ICAM/FAPERJ School on Biological Physics

Schools Mission:

To provide students with an exposure to modern cutting edge topics in biological physics with a unique interaction between junior scientists from the US and South America.

The school will be divided between core lectures on more fundamental aspects of biological physics and more specialized lectures.

Overview:

The second I2CAM/FAPERJ Spring School with focus on Biological Physics, will be held in Rio de Janeiro from 16-21 March, 2008. The conference is co-funded by ICAM and FAPERJ ( the state agency of Rio de Janeiro for founding research) and will be hosted by the CBPF, in Rio de Janeiro.

The first school was related with topics on Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter and the 93 participants were supported by FAPERJ, I2CAM, NSF and CAPES. The third school is envisioned to focus in the area of soft condensed matter. There will be approximately three lectures per day, in the ICAM format of 60 mins talk + 30 mins discussion that has already been pioneered in the Cargese summer schools. We have funding to support approximately 40 students from North America and from South America. Additional students, coming on their own finance from other locations will also be welcome, in addition to local students from several universities and research centers in and around Rio de Janeiro.

Principle organizers:

Jerson Silva - UFRJ, Brazil
José Onuchic - UC San Diego, USA
Daniel Cox - UC Davis, USA
Elisa Baggio Saitovitch - CBPF, Liaison I2CAM-FAPERJ, Brazil

Proposed lecture topics

Core ``Primer Lectures’’:

Jose Onuchic - Protein Folding and Allostery
Daniel Cox - Protein Complexes/Aggregates, Protein/DNA interactions, Protein/Menbrane Interactions
Daniel Schultz/Jose Onuchic - Noisy gene networks

Specialty Lectures:

Jerson Silva - NMR and Fluorescence for Dynamics and Protein Folding/Aggregation Studies.
Ana Paula Valente - NMR for Protein Structural Determination and Dynamics.
Taekjip Ha - Single Molecule Studies.
Cecelia Clementi - Computational Studies of Biological Molecules.
Alex Mogilner - Cell Level Biological Physics.
Henrique L de Barros - Magnetoglobus Multicellularis: An Example of Magnetic Organism

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