Students take approved courses in appropriate areas outside their main department, so as to obtain a rounded training in both computer science and biology, and participate in research seminar series spanning the departments involved. Postdoctoral candidates Postdoctoral fellowship positions are available for qualified individuals wishing to undertake a Career Conversion Program. In this program, students with a Ph.D. in the biological sciences obtain an M.S.E. in computer science in parallel with somewhat abbreviated postdoctoral training. This program is designed to take Ph.D. biologists with the aptitude and desire through the full CIS M.S.E. program. The program is expected to take three years, at the end of which the student will have an M.S.E. in CIS and the equivalent of two years of postdoctoral training.
Funding is restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Further information, in particular contact information and application deadlines, may be obtained by following this link. Postdoctoral fellowship positions are also available for individuals with demonstrated interdisciplinary research interests. Particular areas of interest include physical and genetic mapping, biological databases, multiple sequence alignment, phylogeny construction, sequence search and analysis, simulation of control pathways, statistical methods, and discrete algorithms and combinatorial optimization in biology. May 10, 2000.