Dear miRcorers,
What a fun way to start the 2022 MVP meeting last weekend! It was fun to see volunteers’ faces with videos on. It was nice to have a mindful session for a break.
1) Contest
Thanks for promoting the contest to your GIDAS members. I saw several GIDAS registered right away. Nice. It’s Feb 5th (Sat). Free event with potential to win some cash awards. 🙂 GIDAS awards are available, too. Plan to advertise your GIDAS at the contest.
https://www.mircore.org/2022-contest/
2) Microgrant candidates.
We have Drs. Morrow and Spencer-Segal, both from University of Michigan, as contestants for this year’s microgrant recipient.
https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/jonathan-d-morrow-md-phd
https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/mni/joanna-spencer-segal-md-phd
Both are excellent researchers working on mental disorders and I am excited.
There are some questions from the Fundraiser committee on the meeting projection form related to a fundraiser activity. Fundraiser committees, please plan to join this weekend’s meeting to facilitate it.
3) Office hour (from Education Committee chair, Diya Ramesh)
Please be sure to answer the office hour-related questions on the meeting projection form. If you plan to come to the office hours this week, please indicate this on the form, in order to allow us to have an accurate headcount. The office hours this week will be mostly tailored to R-related content, so if you are an experienced volunteer with adequate R familiarity, please volunteer to come help out at office hours (again, indicate this on the meeting form). We would really benefit from more volunteers. Thank you.
4) More MVA training
We are planning several MVA outreach including schools. Here is the next MVA conference registration form. The next conference is on the Jan 22nd, 11 am – 1 pm (45 min level 1, break, 45 min level 2).
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpcuyrqz4pGddf010LCk6ZF2KpfvJl_Unb
You can select the level 2 training only option during the registration if you need it. We also suggest those who want to practice more even after getting an MVA certificate, feel free to join the level 2 training for more exercise.
Please advertise to your GIDAS members and friends.
5) KEGG pathway
It’s time to dig into the KEGG pathway. After I teach (review) signaling pathways, I will share with you a way to explore more on pathways even though you may not get enriched KEGG pathways from your String-db. I hope it will boost your research and paper writing process.
6) This weekend’s meeting projection form to get a meeting lnk by Friday midnight ET.
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Recognize your breathing now. 5 sec in, 3 sec pause, 7 sec out. Three times.
See you soon!
Inhan Lee, Ph.D.
Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH talks to miRcore students about the role of genomics in modern medicine.
• March trilogy (graphic novel, multiple authors)
• Bone series (graphic novel, Jeff Smith)
• The Door Within (Wayne Thomas Batson)
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• Candide (Voltaire)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai)
• The Cactus (Sarah Haywood)
• 1984 (George Orwell)
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Kelly Barnhill)
• The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware)
• The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
• Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein)
• The Farewell (2019)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
• Office Space (1999)
• Vinland Saga (Summer 2019 Anime)
• What Happened to Monday (2017)
• Always Be My Maybe (2019)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Re:Zero (Spring 2016 Anime)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• “I decided to memorize the dictionary. I got through six pages before I got too bored. I learned next to nothing.”
• Trust Me, I’m a “Biologist”
• “What’s the difference between a poorly dressed person on a bicycle and a well dressed person on a tricycle? Attire.”
• “Why should you save your pennies? Because it makes good cents”
• xkcd
• “Medieval medicine wasn’t always on point, but those medieval physicians sure had a sense of humour!”
• “Twin 1 is in prison for 20 years. After 10 years, he calls his twin.’Hey, remember how we always said we finish each other’s sentences?'”
• “We really need to stop talking about mitosis… it’s such a divisive issue!”
• “A chemist walks into a bar with his friend after work. He tells the bartender, “Can I get an H2O?” His buddy looks at him strangely. “George, you don’t have to say it like that. We’re not at work anymore.”
The first chemist walks into the bathroom and cries. His assassination plot has failed.”
• “Haikus are easy / But sometimes they don’t make sense / Refrigerator”
• “‘My ability to do calculus is limited.’
‘Is it approaching zero?'”
• “‘You got any sodium jokes?’
‘Na!'”
• (^in response^) “I slapped my neon that one!”
• “‘I tried to sue the airline for losing my luggage’
‘Did you win?’
‘I lost the case'”
• Checklists/scheduling
• Planning something enjoyable after studying
• Switching between studying and relaxing
• Using a dedicated study room to shift mindset
• Forest app
• Pomodoro method
• Turning off notifications (Do Not Disturb)
• Classical music/marches
• Turn off any music so it’s not distracting
How to Use Zoom, MVP GDrive, and Skribbl.io
How to use Zoom
Zoom is a free platform that offers video conferencing, screen sharing, and chatroom functionalities. You can seamlessly set up online meetings, send out invitations for people to join, and add meetings to your Microsoft Outlook/Google Calendar using Zoom. All miRcore volunteers are expected to have Zoom installed for use in group research meetings and committee meetings.
You can download the Zoom Desktop application (the “Zoom Client”) for Mac or PC here: here.
Instructions for setting up and using Zoom are available here.
The Zoom application is also available for mobile devices: Zoom at the App Store and Zoom on Google Play
How to Navigate the miRcore Volunteer Program’s Google Drive Folders
At the beginning of each volunteering season, miRcore volunteers receive access to several Google Drive folders containing resources for research, fundraising, and other miRcore activities. Depending on the folder, volunteers will have “View only” or “Editing” permission in each Drive folder.
Please see this presentation (courtesy of Rhea Cong, miRcore Volunteer Program Vice President, 2019-20) for details on how to navigate the Drive system and set up research folders for your research group: https://docs.google.com/
Google Drive Hierarchy (Folders and Subfolders)
• 2019-20 MVP Resources
• Useful files
• RNA division
• Practice Data
• Meeting Slides
• 2019-20 MVP Research
• MVP RNA
• MVP DNA
• MVP online
• MVP general
• Fundraisers
• miRcore Officers 2019-2020 (this folder is accessible only to miRcore Officers)
Skribbl.io Instructions
How to Join:
• Have one member go to skribbl.io
• Have that member click ‘Create Private Room’
• Change the settings to 8 rounds and 40 seconds per turn
• That group member will send the link (at the bottom) to the other people to join
• Once everybody has clicked the link and is in the room, press start!
The goal of the game is to try to guess what other people are drawing. When it’s your turn to draw, try to make your drawing convey the word you are given so that other people will be able to guess. The person with the most points wins.
Today’s game should start and wrap up in about 10 mins.