[SocBiN] Medbioinfo PhD school in medical bioinformatics

[Arne Elofsson]

 Dear Colleague -- We would much appreciate it if you could forward the
below message and attached flyer to Departmental and other relevant email
lists.


To all current and prospective 1st year PhD students in Bioinformatics,

You are invited to apply to MedBioInfo, the National Graduate School in
Medical Bioinformatics, established to provide advanced training in
bioinformatics to the next generation of world-class life-science
researchers.  Our 43 affiliated faculty members include most of the leading
bioinformaticians in Sweden, and we also draw on the faculty of NORBIS, our
Norwegian sister school. In January 2020 we admitted 28 students, up from a
target of 20, of which 43% were female, substantially higher than the field
in general. The faculty and fellow students will form a key part of your
future scientific network.

Our courses are short, worth 3 or 5 HP(ECTS). Each course typically
requires a one-week at-home pre-assignment, one week in residence (or,
during the crisis, by zoom), and (often) a  one-week take-home
post-assignment. You would typically take two courses per year, for a total
of 3 years. The courses are more specialised than can be provided by your
home university. You will be matched with a faculty mentor, providing a
perspective and advice complementary to that of your advisor. Crisis
permitting, we will hold an annual meeting where you will attend faculty
talks and soft-skills workshops, present your research, network, and get
feedback. You will be granted a yearly travel budget. Best of all, this
should be fun.

You are eligible to apply if you began or will begin your PhD at any
Swedish university between January 2020 and April 2021, though there is
some flexibility in this. Target groups include PhD students in Life
Science doing primarily computational research.Selection criteria include
your CV, transcript, and the relevance of your research project. You will
also need an endorsement letter from your advisor and a suitable laptop. We
strive to have a broad distribution of home universities as well as a
continued good gender balance.

You will be expected to attend your first course, "Applied Bioinformatics,"
probably in June, as will be announced on MedBioInfo.se. Several of our
core courses require programming in Python. If your Python background is
weak, you will need to strengthen your skills before your first course.
There are many online courses for this, and we also recommend Shaw's
"Python 3 the hard way."  For climate reasons we ask students (with the
possible exception of those from Umeå) to avoid flying to MedBioInfo events.

The deadline is February 28, 2021. Our enrollment target is approximately
20 incoming students per year, though we have admitted more in recent
years. You should sign up following
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/MedBioInfo-application-2021 , also
linked to from medbioinfo.se . Feel free to email me with any questions. We
look forward to reading your application.


With kind regards,

Samuel Coulbourn Flores (Dean of Students) and
Arne Elofsson (Director)

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Stockholm University

Visiting:
SciLifeLab A6220 (Alpha Tr. 6)
Tomtebodavägen 23a (main entrance)
Mobil: +46.706000464

Yours

Arne

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  Arne Elofsson                  Science for Life Laboratory
  Tel:+46-(0)70 695 1045   Stockholm University
  http://bioinfo.se/               Box 1031,
  Email: arne at bioinfo.se   17121 Solna, Sweden
  Twitter:   https://twitter.com/arneelof
  Scholar: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ
  ORCID: 0000-0002-7115-9751
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