Colleagues, This workshop is virtual this summer, and therefore available to students worldwide. Please share with your student science enthusiasts.
-Lisa Lisa J Keefe, PhD IMCA-CAT <http://www.imca-cat.org/> Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association - Collaborative Access Team 630.252.0544 • Sector 17 @ Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Vice President for Advancing Therapeutics Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute <http://hwi.buffalo.edu/> CEO (interim) American Crystallographic Association <http://www.amercrystalassn.org/> Chair-Elect Council of Scientific Society Presidents <https://www.sciencepresidents.org/> . > > https://hwi.buffalo.edu/duax-high-school-program/ > <https://hwi.buffalo.edu/duax-high-school-program/> > > Duax High School Program > > The Eleventh Annual Summer Workshop in Molecular Bioinformatics 2020 > > The 2020 HWI Duax Summer Workshop will be held online from July 6 to July 24 > from 9 AM to 1 PM five days a week. We can accommodate 60 students. Students > who commit to attend the entire three weeks will be given preference. > > Sessions will begin with the entire group at 9 AM for presentations and at 10 > AM break into study groups lead by HWI team leaders. The web accounts will > be provided by HWI. The program will culminate with students doing online > presentations for the full cohort as well as interested members of the > community. > > First-time students must complete an application form with essay questions > concerning their goals and motivations. COMPLETE THE APPLICATION HERE > <https://hwi.buffalo.edu/summer-workshop-in-molecular-bioinformatics-application/%20>. > We have been accepting students from 7th to 12th grades and have not > rejected anyone who completed the application. There are no other > prerequisites. Students will be accepted into the program in the order their > completed application is received. If more than 60 applications are received, > it may not be possible to accommodate the overflow. > > Description of Program > > Training is computer intensive. The students learn to use state of the art > computer programs for amino and nucleic acid sequence analysis of the genomes > of all bacteria and eukaryotes. The training includes the use of the most > heavily used programs for biological analysis on the World Wide Web and a > suite of unique programs developed in our laboratory for proteomic and > genomic analysis. The students mine the data in the gene and protein banks of > the world. > > The four major goals of the research are to determine (1) the origin and > evolution of the genetic code, (2) the order of evolution of all bacterial > species, (3) the nature of evolution of the sequence and function of families > of proteins present in all species, and (4) the amino acid residues > responsible for substrate specificity in families of enzymes. > > The students are not replicating previous experiments for which the results > are already known. They are conducting experiments that have never been done > before, that challenge basic tenets of structural biology. In this way > students learn that genuine research demands flexibility, adaptability, > creativity and patience. > > The students are given opportunities to present their research goals and > results and their interpretation of their data to coworkers, classmates, > laymen, and scientists. > > The Roy Carver Foundation and donations from various supporters make the HWI > Duax High School Program possible. We thank them for their philanthropy. > > There is an attendance fee of $100 for the 2020 school and should be paid at > the time of application. Fee waivers for students with demonstrated need are > available. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/