Disaster response and recovery training

Presentation used for staff training of Colorado State University Libraries' Metadata and Preservation Services Department

Digitization of Local Collections Task Force report

The Digitization of Local Collections Task Force was formed as a response to the growing need for established standards and procedural organization to accompany the digitization projects that CSU Libraries staff has become routinely involved in. With the increase in acquisitions of water and agricultural-related archival collections and the pending transfer of over 300,000 University photographs (digital and print format) from the former Office of Information Services (OIS), there is also a current urgency in establishing standardized workflow, communication, and procedural organization to CSU Libraries' digitization endeavors

Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight

To identify genetic variants associated with birth weight, we meta-analyzed six genome-wide association (GWA) studies (n = 10,623 Europeans from pregnancy/birth cohorts) and followed up two lead signals in 13 replication studies (n = 27,591). rs900400 near LEKR1 and CCNL1 (P = 2 x 10(-35)) and rs9883204 in ADCY5 (P = 7 x 10(-15)) were robustly associated with birth weight. Correlated SNPs in ADCY5 were recently implicated in regulation of glucose levels and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, providing evidence that the well-described association between lower birth weight and subsequent type 2 diabetes has a genetic component, distinct from the proposed role of programming by maternal nutrition. Using data from both SNPs, we found that the 9% of Europeans carrying four birth weight-lowering alleles were, on average, 113 g (95% CI 89-137 g) lighter at birth than the 24% with zero or one alleles (P(trend) = 7 x 10(-30)). The impact on birth weight is similar to that of a mother smoking 4-5 cigarettes per day in the third trimester of pregnancy.