Our Crowdfunding Groups
Virtual Cures fans & Supporters,
Thanks to you - over 119% of our goal was reached - for a total of $11,945 !
We will now be able to fund our extra summer fellowships and send Jose to Boston to present his work.
We are ecstatic!
Our NDM-1 work moves forward into the summer as we will continue to make the variants and test their activity.
We are also excited about our new Virtual Cures Stickers! (design by Libby!)
- if you swing by Dr. B's office - you are welcome to pick one up for yourself!
Super Thanks! - Dr. B and all of the student-researchers in the Virtual Cures Stream
You can follow us on social media to see where we go in the future.
Instagram: @utfrivirtualcures/
LinkedIn: @VDS of the Freshman Research Initiative (Virtual Cures)
Twitter: @beckhajt
For fun - here is a throwback pic from pre-covid times! (Feb 2020)
Virtual Cures fans & Supporters,
We are happy to announce that we have surpassed our original goal of $10,000 !
We could not have made it without the generous support of friends, family, alumni, and colleagues!
So THANK YOU!
Now, we are aiming for our STRETCH goal of $2,000 more, so that we can send one of our most hardworking TAs – Jose - to Boston in July to the Protein Society Annual Meeting to present his work on the project and fund a few micropublications of preliminary work (https://www.micropublication.org/). (Jose is on the right) and check out his video here
We only have until Friday at 9 AM!
Also, in recognition of all the donors above a certain amount, we have begun labeling lab equipment after you - as promised! micropipettes and bubble spinners!
Last, but not least - we want to highlight some of our awesome FRI mentosr that lead the stream - starting with Valeria! (see video below)
Super Thanks! - Dr. B and the Virtual Cures Stream
To help us reach our goal, please share on social media:
Instagram: @utfrivirtualcures/
LinkedIn: @VDS of the Freshman Research Initiative (Virtual Cures)
Twitter: @beckhajt
To make a donation, go here --> https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/36361/donate
Virtual Cures supporters,
A big THANK YOU to all that have donated! We are only 8% away from our original goal!
Check out some of our researchers sharing about their projects which they will present at the Undergraduate Research Forum tomorrow:
Isma & Zoe <-- click here to view video (1 min)
Holden & Alexa - see video below ( 1min)
Super Thanks! - Dr. B and the Virtual Cures Stream
To help us reach our goal, please share on social media:
Instagram: @utfrivirtualcures/
LinkedIn: @VDS of the Freshman Research Initiative (Virtual Cures)
Twitter: @beckhajt
To make a donation to the cause, click the link! https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/36361/donate
Virtual Cures supporters,
Oh my goodness! We are making strides towards the finishing tape!
Due to your generosity - we have been able to fund 2 NEW SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS for this year!!
That means, because you recognized the value of undergraduates being able to dive deeply into science, 2 of our fortunate VDSers will be able to experience summer research! To see what summer is like, check out this vlog by Quoc - who did research last summer.
A big THANK YOU to all that have donated!
We also had several students present at the Longhorn Research Poster session.
- Zoe and Isma
- Riddhi
- Lorena, Alexa, Jose, Humberto
Super Thanks! - Dr. B and the Virtual Cures Stream
To help us reach our goal, please share on social media:
Instagram: @utfrivirtualcures/
LinkedIn: @VDS of the Freshman Research Initiative (Virtual Cures)
Twitter: @beckhajt
To make a donation to the cause, click the link! https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/36361/donate
Virtual Cures supporters,
A big THANK YOU to all that have donated! We are at 38% and making great progress towards our goal.
This week, the FRI students are working on purification of their protein in lab while the ARI students are running SDS-PAGE gels to visualize yield and size. And, or course, doing a little virtual screening with GOLD as well. Lots of team building and lots of science going on.
We also have a new protocol addition this semester - Virtual Reality (VR) goggles!
- with funds from a mini-grant in the College of Natural Science and through BioMolViz (a network of faculty devoted to molecular visualization in the classroom) - we have purchased 3 headsets that each VDSer gets to train on this semester to visualize proteins in virtual reality.
Here are three of the mentors (Libby, Ryan, and Xander) experimenting with the Oculus Quest headsets. Then an image how they see a protein structure in the Nanome software - Pretty cool!
To help us reach our goal, please share and post on social media:
Instagram: @utfrivirtualcures/
LinkedIn: @VDS of the Freshman Research Initiative (Virtual Cures)
Twitter: @beckhajt
To make a donation to the cause, click the link! https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/36361/donate
Super Thanks! - Dr. B and the Virtual Cures Stream
There are 20 Amino Acids that make up all of the proteins that our students study and analyze every day in lab!
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)
Donate $667 and our students will include you or your lab in our acknowledgements at various conferences, such as URF or ASBMB.
There are 1,711 atoms in the crystal structure of NDM-1 that we will use to virtually screen potential inhibitors.
