Train: Education Corner

Published quarterly in our Newsletter, each Education Corner offers an account of how members of the community use PDB data and RCSB PDB tools in Training, Outreach, and Education. If you would like to submit an Education Corner column, please send an email to info@rcsb.org.

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2013

• Issue 59 - October 2013
  In Touch with Molecules: Improving student learning with innovative molecular models by Jodi Davenport, Matt Silberglitt (WestEd), and Arthur Olson (The Scripps Research Institute)
• Issue 58 - July 2013
  PDB-101 and the 2013 Meeting of the National Science Teachers Association
• Issue 57 - April 2013
  The Ins and Outs of the RCSB PDB Help Desk: What do we learn from our users? What do they learn from us? By Rachel Kramer Green, Ph.D.
• Issue 56 - January 2013
  Molecular Visualization, Online and On-the-Go by Takanori Nakane M.D. (Kyoto University)

2012

• Issue 55 - October 2012
  University of Georgia's summer Biotech Boot Camp for high school teachers
• Issue 54 - July 2012
  Learning Science by Doing Science at the Waksman Student Scholars Program
• Issue 53 - April 2012
  Project CRYSTAL: Crystallographers Researching with Young Scientists, Teaching and Learning by Hazel M. Holden, Ph.D. and Dan Toomey
• Issue 52 - January 2012
  Learning to Become a Structural Biologist by The 2011 RCSB PDB Poster Prize awardees

2011

• Issue 51 - October 2011
  Insights into Molecular Modeling for the Middle Schooler by Christopher Smith, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at UCSD
• Issue 50 - July 2011
  New Report Proposes Historic Renovation of Undergraduate Biology Education in the United States by Brandon Bryn, AAAS
• Issue 49 - April 2011
  Building Protein Structures and the Molecule of the Month by Richard Tempsick, Academy of Allied Health and Science
• Issue 48 - January 2011
  Proteopedia: An online, collaborative 3D-encyclopedia of proteins & other molecules by Jaime Prilusky, Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science

2010

• Issue 47 - October 2010
  Protein Challenge by Joan Kiely
• Issue 46 - July 2010
  Undergraduate Course: Protein Portraits by Phil McFadden, Ph.D.
• Issue 45 - April 2010
  A Proficiency Rubric for Biomacromolecular 3D Literacy by Robert C. Bateman, Jr. and Paul A. Craig
• Issue 44 - January 2010
  A Search for Best Methods to Illustrate Complex Information by IJsbrand M. Kramer, Ph.D.

2009

• Issue 43 - October 2009
  Symposium on the Applications of Small-molecule Crystal Structure Information in Chemical Education by Gary M. Battle, Ph.D
• Issue 42 - July 2009
  RCSB PDB Community Outreach
• Issue 41 - April 2009
  Molecular Models: Tangible Representations of the Abstract by Dr. Gavin Whittaker, Miramodus Ltd
• Issue 40 - January 2009
  Brookhaven National Laboratory's Science Learning Center by Bernadette Uzzi

2008

• Issue 39 - October 2008
  Molecular Visualization in your Pocket by Brad Larson, Ph.D., Sunset Lake Software
• Issue 38 - July 2008
  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED), a Journal for University, College, and High School Educators by Dr. Judith Voet (Swarthmore) and Dr. Donald Voet (University of Pennsylvania)
• Issue 37 - April 2008
  Moving Pictures: Using Chimera to Make Molecular Multimedia for the Classroom by Dr. Jeramia Ory, Kings College
• Issue 36 - January 2008
  Fruit-flavored Folding by Teresa MacDonald, Director of Education at The University of Kansas Natural History Museum

2007

• Issue 35 - October 2007
  Navigating the molecular universe in 3D: Teaching biology students protein structure-function relationships using StarBiochem by Dr. Melissa Kosinski-Collins (Brandeis University)
• Issue 34 - July 2007
  Structures and Other NIGMS Booklets Make Science Accessible by Alisa Zapp Machalek, science writer at the National Institute General Medical Sciences at NIH
• Issue 33 - April 2007
  The 2007 New Jersey Science Olympiad
• Issue 32 - January 2007
  The X-Ray Methods in Structural Biology Course at CSHL by Gary L. Gilliland

2006

• Issue 31 - October 2006
  Ways of seeing and thinking about PDB structures by Robert J. Warburton
• Issue 30 - July 2006
  Participation in the NJ Science Olympiad by Cheryl Campbell of New Providence High School, NJ
• Issue 29 - April 2006
  The RCSB PDB guides middle school students in making handheld models of the common cold
• Issue 28 - January 2006
  Margaret A. Franzen, Pellissippi State Technical Community College

2005

• Issue 27 - October 2005
  Miriam Rossi, Vassar College. In this interview, Rossi discusses a interdisiplinary course that familiarizes students with basic concepts of molecular structure, from an introduction to X-ray crystallographic methods through interpreting published structural papers
• Issue 26 - July 2005
  Wisconsin High School Science Olympiad PROTEIN MODELING Event by Gary Graper, Event Supervisor
• Issue 25 - April 2005
  A short history of visualizing structures in the PDB by Judith Voet, J. H. Hammons Professor , Swarthmore College
• Issue 24 - January 2005
  Early Protein Structures

2004

• Issue 23 - October 2004
  X-rays, Molecules, and You. During this workshop held at an ACA meeting, prominent crystallographers and structural biologists introduced high school students and teachers to basic concepts in X-ray crystallography and structural databases to promote interest in structural biology, chemistry, and general science
• Issue 22 - July 2004
  PDB EDUCATION CORNER: USING VISUALIZATION TOOLS by J. RICKY FOX, MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY
• Issue 21 - April 2004
  How the PDB, RasMol, and the Molecule of the Month are used in a high school classroom by Tommie Hata, Biology Teacher at The Pingry School in Martinsville, NJ
• Issue 20 - January 2004
  The resources for protein resources, macromolecular structure/function analysis, and structural biology at CSUF by Katherine Kantardjieff, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University Fullerton

2003

• Issue 19 - October 2003
  The use of the PDB and related resources in classes at RIT by Paul A. Craig, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Rochester Institute of Technology
• Issue 18 - July 2003
  The CBM creates physical models of proteins and other molecular structures for researchers, students, and teachers, by Tim Herman, Director of the Center for BioMolecular Modeling at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Issue 17 - April 2003
  Molecular Visualization by Gale Rhodes, University of Southern Maine