First Salamanca International Advanced Biophysicsand Structural Biology Course

Datos del evento
Fecha: 30/06/2025 05/07/2025
Lugar: University of Salamanca
Salamanca (Spain)

The first “Salamanca Summer International Course on Advanced Biophysics and Structural Biology” (https://biophysal.org/) will take place at the University of Salamanca, one of the world oldest universities (the third oldest, after Bologna and Oxford), and located in the beautiful city of Salamanca, a World Heritage city. The course is organized by Profs. Carlos Bustamante and Eva Nogales from the University of California at Berkeley. The 5-day course (June 30 – July 5) will cover single molecule studies and biological imaging at the molecular and cellular levels and will have both lectures and hands-on components. It will be preceded by a one-day symposium (June 29) on “Advanced Structural and Molecular Biology” open to the scientific community.

The course will be imparted by:
Carlos Bustamante (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
José María Carazo (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain)
Taek Jip Ha (Harvard University, Children’s Hospital, USA)
Borja Ibarra (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid, Spain)
Miguel Vicente Manzanares (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Eva Nogales (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
David Rueda (Imperial College London, UK)
Carlos Óscar Sánchez Sorzano (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain)
José María Valpuesta (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain)
Elizabethe Villa (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University, USA)


Keynote speaker:
Richard Henderson (LMB-MRC, Cambridge, UK; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017)

The course will be open to 22 students of any nationality. The registration fee is 150 €, which will cover the course and the lodging. 

There is the is the possibility of travel grants.

Deadline for registration: December 15, 2024

For more information and for application, see https://biophysal.org/

Contact: fgu@usal.es