This program allows students to pursue combined M.D./Ph.D. training with research conducted in one of the NIH Graduate Partnership Programs. During the research years, students can take advantage of the clinical and translational medicine resources of the NIH clinical center. Students in this program design innovative projects combining research conducted in an NIH intramural laboratory with a Ph.D. obtained from a U.S. or international university in a formal GPP or in partnership with a department at their medical school.
Starting stipend is $24,800 (2006/7) while doing Ph.D. research. Stipend while in medical school is dependent on the institution. If accepted by a GPP and Medical School combined degree program, students would become eligible to receive the tuition and stipend benefits of the National MSTP through supplemental funding to existing programs administered by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited U.S. college or university, and must have undergraduate preparation sufficient for medical school. They must have an outstanding academic record and show exceptional promise for a career in biomedical research. Previous laboratory research experience and a clear plan for training and a career as a physician-scientist is a requirement for this program. Qualified students enrolled in medical schools are also encouraged to apply. Students currently enrolled in NIH GPP training also become eligible for this program if they are admitted to medical school as part of an integrated plan of M.D./Ph.D. training. Students receiving Rhodes, Marshall or Churchill Scholarships may combine training in the NIH-Oxford and NIH-Cambridge partnerships with MSTP training.
To be eligible to receive support for medical school, students must be accepted by a MSTP at one of the 41 U.S. medical schools receiving MSTP funding. See the following URL for a list of schools: www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/Mechanisms/NRSA/InstPredoc/PredocInst-MSTP.htm.
Students wishing to be considered for this partnership must submit the GPP Application for Prospective PhD Students. Past research and reasons for pursuing combined-degree training should be discussed in the personal statement. Candidates already enrolled in NIH partnership programs will also be considered.
Deadline On-Line application and supplemental material must be received by January 8, 2007. Five to ten new students are accepted per year.
Further details can be found On-Line at gpp.nih.gov/Applicants/ProspectiveStudents/MSTPatNIH.
University of Hawaii
University of Michigan
We seek graduate students to work on our NSF funded project to develop new tools for comparative analysis, particularly for the purpose of studying adaptive evolution.
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck methods for Comparative Hypotheses (OUCH) is aimed at providing a comprehensive and explicit modeling framework within which biologists can test hypotheses of adaptive evolution for continuous characters. The approach is based upon a model that allows for multiple selective regimes, each parameterized by an optimal trait value, as well as overall strengths of selection and drift. One can arrange selective regimes arbitrarily on a phylogenetic tree. This flexibility allows hypotheses of arbitrary complexity to be translated directly into statistical models and confronted with data. We have applied information-based model-selection techniques to rigorously compare multiple alternative hypotheses. This allows fine discrimination among alternatives -- alternatives that may differ only in the regimes specified on a branch of particular interest. Because of these features, the method allows detailed exploration of historical differences, whether such hypotheses depend on a specific ordering of selective regimes, or a particular ecological or biogeographical association.
Applications are welcome from individuals with a keen interest in adaptive evolution, good quantitative background, and willingness to learn. A basic understanding of computer programming is a plus.
Project location: University of Hawaii with Marguerite Butler, and/or University of Michigan with Aaron King.
PLEASE NOTE: Graduate applications deadlines are rapidly approaching (Dec. 1 for UM and Dec. 15 for UH. UH requires Biology Subject GRE in addition to the General test.)
Send inquiries to: Marguerite Butler mbutler@hawaii.edu, Aaron King kingaa@umich.edu
Marguerite A. Butler
Department of Zoology
University of Hawaii
2538 McCarthy Mall, Edmondson 451
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: 808-956-8621
Lab: 808-956-9914
FAX: 808-956-9812
www2.hawaii.edu/~mbutler
www.hawaii.edu/zoology
There is still just about time to apply for PhD studentships to work at the European Bioinformatics Institute or other EMBL sites.
The closing date is 1 November 2006, for studentships commencing in October 2007.
At the EBI, list readers might be interested to know of opportunities that exist in the research of Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney at EBI.
Full details on the PhD programme and applications are available at this site: www.embl.org/training/phdprogramme
Further details on the EBI's opportunities for PhD students are available at this site: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/Studentships
Nick Goldman
Nick Goldman tel: +44-(0)1223-492530
EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute fax: +44-(0)1223-494468
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
goldman@ebi.ac.uk
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