Computational Biophysics Workshop - Boston, Dec. 5-9, 2004
Participant Profile
There were twenty participants in the workshop. Each individual applied
for a seat, and
was selected from a pool of 51 applicants.The average profile
of a participant was a life sciences graduate student pursuing a
doctorate at a university in the United States. About a half of
participants were already in possession of a doctorate. Overall
the group was internationally diverse, with varying backgrounds in
biology, chemistry, and physics. A distribution of education is
provided in Table 1 and of industry in Table 2.
Table 1: Breakdown of Participants and their current educational standing. |
Table 2: Distribution of types of participant work locations. |
Name | Institute | Degree | Country |
Marcela Aliste | Georgia Institute of Technology | PhD in Chemistry | Chile |
James Apgar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | B.A. in Chemistry from Williams College | USA |
Gokhan Caliskan | Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D, B. E. (Chemical Engineering) | Turkey |
Leyla Celik | University of Aarhus | B.Sc in Chemistry | Denmark |
Blake Charlebois | University of Toronto | B.Sc.(Eng.) | Canada |
Christopher Glosser | Southern Illinois University | Ph.D, B.S. | USA |
John Ip | Dell, Inc. | B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D. | Canada |
Basak Isin | University of Pittsburgh | Masters | Turkey |
Ekta Khurana | University of Pennsylvania | Masters in Chemistry, Bachelors in Chemistry | India |
Seung Lee |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MS in Mechanical Engineering | USA |
Edward Lyman |
University of
Pittsburgh |
PhD, Physics | USA |
Shane Nelson |
University of Wyoming | B.S. Molecular Biology | USA |
Lina Nilsson |
University of Washington | B.S. Chemical Engineering | USA |
Steve Presse |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bachelor's in Chemistry | Canada |
John Robinson |
University of Alabama at Birmingham | MD, PhD | USA |
Edina Rosta |
Eotvos University, Hungary | MSc |
Hungary |
Gaurav Sharma |
Northeastern University | MS | India |
Arvind Sivasubramanian | Johns Hopkins University | B.S, PhD | India |
Nuri Temiz |
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | BS and MS Chem Eng. | Turkey |
Marty Ytreberg |
University of Maine | Ph.D |
USA |