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