Time: Fridays, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, June 6 - August 1
Place: Bioinformatics Computer Core Lab (Rm 104), Life Sciences Bldg
Organizers: Various BBSI students, plus Jeff Elhai in the background
Audience: Primarily 2nd year students

Description
Goals
The goal is to break the stranglehold that the bottom line has on the undergraduate mentality by focusing on individual results, how the were obtained, what we may draw from them, and what we may not. Each week, different BBSI participants assume the role of facilitators, using a ~10 minute presentation to guide their colleagues through the logic leading up to an experiment described in a research article and a result that came from it.
      Hints for preparing a presentation

Strategy
Each participant will give two presentations over the course of the summer. Each presentation will be paired with the presentations of one or more other participants, sharing a common theme. Ideally, the presentations will address the same phenomenon from different, perhaps conflicting angles. The choice of the theme is up to the participants, but it is imagined that one presentation by a participant will be in the area of the participant's research and the other will be in the area of a different participant's research.

Feedback
Presenting difficult to understand experiments -- and that certainly describes the contents of most research articles -- is not easy to do. People who are very good at what they do for a living are often not very good at making their thoughts comprehensible to a general audience. It is a learned skill. Participants in this workshop will provide feedback to facilitators, helping them see what worked and what didn't. That also is a learned skill, and an important one.
     

Schedule

Fri 6 June	Organization
Fri 20 June	Cyndi Edwards (1) Tom Lopez (1) Andy Surface (2) Meredith Wouters (2)
Fri 27 June	Cecie Blair (1) Cameron Thomas (1) James Deemey (2) Justin Owen (2)
Fri 11 July	Kweku Biney (1) Andy Surface (2) Meredith Wouters (2)
Fri 18 July	Joe Moeller (1) Andy Whittam(1)

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