Anna, Anthony, JC, Karl, Maksym, and Sunny just returned from attending the 60th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in LA. It was another successful meeting, with Anna and Sunny giving GREAT talks and the rest of us presenting posters. And now we face another year-long wait before the next BPS in New Orleans 2017. 
I think I’m turning Japanese
JC just presented the talk “Bridging the gap between X-ray crystallography and biological insight with MD simulations” at the “Hot Spring Harbor International Symposium” in Fukuoka Japan. He also visited MD master Yuji Sugita, for whom a 100-million-atom simulation is trivial, at the RIKEN Institute in Tokyo.
what are indirect costs?
Sally Rockey, about to leave NIH, explains indirects in this video: https://youtu.be/1XvVibv2opQ
Use your own judgement for whether her claims about incentives are correct or not.
How to engage the public?
This is a question we’ve been thinking about a lot. Here is a short article that frames the problem well.
G’day mate!
JC just got back from the land down under, where he was teaching free energy methods at a workshop in Melbourne. The local students were many, including even a wallaby! The workshop was hosted by the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI).