Updates:
 
10th January 2019:
 
Please find the course schedule for the course below. This applies to all 5 days of the coruse from 14th to 18th January, 2019, with two exceptions (detialed below). 
For updates on the course syllabus to be covered on each of the 5 days, please visit: http://www.rpgroup.caltech.edu/ncbs_pboc/about
 
 
 
Time slot Session
9:00 to 10:30 am Course session 1 by Rob
10:30 to 10:45 am
Tea/coffee break
10:45 to 12:15 pm Course session 2 by Rob
12:15 to 1:30 pm Lunch break
1:30 to 3:00 pm Course session 3 by Rob
3:00 to 3:15 pm Tea/coffee break
3:15 to 4:45 pm Course session 4 by Rob
4:45 to 5:00 pm Break
5:00 to 7:00 pm Tutorial session by Manuel

 

Exceptions:

1. Wednesday, 16th Jan - All the post-lunch sessions will be taken by Manuel.

2. There is a Simons Colloquium by Rob Phillips scheduled for Friday, 16th Jan at 4 pm. Youy're all encouraged to attend that!

 
 
9th January 2019:
 
Thank you for your patience. The list of shortlisted participants for this course are as below. Stay tuned for further updates about the course.
 
 

Name Affiliation
Abhishek M NCBS
Angad Yuvraj Singh University of Delhi
Ansuman Biswas NCBS
Anvitha S IIT Bombay
Arjun D V IBAB
Ashwini G NCBS
Bhanu Priya S NCBS
Charuhansini Kulkarni NCBS
Chittaspandini Kulkarni NCBS
Deepanjali Dwivedi NCBS
Garima Rani IMSc
Gaurav Singh InStem
Gaurav Gunjal IISc
Indrani Madhugiri Tech Mahindra
Jessica Bodosa IISc
Kirtika Jha IISc
Krishna Kanth B IISc
Manoj Kumar NCBS
Mukthi A S Iyer NCBS
Nayan Chakraborty NCBS
Nida Farheen NCBS
Nishant Narayanasamy NCBS
Rahul Kumar NCBS
Rakesh M IISc
Rudra Dev Mandal IIT Madras
Sachin Singh Rawat NCBS
Sahithya S Iyer IISc
Sankarshan Talluri NCBS
Saptarshi Dasgupta NCBS
Sayan Biswas InStem
Shashank Kumar Roy ICTS-TIFR
Sujan Kumar NCBS
Sumanth Kumar Maheshwaram RRI
Vinu Varghese NCBS
Zeenat Rashida InStem
 

 

 
 
3rd December 2018:
Thank you for sending in your applications. The applications have now been closed, and we are currently in the process of reviewing them. The list of shortlisted participants will be announced very soon. Stay tuned!

                           

 

 

Course Description:

The intensive week-long course aims to inculcate an appreciation for a world teeming with biological wonders, by using a hands-on, curiosity-driven approach that defies the conventional boundaries of disciplines, and invokes ideas and tools from mathematics, physics, computer science and engineering to better understand biological systems.

The course structure allows students to embark upon a deep exploration of quantitative case studies, which are specifically designed to illuminate the key principles of biology. The course will demonstrate the various ways in which one can use simple ‘order of magnitude’ estimates to provide insights into problems like the fidelity of protein translation, understanding how far a bird can fly without stopping, and how amphibians arrive on oceanic islands.

Further, the course will demonstrate how one can use statistical mechanics-based approaches to explore problems in regulatory biology. Examples of biological problems that can be studied using such approaches include the physics of post-translational modifications, transcriptional decisions in cells and the precision of embryonic development. 

In addition to these topics, the course also involves a series of hands-on projects using Python to amplify the case studies discussed in class.

 

Instructors & TA:

Prof. Rob Phillips (Instructor), Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology, California Institute of Technology

Manuel Razo-Mejia (TA), California Institute of Technology

 

Organisational Details:

Date: 14th to 18th January 2019

Time: 9 am to 9 pm (light tea/coffee and beverages will be provided; lunch / dinner can be availed through our canteens)

Venue: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

 

Participation:

We invite participation from graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in employing mathematical approaches to the study of biological problems.

Participants residing in Bengaluru are strongly encouraged to apply. Outstation participants are welcome to apply too, provided they can arrange their own accommodation. 

Submit your application along with a 150-word statement of purpose describing your research and why you are interested in attending this course, before the noon of 1st December 2018, here: https://bit.ly/pboc2019apply