THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

2018 Physics of Living Cells Summer School

The mission of the Center for the Physics of Living Cells at the University of Illinois is to create a quantitative, predictive, and physically-based description of living systems. The 2018 CPLC Summer School will offer multi-scale training in the latest experimental, computational, and theoretical biophysical approaches in the following themes:

SCIENTIFIC THEMES:

• Physics of DNA
• RNA Regulation in Eukaryotes
• Quantitative Imaging and Cell Simulation of Small Regulatory RNA
• Evolution of Chemotaxis
• Neurobiology

PARTICIPATING FACULTY:

• Alek Aksimentiev
• Yann Chemla
• Jingyi Fei
• Martin Gruebele
• Aaron Hoskins
• Nigel Goldenfeld
• Taekjip Ha
• Seppe Kuehn
• Tom Kuhlman
• Zaida Luthey-Schulten
• Sua Myong
• Paul Selvin
• Jun Song
• Kai Zhang 

This summer school is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers in physics, biophysics, chemical and life sciences, and engineering who seek to expand their research skills into these areas. The workshop will comprise lectures and hands-on training in specific topics and tools.

To learn more and apply, please visit their website.

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