NBCR Summer Institute

The sixth National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) Summer Institute (SI) Monday - Friday, 1-5 August, 2011

The Goal
is to provide significant training opportunities for the biomedical research community members in targeted areas
of computational multiscale biomedical research:
  (1) computer aided drug discovery,
  (2) mesoscale modeling,
  (3) computational cardiac electrophysiology and mechanics.

Training
includes hands-on sessions for key NBCR tools freely available to the academic community. Participants may bring their own data and analyses for an immediate impact to their research. User feedbacks are critical to the development and enhancement of software features. Participants are encouraged to discuss new collaborations with NBCR faculty and staff members.

Environment
SI 2011 will be held in San Diego, California on the campuses of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). Students may choose to stay off campus or use UCSD Campus housing. Participants are required to bring their own laptops and install the necessary software where indicated by the instructors prior to their arrival.

OVERVIEW OF THE SUMMER INSTITUTE

NBCR is one of the National Centers funded by the National Center for Research Resouces (NCRR), NIH.

The workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdocs and researchers interested in 1) learning how to use specific tools covered by this summer institute, or 2) understanding specific examples of computational approaches to multiscale biomedical research, and 3) learning how to address the Challenges in Multiscale Computational Modeling.

This workshop will have three major activities:

In-depth, hands-on training sessions in key areas of multiscale biomedical research (see list of tracks below).
Plenary talks on multiscale computational modeling.
Special Sessions, including short topics or additional time with instructors to work with student brought data.

In addition, there will be a Poster session by participants, to allow NBCR instructors and researchers to interact with the participants and to explore new opportunities for collaboration or user needs.

TUTORIAL TRACKS

Each of the following topics represents a parallel track that will meet half days, for five days, Monday - Friday, 1-5 August, 2011¹. Each participant may sign up for maximum of two tracks. Special topics sessions may be included to allow students to gain additional experience with specific tools or to work on their own problems. Students are encouraged to contact the instructors prior to their arrival with their special topics of interest.
¹There will be no afternoon session on Friday, Aug 5, 2011.

Morning Session	Afternoon Session
1 Computational Cardiac Mechanics Tutorials on use of Continuity 6.3 by NBCR	4 Virtual Screening using AutoDock Suite of Tools Tutorials on use of AutoDock and AutoDock Tools and a cloud computing based virtual screening CADD pipeline.
2 Molecular Electrostatics and Diffusion Tutorials on use of Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solvers (APBS) and BrownDye	5 Mesoscale Modeling of Cardiac Myocytes Tutorials on meshing using FETK/Gamer and simulations using CSMOL through the Blender Interface
3 Computer Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) pipeline Tutorials on using the Relaxed Complex Scheme and the CADD pipeline in drug discovery for infectious diseases	6 Scalable Scientific Applications and Workflows using Cloud Services Tutorials on the deployment of user applications as Cloud based services and development of complex workflows.

PLENARY SESSION Computational Science Seminar Series (CSSS): Challenges in Multiscale Computational Modeling with an emphasis in bridging scales and on the mesoscale.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION enrollment is limited. To ensure your place in the Summer Institute program and to help us accommodate you, we ask that you register as early as possible.

SESSIONS TRAINING MATERIALS online access

NBCR Summer Institute 2011 Flyer (.pdf, 332kb)

The 6th NBCR SI Group photo, Monday, Aug 1, 2011