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"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)

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2014/2015 report

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May 28-June 4, 2014

Penn State ​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 ​COSMOS ​Chemistry of Life summer camp students from UC Davis led by professor ​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

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Past reports 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

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