Dear miRcorers,
I am so grateful to Drs. Beer, Uhler, and Yee who spent a long time giving advice to as many groups as possible. Please write your thank you note in this weekend’s projection form. I will convey your thank you and questions to them. If you want to directly contact them in addition, here is their contact information.
Dr. David Beer: dgbeer@med.umich.edu
Dr. Michale Uhler: muhler@med.umich.edu
Dr. Jennifer Yee: chunlai@med.umich.edu
1) Microgrant proposal translation to elevator pitch
With the busy schedule with professors last weekend, students didn’t have time to make an elevator pitch of the proposal by Drs. Scott Soleimanpour and Vaibhav Sidarala at University of Michigan. Here is the page 1 of their proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PfSIYlr2ALp1a-m3uIXggge644qiZsjTRLQkaviGm5Q/edit?usp=sharing
Please try to understand the proposal and write an elevator pitch in a new document with your name as a title here.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tutejowO2CprW8oiDIlEuN8wwu2UkGXl?usp=sharing
I will share your elevator pitch with them. Dr. Soleimanpour is an Associate professor and leads multiple T1D programs at the UM medical school.
Also, please donate to support Drs. Soleimanpour and Sidarala’s research here if you haven’t, yet. https://www.mircore.org/fundraiser/
2) From CA committee
Our CA committee movie bonding night has been rescheduled to this Saturday, the 25th @ 8 pm PT! Hope to see everyone there.
3) Citizen Scientist Sequencing Initiative (CSSI) update
Thank you for your interest! We had the first meeting last weekend and I am so excited about this CSSI pilot program.
We have a new website for CSSI: https://ourgenomes.org
4) Linux
While you are finishing up your research and writing abstracts, we will start teaching you Linux usage more in detail. Linux commands are essential to sequencing data analysis!
For Windows 10/11 users: if you haven’t, please download Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support#1-overview
5) Upcoming events/reminder (repeat item)
March 11th: 2nd MSA training conference where Dr. Cecelia Bellcross (Professor, Emory University) will give a talk on genetic counseling at 10 am ET. Please mark your calendar. Open to all GIDAS and MVP members and family.
March 5th: Research abstract submission due date
March 25th: 10th Annual High School GIDAS Conference
6) Meeting projection form
https://forms.gle/x7aUUhxqdux23KRe6
Please submit the form by Friday midnight.
Inhan Lee, Ph.D.
Have Questions?
Visit the FAQ page to see commonly asked questions and their answers!
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.
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.Director, National Institute of Health speaks to miRcore students about COVID-19, health disparities, and precision medicine.
Jonathan Pevsner, Ph.D, Chief of Genomics Research Branch, NIMH, NIH speaks to miRcore students on the topic of Genes and Mental Health.
• 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.