Help with finding Cytoscape tutors needed
thomas hahn
Hi,
I am a visually impaired bioinformatics graduate student using microarray data for my master’s thesis aimed at deciphering the mechanism by which the yeast wild type can suppress the rise of free reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by caloric restriction (CR) but the Atg15 and Erg6 knockout mutant cannot.
Since my remaining vision is very limited I need very high magnification. But that makes my visual field very small. Therefore I would like to have somebody guiding me remotely showing me where each button, function and other options can be clicked so that I know to which part of the screen I need to scroll in order to find them. Since I am legally blind the rehab agency is giving me money to pay tutors for this purpose. Could you please help me getting in touch regarding this with anybody, who could potentially be interested in teaching me Cytoscape thus saving me time for acquiring new information and skills, which I need to finish my thesis on time, so that I can remain eligible for funding to continue in my bioinformatics PhD program despite being almost blind?
Trying to figure out how to use Cytoscape and its plug-ins own my own is extremely challening without assistance because Zoomtext, my magnification and text to speech software, on which I am depending because I am almost blind, has problems reading out aloud many Cytoscape related websites to me. And even those websites it can read, it can only read sequentially from left to right and then from top to bottom. Unfortunately, this way of acquiring, finding, selecting and processing new information and answering my questions is too tiresome, ineffective and especially way too time consuming for graduating with a PhD in bioinformatics before my funding runs out despite being severely limited by my visual disability.
The tutoring can be done remotely
via TeamViewer 5 and Skype. Hence, it does not matter where my tutors are
physically located. Currently I have tutors in Croatia and UK. But
since they both work full time jobs while working on their PhD dissertation they
only have very limited time to teach me online. Could you therefore
please forward this request for help to anybody, who could potentially be
interested or, who could connect me to somebody, who might be, because my
graduation and career depend on it? Who
else would you recommend me to contact regarding this?
I thank you very much in advance for your thoughts, ideas, suggestions,
recommendations, time, help, efforts and support.
With very warm regards,
Cell phone: (318) 243 3940
Skype ID: tfh002
Preferred email: Thomas....@gmail.com
Kapila Gunasekera
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