May 7 due date for the NSF-CCLI

Hi Folks,

I'm not going to be able to take the lead on going to NSF for a CCLI this May. Is anyone else interested in taking the lead here?

Paul

Should we seek sponsors?

I'm thinking about keeping things going and had one idea on the way to work two days ago. I use a lot of equipment, reagents and supplies from BioRad as I teach proteomics. What if we presented them with our proposal and asked if they would support us? We could ask them to

1. fund annual get togethers where we could chat, scheme and plan
2. offer equipment, reagents and supplies at reduced cost (or free) to campuses that are under-resourced
3. support curriculum development based on the things that they sell

They in would be connected to students and faculty doing proteomics at the undergraduate level. We could also put their logo and links to their sites on our web resources.

Let me know what you think.

Paul

Thoughts on where to go next

Paul,

Some quick reactions to Paul's post...

1) I like the idea of putting some of our energy into expanding the online textbook. That gives us a chance to continue developing these ideas into a form that some funding agency might eventually find compelling.

2) A Phase I CCLI proposal makes more sense to me than a Phase II. With most of the phase II proposals that I'm familar with, the "proof of concept" work is already done and the challenge is now scaling up and disseminating. I'm not sure that we are at the point where we have conclusively proved the conceptual framework that was the foundation of the Teagle proposal.

Matt

This is a letter addressed to a team of undergraduate educators working together to get extramural funding to support our efforts on developing proteomics education. Please feel free to comment.

Hi Folks,

At this point I am getting over the disappointment and thinking that

• We have a wonderful team of undergraduate faculty interested in proteomics
• We have some good ideas that are worth pursuing
• You folks are very interesting people and I think the brief interactions we had while preparing the proposal should continue.

I have taken the following steps:

1. I am teaching the Molecular ing and Proteomics course again this quarter and have assigned teams of students to expand on the existing online textbook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Proteomics). I would very much appreciate your comments on this effort. Are there other chapters that should be included? Do you have recommendations for any good information sources that we could tap?
2. I have created a blog for undergraduate proteomics education (http://proteomicseducation.blogspot.com/). I have not posted anything there yet, but it exists. I tried to get proteomics.blogspot.com, but it was taken already. I will work on getting some things posted there later this week. Again suggestions are welcome.
3. Have you heard of del.icio.us? It is a tool for something called social bookmarking. I've just started working with it: http://del.icio.us/proteomic. Again proteomics was taken. I just checked and I guess I have not put anything in there yet. Again, hopefully later this week.

I'd like to think about going back to NSF for the CCLI program again. I think we tried for a Phase 2 project last time. The next due date is January 10, 2008. If we decide to go for a Phase 1 project (budget similar to the Teagle budget), the full proposal is due on May 7-8, 2007. Please let me know what you're thinking.

I'm going to try to post this to the blog page so you can make comments there for everyone to share.

Paul