miRcore Volunteer Communication

Update 2/22/2023

Dear miRcorers,

I am so grateful to Drs. Beer, Uhler, and Yee who spent a long time giving advice to as many groups as possible. Please write your thank you note in this weekend’s projection form. I will convey your thank you and questions to them. If you want to directly contact them in addition, here is their contact information.

Dr. David Beer: dgbeer@med.umich.edu

Dr. Michale Uhler: muhler@med.umich.edu

Dr. Jennifer Yee: chunlai@med.umich.edu

1) Microgrant proposal translation to elevator pitch

With the busy schedule with professors last weekend, students didn’t have time to make an elevator pitch of the proposal by Drs. Scott Soleimanpour and Vaibhav Sidarala at University of Michigan. Here is the page 1 of their proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PfSIYlr2ALp1a-m3uIXggge644qiZsjTRLQkaviGm5Q/edit?usp=sharing

Please try to understand the proposal and write an elevator pitch in a new document with your name as a title here.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tutejowO2CprW8oiDIlEuN8wwu2UkGXl?usp=sharing

I will share your elevator pitch with them. Dr. Soleimanpour is an Associate professor and leads multiple T1D programs at the UM medical school.

Also, please donate to support Drs. Soleimanpour and Sidarala’s research here if you haven’t, yet. https://www.mircore.org/fundraiser/

2) From CA committee

Our CA committee movie bonding night has been rescheduled to this Saturday, the 25th @ 8 pm PT! Hope to see everyone there.

3) Citizen Scientist Sequencing Initiative (CSSI) update

Thank you for your interest! We had the first meeting last weekend and I am so excited about this CSSI pilot program.

We have a new website for CSSI: https://ourgenomes.org

4) Linux

While you are finishing up your research and writing abstracts, we will start teaching you Linux usage more in detail. Linux commands are essential to sequencing data analysis!

For Windows 10/11 users: if you haven’t, please download Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support#1-overview

5) Upcoming events/reminder (repeat item)

March 11th: 2nd MSA training conference where Dr. Cecelia Bellcross (Professor, Emory University) will give a talk on genetic counseling at 10 am ET. Please mark your calendar. Open to all GIDAS and MVP members and family.

March 5th: Research abstract submission due date

March 25th: 10th Annual High School GIDAS Conference

6) Meeting projection form

https://forms.gle/x7aUUhxqdux23KRe6

Please submit the form by Friday midnight.

Inhan Lee, Ph.D.

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