--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/2012 report --------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 19, 2011 Cytoscape User Tutorial given at the Cytoscape Retreat in San Diego. Had about 60 participants. Total prep time was about 10 hours. - Scooter Morris May 24, 2011 Interview and HIV capsid demonstration for an [http://connectedsocialmedia.com/6518/future-lab-3d-molecular-visualization/ NPR Future Lab podcast] sponsored by Intel Research on molecular visualization. Showed NPR reporter Deirdre Kennedy 3d stereo visualization and answered questions. Prep and delivery 5 hours. - Tom Ferrin, Elaine Meng, Tom Goddard June 8, 2011 Cytoscape and Proteomics. Training class given at UCSF to 8-10 UCSF campus researchers doing proteomics, specifically using MassSpec-based approaches. Total prep time was 5 hours. - Scooter Morris June 23, 2011 [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/hiv-core-june2011/hivcore.html HIV capsid demonstration] given to 10 high school students from [http://momagic.org Mo' MAGIC] program organized by UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership (SEP). Showed 3-d stereo visualization, space navigator, plastic models in visualization vault. Prep and delivery 5 hours. - Tom Goddard June 26 - July 1, 2011 Chimera [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/3dem-june2011/fitdemo.html fitting talk] demonstrating global, sequential and symmetric fitting at [http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=threedim 3D EM Gordon conference], 200 participants, New Hampshire. Also 2 hour Chimera question and answer session with 20 participants. Prep and delivery 20 hours. - Tom Goddard July 11-12, 2011 [http://edu.isb-sib.ch/course/view.php?id=97 Cytoscape User Tutorial and Developer's Workshop] at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). 50 participants. Total prep time was 20 hours. - Scooter Morris July 15, 2011 Helped organize the [http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011-program/satellite-meetings#network Network Biology SIG] at ISMB 2011 in Austria, Vienna. Total participants: 160. - Scooter Morris July 16, 2011 Gave a [http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011-program/tutorials#pm5 Tutorial on Network Biology and Cytoscape] at ISMB 2011 in Austria, Vienna. Total participants: 35. Total prep time was 40 hours. - Scooter Morris July 18, 2011 Gave an invited talk on user interface development in the [https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011-program/workshops#w3 Data Visualization and User Interfaces] workshop at ISMB. Total participants: 140. Total prep time was 40 hours. - Scooter Morris July 28, 2011 Hosted the [http://cosmos.ucdavis.edu/ COSMOS kids] from UC Davis' Summer School for Math and Science. Viewed virus capsids in Chimera, influenza hemagglutinin conformational change. Total participants: 21. Total prep/organizational time: 20 hours. - Scooter Morris August 16, 2011 [http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/07/10230/ucsf-lead-first-annual-bay-area-science-festival Bay Area Science Festival] publicity event demonstrations for House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Showed HIV capsid visualization. Visualization Vault room. 10 guests and press. 4 hours preparation. - Tom Goddard September 20, 2011 Two hiv capsid visualization demonstrations, 30 minutes each, for [http://scienceonthemove.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/hello-world/ 22 Swiss high school students] who won the Swiss [http://www.simplyscience.ch/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-335/admin-1/ "Science on the Move"] national science competition sponsored by Roche and Genentech. Arranged by Susan Jacobson at UCSF. Prep time 4 hours. - Tom Goddard September 30, 2011 35-minute presentation to >25 students in UCSF BP204, "Macromolecular Interactions and Assemblies" class. Included 5 min on history of Computer Graphics Lab, the remainder a Chimera demonstration: basic usage, morphing, viewing sequences, showing attribute values, building multimers, stereo. Prep time 16 hours including updating the previous year's presentation, testing with the current version of Chimera, rehearsing the demo, preparing handouts, working through the homework assignment with current version of Chimera and making a "cheat sheet" for the TAs of commands that could be used for that homework. - Elaine Meng, Eric Pettersen, Tom Goddard November 2, 2011 Bay Area Science Festival 20 minute demonstration of HIV capsid visualization for 10 Balboa High School students. Presented in visualization vault room. - Scooter Morris November 30, 2011 Hands-on Chimera tutorial at Purdue University. 90 minutes, 25 participants, 8 hours preparation. Organized by Michael Rossmann. Covered building a ParM filament using an EM map and Xray stucture. - Tom Goddard November 30, 2011 Structural Biology Seminar talk at Purdue University, by invitation of Michael Rossmann. 1 hour, 45 in audience, 16 hours preparation. Demonstrated hypothetical modeling of alpha crystallin and HIV capsid and RNA. - Tom Goddard December 1, 2011 Chimera hands-on training at Indiana University. 2.5 hours, 30 participants primarily undergraduates, 8 hours preparation. Organized by David Morgan. Covered alpha crystallin model building using Xray structures and an EM map. 90 minute follow-along tutorial, 60 minute question and answer session on all Chimera topics. - Tom Goddard December 6, 2011 Chimera demonstration for University of San Francisco biochemistry class. 30 minutes, 8 participants, 4 hours preparation. USF teacher Willie Melaugh. Showed pombe cell x-ray tomography and dipeptide epimerase enzyme structure which performs a step in recycling bacterial peptidoglycan cell wall. - Tom Goddard, Elaine Meng --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Past reports [wiki:COT11 2011], [wiki:COT10 2010], [wiki:COT09 2009], [wiki:COT08 2008], [wiki:COT07 2007] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------