Meeting Minutes from 11 January 2008

For this semester, each BiRGer will select and present a research article in her or his informatics area of interest.

As of now, the weekly meeting is set for Fridays at 5pm in the BiRG Lab (LF264).

On Jan. 18, Tom House will present on the nature of his work with Dr. John Doyle: using protein-generated magnetic fields in electronic application.

On Jan. 25th, John Lannon will present the findings of his research project on Alu distribution and discuss its implications and derivative research ideas.

Starting next week, a couple of biology students will be joining the group.

September 14, 2007 BiRG Meeting

Agenda

• New BiRG PCs Acquired
• Printer Still Pending Setup
• Mutation & Evolution Discussion

Three new BiRG PCs

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Ramachandran, Dr. Hollingsworth and Shawn Hanes, BiRG now has 3 fully-functioning research machines running Ubuntu, Censor and WU-Blast. Additionally, an Unbuntu-powered general use machine and an IBM integrated Monitor/CPU running DamSmallLinux are available. BiRG still also has its original two Windows machines for general research use. The 3 special purpose research stations are:

• DNA - for John's research project
• RNA - for Shawn's research project
• Protein - in progress

And, then there's:

• Mutation - practice Linux machine; training dock for new BiRGers
  

Mutation and evolution discussion

Stay tuned for update