It has been a  busy few months. I have become interim chair of my department. I am learning so much and have some great mentors and support network. I am now PI of two training grants – our NLM T15 Biomedical Informatics Training Grant and an NIDDK T32 for University of Utah Interdisciplinary Training Program in Computational Approaches to Diabetes and Metabolism Research. There is a paper on it’s way out in Bioinformatics – Unification of miRNA and isomiR research: the mirGFF3 format and the mirtop API. – thanks to everyone who worked on this effort. My group is going to AMIA in November – more on that at another time – but there will be a presentation and a poster. I am now a member of the University Med School Curriculum committee I completed a certificate in Education Scholarship this summer I want to thank my group for being a great collection of people. My group helped me celebrate my birthday with a huge cake. This is Amber giving a great presentation on her Endometriosis project at a recent Industry Advisory Board retreat.  ]]>