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First Thursday on the THIRD Thursday this Month! (8-17-05 kmw)
Our August First Thursday supper will be held this week, on August 18, as part of our Orientation Week activities. We will meet in 1102 Molecular Biology Building, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Please let Trish know by 10 am Thursday, August 18, whether you will be able to attend. This will be a great opportunity to become better acquainted with our new students, and to enjoy old friends, too. All BCB, IGERT and MGET students are invited. Hope to see you there!

Grad College New Student Reception August 19 (8-15-05 kmw)
Don't forget to drop by the New Student Reception this Friday, August 19, from 9:30-11:30 in the Graduate College, room 1137 Pearson Hall. Representatives will be available to provide information about student insurance, Information Technology, Parks Library, etc.

While you're there, be sure to sign up for the great door prizes, including an IPOD from Information Technology, tee shirts, $50 University Bookstore gift certificates, as well as other goodies. You need not be present to win, so stop in, even if only for a few minutes!

Genomics Symposium = BCB593! (8-12-05 kmw)
BCB, IGERT and MGET students, check this out! Not only does the upcoming Symposium on Integration of Structural and Functional Genomics promise to be chock full of fascinating presentations and boast an impressive line-up of speakers from around the world, but you can even use it to meet your BCB593 workshop requirement! The symposium will be held on the ISU campus September 22-25, 2005. To register for the symposium, go to the symposium website. To register for BCB593, just go to Access+; the reference number is 8529005.

BCB Poster Presentation August 16 (8-12-05 kmw)
All BCB faculty and students are invited to the BCB Poster Presentation to be held on Tuesday, August 16, from 2 to 4 pm in the Molecular Biology Building atrium. This event is part of BCB's Orientation Week schedule of activities, and is designed to help introduce new BCB students to some of the outstanding research going on here at ISU. We're still looking for more posters, so, if you have one and would like to participate, please contact Trish Stauble. Regardless whether you bring your poster or just drop by to browse, it's a great opportunity to find out what other BCB faculty and students are doing, to talk research, and to meet our new BCB students!

MGET Picnic August 17 (8-10-05 kmw)
All MGET fellows and faculty are invited to the All-MGET Picnic and Party to be held Wednesday, August 17, from 5-8 pm at the Maple Shelter, Brookside Park, 1325 Sixth Street. Maple Shelter is closest to Sixth Street and the south parking lot.

We hope you will come to meet and welcome our two new MGET fellows (Preeti Bais - BCB, and Nathan Romine - Genetics), reconnect with friends, celebrate summer, launch the new semester, enjoy a delicious picnic supper, hang out with cool folks...just have a good, relaxing time! Families are invited. Food and beverages will be provided. Please bring frisbees and equipment for other outdoor games.

Please let Kathy know ASAP whether you plan to attend (we hope you will!) and how many people (number of adults? number of children?) will be in your group.

See you on the 17th!

Bielefeld Bioinformaticist Visiting Campus this Week (8-1-05 kmw)
Dr. Robert Giegerich, Bielefeld University, Germany, is visiting campus this week as a guest of the L.H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics and theNIH-NSF BBSI Summer Institute in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, which is being held from June 5 through August 6.

"He represents one of the foremost bioinformatics efforts and Ph.D. programs in the world," said BCB faculty member Volker Brendel, one of the directors of the BBSI program. Giegerich has hosted visits to his lab by BCB students Shannon Schlueter and Michael Sparks as part of a summer program.

The ISU bioinformatics community is invited to attend a seminar to be presented by Dr. Giegerich this Thursday, August 4. The seminar, titled The magic of abstract shape analysis, will be held from 11 am to 12 noon in 1352 Gilman.

Dr. Giegerich also will be available to meet individually with students and faculty Monday afternoon, August 1, and throughout much of Wednesday and Thursday, August 3 and 4. Please email Volker Brendel the available times you'd like to meet with Dr. Giegerich.

Changhui Yan's Thesis Seminar is Announced (7-29-05 kmw)
BCB major Changhui Yan (Honavar/Dobbs, Computer Science Department) will present his PhD thesis seminar, Identification of interface residues involved in protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions from sequence using machine learning approaches, at 2 pm August 4 in 223 Atanasoff. The ISU computational biology community is invited to attend.

August Birthdays (7-28-05 kmw; edited 1-4-07)
It's time to begin celebrating our August birthdays:

Jianmin Feng, BCB alumnus
Erin Myers, MGET
Brad Powers, BCB alumnus
Justin Recknor, BCB
Tom Vigdal, BCB alumnus
Wu Xu, BCB alumnus

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