Outreach and Education
Recent and Upcoming Meetings and Presentations
ACA Poster Prize Winner Magdalena Korczynska with Victor Young and ACA President Dr. Robert Von Dreele.
Magdalena Korczynska was awarded the RCSB PDB Poster Prize for best student poster related to macromolecular crystallography at the ACA Annual Meeting for Structural Insight into Homoserine Transacetylase from Haemophilus influenzae (Magdalena Korczynska,a I. Ahmad Mirza,a and Albert M. Berghuis;a,b
aDepartments of Biochemistry and bMicrobiology & Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada).
Many thanks to the judges: Joe Ng (The University of Alabama in Huntsville), John Rose (University of Georgia), and Emil Pai (University of Toronto).
Christoph Malisi The award for the best student poster in the category structure function and prediction at the Joint 17th Annual International Conference for Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB; June 27-July 2; Stockholm, Sweden) went to Christoph Malisi for Automated Scaffold Selection for Enzyme Design (Christoph Malisi,a,b Oliver Kohlbacher,b and Birte Höcker;a
aMax Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Protein Design Group, Tübingen, Germany; bDivision for Simulation of Biological Systems, Center for Bioinformatics, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany).
Many thanks to the judges: Marco Punta (Committee Chair, Columbia University), Yana Bromberg (Columbia University), Stefano Lise (University College London), Silvio Tosatto (Universita' di Padova, Italy), Maria Valentini (CRS4, Italy), Curtis Huttenhower (Harvard University), and Lars Arvestad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden). Thanks also to the full reviewing committee and to the International Society for Computational Biology.
The winners will receive an educational book and a subscription to Science magazine.
Recent and Upcoming Meetings and Presentations
The RCSB PDB exhibited along side the PSI SG KB at the 23rd Annual Symposium of The Protein Society (July 25-29, Boston, MA). Lihua Tan presented the poster A Lot More Than Coordinates: A Short Tour of a PDB File, which highlighted all of the rich information available in a PDB file other than the X, Y, Z coordinates.
Demonstrations of new RCSB PDB features were given at the Joint 17th Annual International Conference for Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) (June 27-July 2; Stockholm, Sweden). At the ISMB satellite Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), the RCSB PDB's Andreas Prlic presented BioJava 2009: an Open-Source Framework for Bioinformatics, and at the BioLink Special Interest Group Session on the Future of Scientific Publishing, Phil Bourne discussed OpenID vs. ResearcherID.
At the Essentials for Educating Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduates Symposium (August 5-8; Colorado Springs, CO) sponsored by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shuchismita Dutta ran a workshop entitled Molecular Visualization and Protein Databases (IIA): Tools, Rules and Stories: A Protein Data Bank Workshop Series.
The RCSB PDB will exhibit at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting at the end of 2009 (December 5-9; San Diego, CA) and at the Biophysical Society meeting at the beginning of 2010.
Turn Your Computer into a PDB Structure Kiosk
 Highlight structures from your lab, institution, or class with the Molecules in Motion Kiosk Viewer. Using a list of PDB IDs, this full-screen animation program will display any PDB structure from different angles and perspectives. It also focuses on any chemical components within the structure.
The Java viewer can be downloaded or launched from the Educational Resources page.
The Molecules in Motion Kiosk Viewer on display at the Busch Campus Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
High School Teams to Build 3D Protein Models
The protein modeling event will be held at more than 20 Science Olympiad tournaments held across the country in 2010. The theme for the competitions will be influenza, with teams building models of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase.
The RCSB PDB supervises and judges the competition in New Jersey (education.pdb.org) and will be posting tips and news at twitter.com/buildmodels.
The event was developed by the Center for BioMolecular Modeling. For more information, please see cbm.msoe.edu/stupro/so. |
