This project is now in update mode. Check back regularly to see how things are progressing.
We did it - with your help!
Thanks to all of those who generously supported our research and our student-researchers. We surpassed our goal with over 137 donors. With these funds, will be able to do great work on infectious disease research and provide engaging research experiences for undergraduates! Thanks, Dr. B and the Virtual Cures Stream
In the home stretch!
A big THANK YOU to all that have donated! We have an amazing 100 individual donors that have gotten us so close to our goal - with 8 days left.
Students are working hard in lab on Beer's Law (absorbance spectrophotometry) - FRI and Protein Expression - ARI.
Please continue to donate and to share our project with friends and family (you can use the buttons above to share on social media)
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the Virtual Cures Team
A widespread effort!
Virtual Cures supporters,
A big THANK YOU to all that have donated! We are at 62% and making great progress towards our goal.
This week, the FRI students are working on making Buffers & Solutions in lab while the ARI students are submitting their plasmid DNA samples to the DNA Sequencing core for verification - along with running agarose gels to visualize yield and size. Lots of team building and lots of learning going on.
Please continue to share our project with friends and family to help make new discoveries in lab and develop the next great scientists!
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the Virtual Cures Team
$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
