Fall 07 Computational Biology and Bioinformatics申请漫谈之3

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1. Opportunities of working on Bioinformatics at the Univ. of Kansas

(1) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology PhD Program at the University of Kansas  
http://www.bioinformatics.ku.edu/education
http://www.molecularbiosciences.ku.edu/bioinformatics/

The Bioinformatics Program and the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas offer a PhD program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The University of Kansas has world-class credentials in bioinformatics, computational biology, life sciences, and information technology and actively engages in community-wide activities in related disciplines. The Bioinformatics faculty members are recognized leaders in their field. For more information, see Bioinformatics Program / Center for Bioinformatics at http://www.bioinformatics.ku.edu. The Department of Molecular Biosciences (http://www.molecularbiosciences.ku.edu) also has PhD programs in Genetics, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics and Microbiology. These programs complement on-going efforts to expand the life sciences at the University of Kansas (http://www.ku.edu).

The successful applicants will be enrolled in the Bioinformatics track in the Department of Molecular Biosciences graduate program and later assigned to the Bioinformatics graduate program upon its approval.

For application information, see http://www.molecularbiosciences.ku.edu/application.  
When applying on-line, use the biochemistry/biophysics track.  

Faculty:
1. Ilya Vakser
http://www.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people/vakser
2.Wonpil Im
http://www.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people/im
3.Yang Zhang
http://www.bioinformatics.ku.edu/people/zhang
4. Gennady Verkhivker
http://www.bioinformatics.ku.edu ... r/verkhivkerrecruit

BIOINFORMATICS CURRICULUMDocument Actions Requirements

Curriculum:

New course
Bioinformatics I (4)
  
New course
Bioinformatics II (4)
  
New course
Seminar in Bioinformatics (each semester) (1)
  
BIOL 925
Grant Writing (FLORS) (3)
  

In addition, each student will be required to take a minimum number of the elective courses (9 credits in the first year and 3 – 9 credits in the second year). Degree requirements can be substituted at the discretion of the advisor and graduate committee.  

Electives (at the discretion of the student/advisor/committee)

Given the diverse background of potential applicants the program has a broad range of courses. The lower-level courses (e.g. for biology majors with no background in programming or computer science majors with no background in biology) are considered preparatory and will not be counted towards PhD credits.  

BIOL 150
Principles of Molecular and Cellular Biology (4)
  
BIOL 404
Introduction to Genetics (3)
  
BIOL 412
Evolutionary Biology (3)
  
BIOL 595
Human Genetics (3)
  
BIOL 658
Biochemistry I (3)
  
BIOL 665
Biochemistry II (3)
  
BIOL 841
Biometry (3)
  
BIOL 952
Introduction to Molecular Modeling (3)
  
CHEM 622
Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry (3)
  
CHEM 640
Biological Physical Chemistry (3)
  
C&PE 715
Topics in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (3)
  
C&PE 756
Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (3).
  
C&PE 778
Applied Optimization Methods (3)
  
MATH 526
Applied Mathematical Statistics I (3)
  
MATH 530
Mathematical Models I (3)
  
MATH 581
Numerical Methods (3)
  
MATH 590
Linear Algebra (3).
  
MATH 605
Applied Regression Analysis (3)
  
MATH 727
Probability Theory (3)
  
MATH 728
Statistical Theory (3)
  
MATH 781
Numerical Analysis I (3)
  
MATH 865
Introduction to Stochastic Processes (3)
  
EECS 138
Introduction to Computing (3)
  
EECS 258
Programming I (4)
  
EECS 268
Programming II (4)
  
EECS 368
Programming Language Paradigms (3)
  
EECS 603
Information Processing with C++ (3)
  
EECS 638
Fundamentals of Expert Systems (3)
  
EECS 647
Introduction to Database Systems (3)
  
EECS 690
Special Topics: Bioinformatics (3)
  
EECS 700
Special Topics: Genomics (3)
  
EECS 700
Special Topics: Scientific Parallel Computing (3)
  
EECS 800
Special Topics: Protein Informatics (3)
  

Other courses may be used to fulfill these requirements at the discretion of the thesis advisor and thesis committee.

Rotations: Ph.D. students are required to do 1 - 3 lab rotations during the first semester.

Oral Examination: Ph.D. students are required to take comprehensive orals by October of the 5th semester. Student will have to submit and defend an NIH-style proposal on the subject of his/her PhD project.  

(2) Bioinformatics Research in EECS Department:
http://www.eecs.ku.edu/
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/research/view_lab.phtml?lab=BCLSL

Chinese faculty:

Xue-wen Chen  
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~xwchen
bioinformatics, machine learning, and statistical modeling

Anne Ya Zhang  
http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~yazhang/
algorithms for characterizing the biological systems

(3) Applying to Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences
http://www.kumc.edu/igpbs/index.html
and specifying that you are interested in working with Proteomics/Structural Biology  
professor Arcady Mushegian who is the Director of Bioinformatics Center at Stowers Institute

http://www.stowers-institute.org/labs/MushegianLab.asp
http://www.kumc.edu/igpbs/research.html
http://www.kumc.edu/igpbs/index.html

2. Bioinformatics Program at UNC Charlotte
www.bioinformatics.uncc.edu

The majority of the faculty reside in Dept of Computer Science, College of
Information Technology. Applicants will apply through Ph.D. Program in IT with a
track in Bioinformatics

(1) Admission
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinformatics/site/admissions.cfm

(2) Program requirements
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinformatics/site/graduate_program.cfm

(3) Faculty

Anthony Fodor
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinfo ... ofile.cfm?fac_id=11
algorithm development in bioinformatics and the functional genomics of transporters and ion channels

Cynthia Gibas
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinfo ... rofile.cfm?fac_id=5
produce empirically-validated computational models for analysis of long-oligonucleotide microarrays

Susan Sell
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinfo ... ofile.cfm?fac_id=24
molecular genetic and computational analyses of candidate genes for diabetes and certain cancers, including breast cancer and uterine leiomyoma

Zhengchang Su
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinfo ... ofile.cfm?fac_id=19
Computational inference and modeling of regulatory networks/pathways; Characterization and modeling of transcriptional regulatory networks in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells; Molecular modeling and simulation of protein/membrane complexes

Dennis Livesay
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinfo ... ofile.cfm?fac_id=18
technical and scientific background for the broad goal of deciphering subtle sequence/structure/function relationships with protein families and superfamilies;predicting protein functional sites from sequence and structure data

Note: you are highly discouraged to apply with Drs.Xintao Wu, Kayvan Najarian and Taghi Mostafavi  
http://www.coit.uncc.edu/bioinformatics/site/faculty.cfm



To be continued

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