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Final Defenses for three BCB Students...Congratulations Aimin, Brent and Lei (4/30/08 ts)
Summer Graduations are planned for the following students who will be holding their Final Defenses in May. Congratulations Aimin, Brent and Lei on your upcoming graduations !!

Aimin Yan who works with Robert Jernigan and Zhijun Wu, will present on May 2 in 115 Office and Lab at 3 p.m. The title of his dissertation is "Analysis on protein structures using statistical and computational methods". Here is the text of his abstract.

Brent Kronmiller's defense will be on May 7 at 1 p.m in 255 Bessey. His major professors are Roger Wise and Xun Gu. He will present "Assembly adn Annotation Tools for Analysis of Large Contiguous Regions of th Maize Genome." Read his full abstract here.

Lei Yang, who works with Robert Jernigan and Zhijun Wu, will present "Understanding protein motions by computational modeling and statistical approaches" in 115 Office and Lab on May 8 at 3 p.m. Here is the abstract of that talk.

BCB Symposium Update: June 11 to 14, 2009 (4/28/08 ts)
Plans are underway to hold a symposium entitled: Systems Biology: Integrative, Comparative, and Multi-Scale Modeling, June 11 to June 14, 2009, at the Scheman Education Building in the Iowa State Center. This BCB-related symposium will be one in a long series of Growth Factor and Signal Transduction symposia held at Iowa State and sponsored by the Dept. of BBMB.

The Symposium will begin with a session on a vision of Systems Biology; past, present, future. The bulk of the Symposium will then cover the Modeling of biological processes at molecular, cellular and organismal levels, and at multiple scales of investigation. The meeting will emphasize both current applications of available modeling tools as well as pioneering research in fundamental aspects of biological modeling.

The Symposium will cover four dates (Thursday June 11- Sunday June 14, 2009) and 16-18 speakers who are world leaders in their respective fields are expected to provide 45-60 minute talks. In addition, 8-10 additional speakers selected from submitted abstracts will give 15-20 minute talks. A poster session will be held to provide an opportunity for students to present their ongoing research.

A unique aspect of this conference is that the conference will be part of the cross-disciplinary training of students in the ISU NSF IGERT training grant in Computational Biology. These IGERT trainees and associates will have access to the wide variety of world-class speakers at this Symposium, as well as other scientists attending. The students will have an opportunity to present their research in a poster session, as well as compete for the opportunity to present a short talk at one of the sessions, and also interact with speakers through assisting with transportation, etc. for the Symposium.

May First Thursday Scheduled for May 1 (4/28/08 ts)
All BCB Graduate Students and IGERT and MGET Fellows are invited to our May First Thursday supper which will be held this Thursday, March 1, at 5:30 pm in 1102 Molecular Biology. We hope you will be able to join us as we review BCB program research efforts. Please let Trish know if you will be able to attend.

BCB 690 Student Seminar - May 2 at 2:10 p.m. in 296 Town Engineering (4/28/08 ts)
Presenters will include Wengang Zhou, a third-year BCB Student in the lab of Julie Dickerson and Fengli Fu, a 4th year student in the lab of Dan Voytas.

Please join us for this and other student presentations this Spring semester. A schedule can be found on the class website located at: http://www.bcb.iastate.edu/courses/BCB690-S2008.htm

BCB students to present at ISMB in July(4/28/08 ts)
ISMB 2008 will be held in Toronto, July 19-23. Several students have already had posters accepted !  Congratulations ! To register for the conference see: www.iscb.org/ismb2008/registration.php . Students attending the conference may want to become members of the ISCB. To join see:  www.iscb.org/membership . As noted earlier, BCB students can have their ISCB Membership paid for by BCB, if you are attending this conference.  Forward to Trish the email you get from them acknowledging your one year new membership.

Look for more details regarding group travel opportunities to Toronto for this conference. Let Trish know if you are interested in this opportunity.

Baker Seminar - May 1 - part of the BCB 593 Workshop for Spring 2008 (4/28/08 ts)
On Thursday, May 1, Dr. Timothy Hughes will present a seminar entitled, "Complexity, diversity, and conservation in the protein-DNA interctome". View the seminar abstract here. The seminar is at 2:10 and will be held in Howe Hall, Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium. Timothy Hughes is with the University of Toronto in the Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology.

The seminar is hosted by the L.H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics and NSF-IGERT. The Spring 2008 speakers for the Baker Seminar series are the basis for the Spring offering of BCB 593. Those registered for this course should attend the luncheon on May 1st which will be held in 2034 MBB. See you there! Class members should also plan to meet with instructor for BCB 593, Bob Jernigan, in 115 Office and Lab at 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29.

BCB Faculty Annual Meeting, May 5 (4/28/08 ts)
The BCB Annual Faculty Meeting is scheduled for May 5th from 11:45 to 1:15 in the Gallery of the Memorial Union.

AAAS Fellows awarded to two BCB Faculty members (4/28/08 ts)
Five members of the Iowa State University faculty have been awarded the distinction of being named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Philip W. Becraft and Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, BCB faculty members were awarded because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Congratulations!

Bluer Waters Are Coming (4/28/08 ts)
In late March, ISU became a charter member of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation. Srinivas Aluru coordinates Iowa State's contributions to it. The Consortium is a collaboration among dozens of universities, colleges, research laboratories, and institutes from around the country. The consortium will encourage the widespread and effective use of petascale computing to advance scientific discovery and the state-of-the-art in engineering, increase regional and national competitiveness, and train tomorrow's computational researchers and educators. It will be key to the development of Blue Waters, which is expected to be the world's first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research.

Blue Waters' home will be the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. It is a joint effort of NCSA, Illinois, IBM, and the Great Lakes Consortium. It is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Srinivas said in the ISU Insider story, that "The computing power of Blue Waters will advance the work of Iowa State researchers in computational chemistry, genomics, systems biology, materials science, nanotechnology and climate modeling." Blue Waters will go online in 2011, providing researchers with the power to tackle scientific problems that previously were out of reach. The complete ISU story can be found here.

BCB Library books can be checked out ! (2/9/08 ts)
There are a number of books that can be checked out from the BCB library located in 2014 Molecular Biology Building. Here is a current list. Those checked out are indicated. Stop by between 10 and 5 p.m. to check one out !

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