Brin Mathematics Research Center
Program ID:
152-QUANTPHAGE25 [#1767]
Program Title:
Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales, June 23-27 2025
Program Type:
Graduate or early career program
Program Location:
College Park, Maryland 20742, United States of America
Application Deadline:
2025/04/04 11:59PM
finished (2025/02/19, finished 2025/06/02)
finished (2025/02/19, finished 2025/06/02)Program Description:
*** this program has been closed and new applications are no longer accepted. ***
program Description
Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales; Location: University of Maryland, College Park; Dates: June 23-27, 2025 Phage transform the fate of cells, populations and ecosystems. Building on a series of interdisciplinary QLife workshops in Paris in 2022 and 2024, this workshop will bring together thought leaders in integrating models, experiments, and field data in dialogue with early career researchers to learn fundamentals and cutting-edge advances in the study of phage-bacteria dynamics across scales. The course will include thematic days spanning cellular mechanisms, phage therapy, spatial dynamics, evolution, and ecosystem functioning. Each day will include (i) morning lectures; (ii) afternoon computational labs; (iii) evening plenaries or poster sessions. Students will learn how to model phage-bacteria across scales, integrate computational methods into research practice, and bridge the gap between models and data with case-study problems. The school is limited to 25 participants. It is open to MS, PhD, as well as early stage postdoctoral scientists with backgrounds in life sciences, physics, engineering, computer sciences and/or mathematics. Experience in file manipulation in Unix/Linux and in either Python or R is required. Confirmed speakers and lecturers include: Stephen Beckett, UMD; Alita Burmeister, UW-Milwaukee; Waqas Chaudhry, Tolka AI; Tapan Goel, UMD; Ido Golding, UIUC; Jacopo Marchi, UMD; Justin Meyer, UCSD; Namiko Mitarai, Niels Bohr Institute; Daniel Muratore, Santa Fe Institute; Carey Nadell, Dartmouth; Sarah Preheim, JHU; Paul Turner, Yale; Joshua Weitz, UMD Scientific Chair: Joshua Weitz, UMD; Computational lab lead: Marian Dominguez-Mirazo, UMD Support via Brin MRC and CMNS at the University of Maryland, College Park and the U of Maryland Institute for Health Computing in North Bethesda Application Deadline: April 4, 2025; * Applications must include a CV and a motivation letter. A supporting letter from a supervisor is strongly recommended. * Travel awards are available for accepted participants * Decisions will be made in early April 2025Application Materials Required:
- Submit the following items online at this website to complete your application:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Reference letter (optional) (to be submitted online by the reference writers on this site )
- And anything else requested in the program description.
Further Info:
Biology Psychology Building
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742