Education

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) present unique capabilities to revolutionize structural biology and its ability to probe the biological world. As the NASA Apollo era captured a generation's interest in outer space, these unique capabilities have the potential to capture the imagination of students, teachers, and potential scientists interested in inner space; we will foster this effect through our education and diversity programs. The BioXFEL Center is committed to building a culturally and academically diverse, inclusive community of scholars. We aim to make STEM studies exciting and accessible for all students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff.

The BioXFEL Science and Technology Center encompasses wide areas of scientific and technical expertise. We strive to reflect our communities and make opportunities available by embracing diversity in people as well as ideas. We aim to ensure the broadest representation of expertise and opportunity for education driving our science and building the scientific community for the future.

Grant Writing Workshop

 

Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops (GWSW) and BioXFEL are hosting a one-day grant writing workshop prior to the 2020 BioXFEL Annual International Conference on Monday, January 27th. John D. Robertson, PhD from GWSW will present "Write Winning Grant Proposals" to attendees interested in learning more about submitting proposals to NIH or NSF. The workshop will cover the essential strategies to writing a winning NIH and NSF proposal, includes one of four workbooks (described below) and a digital copy of the presentation. This event is free of charge for all BioXFEL members, however a portion of the costs will be charged to outside participants. More information on payment can be found on the conference website form.

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Structural Biology with X-rays: Data Collection and Analysis at the SSRL Synchrotron

BioXFEL will be sponsoring a X-ray Data Collection and Data Analysis workshop in collaboration with scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Lab on Saturday and Sunday January 25th - 26th (and optionally, on Monday the 27th for additional hands-on instruction). We will be offering a hands-on training workshop for protein crystallography, small angle X-ray scattering, and x-ray spectroscopy and imaging with remote access to the synchrotron at SSRL for data collection and data analysis. The workshop will first provide participants with a fundamental overview of the data collection process. This will be followed by practical sessions in sample handling, data collection strategies and logistics that are necessary to collect and process X-ray data from macromolecular crystals, samples in solution and include spectroscopy and imaging examples from a board variety of biological and environmental examples. Students are encouraged to send in either protein crystal samples or solution scattering samples – please contact the workshop organizers if you are interested or if you have any questions.

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ACA 2019 Talk

Associate Education and Diversity Director, Bill Bauer, presented the BioXFEL diversity model to the ACA in July of 2019. The slides for this presentation can be found HERE

 

Participant Outcomes

 

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  1. BioXFEL Scholar Participation Tracker
  2. BioXFEL Cross-Training Scholarship
  3. BioXFEL Scholar Education Programs
  4. UPR Graduate Student Internships
  5. BioXFEL Cross-Training Scholars
  6. Scientific Leadership Development Program
  7. UPR Education Programs
  8. Summer Internship Recommendation Letters
  9. External Conference & Professional Development Scholarship
  10. BioXFEL Undergraduate Internships