| 154 | | May 21, 2009 |
| 155 | | Talk to ten San Francisco high school teachers, part of the Current Science Seminar |
| 156 | | Series organized by the UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership. |
| 157 | | (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/) Showed stereo visualization and |
| 158 | | manipulation of man-made molecular machines and viruses. Made paper virus models. |
| 159 | | Held in RBVI visualization room. 12 hours preparation time. |
| 160 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 161 | | |
| 162 | | June 11, 2009 |
| 163 | | Second talk to high school teachers in the Current Science Seminar Series given by the |
| 164 | | UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership. Showed stereo visualization and |
| 165 | | manipulation of man-made molecular machines and viruses. Made paper virus models. |
| 166 | | Held in RBVI visualization room. 3 hours preparation time. |
| 167 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 168 | | |
| 169 | | June 24, 2009 |
| 170 | | Virus visualization demonstration for a dozen science summer school students |
| 171 | | ages 9 to 12 (http://www.celsiusandbeyond.com/). Showed stereo visualization, |
| 172 | | space navigator, phantom force feedback, protein and rna structure and virus |
| 173 | | paper models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 12 hours preparation time. |
| 174 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 175 | | |
| 176 | | July 14, 2009 |
| 177 | | Molecular visualization demonstration for ~30 kids from the COSMOS summer school |
| 178 | | program at U.C. Davis (http://www.ucop.edu/cosmos/). Showed stereo visualization, |
| 179 | | virus structures, protein, dna, and protein docked with dna. |
| 180 | | - Scooter Morris |
| 181 | | |
| 182 | | July 15, 2009 |
| 183 | | Virus visualization demonstration for 5 science summer school students |
| 184 | | ages 9 to 12 (http://www.celsiusandbeyond.com/). Showed stereo visualization, |
| 185 | | space navigator, phantom force feedback, protein and rna structure and virus |
| 186 | | paper models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 4 hours preparation time. |
| 187 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 188 | | |
| 189 | | August 19, 2009 |
| 190 | | Chimera talk and demonstration, Molecular Visualization symposium |
| 191 | | (COMP division, see http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/238nm/techprogram/S32080.HTM ) |
| 192 | | at the 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Washington, DC). |
| 193 | | Prep time by Elaine 60 hours including deciding what features to show and finding an |
| 194 | | appropriate biological system with which to show them, reading papers about the biological |
| 195 | | system, generating or finding associated data files, testing the features thoroughly, |
| 196 | | and iteratively adjusting presentation order and scope. |
| 197 | | - Tom Ferrin, Elaine Meng |
| 198 | | |
| 199 | | September 1, 2009 |
| 200 | | Demonstration for NIH visitors from Clinical and Translation Science Awards (CTSA). |
| 201 | | Showed HIV spike tomography, T-cell tomography, clathrin cage animation, cytoscape. |
| 202 | | Held in RBVI visualization room. 6 hours preparation time. |
| 203 | | - Tom Goddard, Scooter Morris, Tom Ferrin |
| 204 | | |
| 205 | | September 22, 2009 |
| 206 | | Gave a talk and training session at the EMBO European School of Genetic Medicine course |
| 207 | | entitled "Embo Practical course on Networks in Biology analysis, modeling and reverse |
| 208 | | engineering." My talk was an introduction to the "Analysis & Visualisation of biological networks" |
| 209 | | and the practical covered uses of Cytoscape. There were 60 students from throughout Europe, and 6 |
| 210 | | faculty in attendance. Prep time for talk: 16 hours, for lab: 8 hours. |
| 211 | | - Scooter Morris |
| 212 | | |
| 213 | | September 28, 2009 |
| 214 | | Gave an informal seminar at Institute Pasteur for 10 members of the Systems Biology Group |
| 215 | | on uses of Cytoscape for phylogenetic analysis and cheminformatics. |
| 216 | | - Scooter Morris |
| 217 | | |
| 218 | | September 30, 2009 |
| 219 | | 45-minute Chimera demonstration to ~20 students in UCSF BP204A, "Macromolecular |
| 220 | | Interactions" class. Included basic usage, morphing, viewing sequences, showing |
| 221 | | attribute values, building multimers. Prep time 60 hours including looking up information |
| 222 | | on the history of molecular graphics, working through exercises from the previous year, |
| 223 | | deciding what structures and features to show and in what order, generating or finding |
| 224 | | associated data files, testing the features thoroughly, and practicing the presentation. |
| 225 | | - Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen |
| 226 | | |
| 227 | | October 20, 2009 |
| 228 | | EMBO practical course: "The combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography |
| 229 | | for the structure determination of large biological complexes" (http://cwp.embo.org/pc09-18/). |
| 230 | | One day (7 hours) of hands-on Chimera training during 5 day workshop. 20 students. Grenoble, France. |
| 231 | | 60 hours preparing materials (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/emfit09/emfit.html). |
| 232 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 233 | | |
| 234 | | October 23, 2009 |
| 235 | | Gave a 3 hour training session to the UCSF BMI206 class (14 Graduate Students) on |
| 236 | | Cytoscape and structureViz. Prep time: 12 hours. Tutorials are available on-line |
| 237 | | at http://opentutorials.rbvi.ucsf.edu/ |
| 238 | | - Scooter Morris |
| 239 | | |
| 240 | | December 1, 2009 |
| 241 | | Demonstrations for three Galileo High School student groups, part of SEP SMART team |
| 242 | | program organized by Sabine Jeske (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/school-programs-smart-teams.html). |
| 243 | | Presentations covered their proteins: HIV Rev, |
| 244 | | capase-3, and strictosidine synthase. Included protein analysis, EM data, stereo viewing, |
| 245 | | space navigator, plastic and paper models. Three groups of ~10 students each in RBVI |
| 246 | | viz vault. 15 hours preparation and execution. |
| 247 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 248 | | |
| 249 | | December 10, 2009 |
| 250 | | Demonstrations for two Lincoln High School student groups, part of SEP SMART team |
| 251 | | program organized by Sabine Jeske (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/school-programs-smart-teams.html). |
| 252 | | Presentations covered their proteins: P-glycoprotein and HIV protease. |
| 253 | | Also included stereo visualization of nano-gears, ice, water, and lipid bilayers, |
| 254 | | space navigator and plastic models. Three groups of ~10 students each in RBVI |
| 255 | | viz vault. 12 hours preparation and execution. |
| 256 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 257 | | |
| 258 | | December 2009 |
| 259 | | Chimera and Cytoscape used to create image for RBVI holiday card: some of the nuclear pore complex proteins |
| 260 | | arranged into a Christmas tree, RBVI logo as star, phylogenetic tree as white fronds along the "ground." |
| 261 | | Estimated 24 person-hours of work. |
| 262 | | - YZ (Zheng Yang) , Elaine Meng, Conrad Huang, Scooter Morris |
| 263 | | |
| 264 | | December 11, 2009 |
| 265 | | Chimera Release Party and RBVI Open House (2-5 pm in Genentech Hall N453, |
| 266 | | UCSF Mission Bay) for local researchers and students to meet the Chimera |
| 267 | | developers, see demonstrations and discuss features, tour the RBVI |
| 268 | | facilities, and share refreshments. Estimated 80 attendees, 3 hours for the event, |
| 269 | | 24 person-hours preparation, publicity, and cleanup. |
| 270 | | - Chimera team |
| 271 | | |
| 272 | | January 26, 2010 |
| 273 | | Remote training using desktop sharing (vnc/skype) for using the Segger segmentation tool to separate |
| 274 | | bacteria seen in termite gut by focused-ion-beam scanning-EM. Two hours of training for Bernhard |
| 275 | | Knierim and Monica at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Four hours preparation time. |
| 276 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 277 | | |
| 278 | | February 1, 2010 |
| 279 | | All day Cytoscape training for Cell Signaling Technologies in Salem, Mass. 20 Participants including Sr. Scientists, |
| 280 | | CEO, Marketing personnel, and developers. Preparation time ~20 hours. |
| 281 | | - Scooter Morris |
| 282 | | |
| 283 | | February 11, 2010 |
| 284 | | Talk at Scripps Research Institute Automated Molecular Imaging (AMI) Forum (http://ami.scripps.edu/forum/) |
| 285 | | Demonstrated Segger segmentation and fitting capabilities (40 min + 20 min questions) |
| 286 | | to 35 EM (single-particle and tomography) researchers. Preparation time ~20 hours. |
| 287 | | - Tom Goddard |
| 288 | | |
| 289 | | February 21-23, 2010 |
| 290 | | Exhibit booth at Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, organized by Scooter Morris of RBVI. |
| 291 | | Three days, ~24 demonstrations/talks, ~4 NCRR resource centers. |
| 292 | | - Scooter Morris, Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen, Zheng Yang, Tom Goddard |
| 293 | | |
| 294 | | February 25-26, 2010 |
| 295 | | Molecular Animation workshop sponsored by RBVI and NCMI. Two days, ~25 participants, 14 talks. |
| 296 | | Preparation time ~150 person-hours. Hosted by and planned by Tom Ferrin and Scooter Morris from RBVI |
| 297 | | and Wah Chiu from NCMI. Two talks given by RBVI. [http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/Workshops/login/wiki/AnimationWorkshop] |
| 298 | | - Tom Ferrin, Scooter Morris, Tom Goddard, Zheng Yang |
| 299 | | |
| 300 | | March 11-13, 2010 |
| 301 | | Poster on HIV spike visualization presented at the 5th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular |
| 302 | | Assemblies by Hybrid Methods in Lake Tahoe (http://www.hybridmethods2010.com/). About 180 researchers primarily using |
| 303 | | electron microscopy attended. Discussed EM map fitting using Chimera |
| 304 | | and EMDB map and segmentation file formats with approximately 20 people. Preparation time ~15 hours. |
| 305 | | - Zheng Yang, Tom Goddard |
| 306 | | |
| 307 | | March 17, 2010 |
| 308 | | 1/2 Day Cytoscape training for Al Burlingame's group. 13 participants. Preparation time: ~10 hours. |
| 309 | | - Scooter Morris |
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