Short Course on SGG

NIGMS Bursary Award

We will offer a novel service to participants to assist them either in their ongoing research projects or in a newly initiated project which could lead to publication in a refereed journal, or submission of an investigator initiated grant proposal.  In addition to attending the regularly scheduled short course itself, one month after the short course participants will be encouraged to submit a one page proposal on their projects, indicating in each case the specific aim of the project and the name of the rotating faculty with whom they wish to work.  The submitted proposal must include information detailing how much work has been done, and also, what work needs to be done.  Any faculty listed in the rotating faculty list is eligible to provide such service; it is the responsibility of the participant to initially contact the rotating faculty member and request assistance with their project.  Even so, we can serve as facilitators; contacting particular faculty to ask whether they are willing to help the participant in initiating and finishing the project.  If they agree, we will encourage the award recipients to contact the faculty to arrange to work on the project.  Advisory board members will serve as reviewers and will assign scores between 1 and 5 to each proposal, and convey them to Dr. Tiwari.  We will then select the 10 participants with highest average scores.  (In selecting the proposals for Bursary Awards, we also consider diversity in addition, but secondarily, to the scientific quality of the proposal).  When the project is nearly complete, the participant will visit the faculty for at least two days to get final assistance.

Within one month of the Bursary Service end date, both participant and faculty will be responsible to provide feedback on their experience and to provide information on the manuscript or grant proposal that they submitted together.  They may be asked to provide a copy of their manuscript and/or confirmation of the submitted grant proposal (the documents will not be distributed to anyone and will be kept confidential).  We will also keep track of publication status as well as the approval of the grant proposal by conducting online searches of Pub Med, Medline, and NIH RePORTER to find out whether any of these trainees have publications or funded grants, especially in fields related to genetics.  We strongly believe that this will bring high level of collaboration between faculty and participants.

NIGMS Travel Fellowship Award

We offer a Travel Fellowship Award to applicants to assist them with the funding of their travel to UAB to participate in the Short Course. If you are awarded a travel fellowship, your travel, hotel, & food costs will be covered up to an amount of $2050.00; your registration fee will not be waived. Those awarded the travel fellowship should request and save all of their original itemized receipts pertaining to their food, travel, & hotel expenses, and submit them to us after the short course is over. Once approved, we will issue a reimbursement of those expenses up to $2050.00. NOTE: non-itemized receipts will not be reimbursed.

In order to be considered for the Travel Fellowship Award, applicants must submit a brief proposal on their research project(s), indicating in each case the specific aim of the project. The submitted proposal must include information detailing how much work has been done, and also, what work needs to be done. Background information describing the applicant’s experiences in statistics, genetics, programming, etc. should also be included in the proposal.

Applicants must also submit at a minimum, two letters of recommendation in order to be considered for the award.

The travel fellowships are available for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and early investigators who are US Citizens/Permanent Residents or who are currently studying and/or working at a US Institution.

UAB Faculty

• Hemant K. Tiwari, PhD – Section Head
• Xiangqin Cui, PhD – Associate Professor

Full List of Rotating Faculty can be found by Click here.

Advisory Board:

• Robert C Elston, PhD – Statistical Genetics/Genomics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
• Suzanne M Leal, PhD – Linkage/ Association, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor University, Houston
• John K Hewitt, PhD – Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado

Apply

Application deadline:
Applications for 2014 NIGMS Short Course on Statistical Genetics & Genomics will be accepted till Friday May 30, 2014.

How to Apply
To apply, please perform the following tasks either via our website or by sending materials to derry@uab.edu:

1. Complete this application form (PDF or Word).   Only fully completed application forms will be considered.
2. Forward your current curriculum vitae.
3. (required for Travel Fellowship Award and/or Bursary Award consideration) One page proposal on a research project including the specific aim of the project. [Bursary Award – we will offer a novel service to selected participants to assist them either in their ongoing research projects or in a newly initiated project which could lead to publication in a refereed journal, or submission of an investigator initiated grant proposal]. Questions?  Contact Dr. Hemant Tiwari – htiwari@uab.edu
4. (required only for Travel Fellowship Award consideration)  Letters of recommendation (minimum of two).

Attendance is limited. Please apply prior to Fri 5/30/2014. Accepted applicants will be notified by Mon 6/2/2014, and applicants should make arrangements for payment of the registration fee by June 21st.

Women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Upon Acceptance, fee: 
          $600 – academic, government, and non-profit organizations
          $2,600 – for-profit organizations

Acceptance includes course tuition, syllabus, and refreshment breaks.  Fee will be payable upon acceptance into the course.

Email your application, CV/resumes, research proposals, and letters of recommendation to: derry@uab.edu

For more information, contact:
Derry Crawford, MSHA
Program Manager
UAB SOPH Department of Biostatistics
Section on Statistical Genetics
1665 Univ. Blvd, RPHB 414
Birmingham, AL 35294-0022
205.975.9298 T
205.975.2541 F
derry@uab.edu

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