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Dear Colleague -- We would much appreciate it if you could forward the
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To all current and prospective 1st year PhD students in Bioinformatics,</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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 <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/MedBioInfo-application-2021" rev="en_rl_none" id="gmail-m_4253296526090112976LPlnk402839" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/MedBioInfo-application-2021</a> ,
also linked to from <a href="http://medbioinfo.se" target="_blank">medbioinfo.se</a> . Feel free to email me with any questions. We look forward to reading your application.</div>
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With kind regards,</div>
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Samuel Coulbourn Flores (Dean of Students) and </div>
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Arne Elofsson (Director)</div>
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Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics</div>
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Stockholm University</div>
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SciLifeLab A6220 (Alpha Tr. 6)</div>
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<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> <br>Yours<br><br>Arne<br><i><br></i>-----------------------------------------<br> Arne Elofsson Science for Life Laboratory<br> Tel:+46-(0)70 695 1045 Stockholm University<br> <a href="http://bioinfo.se/" target="_blank">http://bioinfo.se/</a> Box 1031, <br> Email: <a href="mailto:arne@bioinfo.se" target="_blank">arne@bioinfo.se</a> 17121 Solna, Sweden<br> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/arneelof" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/arneelof</a><br> Scholar: <a href="http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ" target="_blank">http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ</a><br> ORCID: 0000-0002-7115-9751</div></div></div></div></div></div>