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The Ninth q-bio Summer School - Albuquerque: Welcome
From Q-bio
Welcome to the Ninth Annual q-bio Summer School
- History & Background
- Started in 2007 in Los Alamos as part of an initiative in quantitative biology at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Multiple sponsors over the years, including NIH/NIGMS
- Currently, there are three campuses
- The New Mexico branch of the school is organized by the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) and the Center for Spatiotemporal Modeling (STMC), a National Center for Systems Biology.
- Many lecturers are from LANL and STMC.
- Recognize the NMC on-site support staff: Irene and Ashley
- Scientific organizers will introduce themselves after this welcome.
- Projects & Labs
- All students are expected to work on a project
- Numerous summer school projects have eventually led to publications
- A possible venue for publication is the q-bio special issue in Physical Biology
- Projects and labs will be described after this welcome – you will need to sign up to participate in a lab (see Mara)
- Project teams will meet at the end of the day – go to the meeting room for the project that most interests you
- Student talks start tomorrow – please sign up (see an organizer)
- Posters
- Poster session at end of school
- Free poster printing is available – send an email to Shannan Yeager with a pre-sized PDF file (one dimension must be less than 52 inches or 130 cm).
- The detailed schedule is online at the wiki site – please check for updates, which are likely to be made frequently
- Breakfast (at La Posada)
- Two morning lectures (Lobo A&B)
- Lunch (SUB food court)
- Student talks (Lobo A&B)
- Computer lab or labs (break out rooms, Sandia and Scholars)
- There are some days with two labs scheduled
- On these days, you will need to pick one of the two
- Talk (Lobo A&B)
- Dinner (at La Posada)
- Evenings are free for project work – use study rooms and lounges in dorm or library
- Weekends are free
- There are no officially sponsored activities
- If you’d like to hear about past activities or get ideas, see an organizer
