March 17, 2008 – March 21, 2008

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Location

FAPERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Organizers

Jerson da Silva; Elisa Saitovich, FAPERJ

Jose Onuchic, UCSD/CTBP

Daniel Cox, ICAM/UC Davis

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Overview

Our goal is to provide students with an exposure to modern cutting edge topics in biological physics with a unique interaction between junior scientists from the US and South America.  The school will be divided between core lectures on more fundamental aspects of biological physics and more specialized lectures.