CENTURI Training course
Physical Biology of the Cell
Physical Biology of the Cell is an intensive week long course taught by Rob Phillips from Caltech.
The goal of this course is to take a broad and quantitative view of modern biology with topics including the active matter herding of animals, the control of cellular organelle size, and the consumption of free energy to fuel processes like high fidelity polymerization in DNA replication and sugar transport up a concentration gradient.
This intensive course is open to Master 2, PhD students and post-doctoral fellows who have not yet received a training from Rob Phillips previously.
This course is held once a year, in the Hexalab (Hexagone Building, Luminy Campus), at the begining of the academic year.
About the Trainer —
Rob Phillips is the Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with a joint appointment across the divisions of Engineering and Applied Science and Biology and Biological Engineering. His research focuses on the physical biology of the cell, including models of transcription and active matter, physical genomes, and biophysical approaches to evolution. He is co-author of the reference textbook Physical Biology of the Cell (Garland Science). In 2021 he was awarded Caltech's Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, its highest teaching honor, with colleagues describing him as one of the most original and dedicated science educators they had encountered. Phillips also co-directs the Physiology summer course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
Caltech's Feynman prize for excellence in teaching