2006年 北美 生物信息学 申请指南---16 UCHSC, Dartmouth, UM College Park, IU,UC

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University of Colorado Health Science Center has emerged with University of Colorado at Denver and is offering a Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program housed at Health Science Center campus. The link to this program is http://pmb.uchsc.edu/bioinformatics/index.html .

1.Admission Requirements.
     Please visit http://pmb.uchsc.edu/bioinformatics/pages/admReq.htm for detailed information.  
     The special requirements include:
(a).Demonstration of adequate computational background. Applicants must provide evidence of AT LEAST ONE of the following computational qualifications: (Applicants with Master degrees must provide official transcript from the degree granting institution; Applicants without Master must provide an official GRE transcript including scores for computer science subject exam):  
A Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, mathematics or biostatistics. or  
A Master's degree in another scientific field with a special emphasis in computational methods. Applicants and are encouraged to take the GRE computer science subject exam to demonstrate their knowledge of computer science; or  
A score on the GRE computer science subject exam that indicates knowledge equivalent to a Master's degree in computer science.  
Note: if you have at least two-year graduate learning experience in computer science at a North-America institution, the requirement for a Master’s Degree will probably be waived.  

(b). Demonstration of adequate biological background. Applicants must have AT LEAST ONE of the following biological qualifications:  
Successful completion of at-least one upper-level undergraduate or lower-level graduate course in biology. (Applicants with additional biology course work will be given preference in admission. Applicants must provide an official transcript demonstrating this course work.); or  
Employment experience that is the equivalent of upper-level undergraduate biology courses. (Scores on the GRE biology subject exam may be submitted as evidence of equivalent experience.); or  
Other well-documented evidence that might persuade the admissions committee.  

2.Faculty members.  

There are currently 7 faculty members involved in this program. I would say the research here is not that strong. Please click “Program Faculty” at Page http://pmb.uchsc.edu/bioinformatics/index.html to get a feeling of what the research work are being conducting there.  

3.Research Areas.

Ontologies in biomedicine: knowledge management for in silico biology;  
Bio-molecular dynamics: understanding the structural mechanisms of interaction between molecules;  

Genomic sequence and polymorphism (human, mouse, and microbial organisms) analysis: identifying putative genes and regulatory regions polymorphisms involved in the molecular aspects of disease;

Gene expression analysis: executing comparative analyses of transcriptional profiles using gene arrays for the identification of differentially expressed genes;
Biochemical pathway analysis: integrating sequence, expression and proteomic data for the elucidation of diseases pathways.  




Dartmouth College

If you have a solid background in Computer Science, you may find Dartmouth M.D.-Ph.D. Combined Program in Computational Biology is tempting. Check the website out: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~mdphd/ .


The Dartmouth M.D.-Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology is committed to the development and application of new, path-breaking computational tools to explore problems at the frontiers of biology and medicine. This unique program brings together scientists in computer science, mathematics, and engineering with those in biology and medicine. We emphasize the development of computational tools and technologies needed to analyze proteins, nucleic acids, and their interactions in complex biological systems. The Computational Biology program is equally strong in medical imaging, image processing, and scientific computation.  
The Computational Biology program envisions that advances in many fields, such as genetics, immunology, and drug design will be facilitated by interdisciplinary interactions between the computational and biological sciences, and aims to provide new approaches for analyzing fundamental and challenging problems in modern biology and medicine.

1.Admission.  
Students with diverse backgrounds, including computer science, biology, engineering, physics, chemistry, and biochemistry are encouraged to apply.  

Please follow http://dms.dartmouth.edu/mdphd/admissions/admissions.shtml  

Since the application to this program is very competitive, you are suggested to apply for Ph.D.-only Computational Biology program offered by Dept. of Computer Science in the meantime to increase your chance.  

2.Faculty Members
There are 19 faculty members in this interdisciplinary program, http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~mdphd/ .
  

Another option to do research in Computational Biology at Dartmouth College is to apply to Molecular and Cellular Biology Program http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Emcb/  if you have a background more based on Biology part.  

Currently, there are 3 professors involved in this area. They can be found at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mcb/faculty/compbio.html .




University of Maryland College Park has established a Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, http://cbcb.umd.edu/ .  Find faculty information at http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/people/ .   

There are 5 professors in Dept. of Computer Science working on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, http://www.cs.umd.edu/groups/areas.shtml .  


School of Informatics of Indiana University is a unique and the first kind of Informatics School in the States. It offers Ph.D. training in Bioinformatics, http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/research/areas.asp. There are 10 faculties who are interested in this area. Check http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/academics/phd.asp for application information.  

University of Cincinnati
Bioinformatics Graduate Program, http://www.cincinnatichildrens.o ... /bioinformatics.htm .
Available through the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, the Bioinformatics Graduate Program enables students to interact closely with nationally recognized scientists in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's. Through course work and collaboration with our faculty, students are expected to develop expertise in the following areas:
mathematics  
statistics  
computational science  
basic biology  
molecular biology  
biomedicine

1.Application.
Please consult http://www.eng.uc.edu/dept_biomed/graduate/graduate_admiss.php for detailed admission requirements.
2.Research
http://www.eng.uc.edu/dept_biome ... _bioinformatics.php
Another way of doing Bioinformatics at UC is to get training in Center for Genome Information, http://cgi.uc.edu/ . It offers Training Programs in Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics for Studying Complex Diseases, http://cgi.uc.edu/program.html . Since this center is affiliated with Department of Environmental Health, I guess you should apply to programs in this department first (not sure).

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