Invitation to conduct a UCSF Chimera Workshop at Purdue University
Dear Team, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Nourin Ferdausi and I am a graduate student at the Department of Biological Sciences in Purdue University. My colleague, Priyanka Naik (cc’d here) and I are writing to you on behalf of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Club (SBBC). We are hoping to organize a virtual workshop focused on UCSF Chimera, and we would be honored if one of your team members could conduct this workshop. The graduate students and researchers of our structural biology group use a wide variety of experimental approaches like cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography for determining molecular structures. Consequently, the Chimera software is integral to our research, and we believe your insights would be of great impact to our community. We are flexible with the format of this virtual workshop, which is tentatively scheduled for mid-September; however, we are open to adjusting the date based on your availability. Your participation will provide our members with a unique opportunity to learn directly from a developer of UCSF Chimera. Please let me know if we can have a quick Zoom call to discuss the event in detail. We look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience! Thank you, Nourin Ferdausi Ph.D. Candidate, Noinaj Lab Supporting officer, Structural Biology and Biophysics Club Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology West Lafayette, IN-47907-2054
Why not consider something similar to what the RCSB offers for their training events? They typically host a Zoom workshop, which is recorded and then uploaded to their website and YouTube channel a few days later. This approach allows attendees who couldn’t participate live to still benefit from the workshop. Additionally, they provide certificates of attendance to those who join the live session, which is a nice way to acknowledge participation. This could be a great model to follow, ensuring that the content is accessible to a broader audience while also providing value to those who attend in real-time. I’ve been on this mailing list for a while now, and I’ve noticed that some basic questions tend to come up repeatedly. Offering recorded workshops could help reduce the number of emails on the list, as people could refer to the videos for answers to common questions or situations. - https://pdb101.rcsb.org/train/training-events Best regards, Francisco Murphy Pérez El mié, 28 ago 2024 a la(s) 3:04 p.m., Ferdausi, Nourin via ChimeraX-users ( chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu) escribió:
Dear Team,
I hope this email finds you well. My name is Nourin Ferdausi and I am a graduate student at the Department of Biological Sciences in Purdue University. My colleague, Priyanka Naik (cc’d here) and I are writing to you on behalf of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Club (SBBC). We are hoping to organize a virtual workshop focused on UCSF Chimera, and we would be honored if one of your team members could conduct this workshop.
The graduate students and researchers of our structural biology group use a wide variety of experimental approaches like cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography for determining molecular structures. Consequently, the Chimera software is integral to our research, and we believe your insights would be of great impact to our community.
We are flexible with the format of this virtual workshop, which is tentatively scheduled for mid-September; however, we are open to adjusting the date based on your availability. Your participation will provide our members with a unique opportunity to learn directly from a developer of UCSF Chimera.
Please let me know if we can have a quick Zoom call to discuss the event in detail. We look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience!
Thank you, Nourin Ferdausi
Ph.D. Candidate, Noinaj Lab Supporting officer, Structural Biology and Biophysics Club Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University
Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology West Lafayette, IN-47907-2054
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Hi Nourin, I could present a ChimeraX tutorial by Zoom, maybe this one on looking at cryoEM, X-ray and AlphaFold data https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/methods-jan2024/methods.html That takes 2 hours but I could just do part of it, maybe cryoEM and AlphaFold. Last time I gave that tutorial at NIH I asked if anyone had general ChimeraX questions and for a whole hour answered dozens of miscellaneous questions demonstrating the answers live in ChimeraX. That was very effective, and maybe if you have an audience of ChimeraX users they would just like a Question and Answer session instead of a fixed tutorial? If you'd like to discuss the possibilities in a Zoom call contact me directly (not on mailing list) with a Zoom link. Tom
On Aug 28, 2024, at 2:01 PM, Ferdausi, Nourin via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear Team,
I hope this email finds you well. My name is Nourin Ferdausi and I am a graduate student at the Department of Biological Sciences in Purdue University. My colleague, Priyanka Naik (cc’d here) and I are writing to you on behalf of the Structural Biology and Biophysics Club (SBBC). We are hoping to organize a virtual workshop focused on UCSF Chimera, and we would be honored if one of your team members could conduct this workshop.
The graduate students and researchers of our structural biology group use a wide variety of experimental approaches like cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography for determining molecular structures. Consequently, the Chimera software is integral to our research, and we believe your insights would be of great impact to our community.
We are flexible with the format of this virtual workshop, which is tentatively scheduled for mid-September; however, we are open to adjusting the date based on your availability. Your participation will provide our members with a unique opportunity to learn directly from a developer of UCSF Chimera.
Please let me know if we can have a quick Zoom call to discuss the event in detail. We look forward to your reply at your earliest convenience!
Thank you, Nourin Ferdausi
Ph.D. Candidate, Noinaj Lab Supporting officer, Structural Biology and Biophysics Club Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University
Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology West Lafayette, IN-47907-2054
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HI Francisco, In case you haven't seen it already, we do have a page that links to video presentations on ChimeraX. Some of them are short and single-task, but a few are captures of longer webinars, which are workshop-style presentations. <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/videos/> This videos page is one of the quick links on the left in the ChimeraX home page. <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/index.html> See also the tutorials and presentations on a wide variety of ChimeraX topics <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/tutorials.html> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/presentations.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Aug 28, 2024, at 4:48 PM, Francisco Murphy Pérez via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Why not consider something similar to what the RCSB offers for their training events? They typically host a Zoom workshop, which is recorded and then uploaded to their website and YouTube channel a few days later. This approach allows attendees who couldn’t participate live to still benefit from the workshop. Additionally, they provide certificates of attendance to those who join the live session, which is a nice way to acknowledge participation. This could be a great model to follow, ensuring that the content is accessible to a broader audience while also providing value to those who attend in real-time. I’ve been on this mailing list for a while now, and I’ve noticed that some basic questions tend to come up repeatedly. Offering recorded workshops could help reduce the number of emails on the list, as people could refer to the videos for answers to common questions or situations. • https://pdb101.rcsb.org/train/training-events Best regards, Francisco Murphy Pérez
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Elaine Meng -
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Francisco Murphy Pérez -
Tom Goddard