Quantitative Biology Lecture Competition
Trisha Murray wrote: The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is now soliciting applications for an award for preparing an...
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Dear Students/Postdocs, All Brandeis life sciences and physical sciences graduate students, postdocs and faculty are invited to attend the 3rd annual Quantitative Biology Bootcamp, which will be held...
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Simulating viral capsid assembly
Viral capsids assemble into complex structures with high fidelity, but also can adapt when given other nucleic acids cargoes to package. In a recent paper in Nano Letters, Brandeis physics grad student...
View ArticleMicroscopy (1): Quant Bio Instrumentation Lab
Want to learn the principles of microscopy? Jeff Gelles writes: Dear Life Sciences Ph.D. students, This semester we will again be teaching the Quantitative Biology Instrumentation Lab course, QBIO...
View ArticleHHMI Interfaces Scholar Award: call for applications
The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is now soliciting applications for an award for preparing an outstanding set of...
View ArticleSpring 2011 course announcement: QBIO 120b — Quantitative Biology...
Ph.D. students from any science Ph.D. program at Brandeis have the opportunity to enroll in QBIO 120b, the Quantitative Biology Instrumentation Laboratory. This unique laboratory course, now in its...
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Biochemistry, Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Retreat 2010
Grad students, postdocs and faculty from the Graduate Program in Biochemistry & Biophysics and from the interdisciplinary program in Quantitative Biology gathered for their Annual Retreat October...
View ArticleQuantitative Biology Bootcamp 2011
The 5th Annual Quantitative Biology Bootcamp will be held on January 16 & 17, 2011. Paul Miller will preside over the 2nd annual QB Computational Challenge: When space trumps time: modeling...
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MRSEC summer course in Optical Microscopy (June 20-24, 2011)
Optical microscopy has become a powerful experimental tool capable of simultaneously visualizing large scale structures such as entire cells, and fluorescently labeled single molecules within these...
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How to build a $250,000 Microscope for under $1000: Summer Microscopy Course
This past June the MRSEC Center offered a condensed summer course based on the popular graduate course QB120: Quantitative Biology Instrumentation Laboratory. The course was taught by Zvonimir Dogic of...
View ArticleMicrotubules and Molecular Motors Do The Wave
Most people are familiar with audiences in crowded arenas performing “the wave,” raising their hands in sync to produce a pattern that propagates around the whole stadium. This self-organized motion...
View ArticleQuantitative Biology Lecture Prize
The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from Howard Huges Medical Institute, is now soliciting applications for an award for preparing an outstanding set of three...
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Quantitative Biology Bootcamp 2012
What do dinosaur DNA, calculating the global amount of carbon dioxide consumed in photosynthesis, and cooperation and cheating between yeast cells have in common? They were all topics discussed at the...
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Applications open for HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award Lecturer
The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is now accepting applications for an award for preparing an outstanding set of three...
View ArticleMaterials in Motion: Engineering Bio-Inspired Motile Matter
Life is on the move! Motion is ubiquitous in biology. From the gargantuan steps of an elephant to the tiniest single celled amoeba, movement in biology is a complex phenomenon that originates at the...
View ArticleDogic Lab Wins Andor Insight Award
The ‘Insight Awards‘ is a video contest showcasing research imagery from the physical and life sciences which utilize Andor technology to capture data. This year, the Dogic Lab submitted a research...
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Simulations Say Viral Genome Lengths are Optimal for Capsid Assembly
Viruses are infectious agents made up of proteins and a genome made of DNA or RNA. Upon infecting a host cell, viruses hijack the cell’s gene expression machinery and force it to produce copies of the...
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Making a gold studded protein ring
In economically turbulent times gold is acquired and held onto as a stable, secure commodity – it’s the “gold standard”. Gold of course has been a source of wealth as a precious metal and source of...
View ArticleJBS Offers “Bio-Inspired Design” Course
Maria de Boef Miara, Lecturer in Biology at Brandeis University, will be leading a course titled Bio-Inspired Design this summer (June 1 thru August 7, 2015). Bio-Inspired Design is part of the Justice...
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