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| | 2 | 2009/2010 report |
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| | 5 | May 21, 2009 |
| | 6 | Talk to ten San Francisco high school teachers, part of the Current Science Seminar |
| | 7 | Series organized by the UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership. |
| | 8 | (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/) Showed stereo visualization and |
| | 9 | manipulation of man-made molecular machines and viruses. Made paper virus models. |
| | 10 | Held in RBVI visualization room. 12 hours preparation time. |
| | 11 | - Tom Goddard |
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| | 13 | June 11, 2009 |
| | 14 | Second talk to high school teachers in the Current Science Seminar Series given by the |
| | 15 | UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership. Showed stereo visualization and |
| | 16 | manipulation of man-made molecular machines and viruses. Made paper virus models. |
| | 17 | Held in RBVI visualization room. 3 hours preparation time. |
| | 18 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | June 24, 2009 |
| | 21 | Virus visualization demonstration for a dozen science summer school students |
| | 22 | ages 9 to 12 (http://www.celsiusandbeyond.com/). Showed stereo visualization, |
| | 23 | space navigator, phantom force feedback, protein and rna structure and virus |
| | 24 | paper models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 12 hours preparation time. |
| | 25 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | July 14, 2009 |
| | 28 | Molecular visualization demonstration for ~30 kids from the COSMOS summer school |
| | 29 | program at U.C. Davis (http://www.ucop.edu/cosmos/). Showed stereo visualization, |
| | 30 | virus structures, protein, dna, and protein docked with dna. |
| | 31 | - Scooter Morris |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | July 15, 2009 |
| | 34 | Virus visualization demonstration for 5 science summer school students |
| | 35 | ages 9 to 12 (http://www.celsiusandbeyond.com/). Showed stereo visualization, |
| | 36 | space navigator, phantom force feedback, protein and rna structure and virus |
| | 37 | paper models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 4 hours preparation time. |
| | 38 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | August 19, 2009 |
| | 41 | Chimera talk and demonstration, Molecular Visualization symposium |
| | 42 | (COMP division, see http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/238nm/techprogram/S32080.HTM ) |
| | 43 | at the 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Washington, DC). |
| | 44 | Prep time by Elaine 60 hours including deciding what features to show and finding an |
| | 45 | appropriate biological system with which to show them, reading papers about the biological |
| | 46 | system, generating or finding associated data files, testing the features thoroughly, |
| | 47 | and iteratively adjusting presentation order and scope. |
| | 48 | - Tom Ferrin, Elaine Meng |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | September 1, 2009 |
| | 51 | Demonstration for NIH visitors from Clinical and Translation Science Awards (CTSA). |
| | 52 | Showed HIV spike tomography, T-cell tomography, clathrin cage animation, cytoscape. |
| | 53 | Held in RBVI visualization room. 6 hours preparation time. |
| | 54 | - Tom Goddard, Scooter Morris, Tom Ferrin |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | September 22, 2009 |
| | 57 | Gave a talk and training session at the EMBO European School of Genetic Medicine course |
| | 58 | entitled "Embo Practical course on Networks in Biology analysis, modeling and reverse |
| | 59 | engineering." My talk was an introduction to the "Analysis & Visualisation of biological networks" |
| | 60 | and the practical covered uses of Cytoscape. There were 60 students from throughout Europe, and 6 |
| | 61 | faculty in attendance. Prep time for talk: 16 hours, for lab: 8 hours. |
| | 62 | - Scooter Morris |
| | 63 | |
| | 64 | September 28, 2009 |
| | 65 | Gave an informal seminar at Institute Pasteur for 10 members of the Systems Biology Group |
| | 66 | on uses of Cytoscape for phylogenetic analysis and cheminformatics. |
| | 67 | - Scooter Morris |
| | 68 | |
| | 69 | September 30, 2009 |
| | 70 | 45-minute Chimera demonstration to ~20 students in UCSF BP204A, "Macromolecular |
| | 71 | Interactions" class. Included basic usage, morphing, viewing sequences, showing |
| | 72 | attribute values, building multimers. Prep time 60 hours including looking up information |
| | 73 | on the history of molecular graphics, working through exercises from the previous year, |
| | 74 | deciding what structures and features to show and in what order, generating or finding |
| | 75 | associated data files, testing the features thoroughly, and practicing the presentation. |
| | 76 | - Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen |
| | 77 | |
| | 78 | October 20, 2009 |
| | 79 | EMBO practical course: "The combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography |
| | 80 | for the structure determination of large biological complexes" (http://cwp.embo.org/pc09-18/). |
| | 81 | One day (7 hours) of hands-on Chimera training during 5 day workshop. 20 students. Grenoble, France. |
| | 82 | 60 hours preparing materials (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/emfit09/emfit.html). |
| | 83 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 84 | |
| | 85 | October 23, 2009 |
| | 86 | Gave a 3 hour training session to the UCSF BMI206 class (14 Graduate Students) on |
| | 87 | Cytoscape and structureViz. Prep time: 12 hours. Tutorials are available on-line |
| | 88 | at http://opentutorials.rbvi.ucsf.edu/ |
| | 89 | - Scooter Morris |
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| | 91 | December 1, 2009 |
| | 92 | Demonstrations for three Galileo High School student groups, part of SEP SMART team |
| | 93 | program organized by Sabine Jeske (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/school-programs-smart-teams.html). |
| | 94 | Presentations covered their proteins: HIV Rev, |
| | 95 | capase-3, and strictosidine synthase. Included protein analysis, EM data, stereo viewing, |
| | 96 | space navigator, plastic and paper models. Three groups of ~10 students each in RBVI |
| | 97 | viz vault. 15 hours preparation and execution. |
| | 98 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 99 | |
| | 100 | December 10, 2009 |
| | 101 | Demonstrations for two Lincoln High School student groups, part of SEP SMART team |
| | 102 | program organized by Sabine Jeske (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/school-programs-smart-teams.html). |
| | 103 | Presentations covered their proteins: P-glycoprotein and HIV protease. |
| | 104 | Also included stereo visualization of nano-gears, ice, water, and lipid bilayers, |
| | 105 | space navigator and plastic models. Three groups of ~10 students each in RBVI |
| | 106 | viz vault. 12 hours preparation and execution. |
| | 107 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 108 | |
| | 109 | December 2009 |
| | 110 | Chimera and Cytoscape used to create image for RBVI holiday card: some of the nuclear pore complex proteins |
| | 111 | arranged into a Christmas tree, RBVI logo as star, phylogenetic tree as white fronds along the "ground." |
| | 112 | Estimated 24 person-hours of work. |
| | 113 | - YZ (Zheng Yang) , Elaine Meng, Conrad Huang, Scooter Morris |
| | 114 | |
| | 115 | December 11, 2009 |
| | 116 | Chimera Release Party and RBVI Open House (2-5 pm in Genentech Hall N453, |
| | 117 | UCSF Mission Bay) for local researchers and students to meet the Chimera |
| | 118 | developers, see demonstrations and discuss features, tour the RBVI |
| | 119 | facilities, and share refreshments. Estimated 80 attendees, 3 hours for the event, |
| | 120 | 24 person-hours preparation, publicity, and cleanup. |
| | 121 | - Chimera team |
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| | 123 | January 26, 2010 |
| | 124 | Remote training using desktop sharing (vnc/skype) for using the Segger segmentation tool to separate |
| | 125 | bacteria seen in termite gut by focused-ion-beam scanning-EM. Two hours of training for Bernhard |
| | 126 | Knierim and Monica at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Four hours preparation time. |
| | 127 | - Tom Goddard |
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| | 129 | February 1, 2010 |
| | 130 | All day Cytoscape training for Cell Signaling Technologies in Salem, Mass. 20 Participants including Sr. Scientists, |
| | 131 | CEO, Marketing personnel, and developers. Preparation time ~20 hours. |
| | 132 | - Scooter Morris |
| | 133 | |
| | 134 | February 11, 2010 |
| | 135 | Talk at Scripps Research Institute Automated Molecular Imaging (AMI) Forum (http://ami.scripps.edu/forum/) |
| | 136 | Demonstrated Segger segmentation and fitting capabilities (40 min + 20 min questions) |
| | 137 | to 35 EM (single-particle and tomography) researchers. Preparation time ~20 hours. |
| | 138 | - Tom Goddard |
| | 139 | |
| | 140 | February 21-23, 2010 |
| | 141 | Exhibit booth at Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, organized by Scooter Morris of RBVI. |
| | 142 | Three days, ~24 demonstrations/talks, ~4 NCRR resource centers. |
| | 143 | - Scooter Morris, Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen, Zheng Yang, Tom Goddard |
| | 144 | |
| | 145 | February 25-26, 2010 |
| | 146 | Molecular Animation workshop sponsored by RBVI and NCMI. Two days, ~25 participants, 14 talks. |
| | 147 | Preparation time ~150 person-hours. Hosted by and planned by Tom Ferrin and Scooter Morris from RBVI |
| | 148 | and Wah Chiu from NCMI. Two talks given by RBVI. [http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/Workshops/login/wiki/AnimationWorkshop] |
| | 149 | - Tom Ferrin, Scooter Morris, Tom Goddard, Zheng Yang |
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| | 151 | March 11-13, 2010 |
| | 152 | Poster on HIV spike visualization presented at the 5th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular |
| | 153 | Assemblies by Hybrid Methods in Lake Tahoe (http://www.hybridmethods2010.com/). About 180 researchers primarily using |
| | 154 | electron microscopy attended. Discussed EM map fitting using Chimera |
| | 155 | and EMDB map and segmentation file formats with approximately 20 people. Preparation time ~15 hours. |
| | 156 | - Zheng Yang, Tom Goddard |
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| | 158 | March 17, 2010 |
| | 159 | 1/2 Day Cytoscape training for Al Burlingame's group. 13 participants. Preparation time: ~10 hours. |
| | 160 | - Scooter Morris |