Selected Presentations and Dissemination Activities

RBVI researchers, collaborators, and staff members regularly present their work at workshops, conferences, and other scientific meetings to share results and techniques, to get input on development directions for existing and new tools, and to explore needs within the biomedical research community. The following table lists selected presentations. See also Engaging Youth in Science (below) and RBVI Workshops and Training.

Event	Date	Topics
Demos at UCSF for iPQB program candidate graduate students	Jan 19,26 2018	Ribosome-binding antibiotics and light microscopy of neutrophils in virtual reality
Byer's Award reception, Genentech Hall, UCSF	Jan 17 2018	Virtual reality demo showing zebrafish brain activity with 3D light-sheet microscopy
Bay Area Science Festival and World Conference of Science Journalists at UCSF	Oct 29 2017	Virtual reality experience for adults and children, interacting with small molecules in the Molecular Zoo (“molecular playground”)
UCSF: The Campaign fundraiser	Oct 28 2017	Demo on drug development for neurodegenerative disease: P97 molecular machine involved in protein recycling shown with stereo projector, virtual reality, and plastic models
UCSF 101 Day for federal and state legislative staff including those of Pelosi, Feinstein, Kamala Harris, Sheehy, and Hill	Jul 19 2017	Basic and clinical research at UCSF; molecular graphics and virtual reality showing HIV reverse transcriptase with inhibitor, E. coli ribosome antibiotic resistance, virtual reality “molecular playground”
Demos at UCSF for iPQB program candidate graduate students	Feb 10,17 2017	Virtual reality demonstrations of antibiotic bound to E. coli ribosome, crawling neutrophil in collagen filaments
Byer's Award reception, Genentech Hall, UCSF	Jan 31 2017	Virtual reality demonstration of antibiotic bound to E. coli ribosome and antibiotic resistance mutations [HTML]
EMBO Conference: Molecular Machines: Integrative Structural and Molecular Biology, Heidelberg	Nov 21 2016	Visualization and analysis challenges of large biomolecular complexes, ChimeraX demo [HTML]
Bay Area Science Festival organized by the Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) at UCSF in partnership with local scientific, cultural, and educational institutions	Oct 30 2016	Virtual reality and white blood cells event including crawling neutrophils shown with the Vive VR system and nuclear pore shown with the Oculus VR headset
Virtual reality demo for officers of the University of California Extramural Funding Group	Oct 10 2016	Crawling neutrophils shown with the Vive virtual reality system
Invited talk at University of Maryland, College Park, MD	Mar 25 2016	Superfamily analysis with protein similarity networks
Demos at UCSF for iPQB program candidate graduate students	Feb 12,19 2016	Differential gear nanomachine, HIV reverse transcriptase with the drug tenovofir, light-sheet microscopy of crawling neutrophils, stereo visualization and Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles
Sakanari group meeting, UCSF	Feb 3 2016	Superfamilies, the SFLD, and protein similarity networks
InterPro Consortium meeting, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK	Jan 2016	Data available from the SFLD including enzyme family annotations and multiple sequence alignments

Engaging Youth in Science

The RBVI is involved in several educational activities targeting students of high-school age and younger. The visual, interactive nature of molecular graphics combined with increasing awareness and interest of the general public in topics such as viruses and DNA make our lab well suited for reaching out and engaging students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds.

Along these lines, our software has been included with educational materials produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Our collaborator Dr. Joseph DeRisi (Hughes Investigator, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF) was one of two scientists featured in the HHMI 2010 holiday lectures, Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease. The lectures and associated materials are distributed to high schools throughout the country, and can be ordered online free of charge. With the advocacy of Dr. DeRisi, we were invited by HHMI to include a simple tool for viewing viruses in 3D with Chimera.

Selected presentations to student and educator groups:

Elementary/High School Group	Date	Topics
UCSF STEM Career Day for San Francisco high school students	Mar 7 2018	Two 1-hour demonstrations showing neutrophils, E. coli antibiotic resistance, and the Molecular Zoo app in virtual reality
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), UC Davis Cluster 8: The Chemistry of Life	Aug 1 2017	Three 1-hour hands-on virtual reality demonstrations showing E. coli ribosome antibiotic resistance, “molecular playground” software
Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) San Francisco Health Investigators summer program for high-school students	Jun 20-21 2017	Molecular graphics demonstrations showing macrolide antibiotic resistance by phosphorylation and by ribosome methylation
UCSF STEM Career Day for San Francisco high school students	Mar 7 2017	Presentations to two groups (90 and 75 minutes) including virtual reality visualization of neutrophil crawling in collagen filaments, antibiotic bound to E. coli ribosome
Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) San Francisco Health Investigators summer program for high-school students	Jun 14 2016	Two 45-minute presentations on Zika virus and related topics, including 3D printing, cryoEM and atomic models, protein structure, crawling neutrophils, stereo visualization and Oculus Rift virtual reality
High-school student project to program kilobot swarm robots	Jul 6-17 2015	Students developed and tested code over eight days to make kilobots disperse from a cluster to find a target, establish a minimum path to that target, and then move to reinforce that path; they also made movies and gave presentations on their results
UCSF STEM Career Day for San Francisco high school students	Mar 11 2015	3D visualization, kilobot swarm robots, discussion of careers in science
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) students, UC Davis program	Jul 24 2014	Chimera molecular graphics showing nanomachine, acetylcholine receptor, hydrophobicity, dendritic cell motion; Space Navigator input device, stereo glasses, Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles; 3D printed plastic models