Physical Biology Boot Camp

These are notes from the Physical Biology Boot Camp that I participated in on 8-14 Oct 06 at Caltech.

About the boot camp

Participants

Instructors

• Rob Phillips (Caltech ME/APh)
• Hernan Garcia (Caltech Ph)
• Tristan Ursell (Caltech APh)
• Paul Grayson
• Lin Han
• Heun Jin Lee
• Eric Peterson
• Frosso Seitaridou
• Dave Wu
• Tabita Winther

Recruits

• Noah (UC Santa Cruz)
• Alberto (UC Santa Barbara)
• Kipom Kim (UC Santa Barbara)
• Noah (UC Santa Barbara)
• Joe Varley (UC Santa Barbara)
• Dan Brox (Caltech)
• Tim (Stuttgart)
• Michael Turk
• Elisabeth Villa (UIUC)
• David
• Justin

Visiting faculty

• Joel (U. Michigan)

Others

• Stephanie
• Julie
• Jenny

Organization

There are basically four parts of boot camp:

• DNA Science - learning how to manipulate DNA
• Size of things - learning the various spatial scales in biology
• Rate of things - learning the various temporal scales in biology
• Project - a small project, working with a graduate student or visitor