Computational Biophysics Workshop - Urbana, Nov. 8-12, 2004
Participant Profile
There were twenty-one
participants in the workshop. Each individual applied for a seat, and
was selected from a pool of 57 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 quarter of
participants were already in possession of a doctorate, whereas less
then ten per cent were working towards an undergraduate degree. 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 |
| Vasyl Aleksenko | Michigan Technological University | MS | Ukraine |
| Bogdan Barz | Univesity of Missouri-Columbia | MS | Romania |
| Violeta Beleva | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | MS 2005 | Bulgaria |
| Nitin Bhardwaj | University of Illinois at Chicago | BS | India |
| Michael Bradley | Washington University in St. Louis | BA | USA |
| Baoqiang Cao | University of Cincinnati | MS | PR China |
| Yong Jiang | Emory University | BS | USA |
| Harindar Keer | University of California, Irvine | MSc | Indian |
| Heike Meiselbach | FAU of Erlangen, Inst. for Biochemistry | Dipl. Biol. | Germany |
| Murtaza Mogri | UC San Diego | BS | USA |
| Lacramioara Negureanu | Louisiana State University | PhD 2005 | Romania |
| Rene Nome | The University of Chicago | MSc | USA |
| Ole Olsen | Novo Nordisk | PhD | Denmark |
| Soumya Patnaik | Air Force Research Laboratory | PhD | USA |
| Laura Rowe | University of Kentucky | BA | USA |
| Goundla Srinivas | University of Pennsylvania | PhD | |
| Seiichiro Tanizaki | Michigan State University | PhD | Japan |
| Anne Tuukkanen | University of Helsinki | UG | Finland |
| Ioannis Tziligakis | University of Illinois | MS | Greece |
| Michael Yonkunas | University of Pittsburgh | BS | USA |
| Wanhua Zhao | Louisiana Tech University | BS | China |
