Postdoctoral Fellowships in Computational
Molecular Biology (Round V)
Catalyzing Career Transitions to Computational Molecular Biology.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy
(Office of Health and Environmental Research) announce the fifth
round of a jointly-sponsored postdoctoral research awards program
for scientists interested in computational molecular biology.
This announcement can also be found at http://www.sloan.org under
"Fellowships".
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy
believe that a nexus with exceptional scientific potential is
emerging between the powerful theoretical and practical tools
of molecular biology and the revolutionary power of modern computational
techniques. However, too few scientists possess the cross-disciplinary
skills in both molecular biology and computation that are needed
to further such advances.
The purpose of these fellowships is to catalyze career transitions
into computational molecular biology from physics, mathematics,
computer science, chemistry, engineering and related fields.
Ideal candidates will have strong educational backgrounds in
such fields and wish to bring these backgrounds to bear upon
computational molecular research questions. In exceptional cases,
we will also consider applications from more traditional biological
orientations in transition to computational molecular biology.
Applicants already firmly rooted in computational molecular biology,
or who are proposing to continue pursuit of research undertaken
for their Ph.D.s, may be more appropriate candidates for other
postdoctoral opportunities.
This postdoctoral program is designed to give computationally
sophisticated young scientists an intensive postdoctoral opportunity
in an appropriate molecular biology laboratory. We particularly
wish to encourage applications from those holding doctorates
in mathematics, physics, computer science, chemistry, engineering
or other relevant fields who would like to develop the capacity
to apply their computational sophistication to the complex problems
that increasingly face molecular biology.
The focus is upon computational molecular biology related to
data and information from studies of human and other genomes.
Computational molecular biology is taken broadly to include the
application of mathematics (continuous and discrete), statistics,
probability, and computer science to fundamental problems of
molecular biology. The goal is to foster interactions between
the mathematical and biological sciences and to provide rigorous
training for scientists in this new interdisciplinary area. Of
special interest are important problems in structural biology
and genome analysis, including analysis of protein and nucleic
acid sequence, protein and nucleic acid structure, genome structure
and maps, cross-species genome analysis, multi-genic traits,
and structure-function relationships where the structures are
from genomes, genes, or gene products.
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Applications will be reviewed a committee, including Barry Honig,
Columbia University Leroy E. Hood, University of Washington Michael
Levitt, Stanford University Michael S. Waterman, University of
Southern California
Awards will support up to two years of research work in an appropriate
molecular biology department or laboratory in the U.S. or Canada
selected by the applicant. The principal selection criteria will
be the potential of the applicant and the proposed postdoctoral
research and training plan for furthering rigorous computational
approaches to analysis of important molecular biological problems,
both theoretical and empirical. The capabilities of the proposed
laboratory and senior scientist in computational molecular research,
and support for the postdoctoral research by the senior scientist
(department chair or laboratory director) will be an important
element considered in selection. In addition, where possible,
applicants are encouraged to seek a secondary faculty sponsor
from the mathematical/computer sciences sector of the same campus.
Only one proposal per applicant will be considered, and a senior
scientist should endorse only one applicant for this competition.
There are no formal application forms needed for this program.
Further details and application procedures are available at as
follows: http://www.sloan.org under "Fellowships".
The deadline for applications is Feb. 1, 2000.
2000-2001 APS/AIP Congressional Science Fellowship Programs
The American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society
are accepting applications for their 2000-2001 Congressional
Science Fellowship Programs. Fellows serve one year on the staff
of a Member of Congress or congressional committee, learning
the legislative process while they lend scientific expertise
to public policy issues. Qualifications include a PhD or equivalent
research experience in physics or a closely related field. Fellows
are required to be U.S. citizens and, for the AIP Fellowship,
members of 1 or more of the AIP Member Societies. A stipend of
up to $49,000 is offered, in addition to allowances for relocation,
in-service travel, and health insurance premiums. Applications
should consist of a letter of intent, a 2-page resume, and 3
letters of recommendation. Please see our websites (http://www.aip.org/pubinfo
or http://www.aps.org/public_affairs/fellow.html) for detailed
information on applying.
If qualified, applicants will be considered for both programs.
All application materials must be postmarked by January 15, 2000,
and sent to: APS/AIP Congressional Science Fellowship Programs,
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3843.
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