Training Events

2024

January 10, 2024 - ​Methods in Macromolecular Structure class at UCSF, 2 hour ChimeraX tutorial, ~20 students by Zoom, organized by Aashish Manglik and John Gross.

2023

November 9, 2023 - ​CryoEM workshop at the University of Kansas, 1.5 hour training, 25 student and faculty participants organized by Phenix.

May 19, 2023 - ​CryoEM image processing workshop at SLAC, 2 hour ChimeraX training, 50 students in person at Stanford and 50 online, organized by Wah Chiu.

March 24, 2023 - Virtual reality demonstration for UCSF Biophysics student applicants, 7 students, 45 minutes, paxlovid drug resistance, in the VizVault at UCSF Genentech Hall, organized by Nicole Flowers.

March 20, 2023 - ​West Coast Structural Biology workshop poster session showing Quest virtual reality of paxlovid drug resistance, ribozyme, and thylakoid membrane electron microscopy, 2 hours of hands-on demonstration, with Quest Pro and Quest 2 headsets, first demo of pass-through video for augmented reality, presented with Mike Schmid (Stanford) at Asilomar.

January 17, 2023 - ​DRUG DESIGN: Personal Genome Interpretation in the post-AlphaFold world UCSF course, 7 participants, 2 hour ChimeraX tutorial on the delta opioid receptor, organized by Jaime Fraser

January 11, 2023 - UCSF ​Methods in Macromolecular Structure course, 24 participants, 2 hour ChimeraX tutorial on cryoEM and atomic models, organized by Klim Verba, Aashish Manglik, John Gross, Jaime Fraser

2022

November 1-4, 2022 - CZI Imaging Institute workshop talk on visualization needs for electron tomography, 50 participants, Mountain View, organized by Dave Agard, Bridget Carragher and Clint Potter.

May 2, 2022 -- Virtual reality show and tell for UCSF visitors attending ​Byer's lecture "Getting the Message Across: How Cell Signaling Goes Awry in Human Disease" by Natalia Jura. Let about 25 people use VR to look at HER2/HER3 receptor complexes, 90 minutes, UCSF Genentech Hall atrium.

April 25, 2022 -- Stanford course "Biological cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography" BIOE 320 ChimeraX tutorial looking at the mouse insulin receptor, 10 participants, 90 minutes, on-site at Stanford, hosted by Wah Chiu.

March 29, 2022 -- ​SBGrid Spring Mini-Series - Cryo-electron microscopy of membrane proteins: from sample to structure ChimeraX demonstration of AlphaFold and predicted errors, 200 participants, 30 minutes, hosted by Jamaine Davis, Piotr Sliz, and Michelle Ottaviano.

March 1, 2022 -- ​S2C2 High Resolution CryoET Image Processing Virtual Workshop ChimeraX tutorial on tomogram visualization, 200 participants, 1.5 hours, hosted by Wah Chiu and Mike Schmid.

February 17, 2022 -- ​NIH Virtual and Augmented Reality Scientific Interest Group webinar VR demo using encapsulin ferritin cryoEM data, 50 participants, 1 hour, hosted by Jeremy Swan and Phil Cruz.

January 5, 2022 - UCSF ​Methods in Macromolecular Structure course, 20 participants, 2 hour ChimeraX tutorial on sars-cov-2 nanobodies and cryoEM and X-ray maps, organized by Aashish Manglik.

January 4, 2022 - Inquiry Immersion 2022 - ​DRUG DESIGN: Why is it so hard to design new small molecule drugs?. 12 participants, 2 hour ChimeraX tutorial on delta-opioid receptor, organized by James Fraser, UCSF.

2021

November 9, 2021 - ​SBGrid University of Otago Webinar Series, ChimeraX talk on AlphaFold and its Limitations, 170 participants, 20 minute talk + 10 minute Q & A.

November 2, 2021 - ​CZI Essential Open Source Software annual meeting, ChimeraX talk on porting to Apple M1 CPU, 25 participants, 10 minute talk + 15 minute Q & A.

September 8, 2021 - ​Stanford cryoEM workshop, 240 participants, 1 hour demo using AlphaFold for cryoEM modeling.

June 4, 2021 - UCSF summer interns, 14 interns, 2 hours, ​norovirus atomic model refinement in cryoEM using ISOLDE.

June 3, 2021 - UCSF summer interns, 14 undergraduates, 2 hours, nanobodies and sars-cov-2 spikes.

March 25, 2021 - Royal Society of Chemistry ​webinar, ~100 participants, 2 hours, sars-cov-2 spikes.

March 15, 2021 - ​Macromolecular Methods Course, Jaime Fraser, John Gross, Aashish Manglik, ~20 students, 1 hours, EM fitting, NMR chemical shifts, and molecular simulations.

February 17, 2021 - ​Macromolecular Methods Course, Jaime Fraser, John Gross, Aashish Manglik, ~20 students, 1.5 hours, nanobodies and X-ray maps.

January 7, 2021 - ​Inquiry Immersion 2021: Drug Design tutorial, ~20 participants, 1.5 hours, ​delta-opioid receptor tutorial.

2020

July 7, 2020 - SBGrid ​webinar, ~100 participants, 1 hour, Making Augmented Reality Videos with ChimeraX.

January 15, 2020 - [Stanford / SLAC cryoEM workshop], ~50 participants, 4 hours, ATP synthase ChimeraX basics, ​ISOLDE refinement, and movie making.

January 8, 2020 - ​Inquiry Immersion 2020: Drug Design tutorial, ~20 participants, 1.5 hours, ​delta-opioid receptor tutorial.