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 |