How to: Alumni Map

You can find a Google map with the former trainees of the NIGMS National Centers of Systems Biology who are now systems biology leaders in academia and industry on the “Alumni” page of the Centers’ portal (http://www.systemscenters.org/outreach-education/alumni/).

Access to the Map

One administrator from each Center has been invited to “collaborate” on this map. If you are not already a collaborator but would like to be, please write to Bodo Stern at bstern@cgr.harvard.edu. It is easiest to add you with a Google email address since this is a Google map.

Former trainees who should be included

The Portal Working Group previously agreed to just add faculty and industry leaders. Here is the reason: this map serves to showcase the success of the whole Systems Biology Centers program and not of individual Centers. In fact, the map does not mention from which NIGMS Center the faculty and industry leaders originated. An outsider should look at this map and (hopefully) conclude “Wow, these Centers trained the ‘who is who’ in systems biology”. If we added every former trainee to the map it would quickly become overpopulated and unwieldy. We therefore invite you to be selective about who you add. Please inform the faculty and industry leaders who have been added to this map to give them the opportunity to “opt out” if they prefer not to be included.

Process to add former trainees

Log into your Google account here. Sign in with your email address and your password. (If you have forgotten your password then click “Can’t access your account” under the blue “Sign in” button)
Go to a large view of the Alumni map at http://g.co/maps/gghve
Search for the address of the institution/company where your former trainee is now working by typing the name of the institution/company into the search box
Click on the correct search result
Click on “Save to Map”
Select “Trainees of NIGMS Centers for Systems Biology” from the drop down menu under “Which map do you want to save to? and click “Save”
Go to the Alumni map at http://g.co/maps/gghve and click the red “Edit” button at the top of the list of trainees
You should see the address you have just saved at the bottom of the list of trainees. Click on this address
In the “Title” box add the trainee’s name followed by their new institution
In the “Description” box enter the trainee’s website address (Select “Rich Text” to add a hyperlink)
Click on the pin icon and select the appropriate pin color: blue for faculty and red for industry
Click “Save” at the top of the list of trainees
Send a courtesy email to the alumni informing them that they are listed there and asking them to contact you if they would like to be removed from the map

Additional advice

Deleting entries. After logging into your Google account, go to the Alumni map at http://g.co/maps/gghve and click the red “Edit” button at the top of the list of trainees. Click on the trainee you would like to delete. Click “Delete”. Click “Save” at the top of the list of trainees
Changing a trainee’s address. It is best to delete the old entry and start a new one rather than changing an address within an existing entry