Epigenetics
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wait... like at midnight?
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Haha I hope so, and thanks! It's always fucking reviewer 3 man. The other two reviews were in three weeks ago, they're just waiting on one person. We just had a Nature Genetics paper come out last week (I'm a middle author but still exciting for my first paper) so that may help. But we'll see!
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I almost joined a microbiome lab at the Broad, but I like the lab I'm in more. I'm much more interested in being what I call a 21st century molecular biologist, working to interweave the genomics and biochemical insights. Yeah as someone who works on clusters most of the day (SLURM ftw) I can tell you most people have no idea the bare bones. It's amazing the professors that review epigenetics papers and have no idea even what questions to ask in regards to quality/interpretation/controls.
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Lol true. I'd just say it's important to talk to the programs about how flexible they are about lab choice, some are much more than others!
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My stress level while waiting for interviews isn't helped by the fact I have one first author paper waiting to come back from review at Nature Genetics and a second author paper submitted to Science, so my entire life is basically waiting right now I'm not a patient person...
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Interesting thanks! That's a relatively niche interest, glad you've found places that do what you want. I was looking at "genomics" in a more classical sense of big name epigenomics faculty.
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I mean I work at the Broad Institute, so maybe I'm not personally impressed by that. I'm more wondering on the "amazing resources and research", it's hard for me to see them as a top genomics center, given who is big in that world today, especially compared to UW and the faculty that's there now and working on the major projects like ENCODE and TCGA. I'm not trying to be a dick I'm genuinely curious what specifically puts that ranking in that order for you. Also I see you're in St. Louis so maybe that plays a role?
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I mean I'm a computational biologist at the Broad Institute so I've got a heavy CS background in addition to my biology background... Most of these programs are like 15 students, and Genome Sciences isn't an informatics program so I wouldn't think that's all they're looking for, but I can't imagine they'll have trouble filling it. Can you explain why you'd choose WashU over UWashington? UWashington is one of the best genomics centers in the country, up there with Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, and has several big name faculty. WashU does have Ting Wang who's another big ENCODE person but on balance I would say UWashington is much better, as someone who knows a lot of people in the genomics space.
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If that were true then they should've reviewed them really quickly. I think you're reading too much into that, they just wanted confirmation so they could move forward, since it's a tight timetable.
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I've already gotten Harvard BBS, Berkeley MCB, and UCSF Tetrad. I think Stanford and MIT tend to be January, but we should hear from UW Genome Sciences and Harvard Sys Bio before the break?
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I'm telling you that's not true, and I'm literally in a BBS/HILS lab. Yes you can rotate, but joining the lab you need one mentor in the program. "Non-BBS" labs isn't really a thing, any lab that can accept graduate students can rotate for BBS, but there are many labs that literally don't have graduate students at the hospitals. I know for a fact the reverse isn't true in Immunology from a lab mate that is in it. Programs vary in their strictness but I know some like MCO have a strict set of faculty you can work with.
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Programs vary greatly. BBS is very flexible in that you only have to be "affiliated" with the program, so there are professors at the hospitals for example you can't be with unless they get approval to mentor graduate students, but if a professor can have graduate students anywhere at Harvard you can work with them. It's pretty flexible otherwise. But other programs can be stricter/broader depending on what you want to do, I know Immunology and Virology are like this where you can't just do anything with anyone, it has to relate to your PhD scope. I didn't apply to BIG because I'm already the lab bioinformatician, and I don't want to be solely dry lab, but I'm not well versed on how limited it is, but the programs should give you a good idea. I know the scope of being at other schools (Harvard/MIT) varies, usually you'd have to be primarily mentored by a professor in your own school, but then some programs like HST scramble that. tl;dr, BBS is about as flexible as it gets, beyond that go to the program and ask, they tend to be pretty clear about what's possible and not.
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Guys, interviews are recruitment weekends. They're going to reject very few people, let's not pretend we need to wear a suit.
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You can't join Whitehead labs (that is an MIT institute) and with the Broad the faculty has to be affiliated with Harvard and BBS, so you can't work with MIT professors at the Broad. The website has a list of all the faculty in the program if you're confused.
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Is it kosher to e-mail a program coordinator to ask when interview invites will be sent? Curious if this will get me scorn from the program or not.
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I'm a computational biologist at the Broad Institute working in an HMS lab, went to Harvard for undergrad. I applied for mostly genetics programs bc I'm more interested in sequence analysis in epigenetic contexts, but I'm also waiting on UW Genome Sciences and Harvard Systems Biology in the computational biology category. Let me know if you hear from either!
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Haha I haven't even gotten that
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No idea on the admission rate, though it seems like most PhD program interviews exist in the space of "most of you will get in". I heard back from Berkeley on Friday, got a call from a professor. Seems like professor calls are likely error-prone though (professors can be quite scatterbrained) so I wouldn't necessarily fret quite yet.
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UCSF Tetrad told me the interviews are 2/24-25, they don't extend to the 27th. I don't know about the 2/2-5 but I think that might actually be 2/3-4.
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Just FYI UCSF Tetrad told me the interviews are mainly one day on Friday with some optional activities on Saturday, they're designed not to overlap with UC Berkeley, so it's not four days like was reported.
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Sorry I know nothing about Tufts! Good luck!
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Bunch of people in my lab are in it, sounds like they all really love it. It's small, like 15 people a year, and rather flexible in terms of what you can do. Also seems to have a rather strong community and advising structure.
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You and me both would like to know.
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I'm not keen on staying at Harvard, since I already have a Harvard undergrad degree and two years as a staff scientist here. However I only applied to programs that I could see myself attending and had faculty I wanted to work with, so we'll see!
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I realized I never did my little introduction! I'm applying to: Harvard (Systems Biology), Harvard (BBS), MIT (Biology), Stanford (Biosciences - Genetics), UCSF (TETRAD), UC Berkeley (MCB), and UWashington (Genome Sciences). Already heard from UCSF (12/15), Harvard BBS (12/16), and Berkeley (12/16). Still waiting on the rest. I'm actually a computational biologist in an HMS cancer lab, so if you have any questions about Boston or Harvard PhD programs I'm well-versed, about half my lab is BBS and the other half is Chem Bio. Happy waiting to all!
