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Tackling the Bubonic Plague

$11,493
120%
Raised toward our $9,550 Goal
140 Donors
Project has ended
Project ended on March 06, at 09:00 AM CST
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$60

Students in the stream 2020

For this spring of 2020, the stream will welcome new students into the Freshman course and the upper-division ARI course.

$72

Threads on the BRCF Edu-POD

The Biomedical Research Computing Facility (BRCF) Edu-POD is a multiple processor computer cluster on which we run our molecular docking simulations (virtual screening).

$306

Number of chemicals

There are 306 chemicals in the 'CB306' library of compounds found from a large-scale screen of over 49,797 compounds used to find an inhibitor against Ricin toxin by the Robertus Lab (the original PI of the stream)

$527

Students since 2008

Since the stream's start in 2008 by Dr. Robertus and Dr. Kavanagh, we have engaged over 527 students in authentic research experiences

$2,238

Atoms in YopH protein

There are this many atoms in the Yersinia pestis protein YopH as determined in the crystal structure from the Protein Data Bank

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