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Recent MCell/DReAMM Use & Demographics

(All information obtained via MCell/DReAMM registration database designed and maintained at the PSC.)

Of nearly 400 approved users ("approved" means academic research for which complete information was provided and at least one download resulted):

6% Undergraduate

35% Graduate

19% Post-doc

33% Faculty

4% Other (research staff, high school student or teacher, etc.)

~50/50 Domestic/Foreign (Europe, Asia, South America)

8% use in teaching

12% found out about MCell/DReAMM through coursework

Several substantive teaching examples known to us*:

• Robert Miller and John Gottesman at the University of Minnesota have incorporated MCell simulations and DReAMM visualization into a Computational Neuroscience course (NSC 5201) taught each fall semester.
• MCell and DReAMM figure prominently in a joint NIH-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute on Simulation and Computer Visualization of Biological Systems at Multiple Scales, with core faculty from the University of Pittsburgh, PSC, Duquesne University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
• Peter Thomas at Oberlin College (Mathematics and Neuroscience) has incorporated MCell and DReAMM into a Computational Biology course.
• Phil Ulinski  and Eric Schwartz at University of Chicago (Neuroscience) have incorporated MCell and DReAMM into a Computational Neuroscience course.


* If you are aware of any other examples, please let us know.