There were twenty participants in the workshop. Participants applied for a seat, and were selected from a pool of 107 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 third 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 affiliation in Table 2.

 

Name	Affiliation	Degree	Citizenship
Anton Burykin	University of Southern California	PhD (in progress)	Russia
Andrea Catte	University of Alabama at Birmingham	PhD, Chemistry	Italy
Kevin Facemeyer	University of Nevada	PhD	USA
Jesus Fernandez	Cajal Institute of Neurobiology (CSIC)	BS, Biology	Spain
Samuel Flores	Yale University	MS	USA
Biff Forbush	Yale University, Cellular and Molecular Physiology	PhD, Chemistry	USA
Kim Gunnerson	University of Washington	BS, Chemistry	USA
Mark Harder	Oregon State University	PhD, Washington U.	USA
Ville Kaila	University of Helsinki	MS (in progress)	Finland
Karina Martinez Mayorga	University of Arizona	PhD	Mexico
Justin McDowell	Florida A&M University	BS, Electrical Engineering	USA
Anna Modzelewska	International Inst. of Molecular and Cell Biology	MSc	Poland
Elad Project	Tel Aviv University	BSc, Computer Sciences and Biology	Israel
Shahid Qamar	Arizona State University	MS	Canada
Jared Schrader	Northwestern University	BS, Microbiology	USA
Jufang Shan	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	BS	P. R. China
Alejandro Valbuena	Cajal Institute of Neurobiology (CSIC)	MS, Biophysics	Spain
Robert Wiese	University of Nevada	MS, Physics	USA
Ying Yin	University of Illinois	BS	P. R. China
Huamin Zhang	Purdue University	PhD	P. R. China