Monday Panel II Meet the incoming students
Tuesday Meet [with] Bioinformatics Group. We introduced the core faculty Sun, Haixu, Pedja, Yuzhen, Matt, and me. We advised too--though we felt this year's advising was too different from what we've done before--so next year, we're going to the previous way.
Wednesday-Friday [with] Scott to discuss a pilot study for a portion of an EHR for the State of Georgia.
Saturday Picnic--lots of people, food, and good cheer.
Sunday meet my honors group @ Briscoe--nice bunch of students--I hope to make some connections with a few. It was enjoyable. - (edited August 28, 2007, 12:37 AM)
I generally don't do this, but I received a wonderful email from a student (whom I won't name) and it touched me greatly. Here it is:
Memo,
I never got the chance to really thank you for all you have done for me. You are the best teacher I have ever had and you are the reason, the inspiration I have, to continue in the field of Informatics. I know that if I had received another teacher other than you for the I101, I probably would not have been as enthusiastic as I am about the major. I tell everyone this, that you are the only teacher I have ever had that seems to actually care that their students learn the material and wants them to become something great. I imagine that most teachers have this passion for teaching, for making a difference in people's lives, when they first begin down that road. Sadly, I can see that most of them lose that passion in a short while. I can honestly say that you are one of those teachers who have retained that fervor for teaching and it shows. I am grateful that you have been offered tenure here at IU because now I know that not only myself, but others will have the benefit of having such an excellent teacher as you to inspire them. I don't know what courses it is that you'll be teaching. I do know that I would take them wihout a moment's hesitation just because of the fact that you'd be teaching them. Once again, thank you. Thank you for the pictures, the scholarship, the advisory council, and most of all, thank you for being the teacher and human being that you are. I wish for nothing but the best for you.
Thank you, (Name withheld) - 3:57 PM
I am now this year's Life Science's Group Leader.
Speak [with] Jim, Justen about PPI and MA data for flybase.
Book room in Vienna at Hotel Mercure Josefshof Wien for VLDB and Workshop on Data mining in Bioinformatics. - 1:31 PM
Meet Indigene Group (Justen, Jim, Scott, and Jeff) Brian and John were traveling.
Send a time for Jade's Capstone.
Meet Dean @ 10am
- 11:20 PM
Meet Haixu, Yuzhen, Sun, Matt for discussion of Bioinformatics.
Meet Andrew and Yuzhen about CATPA.
Meet Scott about Indigene.
Meet Haixu, Yuzhen, Sun discuss Bioinformatics. - (edited August 14, 2007, 11:18 PM)
Work on Indigene.
Update Wiki.
If you're interested, here's what we have access to in terms of software from Microsoft MSDN Academic Alliance
Here's my teaching schedule:
INFO-H 101 INTRO TO INFORMATICS, HONORS (4 CR)- 28245 RSTR 02:30P-03:45P TR I 107
- Laboratory (LAB)
- 28246 RSTR 09:05A-09:55A F I 109
- INFO-I 519 INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS (3 CR)
- 29853 10:10A-11:25A MW I 107
- Laboratory (LAB)
- 29854 10:10A-11:25A F I 109
- INFO-I 692 THESIS/PROJECT BIOINFORMATICS (1-6 CR)
- 18048 PERM 06:00P-08:00P R I 107
Write a merit letter for Lynne Crohn, an amazing staffer in CS who takes care of any Window's bug you encounter!
I've sent out 19 personal letters to the incoming graduate bioinformatics students--Marty suggested this would be a great start in establishing camaraderie.
Start review for PSB! - (edited August 7, 2007, 9:01 PM)
Meet potential PhD student to fund with Michael from Statistics.
Meet Pete to discuss move.
Meet Andrews-Dalkilic Group (Justen, John, Brian, Jim, Jeff, Rupali, Scott) made excellent progress on Indigene.
The next CGB Roundtable:
What: Sriram Raghuraman will present "Error model for 454 sequencing".
When: Wednesday, August 8, 2:30 pm
Where: Myers 209
Sriram is a grad. student from the school of informatics. Since the beginning of this summer, he's been working with Dr. Haixu Tang on improving assembly of the 454 sequence reads. - (edited August 7, 2007, 6:15 PM)
I was approached by a student who was working on a physics problem. I've solved the problem and written a solution here.
Here is an interesting paper on DNA motifs:
Patrik D'Haeseleer
Nat Biotech 24 (4), 423-5 (Apr 2006)
PMID: 16601727 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Here is the abstract: "Sequence motifs are becoming increasingly important in the analysis of gene regulation. How do we define sequence motifs, and why should we use sequence logos instead of consensus sequences to represent them? Do they have any relation with binding affinity? How do we search for new instances of a motif in this sea of DNA?"
We recently were accepted @ the GSA, Title: PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PALEONTOLOGY COLLECTIONS FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Congratulations! This paper on which you are an author, has been accepted for presentation as indicated below. Your abstract will be published in GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 39, No. 6. The authors are Jeff R. Gehlhausen, Stephaney Puchalski, Claudia Johnson, Erika Elswick, David Polly, & Mehmet M. Dalkilic. The work. Here is the abstract of the full paper (tentative)
A growing debate about the fate of our planet has forced attention on ways to better understand how our planet's environment has evolved over the thousands of millenia. Informatics provides a means of gluing these pieces of evidence over the 4.6 billion years of existence. One approach is to examine an organism that has existed for a considerable amount of time and infer the environmental conditions during its existence. We approach this problem by creating a visualization and mining system for the organism chiton. Our project utilizes Microsoft's Virtual Earth as the main vehicle to visualize the organisms. - (edited August 5, 2007, 6:04 PM)