Selected Presentations and Dissemination Activities

RBVI researchers, collaborators, and staff members regularly present their work at workshops, conferences, and other scientific meetings to share results and techniques, to get input on development directions for existing and new tools, and to explore needs within the biomedical research community. The following table lists selected presentations. See also Engaging Youth in Science (below) and RBVI Workshops and Training.

Event	Date	Topics
Demos for UCSF Alumni Homecoming	Apr 21 2012	Molecular visualization with Chimera, stereo graphics
Planetarium dome animation shown multiple times in the Biomolecular Discovery Dome at the Biophysical Society 56th Annual Meeting, San Diego	Feb 26-27 2012	Molecular machines that replicate HIV RNA, 6-min. animation with music and narration [HTML storyboard]
Demos at UCSF for VIP guests attending the Byer's Lecture	Feb 23 2012	Chimera visualization of HIV, stereo graphics
Demos at UCSF for candidate graduate students, Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology	Feb 10, 17 2012	Chimera visualization of HIV
Seminar at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France	Feb 2 2012	Network biology and Cytoscape
Stereo graphics demonstration for Li Ka Shing Foundation	Jan 9 2012	HIV core particle
Chimera demo at UCSF for biochemistry students from the University of San Francisco	Dec 6 2011	X-ray tomography of Saccharomyces pombe, structure of dipeptide epimerase
Structural biology seminar at Purdue University	Nov 30 2011	Hypothetical modeling of α-crystallin and HIV capsid and RNA
Enzyme Function Initiative Advisory Committee Meeting	Nov 30 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database progress and future plans
Lecture for BioE, a joint UCB/UCSF graduate seminar series	Nov 13 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database introduction and discussion
Talk at joint UCB/UCSF graduate student retreat, Lake Tahoe	Oct 22 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database introduction and discussion
Talk to new PSPG (Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics) graduate students, UCSF	Oct 19 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database introduction and discussion
Talk to new iPQB (Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology) graduate students, UCSF	Oct 18 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database introduction and discussion
Demos at UCSF for House Democratic Leader Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Lee	Aug 16 2011	Chimera stereo graphics, HIV capsid [UCSF News]
Society for Industrial Microbiology Meeting, New Orleans	Jul 26 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database introduction and discussion
Interview and demo for National Public Radio podcast	May 24 2011	Chimera stereo graphics, HIV capsid [Future Lab: 3D Molecular Visualization]
Enzyme Function Initiative May Meeting	May 24 2011	Structure-Function Linkage Database progress and future plans
Lunch Talk to Faculty, Dept. of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF	May 2 2011	Functionally diverse enzyme superfamilies, Structure-Function Linkage Database
Demos at UCSF for candidate graduate students	Feb 11,18 2011	Chimera showing virus and T cell EM data, clathrin cages, 3D “printed” plastic models
Seminar at the University of Toronto, Canada	Feb 11 2011	Cytoscape and RBVI plugins
Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) meeting, UCSF	Jan 13 2011	SFLD functionality, Cytoscape protein similarity networks

Engaging Youth in Science

The RBVI is involved in several educational activities targeting students of high-school age and younger. The visual, interactive nature of molecular graphics combined with increasing awareness and interest of the general public in topics such as viruses and DNA make Chimera well suited for reaching out and engaging students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds.

Along these lines, Chimera has been included with educational materials produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Our collaborator Dr. Joseph DeRisi (Hughes Investigator, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF) was one of two scientists featured in the HHMI 2010 holiday lectures, Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease. The lectures and associated materials are distributed to high schools throughout the country, and can be ordered online free of charge. With the advocacy of Dr. DeRisi, we were invited by HHMI to include a simple tool for viewing viruses in 3D with Chimera.

Selected presentations to student and educator groups:

Elementary/High School Group	Date	Topics
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) students, UC Davis program	Jul 26 2012	Chimera visualization of HIV core and drug binding
Students from the iGem program, a partnership between UCSF and the San Francisco Unified School District	Jun 22 2012	Nanomachine and virus visualization, discussion of differences between human-designed and biological molecular machines
High school students in the Gladstone Summer Scholars (GSS) internship program	Jun 22 2012	HIV virus visualization; electron microscopy, atomic models of virus core and drug binding
High school students from the Mo' MAGIC program organized by the UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP)	Jun 22 2012	Nanomachine and virus visualization, discussion of differences between human-designed and biological molecular machines
Demo at UCSF for high school science teachers from the San Francisco Unified School District	Apr 23 2012	Molecular visualization with Chimera
Students from Balboa High School, Bay Area Science Festival event	Nov 2 2011	HIV capsid structure
Swiss high school students, winners of the Science on the Move science competition sponsored by Roche and Genentech	Sep 20 2011	HIV capsid structure
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) students, UC Davis program	Jul 28 2011	Virus capsid structures, influenza hemagglutinin
High school students from the Mo' MAGIC program organized by the UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP)	Jun 23 2011	Structure of HIV capsid and RNA [HTML]
SEP SMART team students from Lincoln and Galileo High Schools	Nov 18 2010 Dec 2 2010	Spirochetes, flagella, handedness, morphing, hydrophobic and electrostatic coloring to identify transmembrane and binding regions
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) students, UC Davis program	Jul 22 2010	DNA and chromosome structure
Celsius and Beyond summer camp students, ages 8-12	Jul 7,21 2010 Jun 9 2010	DNA and chromosome structure, light microscopy time series of dividing cells