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http://ribosome.fandm.edu. Kathleen Triman Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA. RNA CiteTrack: ribosome mutants From: rna-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu To: ktriman@fandm.edu.
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http://ribosome.fandm.edu Kathleen Triman Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA ktriman@fandm.edu
RNA CiteTrack: ribosome mutants From: rna-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu To: ktriman@fandm.edu Genetic Analysis of the Invariant Residue G791 in Escherichia coli 16S rRNAImplicates RelA in Ribosome Function Hong-Man Kim, Sang-Mi Ryou, Woo-Seok Song, Se-Hoon Sim, Chang-Jun Cha, Seung Hyun Han, Nam-Chul Ha, Jae-Hong Kim, Jeehyeon Bae, Philip R. Cunningham, and Kangseok Lee J. Bacteriol. 2009; 191(7): p2042-2050 http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract191/7/2042ct=ct
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Award:A New Program in Bioinformatics
Student stipends • New faculty development • Dr. Jaime Blair, Biology • Dr. Jing Hu, new appointment in Computer Science • Current faculty development • Curriculum, equipment, and laboratory development
Precollege outreach • Summer workshops for high school teachers • Summer research opportunities for high school teachers • Program administration • Dr. Ellie Rice • Program assessment
External Partners • Clinic for Special Children • http://www.clinicforspecialchildren.org/Welcome.html • Translational research • Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU 13) • Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) at Davidson College • DNA chips
Time Line • July 2008: Dr. Blair begins. • Sept. 2008: Grant begins • Fall 2008: Search for a computer scientist in the area of bioinformatics • July 2009: Computer scientist begins • Spring 2010: New interdisciplinary major in bioinformatics (tentative date)
What will it mean for F&M students? • Research opportunities during the summer and academic year at the College and the Clinic for Special Children • Funds to present their work at professional conferences • Opportunities to help develop new curriculum (new courses, new modules in existing courses), and web materials
What will it mean for F&M students? • New courses in genomics, bioinformatics, and computer science • A new interdisciplinary major in bioinformatics • A new major in Computer Science • Dr. Jana Iyengar appointed July 2008 • Dr. Jing Hu appointed July 2009 • A total of 3 full time computer scientists