The first “Salamanca Summer International Course on Advanced Biophysics and Structural Biology” (https://biophysal.org/) will take place at the University of Salamanca, one of the world oldest universities (the third oldest, after Bologna and Oxford), and located in the beautiful city of Salamanca, a World Heritage city. The course is organized by Profs. Carlos Bustamante and Eva Nogales from the University of California at Berkeley.
The 5-day course (June 30 – July 5) will cover single molecule studies and biological imaging at the molecular and cellular levels and will have both lectures and hands-on components. It will be preceded by a one-day symposium (June 29) on “Advanced Structural and Molecular Biology” open to the scientific community.
The course will be imparted by:
- Carlos Bustamante (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- José María Carazo (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain)
- Taek Jip Ha (Harvard University, Children’s Hospital, USA)
- Borja Ibarra (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid, Spain)
- Miguel Vicente Manzanares (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
- Steve Smith (Steve Smith Engineering)
- Eva Nogales (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- David Rueda (Imperial college London, UK)
- José María Valpuesta (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain)
- Elizabethe Villa (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University, USA)
Keynote speaker
- Richard Henderson (LMB-MRC, Cambridge, UK; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017)
The course will be open to 22 students of any nationality. The registration fee is 150 €, which will cover the course and the lodging. There is the possibility of travel grants.
For more information and for application, see https://biophysal.org/
Deadline for registration: December 20, 2024
Contact: Fundación General de la Universidad de Salamanca, fgu@usal.es
