For more than 30 years, the school was chaired by the late Prof. Greta Pifat-Mrzljak, an eminent Croatian biophysicist and recipient of the American Biophysical Society’s Emily M. Gray Award, and is generally regarded as one of the best of its kind in Europe. Through the years, it has been attended by more than one thousand Ph.D. students and postdocs interested in becoming acquainted with the state-of-the-art in biophysics. The lecturers have always been of the highest quality, including top scientists in their respective disciplines and several Nobel laureates.
Therefore, in addition to the school’s inherent role in the transfer of knowledge and ideas, it has always had a catalytic role in arranging future research collaborations, joint projects, visits and postdoc positions.
With the legacy of Prof. Pifat-Mrzljak in mind, it is the intention of the organizers to position this school as a biennial event, complementary to, rather than competing with, relevant international activities, e.g., the Regional Biophysics Conference or the EBSA Biophysics Course.
Topic for 2012
Biomacromolecular complexes and assemblies (protein-RNA/DNA complexes, e.g., viruses, ribosomes; quaternary protein structures; DNA, proteins and polyelectrolytes)
The lecturers will describe related problems and discuss approaches to their solutions, e.g.:
• spectroscopies (NMR, EPR, FTIR, Raman, MS...)
• microscopies (fluorescence techniques, tweezers...)
• diffraction methods
• computational solutions, modeling and simulations
September 30, 2012
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