Previous Bioinformatics Institutes

2010 ASM/JGI Bioinformatics Institute

Participants

David Biesboer, University of Minnesota St. Paul,MN

Bethany Bowling, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

Benita Brink, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO

Hafizah Chenia, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa    

Brett Couch, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Kathryn Dye, Mount Saint Mary's University, Emmitsburg, MD

Ruth Gyure, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT

Alison Hill, Duke University, Durham, NC

Joanna Klein, Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN

Nighat Kokan, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI

Stephanie Lammlein, Rootstown High School, Rootstown, OH

Michael Larkin, The Queen's University Belfast,  Belfast  UK

Suzanne Lindley, Limestone College, Gaffney, SC

Monnie McGee, Southern Methodist University,  Dallas, TX

James Moran, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY

Theodore Muth, City University of New York - Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Todd Nickle, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Julie Noor, Duke University, Durham, NC

Kurt Regner, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Steven Roof, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV

Wendy Trzyna, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

Curriculum Projects Developed at the Institute

• Environmental Microbial Diversity Consortium

• Metagenome Annotation

• Sex, Plasmids, Bioinformatics

• E.coli 0157:H7, Where did the toxin gene come from?

• Investigating Similarity

• Amino Acid Sequence Variation Within Immunoglobulin-like Domains

2009 ASM/JGI Bioinformatics Institute

Participants

Virginia Baker, Natural Science, Chipola College, FL

William Barnes, Biology, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, PA

Naowarat Cheeptham, Department of Biological Science,Thompson Rivers University, BC

Dinene Crater, Department of Biology,High Point University, NC

Bethany Henderson-Dean, Biology, The University of Findlay. OH

Laura Hoopes, Biology, Pomona College, CA

Karen Kirk, Biology, Lake Forest College, IL

Catherine McEntee, Biology, Kingsborough Community College, NY

Andrew Pease, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stevenson University, MD

Narayanan Rajendran, Biology, Kentucky State University, KY

Ruth Reed, Chemistry, Juniata College, PA

Laura Regassa, Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, GA

Helen Schneider, Computer Science and Technology Management, The University of Findlay, OH

Michele Shuster, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, NM

Francis Steiner, Biology, Hillsdale College, MI

John Trimble, Biology Department, Saint Francis College, PA

Michele Zwolinski, Microbiology, Weber State University, UT

Curriculum Projects Developed at the Institute

• Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
• Undergraduate Bio-410 Course Based Bioinformatics Analysis: A Suchess "Full" Story of PLPacyltransferase
• tetA In The Neighborhood
• Something Fishy About This?  Bioinformatics Investigation of Fish Tissue; Building A Phylogenic Tree
• Antibiotic Resistance Transmission
• Murder By HIV
• Necrobiosis
• Are Archaea More Similar to Bacteria or Eukaryotes?
• Adding A Bioinformatics Component to the Unknown Project of A Microbiology Course

2008 ASM/BioQuest Bioinformatics Institute

Participants

Anthony Arment, Natural Sciences, Central State University, OH 

Christine Bezotte, Biology Department, Elmira College, NY

John Berestecky,Department of Math/Science - Microbiology , University of Hawaii - Kapiolani, HI

Daniel Bond, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, MN

Alyssa Bumbaugh, Div of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona PA

John Ferguson, Biology Program, Bard College, NY

Mark Forsyth, Department of Biology, College of William & Mary, VA

Ann Findley, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Monroe, LA

Angela Ghrist, Department of Biology, Scott Community College, IA

Chris Gissendanner, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Monroe, LA

Scott Harrison, School of Informatics, Indiana University -  Perdue University, MI

Michael LaGier, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

Craig Laufer, Biology Department, Hood College, MD

Michael Leonardo, Department of Biology, Coe College, IA

Michelle Lum, Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, CA

Lorraine Olendzenski, Biology Department, St. Lawrence University, NY

Ron Peck, Department of Biology, Lawrence University, WI

Mark Radosevich, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, TN

Asit Saha, Mathematics and Computer Science, Central State University, OH

Lori Scott, Department of Biology, Augustana College, IL

Michael Shiaris, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA

Mary Spratt, Williams Woods University, MO

Mary Wagner, Biotechnology, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, PA

Kim Wise, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, MO

Curriculum Projects Developed at the Institute

• A Genomic Approach to Two Related Human Scourges 
• Insertion Events:Integrating Bioinformatics Into Existing Biology Courses
• Loss of Adhesion Phenotype Correlated with Loss of Conservation of Extracellular Region and C-terminus in Cadherin
• pfam01617Erhlichia
• Structural and Phylogenetic Relationships of Eukaryotic and Some Prokaryotic NAD+ and NADP+ Isocitrate Dehydrogenases 
• Tryptophan Biosynthesis in Chlamydia 
• Show Me the Way to Go Home: Evolution of Chemotaxis Proteins MCP and CheA in the Transition From a Free-living to Pathogenic Life Style in Bordetella 
• CRISPR: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats 
• Around the World in 800 Proteorhodopsins 
• Variations in Among TrpG and TrpD Among the Proteobacteria 
• Distribution of an Extracellular Protein Motif Across the Domains 
• A Metagenomic Analysis of Polymicrobial Environments in the Undergraduate Laboratory 
• Incorporating inquiry using bioinformatics across the biology curriculum 
• Introducing Bioinformatics Using the Nitrogen Cycle 
• Introductory Course in Bioinformatics 
• Demonstrating Biodiverstiy through Bioinformatics 
• Preparing Students for Annotation Projects 
• What's in a Genome?

2007 ASM/BioQuest Bioinformatics Institute

Participants

Anne Bernhard, Department of Biology, Connecticut College, CT

Steven Cresawn, Department of Biological Sciences,University of Pittsburgh, PA

Stephanie Dellis, Department of Biology, College of Charleston, SC

Qiang He, Curriculum Consortium Civil and Environmental Engineering,Temple University, PA

Shannon Hinsa-Leasure, Center for Microbiology Ecology, Michigan State University, MI

Cristina Iftode, Department of Biological Sciences, Rowan University, NJ

Jonathan Kidd, Department of Biology, Wesley College, DE

Jennifer Koehl, Department of Biology, St. Vincent College, PA

Gary Kuleck, Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, CA

Cynthia Liebert, Dept of Health and Human Service/ National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, MD

Heather Louch, Department of Biology, North Carolina Wesleyan College, NC

Karen Malatesta, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ

Toby Mapes, Department of Biotechnology, Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College, NC

Mark Martin, Department of Biology, University of Puget Sound,WA

Ann Matthysse, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

Leland (Sandy) Pierson III, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, AZ

Kelly Reed, Department of Biology, Austin College, TX

Jean Shingle, Department of Biology, Immaculata University, PA

Bradley Stevenson, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, OK

Jason Tor, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, MA

J. Douglas Welsh, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ

Edwin Wong, Department of Biology, Western Connecticut State University, CT

Penelope Worthington, Department of Math & Natural Science, Lincoln Memorial University, TN

Zhaohui Xu, Biological Sciences, Bowling Green University, OH

Curriculum Projects Developed at the Institute

• Analysis of the LacI Family of Repressor Proteins in Nonlactose-utilizing Bacteria 
• Interplay Between Selective Pressure and Genetic Diversity of Viral Populations in HIV Patients
• Re-annotation of Nitrate Reductase Gene Cluster
• "Kefir Kommunity: Investigating the Population Composition and Dynamics of the Kefir Grain Consortium."
• Peanut Butter and Jelly Or Salmonella
• Conservation and Taxonomic Distribution of Arsenate Detoxification Proteins, ArsA, ArsB, and ArsC
• Microbes Spanning the World: Exploring Phylogenetic Relationships and Protein Structure
• Student Research in Microbial Biogeography: Introducing Bioinformatics Tools
• Bioinformatic modules for Biology instructio 
• Global Malaria Problem Space
• A Consortium Approach for Introducing Bioinformatics to Undergraduates 
• "A Microbiological and Bioinformatics Safari: Searching for Cellulolytic Prokaryotes from the Environment and Characterization of their Cellulase Genes." 
• Incorporation of Class Discussions to Strengthen Bioinformatic Concepts  ( Example: Re-examining Phylogenies, a Discussion) 
• Microbial Mystery: Identification of Microbes Present in Soil
• Introduction to Bioinformatics Bacterial Identification Using 16s rDNA Sequence Analysis

2006 ASM/BioQuest Bioinformatics Institute

Participants

Mary Allen, Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, MA

Dawn Anderson, Dept. of Biology, Berea College, KY

Robert Barber, Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, WI

Karl Beres, Mathematics and Computer Science, Ripon College, WI

Lori Bergeron, Biology, Ripon College, WI

Mark Bergland, Biology Department, University of Wisconsin - River Falls, WI

Michael Boyle, Biology, Juniata College, PA

Alix Darden, Biology Department, The Citadel, SC

Joanne Dobbins, Biology Department, Bellarmine University, KY

Diuto Esiobu, Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, FA

Kim Finer, Biological Sciences, Kent State University, OH

Jennifer Galovich, Mathematics, College of Saint Benedict Saint John's University, MN

Susan Godfrey, Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Ruth A. Gyure, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, CT

Teresa Johnson, Biology, College of Wooster, OH

Sarah Kenick, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New Hampshire, NH

Lucy Kluckhohn Jones, Life Sciences, Santa Monica College, CA

Karen Klyczek, Biology, University of Wisconsin - River Falls, WI

Florence Okafor, Biology, Alabama A&M University, AL

Holly Pinkart, Biological Sciences, Central Washington University, WA

Michael Rubin, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, PR

Patty Shields, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, MD

Amy Treonis, Department of Biology, University of Richmond, VA

Dave Westenberg, Biological Sciences, University of Missouri - Rolla, MO

Catherine Dinitra White, Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

Curriculum Projects Developed at the Institute

• Making Sense of a Gene Fusion Event in Proteobacteria 
• Using Bioinformatics to Investigate Evolution, Phylogeny, and Virulence in the Human Pathogen Clostridium Difficile (with Brad Goodner, institute presenter, as a group member) 
• Seeing the Forest for the Trees 
• Fat Chickens, Fat People, Fat Chance? 
• Microbial Ecology of Kentucky Bourbon 
• Taking the Bite (Byte?) Out of Phylogeny 
• A Laboratory Unit Investigating 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Degradation in Soils 
• Bad Hygiene or Bad Bug? (Investigation of C. difficile outbreak and toxicity using bioinformatics tools, case-based approach, and molecular genetics simulation using CaseIt software; linked with Project 2 above) 
• Genetics in your Blood: Hemoglobin Workspace to Illustrate Basic Genetic Concepts 
• Do HIV+ Rapid Progressors Show More Divergenece than Non-Progressors? 
• Poster: The Puzzling Properties of the Permease (PPP)

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