Computational Biophysics Workshop - San Francisco, Jun. 26-30, 2005

TCB Hands-On Workshop in San Francisco
Participant Profile

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

Profile information indicates the average participant had earned or was close to earning a doctorate, and was working in an academic position at a university.  Citizenship is somewhat diverse, with around half of participants listing United States citizenship, while other participants describe themselves as citizens of countries such as Japan, Venezuela, and Denmark.  A distribution of education is provided in Table 1 and of affiliation in Table 2.

 

Highest Degree Earned Number
Undergraduate 2
Masters/Graduate Student 1
Doctorate 17


Table 1: Breakdown of participants and their current educational standing.
Affiliation Number
Education 13
Government 3
Non-profit 1
Industry 1


Table 2: Distribution of types of participant work locations.

 

 

Name Affiliation Highest Degree Citizenship
Bo Yang Baker University of California, San Francisco PhD Australia
Christopher Chang National Renewable Energy Laboratory PhD USA
Gerardo Cisneros National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences PhD Mexico
Frank Cochran Stanford University PhD USA
Coray Colina University of North Carolina PhD Venezuela
Matthew Downton Simon Fraser University PhD United Kingdom
Donald Engel University of Pennsylvania MS USA
Haixiao Gao Howard Hughes Medical Institute PhD China
Leo Kinarsky University Nebraska Medical Center PhD USA
Piotr Koprowski University of California, Berkeley PhD, MD Poland
Noriyuki Kurita Toyohashi University of Technology PhD Japan
Deborah Kuzmanovic Geo-Centers/US Army PhD USA
Dmitry Lupyan Mount Sinai School of Medicine BS USA
Neelan Marianayagam University of California, Berkeley PhD USA
Jeffrey Miller Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. PhD USA
Irina Moreira Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto PhD Portugal
Eric Peterson California Institute of Technology BS USA
Birgit Schiott Aarhus University PhD Denmark
Darren Segall California Institute of Technology PhD USA
Su-Hsiu Wu University of Rhode Island PhD USA