http://ribosome.fandm.edu

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http//ribosome.fandm.edu

• Kathleen Triman
• Franklin and Marshall College
• Lancaster, PA

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RNA CiteTrack ribosome mutants From rna-mailer_at_
alerts.stanford.edu To ktriman_at_fandm.edu

• Genetic Analysis of the Invariant Residue G791 in
  Escherichia coli 16S rRNAImplicates RelA in
  Ribosome Function    Hong-Man Kim, Sang-Mi Ryou,
  Woo-Seok Song, Se-Hoon Sim, Chang-Jun Cha,  
   Seung Hyun Han, Nam-Chul Ha, Jae-Hong Kim,
  Jeehyeon Bae, Philip R.    Cunningham, and
  Kangseok Lee    J. Bacteriol. 2009  191(7)
  p2042-2050  
• http//jb.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract191/7/2042ct
  ct

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute AwardA New
Program in Bioinformatics
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• Student stipends
• New faculty development
• Dr. Jaime Blair, Biology
• Dr. Jing Hu, new appointment in Computer Science
• Current faculty development
• Curriculum, equipment, and laboratory development

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• Precollege outreach
• Summer workshops for high school teachers
• Summer research opportunities for high school
  teachers
• Program administration
• Dr. Ellie Rice
• Program assessment

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External Partners

• Clinic for Special Children
• http//www.clinicforspecialchildren.org/Welcome.ht
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• Translational research
• Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU 13)
• Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) at
  Davidson College
• DNA chips

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Time Line

• July 2008 Dr. Blair begins.
• Sept. 2008 Grant begins
• Fall 2008 Search for a computer scientist in
  the area of bioinformatics
• July 2009 Computer scientist begins
• Spring 2010 New interdisciplinary major in
  bioinformatics (tentative date)

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What will it mean for FM students?

• Research opportunities during the summer and
  academic year at the College and the Clinic for
  Special Children
• Funds to present their work at professional
  conferences
• Opportunities to help develop new curriculum (new
  courses, new modules in existing courses), and
  web materials

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What will it mean for FM students?

• New courses in genomics, bioinformatics, and
  computer science
• A new interdisciplinary major in bioinformatics
• A new major in Computer Science
• Dr. Jana Iyengar appointed July 2008
• Dr. Jing Hu appointed July 2009
• A total of 3 full time computer scientists