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International Max Planck Research School The IMPRS-CBSC for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing - a brief introduction - International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing | page 1
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for Computational Biology and
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„an initiative to promote junior scientists. These Schools offer especially gifted students from Germany and abroad the possibility to work towards the Ph.D. exam in a structured program providing excellent research conditions“
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MPI-MG and the PICB Shanghai
> Charité > Robert Koch Institute > Humboldt University > Zuse Institute > University of Potsdam
> speakers: Martin Vingron and Knut Reinert > coordinators: Kirsten Kelleher and Fabian
Feutlinske
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graduate programs at Freie Universität
> ensures quality standards (mentoring) > administrative support (Welcome Centre, soft
skills, application procedure)
> German courses
social sciences, natural sciences
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→ Max Planck Society, now 4 institutes in Dahlem
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→ Max Planck Society, now 4 institutes in Dahlem
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Developmental genetics Computational molecular biology Vertebrate genomics human molecular genetics
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a new, broader IMPRS uniting „wet“ and „dry“ lab
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unique focus covering genetics, genomics and computational biology
collaboration
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are provided by the curriculum of the master courses in Bioinformatics and Scientific Computing at the Freie Universität
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> Interviews in May, new PhD students start in September (negotiable) > 2015: 89 applications from 32 countries
October February March April May June – August September Start PhD program Admission assessment Preparation of visa, temporary housing, FU registration Application deadline Advertise program Evaluate applications, invite candidates
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Women Men
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Gender
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7 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 PhD students' countries of origin Germany Italy Mexico China Austria Romania Russia Ethiopia Canada Croatia
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Academic backgrounds of current PhD students
Bioinformatics Computer Science Mathematics/Statistics Engineering Physics Biology
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> Thesis is submitted in English to the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science at the Freie Universität
> Successful candidates are awarded doctoral degree „Doctor of Natural
Sciences“ (Dr. rer. nat.), equivalent to Ph.D.
> Academia: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Humboldt University, ETH Zürich,
EBI Cambridge, Dana Farber Cancer Institute...
> Business: Merck, Illumina, BASF...
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“Reaction-diffusion dynamics in biological systems”
“Inferring proteolytic processes from mass spectrometry time series data”
“Statistical analysis of high-throughput sequencing count data”
„Next-generation sequencing algorithms: From read mapping to variant detection”
“Identification of potential drug targets in kinetic networks described by ordinary differential equations”
“Metabolic networks, thermodynamic constraints, and matroid theory”
„Linear programming and integer linear programming in bioinformatics”
„Prediction of transcription
factor co-occurrence using rank based statistics“
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scientific agenda soft skills tutoring 12 ECTS 6 ECTS 6 ECTS
thesis supervision
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Collaborations between MPI and university for courses and research
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Financial support for conference travel and research stays abroad
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Regular meetings with your PhD committee consisting of advisor and mentoring team
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Help dealing with university administration
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Help settling in Berlin
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Proteomics
Bioinformatics
P.N. Robinson
Computational Biology
Gene Regulation
Algorithmic Bioinformatics
Biocomputing
Biology
Mathematics in Life Sciences
H-R. Chung
Epigenetics
Discrete Biomathematics
Sequence analysis
Theoretical Systems Biology
Stochastic processes Biological networks Molecular dynamics and modelling
Bioinformatics
Regulatory Networks
Biomathematics
MPI-MG FUB