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Schedule

January 11 - 14, 2005

Tuesday, January 11th
4:30 –- 6:00 PM
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM
Welcome from Chet Fornari and Neal Abraham, DePauw University
6:15 –- 6:45 PM
Brief introduction to workshop
John R. Jungck, PI, BEDROCK
6:45 –- 7:15 PM
Introduction to TrpCage Problem Space
Rama Viswanathan, Beloit College; Tia Johnson, Assistant Director, BEDROCK
7:15 –- 7:30 PM
Break
7:30 –- 9:00 PM
TrpCage Lab Work
Tia Johnson and Rama Viswanathan
Wednesday, January 12th
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9 –- 9:45 AM
Overview of BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and BEDROCK
John R. Jungck
9:45 –- 10:15 AM
Introduction to Topoisomerases Problem Space
John R. Jungck
10:15 –- 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 –- 11:30 AM
Topoisomerases Problem Space Lab Work (DNA Topology and Knotty DNA)
John R. Jungck; Tim Herman, Milwaukee School of Engineering
11:30 –- 11:45 AM
Introduction to BEDROCK web pages
Tia Johnson
11:45 –- 1:15 PM
Lunch and group work
1:15 –- 2:30 PM

Phylogenetic Explorations

  • BEDROCK Excel Programs:
    EvolSeq (Ultrametric and Additive Trees), Split Decomp, and Dynamic Programming
  • MacClade (Phylogenetic analysis)
  • Graph Theory of Trees (Molecular cladistics and Tree counting)
  • Historians of Life (Visualizing Regions of Conservation in Protein Structures)
2:30 –- 2:45 PM
Break
2:45 –- 3:15 PM
Introduction to Analog Models and Rapid Prototyping
Tim Herman
3:15 –- 4:45 PM
Jackie Roberts and Tim Herman
4:45 –- 6:00 PM
Group Work and Poster Preparation
6:00 –- 7:30 PM
Supper on your own
7:30 –- 9:00 PM
Speaker
Paul McCreary, Xavier University of Louisiana
Thursday, January 13th
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 –- 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations
10:15 –- 10:45 AM

Protein Structure Determination in the Classroom - A Project Based Course
David Roberts

10:45 –- 11:45 AM
Protein Structure L ab Work
11:45 –- 1:15 PM
Lunch and group work and discussions
1:15 –- 2:45 PM
Structural Bioinformatics
John R. Jungck
2:45 –- 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 –- 6:00 PM
Group Work and PowerPoint Preparation – all staff will be available to help
6:30 PM
Dinner as a group – Walden Inn – each diner is responsible for his or her own tab
Friday, January 14th
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 –- 10:30 AM
Power Point presentations (sharing projects and courses)
10:20 –- 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 –- Noon
How to stay involved, feedback, sharing table (we will duplicate materials for participants), cut and distribute CDs, web sites & databases, collaboratories, other resources.

For more information please contact Sue Risseeuw (608/363-2012).


Sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DUE/CCLI-ND)

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