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External Advisory Committee and Steering Committee
MeetingApril 19, 2010
Joint program with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
Conceived in 2002; approved October 2004, first graduates in May 2005
Currently 24 students accepted into program 13 on graduate
assistantships (9 grant funded)
2 working full time 6 starting this Summer/Fall
April 19, 2010 2AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
http://bioinformatics.ualr.edu/grad
Participating faculty Sixty participants from two universities, four
colleges Representing more than two dozen departments
Currently considering expansion to incorporate medical informatics
Through 2009, 13 MS and 5 PhD graduates 78% of graduates are still in Arkansas doing
bioinformatics! 7 more MS and 1 PhD expected to graduate in
2010
April 19, 2010 3AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
http://bioinformatics.ualr.edu/faculty
MS Graduates 9 continued on into PhD program 1 completed internal medicine residency last May
(Austin) 1 pursing biophysics PhD (U Maryland) 1 still managing UAMS DNA Sequencing Facility 1 continued employment in computer science
PhD Graduates 2 working at National Center for Toxicological Research
1 FDA Commissioners Fellow and 1 post-doc 2 working at UAMS
1 post-doc and 1 working in new Pharmacogenomics Center 1 working at Yale Center for High-Throughput Biology
April 19, 2010 4AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
Founded in 2002; 1st two conferences hosted in Little Rock
Incorporated with Board of Directors and Local Chapters; strong student emphasis
April 19, 2010 5AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
Eighth Annual Conference April 1/2 at Texas A&M
Seventh Annual Conference February 19/20 at
Arkansas State University
234 attendees including 132 students
Attendees from 15 US states and Canada Including CA, MD, PA,
and SD
April 19, 2010 6AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
www.MCBIOS.org
Full-time Technical Director and half-time administrative assistant
Core users: 21 faculty and 40 students
Moving to 1600 sqft of space in new UALR building in June 2010
April 19, 2010 7AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
http://bioinformatics.ualr.edu/mbc
Wednesday Lunch Seminars Feb 24 xNix File
Guru Mar 3 HTML Forms
and CGI Basics Mar 10 Perl Library
Examples (1) Mar 31 Perl Library
Examples (2) Apr 7 HTML Forms
and CGI Basics Apr 28 xNix File
Guru
Friday afternoon Laptop Workshops Feb 26 Intro to Perl Mar 12 R Statistical
Programming Apr 2 Systems
with Bioperl and MySQL
Apr 16 NCBI eUtils Web Services
Apr 30 From Zero to Hero: Learn to Publish Perl
April 19, 2010 8AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
Continue supporting Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Continue supporting MCBIOS Continue strong workshop offerings Continue national/international outreach
ISCB Education Committee ISCB Affiliates Committee Network of IDeA-funded Core Laboratories Participation in regional/national NCRR programs
New collaboration with Jackson State University
April 19, 2010 9AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core
May: week-long, intensive, workshop on LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, and Perl) by UALR MBC Technical Director and several BINF graduate students at JSU and work with students on individual, bioinformatics-related projects.
June: JSU Bioinformatics Research Associate and four MS/advanced undergraduate students at UALR to work on individual research projects. Tutorials will be offered at this time as needed.
September: MBC Technical Director returns to JSU to conduct training on the R Statistical Analysis package during the 3-5pm weekday timeslots and to consult with students on their projects earlier in the day.
After new EIT building opened, online workshops for JSU, other RCMIs, and INBRE PUIs.
April 19, 2010 AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core 10
The UAMS CTSA supportsthese efforts at UALR:(1) Design, implement,
and evaluate information quality management processes for translational research
(2) Develop collaboration tools and systems for biomedical researchers
(3) Develop a short course entitled Data Quality Issues and Solutions in Clinical Translational Research
April 19, 2010 AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core 11
April 19, 2010 AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core 12
Little Rock Central High School Junior Ms. Kamakshi L. Duvvuru recently presented her year-two results for “Bioinformatic Identification of Novel Protein Domains” at the Central Arkansas Regional Science Fair. The partial results are from a planned three-year project under the direction of Mr. Roger Hall, Technical Director of the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at UALR. Ms. Duvvuru was awarded 1st Place for Senior Division Computer Science on her way to 1st Place Overall and the first Arkansas invitation to the 2010 International Science Fair in San Jose, CA this May. Additionally, Ms. Duvvuru won the Army Math/Computer Science Award, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award, and a UALR Excellence in Information or Computing Award. Ms. Duvvuru is currently being considered for the NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research, and plans to complete her project before entering the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology as a Senior in December 2010.
