VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
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Current Research in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (Summer 2004)

Time: Thursdays, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, June 17, July 15 - August 5
      Thursdays, 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm, June 24 - July 8
Place: Bioinformatics Computer Core Lab (Rm 104), Life Sciences Bldg
Organizers: Various BBSI faculty members and students
Audience: Primarily 2nd year students
Description: Students present topical research article, followed by
      directed discussion by colleagues
      Hints for preparing a presentation
      Hints for leading a discussion on an article

Schedule
Thu 24 June Rebecca Ganetzky presents:
Perou et al (2000). Molecular portraits of human breast tumours. Nature 406:747-752.

Robert Mullowney presents:
Mahalingam et al (2001). Structural implications of drug-resistant mutants of HIV-1 protease: high-resolution crystal structures of the mutant protease/substrate analogue complexes. Proteins 43:455-64.
Tue 06 July Greg Ziegler presents:
Modrek B, Lee CJ (2003). Alternative splicing in the human, mouse and rat genomes is associated with an increased frequency of exon creation and/or loss. Nature Genetics 34:177-180

Gaurav Rana presents:
Edwards JS, Ibarra RU, Palsson BO (2001). In silico predictions of Escherichia coli metabolic capabilities are consistent with experimental data. Nature 19:125-130.
Tue 13 July Danielle King presents:
Liu J et al (2004). Antimicrobial drug discovery through bacteriophage genomics. Nature Biotechnology 22:185-191.

Luke Chaney presents:
Garbom et al (2004). Identification of novel virulence-associated genes via genome analysis of hypothetical genes. Infection and Immunity, 72:1333-1340.
Thu 15 July Chris Heffelfinger presents:
Wallqvist et al (2002). Establishing Connections between Microarray Expression Data and Chemotherapeutic Cancer Pharmacology. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 1:311–320.

Emily Colby presents:
N. Ariel et al (2002). Search for Potential Vaccine Candidate Open Reading Frames in the Bacillus anthracis Virulence Plasmid pXO1: In Silico and In Vitro Screening Infection and Immunity, 70:6817–6827.
Thu 22 July David Black presents:
E. Pechkova et al (2004). Protein nanocrystallography: a new approach to structural proteomics. Trends in Biotechnology 22:117-122
Thu 29 July Tom Murphy presents:
To be announced

Mark Delboy presents:
To be announced
Thu 05 Aug Josh Grant presents:
To be announced

Lyndsey Schutte presents:
To be announced

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