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From: Martin Tompa <tompa@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:10 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UCLA Ph.D. program Bioinformatics
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: eeskin@gmail.com [mailto:eeskin@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Eleazar Eskin
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 11:33 AM
> To: William Stafford Noble; Martin Tompa
> Subject: UCLA Bioinformatics
>
> Dear Bill, Martin,
>
> As you may know, UCLA has recently established a new Ph.D. program in
> Bioinformatics. Our website is http://www.bioinformatics.
> I was wondering if you know of any undergraduates students
> who are interested in applying to PhD programs in
> Bioinformatics. If so, we hope to encourage them to consider
> UCLA. Just send (or have them
> send) an email to bioinfophd@lists.ucla.edu, and we will
> identify the relevant faculty based on their research
> interests to follow up with them. Alternatively, feel free
> to pass on my email so they can get more information from me directly.
>
> Since I know that you are involved with your undergraduate
> bioinformatics program, I would greatly appreciate if you
> were able to send the information below to your programs
> email list. We feel that the kind of student that graduates
> from your program has the ideal training to be successful in
> our Ph.D. program. Since we are trying to cover all
> undergrad programs, I would appreciate if you send me a quick
> note if you are able to send the email to your undergraduate program.
>
>
> UCLA has a lot of established bioinformatics faculty (over
> 20) but a relatively new Bioinformatics Ph.D. program, there
> are good opportunities for students who apply here.
>
> Thanks,
> Eleazar
>
>
> ——–
>
> UCLA has a new Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program which is an
> Interdepartmental Program involving such disciplines as
> Computer Science, Computational Biology, Statistics,
> Mathematics, Chemistry, and Molecular, Cell & Developmental
> Biology. The Ph.D. program includes an integrated one-year
> core curriculum, over 50 elective courses, and over 20 core
> bioinformatics faculty spanning life & physical sciences, the
> Medical School and Engineering School. This is a new program
> and the first class arrived in Fall ’10. We invite you to apply.
>
> Please see refer to the website http://www.bioinformatics.
> for more compressive information on the program.
>
> The application deadline is December 1st. Please contact
> Nancy Purtill at nancyp@lifesci.ucla.edu for additional information
>
> The Bioinformatics IDP provides an academic home for
> bioinformatics at UCLA that brings together the many
> different disciplines that this field requires. Examples of
> current bioinformatics research conducted by the core
> faculty include:
>
> * The analysis of gene and protein sequences to reveal
> protein evolution and alternative splicing
>
> * The development of computational approaches to study and
> predict protein structure to further our understanding of function
>
> * The analysis of mass spectrometry data to, for example,
> understand the connection between phosphorylation and cancer
>
> * The development of computational methods to utilize
> expression data to reverse engineer gene networks in order to
> more completely model cellular biology
>
> * The study of population genetics and its connection to
> human disease
>
> Students will spend their first year taking courses in an
> integrated curriculum and rotate through three research labs
> after which they will join the group of a bioinformatics
> faculty at UCLA.
>
> Apply this year to be part of the start of a new exciting
> bioinformatics program. More information at
> http://www.bioinformatics.
>