RBVI Workshops and Training

The RBVI provides several types of training on the tools we develop, from presentations at conferences to intensive workshops at UCSF or other sites. In addition, there are many online Chimera tutorials and Cytoscape tutorials, some developed for specific workshops, others as standalone materials.

Selected training events are listed below, with links to associated materials where available. See also Upcoming Workshops (below) and Selected Presentations.

Event	Date	Topics
ASBMB (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) annual meeting, Boston, MA	Apr 21 2013	Introduction to similarity networks and information available for download from the Structure-Function Linkage Database, as part of the EFI workshop “New strategies for function assignment”
Chimera tutorial at VIZBI 2013 (Visualizing Biological Data), Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA	Mar 19 2013	Basics of molecular visualization and animation
Webinar for SBGrid	Feb 7 2013	Chimera molecular assembly and electron microscopy tools, building a model of alpha-crystallin
Enzyme Mechanisms Meeting Workshop, San Diego, CA	Jan 7 2013	Introduction to similarity networks and the Structure-Function Linkage Database
Chimera hands-on tutorial at UC Berkeley	Dec 19 2012	Map segmentation: surface masking, watershed segmentation, zones around markers and atoms
2012 Cytoscape retreat, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF	Dec 13 2012	Hands-on tutorial: Cytoscape network visualization and analysis
Chimera hands-on tutorial at UC Berkeley	Dec 5 2012	Basic molecular display, segmenting and fitting single-particle density maps, extracting regions from termite gut FIBSEM data
Northern California Society for Microscopy meeting, UCSF	Nov 15 2012	Viewing and analyzing microscopy data with Chimera; map segmentation [HTML]
Macromolecular Interactions course, UCSF BP204	Oct 17 2012	Chimera structural analysis and comparison; contacts and H-bonds, superposition, morphing, building multimers, working with sequences
Introduction to Bioinformatics course, UCSF BMI206	Oct 14-30 2012	Four hours of lecture featuring superfamily analysis, protein similarity networks, and the Structure-Function Linkage Database, which was also used in a lab assignment
Cytoscape workshop at NIH, Bethesda, MD	Oct 4 2012	Network visualization and analysis with Cytoscape [workshop materials]
Chimera workshop at NIH, Bethesda, MD	Oct 2-3 2012	Introduction to Chimera, structure analysis, sequence-structure tools, EM density analysis, publication images and movies [workshop materials]
Workshop on the Radical SAM Superfamily, UCSF	Sep 29 2012	Radical SAM superfamily curation and analysis with the Structure-Function Linkage Database
Bay Area cryo-EM meeting, Santa Cruz	Aug 27 2012	Making movies in Chimera, morphing EM maps and molecular structures of ParM [HTML]
Chimera training via WebEx for graduate students in structural and computational biology, Baylor College of Medicine	Aug 14 2012	Chimera visualization of protein structures and sequences (dipeptide epimerase) and covering multiple length scales, from atoms to cells (T-cell tomography and termite gut EM)
Chimera hands-on training by teleconference, cryoEM workshop at the National University of Singapore	Jul 12 2012	Electron tomography segmentation, molecule display, fitting; Q & A [HTML]
Chimera training for the DeGrado group at UCSF	Jul 3 2012	Chimera structural analysis and comparison; H-bonds, superposition, morphing, attributes, working with sequences, density display, making movies; Q & A
Chimera workshop at the University of Missouri	Apr 28 2012	Molecular visualization and analysis
Cytoscape workshop at the University of Missouri	Apr 27 2012	Network visualization and analysis
Cytoscape tutorial at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne	Mar 12-13 2012	Network visualization and analysis
Chimera tutorial at VIZBI 2012 (EMBO Visualizing Biological Data conference), Heidelberg, Germany	Mar 5 2012	Basics of molecular visualization and animation
Cytoscape developer tutorial at VIZBI 2012, Heidelberg, Germany	Mar 5 2012	Cytoscape plugin development

The RBVI offers workshops covering the use of the technology and tools we have developed as part of various research projects. Workshops are held at UCSF or at institutions with a significant enough user base to make it feasible for us to send a team to the users rather than bringing the users to UCSF.

We have no workshops scheduled at this time.

If you are interested in hosting a workshop at your institution, please contact us: rbvi-workshops@cgl.ucsf.edu.