--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009/2010 report --------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 21, 2009 Talk to ten San Francisco high school teachers, part of the Current Science Seminar Series organized by the UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership. (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/) Showed stereo visualization and manipulation of man-made molecular machines and viruses. Made paper virus models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 12 hours preparation time. - Tom Goddard June 11, 2009 Second talk to high school teachers in the Current Science Seminar Series given by the UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership. Showed stereo visualization and manipulation of man-made molecular machines and viruses. Made paper virus models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 3 hours preparation time. - Tom Goddard June 24, 2009 Virus visualization demonstration for a dozen science summer school students ages 9 to 12 (http://www.celsiusandbeyond.com/). Showed stereo visualization, space navigator, phantom force feedback, protein and rna structure and virus paper models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 12 hours preparation time. - Tom Goddard July 14, 2009 Molecular visualization demonstration for ~30 kids from the COSMOS summer school program at U.C. Davis (http://www.ucop.edu/cosmos/). Showed stereo visualization, virus structures, protein, dna, and protein docked with dna. - Scooter Morris July 15, 2009 Virus visualization demonstration for 5 science summer school students ages 9 to 12 (http://www.celsiusandbeyond.com/). Showed stereo visualization, space navigator, phantom force feedback, protein and rna structure and virus paper models. Held in RBVI visualization room. 4 hours preparation time. - Tom Goddard August 19, 2009 Chimera talk and demonstration, Molecular Visualization symposium (COMP division, see http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/238nm/techprogram/S32080.HTM ) at the 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Washington, DC). Prep time by Elaine 60 hours including deciding what features to show and finding an appropriate biological system with which to show them, reading papers about the biological system, generating or finding associated data files, testing the features thoroughly, and iteratively adjusting presentation order and scope. - Tom Ferrin, Elaine Meng September 1, 2009 Demonstration for NIH visitors from Clinical and Translation Science Awards (CTSA). Showed HIV spike tomography, T-cell tomography, clathrin cage animation, cytoscape. Held in RBVI visualization room. 6 hours preparation time. - Tom Goddard, Scooter Morris, Tom Ferrin September 22, 2009 Gave a talk and training session at the EMBO European School of Genetic Medicine course entitled "Embo Practical course on Networks in Biology analysis, modeling and reverse engineering." My talk was an introduction to the "Analysis & Visualisation of biological networks" and the practical covered uses of Cytoscape. There were 60 students from throughout Europe, and 6 faculty in attendance. Prep time for talk: 16 hours, for lab: 8 hours. - Scooter Morris September 28, 2009 Gave an informal seminar at Institute Pasteur for 10 members of the Systems Biology Group on uses of Cytoscape for phylogenetic analysis and cheminformatics. - Scooter Morris September 30, 2009 45-minute Chimera demonstration to ~20 students in UCSF BP204A, "Macromolecular Interactions" class. Included basic usage, morphing, viewing sequences, showing attribute values, building multimers. Prep time 60 hours including looking up information on the history of molecular graphics, working through exercises from the previous year, deciding what structures and features to show and in what order, generating or finding associated data files, testing the features thoroughly, and practicing the presentation. - Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen October 20, 2009 EMBO practical course: "The combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography for the structure determination of large biological complexes" (http://cwp.embo.org/pc09-18/). One day (7 hours) of hands-on Chimera training during 5 day workshop. 20 students. Grenoble, France. 60 hours preparing materials (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials/emfit09/emfit.html). - Tom Goddard October 23, 2009 Gave a 3 hour training session to the UCSF BMI206 class (14 Graduate Students) on Cytoscape and structureViz. Prep time: 12 hours. Tutorials are available on-line at http://opentutorials.rbvi.ucsf.edu/ - Scooter Morris December 1, 2009 Demonstrations for three Galileo High School student groups, part of SEP SMART team program organized by Sabine Jeske (http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/programs/sep/school-programs-smart-teams.html). Presentations covered their proteins: HIV Rev, capase-3, and strictosidine synthase. Included protein analysis, EM data, stereo viewing, space navigator, plastic and paper models. Three groups of ~10 students each in RBVI viz vault. 15 hours preparation and execution. - Tom Goddard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [wiki:COT09 2008/2009 report] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------