Welcome to BIC Winter 2010

Events Before/After Reading Week

February 6th, 2010

The last python tutorial led by Eddie Ma will be Tuesday, February 9th in B1-273 (the Gleave Library). This final lecture will cover regular expressions and list comprehension.

The Perl and SQL tutorials put on by BIC are scheduled to run after reading week. More information will be sent out later on.

There will be a BIC/iGEM meet on Wednesday, February 10th in B1-273 (the Gleave Library) at 6pm. There are several great opportunities to get involved with iGEM which will be discussed at the meet, such as work on established software and modeling projects processed by the team. As well, there is a new project, codenamed SOLVER, which will aim to aid faculties in biology and chemistry that need solutions to computational problems but do not have the tools to do so. SOLVER will be open to both iGEM and BIC students for collaboration to research and develop software for those groups. The iGEM modelling team and most of iGEM comes into full effect later this semester, and the SOLVER group will come into full effect early summer.

The iGEM competition is an annual event wherein teams from universities across the world showcase their synthetic biology projects. These teams are composed of mostly undergraduates who toil with BioBricks -- well defined DNA building blocks closed by particular restriction sites used in the competition. To compete, a project must contribute new conforming BioBricks or use previous BioBricks to do new things. Many teams including Waterloo have expanded into the realm of computational modeling. More information can be found at igem.uwaterloo.ca and igem.org

Event Updates

January 28th, 2010
Edited: January 29th, 2010

There will be a Coop 101 session next Monday, February 1st at 4:30pm in MC 2035 ~~(location TBA)~~. A few upper-years have volunteered to speak about their job experiences and give some interview tips. If you'd like to share your coop experiences but have not yet volunteered, email bic.uwaterloo.ca@gmail.com. Python tutorials provided by Eddie Ma are still being held on Tuesdays at 4:30pm in B1-273. BIC Perl and SQL tutorials are tentatively scheduled to be in February and more information will be available soon.

First Club Meeting

January 24th, 2010

There will be a meeting Monday, January 25th at 4:30PM in MC 1085. We will be going over some events for the term and when to hold them. If you have not paid yet, please bring $2 to the meeting.

Call for nominations, Fall 2009

January 7th, 2010
Edited: January 11th, 2010

The following executive positions are available:

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Public Relations Representative
Web Master
First Year Representative (open to first year students only)

Please see the constitution for a description and list of responsibilities for each position. Elections are tentatively set to be held on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 5:30pm location ~~TBA~~ MC 2034.

To nominate yourself or anyone interested, please send an email to bic.uwaterloo.ca@gmail.com (if nominating someone other than yourself, please CC them in the email).

PyCrashCourse

January 6th, 2010
Edited: Januaray 12th, 2010