizza)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Contribute to Blog Entries, Webpage (&lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Be a Social Butterfly (&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/RLadiesELansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&#34;https://facebook.com/rladieseastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; | Courier pigeon?)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sponsor a meeting (OR help find us monthly meeting sponsors; &amp;lt;$75)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bring in a speaker and/or Bring in fellow R-users!&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggest a topic &amp;amp; bring in volunteers from the 200+ Meetup/Slack R-Ladies!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Getting Involved @ R-Ladies: &lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies.org/about-us/help/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://rladies.org/about-us/help/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;how-to-be-in-touch&#34;&gt;How to be in touch?&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Access our presentations, R scripts and more on &lt;a href=&#34;//github.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt; and follow us on twitter to stay up to date about R-Ladies news! &lt;em&gt;Join the &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Meetup group&lt;/a&gt; to be notified of our upcoming meetings!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R-Ladies Global&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Meetup: &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Twitter: &lt;a href=&#34;http://twitter.com/RLadiesELansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@RLadiesELansing&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;http://twitter.com/RLadiesGlobal&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@RLadiesGlobal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Slack: &lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Github: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@rladies-eastlansing&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@rladies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;E-mail:

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;eastlansing [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;janani [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;info [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id=&#34;organizers&#34;&gt;Organizers&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;janani@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Janani Ravi&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;camille@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Camille Archer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS&lt;/em&gt; Community Policies &amp;amp; Code of Conduct:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Full community guidelines are found here: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>2019: RLEL Upcoming Events</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/rlel-upcoming-2019/rlel-2019-upcoming/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/rlel-upcoming-2019/rlel-2019-upcoming/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;h2 id=&#34;a-little-background&#34;&gt;A little background&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R-Ladies East Lansing&lt;/a&gt; welcomes R-enthusiasts of all proficiency levels, including aspiring and experienced R programmers, who are interested in mentoring, networking &amp;amp; expertise upskilling. This non-profit, civil society community is designed to develop members’ R skills &amp;amp; knowledge through social, collaborative learning &amp;amp; sharing. Supporting minority identity access to STEM skills &amp;amp; careers, the Free Software Movement, and contributing to the global R community!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyone and everyone interested in R/Data Science should join the group. We encourage members to actively participate, contributing as learners, teachers, developers or innovators! We encourage women and minority genders to present/lead most sessions, conversations but we have no restrictions whatsoever about who can participate in membership, discussions and other activities. Please join us and bring your R-family &amp;amp; R-friends!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;2019-what-s-next&#34;&gt;2019: What’s next?&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;upcoming-workshops&#34;&gt;Upcoming Workshops&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intro to Statistics w/ R (Spring; workshop series)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intro to RMarkdown (Summer)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intro to Shiny (Summer)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intro to Version Control (Git) w/ R (Summer)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Register &amp;amp; RSVP on Meetup&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://meetup.com/rladies-eastlansing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would you like to &lt;em&gt;team-lead a workshop&lt;/em&gt;? Contact us if you’d to present for 5–10 min slots within the workshop or longer if desired.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Join&lt;/strong&gt; the channels on &lt;strong&gt;Slack&lt;/strong&gt;: #workshop-rstats #workshop-shiny #workshop-rmarkdown OR Email us: &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:eastlansing@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;eastlansing@rladies.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;introduce-a-girl-to-engineering-2019-02-16&#34;&gt;Introduce a Girl to Engineering (2019-02-16)&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Register for R-Ladies East Lansing’s activity booth: &lt;a href=&#34;http://meetu.ps/e/Gfntz/yBMBS/f&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;http://meetu.ps/e/Gfntz/yBMBS/f&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;MSU Women in Engg. outreach: &lt;a href=&#34;http://bit.ly/msu-wie-k12-outreach&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;http://bit.ly/msu-wie-k12-outreach&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;women-in-data-science-conference-2019-04&#34;&gt;Women in Data Science Conference (2019-04)&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://widsconference.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://widsconference.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Register&lt;/strong&gt;: TBA&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would like to give a talk/present a poster? Stay tuned on &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Meetup&lt;/a&gt;.
Contact us: &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:eastlansing@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;eastlansing@rladies.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;r-ladies-east-lansing-bookclub&#34;&gt;R-Ladies East Lansing Bookclub&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&#34;academic-incl&#34;&gt;Academic incl.&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;R for Data Science&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Learning Statistics with R&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;R programming for Data Science&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hands-On Programming with R&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&#34;nonfiction-incl&#34;&gt;Nonfiction incl.&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Algorithms to Live by&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Weapons of Math Destruction&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&#34;blog-posts-articles-incl&#34;&gt;Blog posts &amp;amp; Articles incl.&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Good enough practices in Scientific Computing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Happy Git w/ R&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;meetup-presentations-material&#34;&gt;Meetup Presentations/Material&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/tree/master/presentations&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&#34;http://bit.ly/rlel-meetup-presentations-gd&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&#34;http://bit.ly/rlel-pics-2018&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;you-r-ladies-east-lansing&#34;&gt;You &amp;amp; R-Ladies East Lansing&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Join the R-Ladies Community on Slack (&lt;a href=&#34;https://bit.ly/rlel-slack-#&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://bit.ly/rlel-slack-#&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lead (or team-lead) presentations/discussions in a meetup&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Help run the meetup(s) (help R-newbies, help pick up pizza)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Contribute to Blog Entries, Webpage (&lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://rladies-eastlansing.github.io&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Be a Social Butterfly (&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/RLadiesELansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&#34;https://facebook.com/rladieseastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; | Courier pigeon?)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sponsor a meeting (OR help find us monthly meeting sponsors; &amp;lt;$75)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bring in a speaker and/or Bring in fellow R-users!&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggest a topic &amp;amp; bring in volunteers from the 200+ Meetup/Slack R-Ladies!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Getting Involved @ R-Ladies: &lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies.org/about-us/help/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://rladies.org/about-us/help/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;how-to-be-in-touch&#34;&gt;How to be in touch?&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Access our presentations, R scripts and more on &lt;a href=&#34;//github.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt; and follow us on twitter to stay up to date about R-Ladies news! &lt;em&gt;Join the &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Meetup group&lt;/a&gt; to be notified of our upcoming meetings!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R-Ladies Global&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Meetup: &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Twitter: &lt;a href=&#34;http://twitter.com/RLadiesELansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@RLadiesELansing&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;http://twitter.com/RLadiesGlobal&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@RLadiesGlobal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Slack: &lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Github: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@rladies-eastlansing&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;@rladies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;E-mail:

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;eastlansing [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;janani [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;info [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-team&#34;&gt;The Team&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Organizers&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&#34;janani@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Janani Ravi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;camille@rladies.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Camille Archer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Co-organizers&lt;/strong&gt;: Kayla Johnson, Arjun Krishnan (~ &lt;a href=&#34;https://thekrishnanlab.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Krishnan Lab&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS&lt;/em&gt; Community Policies &amp;amp; Code of Conduct:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Full community guidelines are found here: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Bio</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/bio/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/bio/</guid>
      <description></description>
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    <item>
      <title>2018: Year in Books | Goodreads</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2018/goodreads-2018/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2018/goodreads-2018/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;Find my latest reads &amp;amp; recommendations on &lt;a href=&#34;//goodreads.com/jananiravi&#34;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;myyearinbooks-summary-stats&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2018/1671098&#34;&gt;2018: #MyYearInBooks Summary Stats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;book-read&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1671098-janani-ravi?shelf=2018-reads&#34;&gt;Book Read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Useful Resources</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/useful-links/useful-resources/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/useful-links/useful-resources/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My posts with some &lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/categories/resources&#34;&gt;#useful-resources&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;great-posts-academic&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Great posts | academic&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life/&#34;&gt;The Awesomest 7-year Postdoc &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Radhika Nagpal | Scientific American&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/post/2016/matt-might-blog/&#34;&gt;Matt Might’s Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/post/2018/modelers-hippocratic-oath&#34;&gt;Modeler’s Hippocratic oath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;bioinformatics&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Bioinformatics&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://c2-d2.github.io/hanage-lab/Microbial-Bioinformatics-starter-kit/&#34;&gt;Microbial Bioinformatics Starter Kit &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Lauren Cowley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Microbial genome annotation &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Michael Eisen
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/phylogenomics/status/999406494859718662&#34;&gt;Twitter thread&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/i/moments/999641962025074696&#34;&gt;moment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://holtlab.net/2015/02/25/tools-for-bacterial-comparative-genomics/&#34;&gt;Tools for bacterial comparative genomes &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Holt lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;r&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;R&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/post/2018/git-github-links&#34;&gt;Git, GitHub and R&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://paulvanderlaken.com/2017/08/10/r-resources-cheatsheets-tutorials-books/&#34;&gt;R resources&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;paulvanderlaken.com&#34;&gt;Paul Vanderlaken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Related post: &lt;a href=&#34;https://paulvanderlaken.com/2018/05/21/r-tips-and-tricks/&#34;&gt;R Tips and Tricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;data-visualization&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Data Visualization&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://holtlab.net/2015/10/03/plotting-trees-data/&#34;&gt;Plotting trees + data &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Holt Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;blogdown-hugo-academic-r-markdown&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Blogdown, Hugo, Academic &amp;amp; R Markdown&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/&#34;&gt;Blogdown: Creating websites with R Markdown &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Yihui Xie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/gohugoio&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://discourse.gohugo.io/&#34;&gt;Hugo discussion forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic&#34;&gt;Hugo Academic &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; George Cushen&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sourcethemes.com/academic/&#34;&gt;Academic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/index.html&#34;&gt;R Markdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://mcdussault.rbind.io/post/building-your-blog-using-blogdown/&#34;&gt;Building your blog using blogdown &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Marie Dussault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;blogging-tips&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Blogging tips&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://hackerspace.lifehacker.com/top-tips-for-writing-a-blog-post-in-30-minutes-1688838523&#34;&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-blog-as-an-academic/&#34;&gt;6 tips for low-cost academic blogging &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Matt Might&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.masalmon.eu/rladiesct/slides#1&#34;&gt;Ready to start your data science blog? &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Maëlle Salmon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</description>
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      <title>Bacterial Stress Response</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/projects/stress-response/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/projects/stress-response/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;h2 id=&#34;summary&#34;&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;During my postdoctoral research at Rutgers University, I focused on using computational approaches to study various facets of host and pathogen biology including:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;delineating the molecular mechanism underlying a newly identified stress response operon in the tubercle bacterium involving the phage-shock-proteins (psp);&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;unraveling the evolution of bacterial stress response systems (psp) across the tree of life using protein sequence-structure-function relationships;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;reconstructing and analyzing the mycobacterial sigma factor regulatory network.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;related-publications&#34;&gt;Related publications&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The evolution, conservation, and covariation of the Psp envelope-stress-response system across the tree of life, &lt;em&gt;in preparation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/2018/anto&#34;&gt;Variations on a theme: evolution of the phage-shock-protein system in Actinobacteria&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/2015/molmicro&#34;&gt;The Psp system of &lt;em&gt;Mycobacterium tuberculosis&lt;/em&gt; integrates envelope stress-sensing and envelope-preserving functions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/2016/natcomm&#34;&gt;Reconstruction and topological characterization of the sigma factor regulatory network of &lt;em&gt;Mycobacterium tuberculosis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;collaborators&#34;&gt;Collaborators&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;rutgers-university&#34;&gt;Rutgers University&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marila Gennaro&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pratik Datta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matt Neiditch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Arnold Barton&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rasel Khan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rinki Chauhan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;ncbi-nih&#34;&gt;NCBI, NIH&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;L Aravind&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vivek Anantharaman&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;suny-buffalo&#34;&gt;SUNY Buffalo&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gabor Balazsi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;rice-university&#34;&gt;Rice University&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Oleg Igoshin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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      <title>R-Ladies East Lansing | Workshop on Intro to Tidy Data w/ R</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2018-rlel-tidydata/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2018-rlel-tidydata/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/blob/master/event-planning-promos/201811-Meetup-flyer.png?raw=true&#34; width=&#34;60%&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Workshop material: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/tree/master/presentations/20181105-workshop-tidydata&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; • &lt;a href=&#34;https://bit.ly/rlel-20181105&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>R-Ladies East Lansing | Workshop on Intro to Data Visualization w/ R</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2018-rlel-dataviz/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2018-rlel-dataviz/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/blob/master/event-planning-promos/201810-Meetup-flyer.png?raw=true&#34; width=&#34;60%&#34; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Workshop material: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing/meetup-presentations-eastlansing/tree/master/presentations/20181008-workshop-dataviz&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt; • &lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tSrhZ_TymJfxeZbe8hAdtPjcmhoeAJls?usp=sharing&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Using computational appraches to understand host-pathogen biology</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2018-ismb/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2018-ismb/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Launching R-Ladies East Lansing!</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/rlel-launch/rlel-launch/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/rlel-launch/rlel-launch/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;div id=&#34;welcome-to-our-new-chapter&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Welcome to our new chapter!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;what-were-about&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What we’re about&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;R-Ladies East Lansing&lt;/em&gt; is a local chapter of R-Ladies Global. We meet to discuss, learn, teach, present, work on all things R! Our priority is to provide a safe community space for anyone identifying as a minority gender who is interested in and/or working with R. The group exists to promote gender diversity in the R community worldwide. We are pro-actively inclusive of queer, trans, and all minority identities, with additional sensitivity to intersectional identities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;who-should-join&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Who should join?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;R-Ladies East Lansing welcomes members of &lt;strong&gt;all R proficiency levels&lt;/strong&gt;, whether you are a new or aspiring R user, or an experienced R programmer interested in mentoring, networking &amp;amp; expert upskilling. Our non-profit, civil society community is designed to develop our members’ R skills &amp;amp; knowledge through social, collaborative learning &amp;amp; sharing. &lt;em&gt;Supporting minority identity access to STEM skills &amp;amp; careers, the Free Software Movement, and contributing to the global R community!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anyone and everyone interested in R/Data Science&lt;/em&gt; should join our group and participate/contribute in any way you can, be they learners, teachers, developers or innovators! We encourage women and minority genders to present/lead most sessions, conversations but we have &lt;em&gt;no restrictions&lt;/em&gt; whatsoever when it comes to membership, participation, and discussions. So, please join us and bring your R-family &amp;amp; R-friends!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;how-to-be-in-touch&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;How to be in touch?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Access our presentations, R scripts and more on &lt;a href=&#34;//github.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt; and follow us on twitter to stay up to date about R-Ladies news! &lt;em&gt;Join the &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&#34;&gt;Meetup group&lt;/a&gt; to be notified of the first meeting in July!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rladies.org&#34;&gt;R-Ladies Global&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Meetup: &lt;a href=&#34;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Twitter: &lt;a href=&#34;http://twitter.com/RLadiesELansing&#34;&gt;@RLadiesELansing&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;http://twitter.com/RLadiesGlobal&#34;&gt;@RLadiesGlobal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Slack: &lt;a href=&#34;https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://rladies-eastlansing.slack.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Github: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies-eastlansing&#34;&gt;@rladies-eastlansing&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies&#34;&gt;@rladies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;E-mail:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;eastlansing [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;janani [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;info [at] rladies [dot] org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;organizers&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Organizers&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;janani@msu.edu&#34;&gt;Janani Ravi&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;archerc5@msu.edu&#34;&gt;Camille Archer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;ps-community-policies-code-of-conduct&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS&lt;/em&gt; Community Policies &amp;amp; Code of Conduct:&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Full community guidelines are found here: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://github.com/rladies/starter-kit/wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Modeler&#39;s Hippocratic Oath</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/modelers-oath/modelers-hippocratic-oath/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/modelers-oath/modelers-hippocratic-oath/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;p&gt;I recently came across the &lt;strong&gt;Modeler&amp;rsquo;s Hippocratic Oath&lt;/strong&gt; while reading &lt;a href=&#34;//twitter.com/mathbabedotorg&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Cathy O&amp;rsquo;Neil&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lsquo;Weapons of Math Destruction&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This was originally written by &lt;a href=&#34;//twitter.com/EmanuelDerman&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Emanuel Derman&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;//twitter.com/wilmott&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Paul Wilmott&lt;/a&gt; in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;the-oath&#34;&gt;The Oath&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I will remember that I didn’t make the world, and it doesn’t satisfy my equations.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Though I will use models boldly to estimate value, I will not be overly impressed by mathematics.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I will never sacrifice reality for elegance without explaining why I have done so.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nor will I give the people who use my model false comfort about its accuracy. Instead, I will make explicit its assumptions and oversights.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I understand that my work may have enormous effects on society and the economy, many of them beyond my comprehension.
&lt;img src=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/post/2018-05-24-modelers-hippocratic-oath-md_files/modelers_hippocratic_oath.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;&#34; width=&#34;300px&#34; height=&#34;300px&#34;/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>R-Ladies East Lansing</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/projects/rladies-eastlansing/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/projects/rladies-eastlansing/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/tags/rladies&#34;&gt;R-Ladies East Lansing Posts &amp;amp; Workshops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/interests/rladies_files/rladies.jpeg&#34; alt=&#34;&#34; width=&#34;200px&#34; height=&#34;200px&#34;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Reading</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/reading/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/reading/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Check out my &lt;a href=&#34;//goodreads.com/jananiravi&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt; profile for my latest reads and recommendations! :)&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Resources</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/resources/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/resources/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;p&gt;My posts with some &lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/categories/resources&#34;&gt;useful resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/post/2018/git-github-links&#34;&gt;Git, GitHub and R&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/post/2018/modelers-hippocratic-oath&#34;&gt;Modeler&amp;rsquo;s Hippocratic oath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;great-posts-academic&#34;&gt;Great posts | academic&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;The Awesomest 7-year Postdoc &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Radhika Nagpal | Scientific American&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;bioinformatics&#34;&gt;Bioinformatics&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://c2-d2.github.io/hanage-lab/Microbial-Bioinformatics-starter-kit/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Microbial Bioinformatics Starter Kit &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Lauren Cowley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Microbial genome annotation &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Michael Eisen

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/phylogenomics/status/999406494859718662&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Twitter thread&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/i/moments/999641962025074696&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;moment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://holtlab.net/2015/02/25/tools-for-bacterial-comparative-genomics/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Tools for bacterial comparative genomes &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Holt lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;r&#34;&gt;R&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://paulvanderlaken.com/2017/08/10/r-resources-cheatsheets-tutorials-books/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R resources&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;paulvanderlaken.com&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Paul Vanderlaken&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Related post: &lt;a href=&#34;https://paulvanderlaken.com/2018/05/21/r-tips-and-tricks/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R Tips and Tricks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;blogdown-hugo-academic-r-markdown&#34;&gt;Blogdown, Hugo, Academic &amp;amp; R Markdown&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Blogdown: Creating websites with R Markdown &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Yihui Xie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/gohugoio&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://discourse.gohugo.io/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Hugo discussion forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Hugo Academic &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; George Cushen&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sourcethemes.com/academic/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Academic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/index.html&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;R Markdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://mcdussault.rbind.io/post/building-your-blog-using-blogdown/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Building your blog using blogdown &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Marie Dussault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;data-visualization&#34;&gt;Data Visualization&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://holtlab.net/2015/10/03/plotting-trees-data/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Plotting trees + data &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Holt Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;blogging-tips&#34;&gt;Blogging tips&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://hackerspace.lifehacker.com/top-tips-for-writing-a-blog-post-in-30-minutes-1688838523&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-blog-as-an-academic/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;6 tips for low-cost academic blogging &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Matt Might&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.masalmon.eu/rladiesct/slides#1&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Ready to start your data science blog? &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Maëlle Salmon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Useful Git/GitHub links</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/git-links/git-github-links/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/git-links/git-github-links/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;div id=&#34;see-also&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;See also:&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/janani137/status/926516970920562688&#34;&gt;My tweet dated: 2017-03-11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/interests/resources/&#34;&gt;Resources&lt;/a&gt; for more links related to Blogdown, Rmarkdown &amp;amp; GitHub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;git&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Git&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Version control with &lt;a href=&#34;http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/&#34;&gt;Git on Software Carpentry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sklise.com/2012/10/07/git-workflow-beginner/&#34;&gt;Git workflow for beginners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/get-your-project-online/&#34;&gt;Mozilla Git&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://guides.beanstalkapp.com/version-control/getting-started-with-git.html&#34;&gt;Getting started with Git&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/&#34;&gt;Git, the simple guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/cbattista/learn-github/wiki/Learn-Github-Exercises&#34;&gt;Git exercises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://githowto.com/&#34;&gt;GitHowTo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sklise.com/2012/09/22/introduction-to-git/&#34;&gt;Introduction to Git and command line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://kirstiejane.github.io/friendly-github-intro/&#34;&gt;Friendly introduction to Git, Jane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://speakerdeck.com/alicebartlett/git-for-humans&#34;&gt;Git for humans, slides by Bartlett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://learngitbranching.js.org&#34;&gt;Learn Git branching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.freecodecamp.com/git-cheat-sheet-and-best-practices-c6ce5321f52&#34;&gt;Git cheat sheet and best practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://ohshitgit.com&#34;&gt;Getting yourself out of a Git mess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://try.github.io&#34;&gt;Try Git&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;git-and-github&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Git and GitHub&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/kbroman/github_tutorial&#34;&gt;GitHub tutorial, Broman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/new&#34;&gt;New GitHub repo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://seankross.com/the-unix-workbench/git-and-github.html&#34;&gt;Git &amp;amp; Github | Seankross&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://mac.github.com/help.html&#34;&gt;GitHub on Mac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;r-and-git&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;R and Git&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://happygitwithr.com/big-picture.html&#34;&gt;R with Git and GitHub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;github-pages-gists-jekyll&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;GitHub Pages, Gists | Jekyll&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Github pages &lt;a href=&#34;https://guides.github.com/features/pages/&#34;&gt;#1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://pages.github.com/&#34;&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://help.github.com/categories/gists/&#34;&gt;Creating gists on Github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/&#34;&gt;Jekyll&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://gcc.gnu.org/install/&#34;&gt;GCC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/&#34;&gt;Ruby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rubygems.org/pages/download&#34;&gt;Ruby Gems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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      <title>Variations on a theme: evolution of the phage-shock-protein system in Actinobacteria</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/psp-actino/anto/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/psp-actino/anto/</guid>
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      <title>2017: Year in Books | Goodreads</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2017/goodreads-2017/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2017/goodreads-2017/</guid>
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&lt;p&gt;Find my latest reads &amp;amp; recommendations on &lt;a href=&#34;//goodreads.com/jananiravi&#34;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;myyearinbooks-summary-stats&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017/1671098&#34;&gt;2017: #MyYearInBooks Summary Stats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;books-read&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1671098-janani-ravi?shelf=2017-reads&#34;&gt;Books Read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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      <title>Black Swan by Nassim Taleb</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/black-swan/black-swan-nassim-taleb/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/black-swan/black-swan-nassim-taleb/</guid>
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&lt;div id=&#34;book-review&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Book Review&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I find myself increasingly drawn to the field of Behavioral Economics (so much so that I was considering a second PhD to channelize my love!), and how beautifully evasive these concepts are in real life.
Starting with Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, followed by the writings and blogs of Steven Levitt, Dan Ariely, Nate Silver and Barry Schwartz (and still others like Malcolm Gladwell), has set me thinking a lot about how insane and illogical we are. We do see ourselves as logical and reasonably intelligent people who do not fall for the usual traps (OK, maybe you didn’t see me that way, but we’ll let that slide for now…), but how fool-proof are we? What about the narrative fallacy - ‘aah, that makes sense now’ or ‘I thought so’ or confirmation biases?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;‘The Black Swan’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (&lt;a href=&#34;http://fooledbyrandomness.com/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://fooledbyrandomness.com/&lt;/a&gt;) has been on my list ever since I first got infatuated with this topic. I finally finished it last month. Man, is it it well-written! The guy is brilliant, and his wit and humor are unmatchable! Among other things, he leads (and concludes) with our love for everything normal, statistically speaking and otherwise, and how we can’t but help make the obvious blunders of predicting, quite erroneously, based on the past, even though we know fully well that life doesn’t present itself as a series of bell curves stringed together just so that we can get away with some easy math! You’ll hear a lot about epistemology (defined in PS3; truth be told, I hadn’t heard of this word until last month), mediocristan (the Gaussian life) vs extremistan (scale-free distributions encountered more often than not in real-life)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here’s a snippet: &lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_wAV4HsNrkQmdFMndHSHhldFE/view&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_wAV4HsNrkQmdFMndHSHhldFE/view&lt;/a&gt; Never mind if you don’t get it. I enjoyed every last bit of the book, and hope that you do too!
Give it a try - whether you love it or hate it, it would be time well-spent! :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Happy reading!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS1. I’ve heard that people either love it or hate it. Clearly, I fall in the bin #1. Do I agree with everything? Well, yeah, almost everything.
PS2. Luckily, none of you are directly tied to economics or financial sectors. :D Well, scientists and statisticians have been insulted too, but the elegance of it makes it OK! Lots to think about.:)
PS3. Epistemology studies the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Much of the debate in epistemology centers on four areas: (1) the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification, (2) various problems of skepticism, (3) the sources and scope of knowledge and justified belief, and (4) the criteria for knowledge and justification.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;tags&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Tags&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#behavioraleconomics #books #suggestions #mustread #randomness #economics #business #philosophy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;blurb, review, snapshot below&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;blurb&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Blurb&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications ‘The Black Swan’ will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;‘The Black Swan’ is a landmark book – itself a black swan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Evolution and Conservation of the Psp Envelope Stress-Response System</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2017-asm-tb/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2017-asm-tb/</guid>
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      <title>J1 visa waiver | How to obtain your NORI?</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/j1-waiver/j1-visa-waiver-nori/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/j1-waiver/j1-visa-waiver-nori/</guid>
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&lt;div id=&#34;TOC&#34;&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#why-im-writing-this&#34;&gt;Why I’m writing this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#the-initial-process-where-you-read-and-imbibe&#34;&gt;The initial process, where you read and imbibe!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#helpful-links&#34;&gt;Helpful links:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#approximate-order-of-key-events-things-to-do&#34;&gt;Approximate order of key events &amp;amp; things-to-do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#initial-set-of-documents-needed-for-the-indian-consulate-attestation&#34;&gt;Initial set of documents needed for the Indian Consulate attestation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#documents-to-be-sent-to-indian-home-department&#34;&gt;Documents to be sent to Indian Home Department&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#documents-to-be-sent-to-the-other-two-departments&#34;&gt;Documents to be sent to the other two departments:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#list-of-documents&#34;&gt;List of documents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#addresses-for-mailing-your-packages&#34;&gt;Addresses for mailing your packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#tn-state-department&#34;&gt;TN State Department&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#regional-passport-office-rpo&#34;&gt;Regional Passport Office (RPO)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#additional-documents-required-for-police-verification&#34;&gt;Additional documents required for police verification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#main-lettersdocuments&#34;&gt;Main letters/documents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#supporting-documents&#34;&gt;Supporting documents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#final-set-of-documents-to-be-sent-to-the-uscis-department-of-state&#34;&gt;Final set of documents to be sent to the USCIS, Department of State&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#address-for-the-package-to-be-sent&#34;&gt;Address for the package to be sent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#tracking-progress&#34;&gt;Tracking progress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div id=&#34;why-im-writing-this&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Why I’m writing this&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I went through this rather painful &amp;amp; ghastly process from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. My closest consulate was the one in New York (CGNY).
I am originally from Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India). So, most of the state department and RPO/police verification guidelines I’ve enlisted below worked for my specific case. Folks from other countries can skip ahead from their consulate to the last step reading some country-specific blogs in-between.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;the-initial-process-where-you-read-and-imbibe&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The initial process, where you read and imbibe!&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;helpful-links&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Helpful links:&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;US govt. websites&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/student/residency-waiver.html&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/student/residency-waiver.html&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/student/residency-waiver/ds-3035-instructions.html&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/study-exchange/student/residency-waiver/ds-3035-instructions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/accessController.asp?page=26&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/accessController.asp?page=26&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/cancelHandler.asp&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/cancelHandler.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blogs&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.sameetmehta.com/2015/01/the-j1-waiver-process-for-indian.html&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://www.sameetmehta.com/2015/01/the-j1-waiver-process-for-indian.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sciash.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/j1-waiver-step-by-step-guide/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://sciash.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/j1-waiver-step-by-step-guide/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.immihelp.com/forum/showthread.php/113424-J1-visa-home-residency-requirement-waiver-from-India&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://www.immihelp.com/forum/showthread.php/113424-J1-visa-home-residency-requirement-waiver-from-India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://j1.aruppukottai.net/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://j1.aruppukottai.net/&lt;/a&gt; (old 2009)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://prashanth-jaikumar.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love.html&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://prashanth-jaikumar.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love.html&lt;/a&gt; (2010 May)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tip&lt;/em&gt;: Find specific blogs for your state since the rules and guidelines might be somewhat different. Mine was Tamil Nadu.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Other useful PDFs that may include some of the above: The_process&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;approximate-order-of-key-events-things-to-do&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Approximate order of key events &amp;amp; things-to-do&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Read &amp;amp; decipher the resources. It’s a one-time thing. So, do it!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Start at least 1–1.5yrs before your current employment ends/your extended J1 expires. The process takes time &amp;amp; patience. Give time for ‘worst case scenarios’!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tip: Talk to your department admin and your university’s international/J1 office.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Note: First extend your J1 &amp;amp; then apply for the waiver. You can’t extend once you apply for your waiver.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Notarization of your biodata and affidavit (your local bank or other notary publics)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Attestation of your biodata and affidavit: Local Indian consulate with the necessary documents
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Some require passport-sized photo taken within the last 6 mo (CGNY did ‘require’ but they didn’t ’need’ it!!)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Call to get their full list and check their website before going&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Send your packages to the 3 departments back home (web portal/postal mail w/ tracking)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Back to the local Indian consulate
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Take your 3 NORIs and forms to get a NORI that they will forward to the Department of State, US)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Send your package to USCIS (w/ tracking)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Include all the necessary background documents&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NORIs from all of the above&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DS-3035 form&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Preferably, don’t include what’s not in the govt. list&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Note: You can migrate your J1 to a different university during your J1’s duration of validity.
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Talk to both the universities’ J1 departments.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This would take 24-48h but can only happen before you terminate your current appointment. Once you are out, you need to process a new J1 and, possibly, go this whole process once again!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This could happen even while your J1 is being petitioned.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;initial-set-of-documents-needed-for-the-indian-consulate-attestation&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Initial set of documents needed for the Indian Consulate attestation&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Original Passport + Visa (+ copy)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All DS-2019s (+ copy)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Latest I-94 (+ copy)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Proof of residence in the US (preferably 2)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cash, money order or cashier’s cheque&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Biodata &amp;amp; Affidavit
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;unfilled sample: J1-waiver-biodata-affidavit-NY_unfilled.pdf&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The first page is for New York Consulate General but others could use it as a guide too.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;documents-to-be-sent-to-indian-home-department&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Documents to be sent to Indian Home Department&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Govt. of India Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
No Obligation to Return to India
&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.nori.ac.in/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;http://www.nori.ac.in/&lt;/a&gt; (quite straightforward; trackable (!); they are really fast &amp;amp; responsive)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Biodata and Affidavit (Notarized &amp;amp; Attested by the Consulate General of India, New York, USA)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;e-Copy of Passport (New and Old) and J1-Visa&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;e-Copy of all DS-2019s&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;e-Copies of PhD &amp;amp; BTech (other, as applicable) Degree Certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I don’t remember if I included:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Employment letter from the department chair (I needed this somewhere)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Proof of current residence in the US&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;documents-to-be-sent-to-the-other-two-departments&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Documents to be sent to the other two departments:&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;your state government&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;your Regional Passport Office (likely, where you got your first passport)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;list-of-documents&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;List of documents&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Biodata and Affidavit (Notarized &amp;amp; Attested by the Consulate General of India, New York, USA)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy of Passport (New and Old) and J1-Visa&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy of all DS-2019s&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Proof of current residence in the US&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copies of Ph.D. &amp;amp; B.Tech (other, as applicable) Degree Certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cover letter with your request to grant NORI
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your correct address &amp;amp; theirs (of course!) including your email ID (you never know!)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Where you are studying/working&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Passport number (new and old)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why you need the waiver (change of job, extending the same one, …)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;List of attested/enclosed copies of documents&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Letter of consent from your parent saying that you have no legal obligation to return. Include these details, if possible/applicable
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Who they are, where they are working/retired from&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Brief family history&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your residential address (India)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your brief educational history&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When and why you came to the US&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your marital &amp;amp; dependent info (briefly) when applicable&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your current residential address in the US&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why you are requesting the waiver (in their words)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And something along these lines (sample below)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With regard to the NORI certification, I confirm that all the details
stated above are true to the best of my knowledge and all supporting documents
have been attached for your perusal (the shipping document list is on the next page).
There is no civil or criminal case against my daughter, XYZ.
Also, she did not take any educational loan from the Indian or US governments.
Therefore, she does not have any commitments here in India for legal,
financial or personal reasons.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I, therefore, request you to kindly provide the necessary NORI certificate
that will help her continue working towards her professional and personal
goals in the US. The experience and expertise that she gains during her stay
there will help her serve India better in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;addresses-for-mailing-your-packages&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Addresses for mailing your packages&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;tn-state-department&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;TN State Department&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Secretary
Home (Citz II) Department
Government of Tamil Nadu
Secretariat, Fort St. George
Chennai 600 009
Tamil Nadu, India&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;regional-passport-office-rpo&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Regional Passport Office (RPO)&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Passport Officer
Regional Passport Office
Royala Towers No. 2 and 3, IV Floor,
Old No. 785, New No. 158, Anna Salai,
Chennai 600002
Tamil Nadu, India&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;additional-documents-required-for-police-verification&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Additional documents required for police verification&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[At least, I needed it (Chennai, Tamil Nadu)]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;main-lettersdocuments&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Main letters/documents&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Consent letter and Pro Forma from the applicant’s parent&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Letter from the applicant’s spouse&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Biodata of the applicant&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;supporting-documents&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Supporting documents&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s: Mark sheets and certificates
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;10th 12th mark sheets&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;B. Tech. degree certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ph.D. degree certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s: Passport and Visa
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Passport (front/back)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J-1 Visa &amp;amp; Certificate of eligibility for exchange visitor (J-1) status (DS-2019)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Old passport and old J1 and F1 visas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s: Graduate assistantship letter for PhD&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s: Employment letter (current place of work)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Spouse’s: Mark sheets and certificates
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;10th, 12th mark sheets&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;B. Tech. degree certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ph.D. degree certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s Spouse’s: Passport and Visa
&lt;ol style=&#34;list-style-type: decimal&#34;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Passport (front/back)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;H1B visa approval notice (I-797)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s Spouse’s: Employment letter (MSU)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Both: Marriage certificate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Both: Present address proof (Wells Fargo bank statement)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s Parents’: Chennai address proof (Ration card, gas bill)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Applicant’s Parents’: Aadhar card&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;final-set-of-documents-to-be-sent-to-the-uscis-department-of-state&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Final set of documents to be sent to the USCIS, Department of State&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Read the &lt;a href=&#34;https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/study/exchange/waiver-of-the-exchange-visitor/how-to-apply-waiver.html&#34;&gt;How to apply for a waiver&lt;/a&gt; page on the travel.state.gov website again.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DS-3035 &amp;amp; SOR J1 waiver application packet for USCIS and Department of State
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Application fee
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Non-refundable — do it at the end&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;cashier’s cheque written out to ’The US Department of State’&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Include your name and case number (from the DS-3035 barcode)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Waiver review division barcode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.j1waivertips.com/sample-statement-of-reason-for-j1-visa-waiver-application-at-us-dept-of-state/&#34;&gt;Statement of reason&lt;/a&gt; (below)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sample statement:&lt;/em&gt;
I am XYZ working at ABC as a PQR. I am currently on J1 visa sponsored by QWERTY. My J1 visa started on 7/19/2013 and ends on 7/19/2018 with a two-year home residency requirement. The main purpose of my J1 visa is to allow me to do research. My research work is progressing well, and it needs more time (longer than 7/19/2018) to complete my research projects. Since I am the lead person in the research projects, my employer and I feel that the opportunity for me to stay here in the US and complete the projects by obtaining the J1 visa waiver will be great.
I am requesting a waiver of the two-year home residence requirement to complete my work here on the basis of No Objection certificate. My home country “ABC” has no objection in allowing me to continue working here in the US, and has issued a No Objection certificate to that effect. The ABCian Embassy in the USA will be issuing the No Objection statement to you. I kindly request you to grant me the J1 visa waiver at the earliest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The actual completed DS-3035
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you make a mistake, fill it out from the beginning&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Passport data page&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All DS2019s, IAP-66&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Degree Certificates (Bachelors, Masters, PhD, …)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Statement of Reason&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two self-addressed stamped envelopes (legal-size)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your NORI letters from
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;India: i) home department, ii) state department and iii) regional passport office (for police verification) and&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;US (local Indian Consulate, although they would be sending a copy)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;address-for-the-package-to-be-sent&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Address for the package to be sent&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Postal Service
Department of State J-1 Waiver
P.O. Box 979037
St. Louis, MO 63197-9000


Courier Service
Department of State J-1 Waiver
P.O. Box 979037
1005 Convention Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63101-1200&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;tracking-progress&#34; class=&#34;section level3&#34;&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Tracking progress&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/&#34; class=&#34;uri&#34;&gt;https://j1visawaiverrecommendation.state.gov/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>2015: Year in Books | Goodreads</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2015/goodreads-2015/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2015/goodreads-2015/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;Find my latest reads &amp;amp; recommendations on &lt;a href=&#34;//goodreads.com/jananiravi&#34;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;myyearinbooks-summary-stats&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2015/1671098&#34;&gt;2015: #MyYearInBooks Summary Stats&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;books-read&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1671098-janani-ravi?shelf=2015-reads&#34;&gt;Books Read&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
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      <title>2016: Year in Books | Goodreads</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2016/goodreads-2016/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/goodreads-2016/goodreads-2016/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;Find my latest reads &amp;amp; recommendations on &lt;a href=&#34;//goodreads.com/jananiravi&#34;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;myyearinbooks-summary-stats&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2016/1671098&#34;&gt;2016: #MyYearInBooks Summary Stats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;books-read&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1671098-janani-ravi?shelf=2016-reads&#34;&gt;Books Read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/becoming-steve-jobs/becoming-steve-jobs/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/becoming-steve-jobs/becoming-steve-jobs/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://becomingstevejobs.com/&#34;&gt;Becoming Steve Jobs &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; Brent Schlender&lt;/a&gt; is a well-written biography of Steve Jobs &amp;amp; is definitely much better than Walter Isaacson’s ‘official’ one! And yeah, it is much more than a boring compendium of wiki and news articles. :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So, happy reading!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Microbial Mechanosensing: Phage Shock Protein Response System in Gram-positive Bacteria</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2016-asm/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2016-asm/</guid>
      <description></description>
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    <item>
      <title>Matt Might&#39;s Blog</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/mattmight/matt-might-blog/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/mattmight/matt-might-blog/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;div id=&#34;background&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/&#34;&gt;Background&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/#personal&#34;&gt;Matt Might&lt;/a&gt; has an &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; easy-to-read &lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/&#34;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; that has inspired us in &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; ways! Matt is a tenured CS professor at Utah and a visiting professor at HMS (Harvard Medical School). He’s the dad of 3 kids, one of whom has a very &lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/&#34;&gt;rare genetic disorder&lt;/a&gt;.
He &amp;amp; his wife have spent a good part of their lives &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.overcomingmovementdisorder.com/p/about-us.html&#34;&gt;educating themselves and others&lt;/a&gt; about the &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.ngly1.org/&#34;&gt;disease&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;some-of-his-useful-blog-posts&#34; class=&#34;section level1&#34;&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Some of his useful blog posts&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;health-strength-training-justdoit&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Health | Strength-training | JustDoIt&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/hacking-strength/&#34;&gt;HOWTO: Gain strength and muscle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/least-resistance-weight-loss/&#34;&gt;Least resistance weight loss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/productivity-tips-hints-hacks-tricks-for-grad-students-academics/#philosophy&#34;&gt;Path of least resistance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/preventing-and-managing-rsi/&#34;&gt;Handling repetitive strain injury (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;efficiency-productivity-work-life-balance&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Efficiency | Productivity | work-life-balance&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/productivity-tips-hints-hacks-tricks-for-grad-students-academics/&#34;&gt;Productivity tips for academics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-email/&#34;&gt;How to send and reply to email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/work-life-balance/&#34;&gt;Tips for work-life balance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/travel-hacks/&#34;&gt;Travel hacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/&#34;&gt;12 resolutions for programmers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;academic-professorship&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Academic | Professorship&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/advice-for-academic-job-hunt/&#34;&gt;Academic job hunt advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/&#34;&gt;HOWTO: Get tenure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;… = lots more where this came from!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>A dedication to Ramanujan</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/ramanujan/ramanujan/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/post/ramanujan/ramanujan/</guid>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Authors: Janani Ravi, Arjun Krishnan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan&#34;&gt;Srinivasa Ramanujan&lt;/a&gt; has been noted as one of the classic ‘genius-mathematicians’ of all time! Hailing from the same state/country as him, &lt;a href=&#34;//arjun-krishnan.net&#34;&gt;Arjun Krishnan&lt;/a&gt; and I have always looked up to him &amp;amp; his elegant math as a source of inspiration right through our formative years!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;the-movie&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The Movie&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recent movie that has drastically increased Ramanujan’s international visibility
&lt;a href=&#34;https://g.co/kgs/gfuP3p&#34;&gt;The Man Who Knew Infinity&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114226/&#34;&gt;Matthew Brown&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;the-play&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The Play&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We watched this beautiful play in the University of Virginia campus during our grad school. Such unmistakable passion for math, that’s almost art-like &lt;em&gt;or was it art!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disappearing_Number&#34;&gt;A Disappearing Number&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_McBurney&#34;&gt;Simon McBurney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;the-book&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The Book&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is a great companion book to better understand &lt;em&gt;the Man&lt;/em&gt; and little bit of &lt;em&gt;the Math&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity:_A_Life_of_the_Genius_Ramanujan&#34;&gt;The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kanigel&#34;&gt;Robert Kanigel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;the-people&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The People&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Without the help of the following people (and many more we haven’t mentioned here), Ramanujan would have remained an unknown &amp;amp; obsolete genius!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;gh-hardy-collaborator-mentor&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy&#34;&gt;GH Hardy&lt;/a&gt;: Collaborator, Mentor&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hardy was an English mathematician who brought Ramanujan to Cambridge, encouraged his professional growth and helped publish his many theorems and elegant solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;matthew-brown-the-director&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114226/&#34;&gt;Matthew Brown&lt;/a&gt;: The Director&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The director of the new Ramanujan movie, &lt;em&gt;The Man Who Knew Infinity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;manjul-bhargava-math-advisor-associate-producer&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava&#34;&gt;Manjul Bhargava&lt;/a&gt;: Math advisor &amp;amp; associate producer&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Princeton number theorist, winner of the Field’s medal, and Associate Producer of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://vimeo.com/128893911&#34;&gt;Video made for Manjul Bhargava Princeton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;ken-ono-math-advisor-associate-producer&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ono&#34;&gt;Ken Ono&lt;/a&gt;: Math advisor &amp;amp; associate producer&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ken Ono is this very accomplished mathematician who’s central research questions revolve around the work of Ramanujan.
He is also a fantastic and sincere communicator, teacher and author so much so that you can read/listen to almost anything that he has to say.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyvYr-2WLWg&amp;amp;list=WL&amp;amp;index=9&#34;&gt;Here’s a great video of a conversation he had with another mathematician where he talks about Ramanujan and his connection with him.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;steven-strogatz-applied-mathematician&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;www.stevenstrogatz.com/&#34;&gt;Steven Strogatz&lt;/a&gt;: Applied mathematician&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Famous applied mathematician and author of superb books &amp;amp; articles on mathematics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;steven-strogatz-manjul-bhargava-matt-brown&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Steven Strogatz, Manjul Bhargava &amp;amp; Matt Brown&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvHrn-41XMU&#34;&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;some-more-interesting-articles&#34; class=&#34;section level2&#34;&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Some more interesting articles&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;ramanujan-surprises-again-plus.maths.org&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~berndt/articles/aachen.pdf&#34;&gt;Ramanujan surprises again| plus.maths.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div id=&#34;remembering-ramanujan-india-celebrates-its-famous-mathematical-son&#34; class=&#34;section level4&#34;&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=remembering-ramanujan-india&#34;&gt;Remembering Ramanujan: India Celebrates Its Famous Mathematical Son&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;December 22, 2012&lt;/em&gt;, marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. An intuitive mathematical genius, Ramanujan’s discoveries have influenced several areas of mathematics, but he is probably most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series, among them fascinating formulas that can be used to calculate digits of pi in unusual ways.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=remembering-ramanujan-india&#34;&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Reconstruction and topological characterization of the sigma factor regulatory network of Mycobacterium tuberculosis</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/sigfac-mtb/natcomm/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/sigfac-mtb/natcomm/</guid>
      <description></description>
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      <title>TB &amp; Lipid metabolism</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/projects/lipid-metabolism/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/projects/lipid-metabolism/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;h2 id=&#34;summary&#34;&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In addition to stress-response systems on the pathogenic side, I studied some host responses to &lt;em&gt;M. tuberculosis&lt;/em&gt; infection using computational approaches as well:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;characterizing the transcriptional response in infected macrophages under various small molecule perturbations using RNA-Seq analysis;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;understanding the dysregulation of lipid metabolism in M. tuberculosis-infected macrophages using dynamic Bayesian model and statistical analyses of heterogeneous single-cell populations.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;related-publications&#34;&gt;Related publications&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lipid Metabolism and TB, &lt;em&gt;in preparation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/2014/jimm&#34;&gt;Cutting edge: Vitamin D regulates lipid metabolism in &lt;em&gt;Mycobacterium tuberculosis&lt;/em&gt; infection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;collaborators&#34;&gt;Collaborators&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;rutgers-university&#34;&gt;Rutgers University&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marila Gennaro&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sanjay Tyagi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gili Kaufmann (now in &amp;hellip;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Richard Pine&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eduardo Sontag (now in NorthEastern)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Evgeni &amp;lsquo;Zhenya&amp;rsquo; Nikolaev&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Valentina Guerrini&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Natalie Bruiners&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;tulane-university&#34;&gt;Tulane University&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deepak Kaushal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Smriti Mehta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;knowledge-synthesis&#34;&gt;Knowledge Synthesis&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hugh Salamon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ken Yamaguchi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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      <title>Stochastic nature of adipogenic and inflammatory responses in tuberculous macrophages</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2015-rutgers-symp/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2015-rutgers-symp/</guid>
      <description></description>
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    <item>
      <title>The Psp system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis integrates envelope stress-sensing and envelope-preserving functions</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/psp-mtb/molmicro/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/psp-mtb/molmicro/</guid>
      <description></description>
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      <title>Mathematical modeling of pathways involved in cell cycle regulation and Differentiation</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2014-imsc/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2014-imsc/</guid>
      <description></description>
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      <title>Cutting edge: Vitamin D regulates lipid metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/vitd/jimm/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/publication/vitd/jimm/</guid>
      <description></description>
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      <title>Dynamical Systems &amp; Math Biology</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/dynamical-systems/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/dynamical-systems/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;h2 id=&#34;research&#34;&gt;Research&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&#34;http://mpf.biol.vt.edu/lab_website/people/Janani_Ravi/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;my graduate research with Dr John Tyson&lt;/a&gt;, I built mathematical models to understand dynamical aspects:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Modeling the START transition in the budding yeast cell cycle:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Built a detailed mathematical model (~100 ODEs, ~150 parameters) for the START transition in yeast and
integrated it with our published model of the whole cell cycle.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Model addresses outstanding issues related to the precise mechanism and timing of transcriptional, post-
translational and localization events, as well as size control under varying growth conditions.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Model consistent with ~200 experimental mutant phenotypes pertaining to the START transition and rest of
the cell cycle.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Built a basic model for the nutritional effect of size control in budding yeast cells.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This mechanism has been incorporated into the existing model of the yeast cell cycle to explain an initial
set of START mutants.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Modeling bistability in the canonical Wnt pathway:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Built a simplified model based upon the core module of the Wnt canonical pathway, and incorporated
additional key regulatory interactions.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Model shows that the Wnt signaling pathway can display bistability, in agreement with preliminary
experimental results.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;related-publications&#34;&gt;Related publications&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ravi J, Tyson JJ. Modeling the START transition in the budding yeast cell cycle. &lt;em&gt;Submitted&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thorne C, Ravi J, Tyson JJ, Lee E. Modeling bistability in the canonical Wnt signaling pathway. &lt;em&gt;Submitted&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;collaborators&#34;&gt;Collaborators&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;virginia-tech&#34;&gt;Virginia Tech&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kathy Chen (now &lt;em&gt;retd.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4 id=&#34;vanderbilt-university&#34;&gt;Vanderbilt University&lt;/h4&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ethan Lee&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Curtis A. Thorne (now at University of Arizona)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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      <title>Modeling the START transition in the budding yeast cell cycle</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2011-cshl/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2011-cshl/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Modeling the START transition in the budding yeast cell cycle</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2009-grc/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2009-grc/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Modeling the START transition and size control in budding yeast</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2009-cshl/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2009-cshl/</guid>
      <description></description>
    </item>
    
    <item>
      <title>Modeling the START transition and size control in budding yeast</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2009-vt-symp/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/talk/2009-vt-symp/</guid>
      <description></description>
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      <title>Slides</title>
      <link>https://jananiravi.github.io/slides/example-slides/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      
      <guid>https://jananiravi.github.io/slides/example-slides/</guid>
      <description>

&lt;h1 id=&#34;welcome-to-slides&#34;&gt;Welcome to Slides&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sourcethemes.com/academic/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Academic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;features&#34;&gt;Features&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Efficiently write slides in Markdown&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;3-in-1: Create, Present, and Publish your slides&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Supports speaker notes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mobile friendly slides&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;controls&#34;&gt;Controls&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Next: &lt;code&gt;Right Arrow&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Space&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Previous: &lt;code&gt;Left Arrow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Start: &lt;code&gt;Home&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Finish: &lt;code&gt;End&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Overview: &lt;code&gt;Esc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Speaker notes: &lt;code&gt;S&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fullscreen: &lt;code&gt;F&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Zoom: &lt;code&gt;Alt + Click&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#pdf-export&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;PDF Export&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;code&gt;E&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;code-highlighting&#34;&gt;Code Highlighting&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Inline code: &lt;code&gt;variable&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Code block:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class=&#34;language-python&#34;&gt;porridge = &amp;quot;blueberry&amp;quot;
if porridge == &amp;quot;blueberry&amp;quot;:
    print(&amp;quot;Eating...&amp;quot;)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;math&#34;&gt;Math&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In-line math: $x + y = z$&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Block math:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;$$
f\left( x \right) = \;\frac{{2\left( {x + 4} \right)\left( {x - 4} \right)}}{{\left( {x + 4} \right)\left( {x + 1} \right)}}
$$&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;fragments&#34;&gt;Fragments&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Make content appear incrementally&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{{% fragment %}} One {{% /fragment %}}
{{% fragment %}} **Two** {{% /fragment %}}
{{% fragment %}} Three {{% /fragment %}}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Press &lt;code&gt;Space&lt;/code&gt; to play!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&#34;fragment &#34; &gt;
   One
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class=&#34;fragment &#34; &gt;
   &lt;strong&gt;Two&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class=&#34;fragment &#34; &gt;
   Three
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A fragment can accept two optional parameters:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt;: use a custom style (requires definition in custom CSS)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;weight&lt;/code&gt;: sets the order in which a fragment appears&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;speaker-notes&#34;&gt;Speaker Notes&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Add speaker notes to your presentation&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class=&#34;language-markdown&#34;&gt;{{% speaker_note %}}
- Only the speaker can read these notes
- Press `S` key to view
{{% /speaker_note %}}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Press the &lt;code&gt;S&lt;/code&gt; key to view the speaker notes!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;aside class=&#34;notes&#34;&gt;
  &lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Only the speaker can read these notes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Press &lt;code&gt;S&lt;/code&gt; key to view&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/aside&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;themes&#34;&gt;Themes&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;black: Black background, white text, blue links (default)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;white: White background, black text, blue links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;league: Gray background, white text, blue links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;beige: Beige background, dark text, brown links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;sky: Blue background, thin dark text, blue links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;night: Black background, thick white text, orange links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;serif: Cappuccino background, gray text, brown links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;simple: White background, black text, blue links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;solarized: Cream-colored background, dark green text, blue links&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;


&lt;section data-noprocess data-shortcode-slide
  
      
      data-background-image=&#34;/img/boards.jpg&#34;
  &gt;


&lt;h2 id=&#34;custom-slide&#34;&gt;Custom Slide&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Customize the slide style and background&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class=&#34;language-markdown&#34;&gt;{{&amp;lt; slide background-image=&amp;quot;/img/boards.jpg&amp;quot; &amp;gt;}}
{{&amp;lt; slide background-color=&amp;quot;#0000FF&amp;quot; &amp;gt;}}
{{&amp;lt; slide class=&amp;quot;my-style&amp;quot; &amp;gt;}}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&#34;custom-css-example&#34;&gt;Custom CSS Example&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s make headers navy colored.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Create &lt;code&gt;assets/css/reveal_custom.css&lt;/code&gt; with:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code class=&#34;language-css&#34;&gt;.reveal section h1,
.reveal section h2,
.reveal section h3 {
  color: navy;
}
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;hr /&gt;

&lt;h1 id=&#34;questions&#34;&gt;Questions?&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://discourse.gohugo.io&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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