Quantitative Biology

QB Bootcamp

For two days during Brandeis’ January intersession, all QB students and faculty (together with other interested members of the community) come together on campus for all-day sessions of mini-courses, research talks, panel discussions on the practical aspects of being an interdisciplinary scientist, and informal interactions.  The research talks are given by faculty, both QB and other. An advanced graduate student or postdoc, the recipient of the HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award (which includes a cash prize) delivers three lectures on a particular topic that involves application of quantitative physical sciences methods to biomedical problems.

The 2008-09 Bootcamp will be held January 11-12, 2009

Past Bootcamps and Scholar Award Winners

2007-08 Bootcamp - January 13-24, 2008

Full program

HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award recipient: James Chen

Scholar Award lectures:

1. Single-Particle Electron Microscopy (slides)
2. Data Analysis and Model Reconstruction (slides)
3. EM Structural Analysis (slides)

2006-07 Bootcamp - January 11-12, 2007

Full program

HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award recipients: David Biron and Radhika Subramanian

Scholar Award lectures:

David Biron

1. What is C. elegans? What are its navigational strategies? (slides)
2. Plasticity on two different scales: on what scale is information processed? (slides)
3. Thermotactic behavior depends on the previous cultivation temperature and on the ambient temperature (slides)

Radhika Subramanian

1. Force as a variable to study biological reactions (slides)
2. Force as a variable to study unfolding reactions (slides)
3. Molecular motors and mechanochemistry (slides)