Training Events

2025

March 14, 2025 - Demonstration of virtual reality visualization of opioid receptor and opioid drugs for 5 UCSF Biophysics program student applicants. Also showed Sony and Acer 3D flat-panel molecular visualization. 1 hour. Organized by Nicole Flowers.

January 9, 14, 16, 21, 2025 - 8 hours teaching ChimeraX and machine learning structure prediction with AlphaFold 3 to 15 Biophysics graduate students. Team projects involved predicting 1500 FDA approved compounds bound to virus targets. Course organized by John Gross.

2024

October 23, 2024 - 100 minute hands-on tutorial for 40 students and researchers as part of the Purdue University Structural Biology and Biophysics Club (SBBC) ​workshop series. ChimeraX structure vis, cryoEM maps and alphafold models based on this tutorial. Many good questions. Organized by Nourin Ferdausi and Priyanka Naik.

June 12, 2024 - CryoEM virtual reality training for Eric Tse, head of the ​UCSF Sandler cryoEM facility and 5 colleagues from the ​Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease preparing their facility for helping users with VR. Showed both standalone Looksee VR and ChimeraX VR. 2 hours.

June 5, 2024 - Tom Ferrin showed virtual reality visualization of opioid receptor and endorphins and paxlovid to group of about 20 IEEE retirees using LookSee standalone VR. Held in Livermore.

April 30, 2024 - Showed guests at the ​UCSF Byer's lecture reception opioid receptors and ligands and electron microscopy with LookSee virtual reality, 1 hour, about 20 visitors. Organized by Aashish Manglik.

March 1, 2024 - Gave hands-on virtual reality molecular visualization session for 15 UCSF Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG) program students using Quest 3 headsets with pass-through video and hand tracking.

February 21, 2024 - Gave 2 hour ChimeraX intro hands-on tutorial in-person at an ​NIAID biovisualization workshop in ​Foundation for Advanced Education in the Scienes classrooms to about 40 researchers and students. Presented cryoEM and AlphaFold and answered many basic ChimeraX use questions. Organized by Meghan McCarthy and Darrell Hurt from NIAID.

February 6, 2024 - AlphaFold prospecting how-to for ​John Gross group meeting at UCSF, about 20 people including members of Allison Williams, Hiten Madhani, Alan Frankel labs, and one other new faculty. 90 minutes, extensive discussion, many (20) questions.

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.