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Fellowships have a duration of 1-3 years. To be eligible for a fellowship, you must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.Graduate Students
Compensation: - stipend of $30,000 per year
- paid tuition, fees, and health insurance
- funds for textbooks and scientific journals, computer software and hardware, short courses, internships, travel and related expenses
Postdoctoral Fellows
Compensation: - 6 months of matching salary to work with an ISU faculty member
Student Requirements
In addition to your Ph.D. program requirements, the IGERT Fellowship has the following requirements: - Laboratory rotations in both "wet" (biological) and "dry" (computational) research environments through laboratory research rotations during your first year;
- Joint mentoring of your degree work by a biologist and a computer scientist/mathematician/ statistician;
- Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology, a core course in bioinformatics required of all Fellows;
- Participation in Faculty Research Seminar and/or Computational Molecular Biology Student Seminars;
- Annual Fall Computational Molecular Biology Research Retreat;
- Annual Computational Molecular Biology Symposium—invited speakers will participate in informal "chalk-talk" discussions with Computational Molecular Biology trainees, in addition to presenting formal seminars;
- Industry internships—option of experiencing computational molecular biology as carried out by our industrial partner, Pioneer Hi-Bred, International;
- Annual attendance at major national scientific meetings;
- Computational Biology Laboratory—a common workspace in a newly renovated facility
- Annual Bioethics Symposium—several bioethics courses will also be offered.
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