This workshop will serve to introduce students from Brazil and surrounding countries to modern biophysical techniques such as NMR, fluorescence, ESR, circular dichroism, IR, X-ray scattering, microscopies and molecular simulations. Furthermore, during this year´s workshop Prof. Shirley Schreier´s 70th birthday will be celebrated.  Prof. Schreier is one of the Biophysics pioneers in Brazil, who has always been committed with good science and education of the students.