---- "Outreach and Training" activities for RBVI annual report and competitive grant renewals This wiki encompasses all RBVI outreach and training activities, not just those related to Chimera. The overall goal of the training component of the RBVI is twofold: to improve the general understanding of our technologies in the appropriate population and to create a cadre of biomedical researchers trained in the technology so that they can effectively apply it in their own research. Each entry below should include the following: * Title of event (e.g., EMBO electron microscopy workshop) * Nature of training (e.g., hands-on use of Chimera volume visualization tools) * Date(s) * Location * RBVI staff involved * Hours of instruction (includes lectures, labs, and prep time) * Number of attendees * Comments/remarks/related URLs (e.g., students brought their own data sets for analysis) ---- 2014/2015 report ---- May 28-June 4, 2014 Penn State [http://http://www.chem.psu.edu/bioinorganic/outreach/bioinorganic-training-workshop-1/bioinorganic-training-workshop Bioinorganic Chemistry Workshop] (Bioinformatics section). Hands-on workshop on using the SFLD and sequence similarity networks. 24 hours (12 teaching), 45 attendees. * Gemma Holliday, Patsy Babbitt July 24, 2014 Chimera demo for [http://cosmos.ucdavis.edu COSMOS] [http://cosmos.ucdavis.edu/cluster8.htm Chemistry of Life] summer camp students from UC Davis led by professor [http://chemgroups.ucdavis.edu/~mascal/pages/mascalhtm.htm Mark Mascal]. 18 students. Showed plastic 3d models, nano-machine, acetylcholine receptor, hydrophobicity, space navigator, dendritic cell motion, stereo glasses, oculus rift demo. Students got to try all the toys and were an enthusiastic group. 12 hours preparation and delivery. * Tom Goddard, Scooter Morris August 11-12, 2014 Wellcome Trust Protein Bioinformatics and Community Resources Retreat, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, UK. Retreat to network and establish communication between bioinformatics resources such as the SFLD. 24 hours, 20 attendees. * Gemma Holliday, Patsy Babbitt September 25, 2014 Chimera visualization for Baylor College of Medicine class "Computational Mathematics for Biomedical Scientists", 12 students, 1 hour, Ebola virus glycoproteins and movie making, hosted by Wah Chiu, 16 hours preparation and delivery (Ebola material was all new). * Tom Goddard October 15, 2014 UCSF BP204,"Macromolecular Interactions" class: 45-minute presentation followed by 45 mins of the students (about 19 of them) doing a Chimera tutorial on their own laptops. The presentation included 5 mins on history of Computer Graphics Lab, 40 mins of Chimera demonstration: basic usage, finding H-bonds, morphing, viewing sequences, showing attribute values, building multimers, measuring buried surface area, stereo. Prep time 12 hours including updating and rehearsing the presentation, updating and preparing handouts. * Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen October 21, 2014 UCSF BP205A,"Physical Underpinnings of Biological Systems" class: 1-hr presentation to 25 students focusing on showing sequence conservation on structures using Chimera. Covers obtaining a sequence alignment if you don't already have one, using methods available within Chimera to calculate per-column conservation and show it on structures with colors and/or worms, or creating an attribute file or alignment header file to import values that have been calculated outside of Chimera. Prep time 40 hours creating and rehearsing presentation, making [http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/systems/outline.html web page] with images and sample data. * Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen ---- Past reports [wiki:COT14 2014], [wiki:COT13 2013], [wiki:COT12 2012], [wiki:COT11 2011], [wiki:COT10 2010], [wiki:COT09 2009], [wiki:COT08 2008], [wiki:COT07 2007] ----