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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: FoldIt\n   When: Friday\, Aug 11\, 14:40 - 15:59 PDT
 \n   Where: Flamingo - Laughlin I\,II\,III - Biohacking Village - [1]Map\n
 \n   SpeakerBio:Firas D Khatib \, Associate Professor at University of\n  
  Massachusetts DartmouthPhD\n\n     * Principal Investigator on the Foldit
  Project: a free worldwide\n       video game where citizen scientists hel
 p solve challenging\n       protein-folding problems ([2]www.fold.it)\n\n 
     * Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth\,\n
        in the Department of Computer and Information Science\n\n     * My 
 favorite courses to teach include Computer Game Design\,\n       Advanced 
 Bioinformatics\, Gamification Design\, and Social and\n       Ethical Aspe
 cts of Computing\n\n     * Received Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at UC Santa Cr
 uz in 2008 •\n       Received bachelor's degree in Applied Math at UC Be
 rkeley in 2001\n\n     * Big fan of all kinds of games: board games\, card
  games\, video\n       games\, escape rooms\, etc.\n\n     * U2 fanatic\, 
 will be back in Vegas 3 more times this fall to see\n       them play The 
 Sphere :-)\n\n\n   Description:\n   If we want to address the many challen
 ges facing this world\, we’ll\n   need to tackle them from many differen
 t angles—not just using\n   traditional means. For example\, can the bra
 inpower of video game\n   playing citizen scientists tackle critical probl
 ems in computational\n   biology? Yes! Players of the worldwide online pro
 tein-folding video\n   game Foldit—most of whom with little or no prior 
 biochemistry\n   experience—have uncovered knowledge that eluded scienti
 sts for\n   years\, contributing to several scientific discoveries through
 \n   gameplay. Rather than solving problems with a purely computational\n 
   approach\, combining humans and computers can provide a means for\n   so
 lving problems neither could solve alone. You will be given an\n   opportu
 nity to learn and train your Foldit skills before the\n   conference\, whe
 re a special Biohacking Village Foldit Competition will\n   take place!\n 
   '\n\n   1. #FlamingoThirdFloor\n   2. http://www.fold.it/\n\n\n
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LOCATION:BHV - Flamingo - Laughlin I\,II\,III - Biohacking Village
SUMMARY:FoldIt
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