tzenst Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) Hello everyone! I hope you all are well as you can be, considering everything 2020 has collectively thrown at us. I saw posts about computational biology/bioinformatics/systems biology programs for previous years but there is nothing posted for the 2021 cycle. I thought I'd be nice to get things started for this cycle - it was great read through previous posts for those interested in more computationally-inclined programs. It'd be nice to hear about everyone's thoughts on where they are applying to and to hear about news/updates/tips anyone has as well as we progress with applications. All the best and stay safe. Edited October 2, 2020 by tzenst Minor punctuation and spelling correction.
compbiodude Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 I agree it would be nice to have a thread specifically for 2021. I am applying to washington genome sciences tri i computational biology MIT CSB harvard BIG berkely Computational Biology washu comp bio nyu bioinformatics ucla bioinformatics bu bioinformatics umass comp bio
just_fine Posted November 20, 2020 Posted November 20, 2020 I am an undergraduate student from China. will add my profile later Institutions/Programs: Stanford BME Harvard BBS/BIG MIT CSB Princeton QCB Caltech Biology-system Cambridge Wellcome Sanger Institute Yale BBS-CBB Upenn GCB CMU CPCB Columbia University IPCMB UW Genome Sciences Duke Computational Biology EMBL-EBI Bioinformatics NYU SCB Wustl CSB UCLA Bioinformatics Umich ab PIBS Tri-Institution CompBio JHU BME MIT EECS UW ECE nkid and Little Rabbit 1 1
tzenst Posted December 2, 2020 Author Posted December 2, 2020 Nice to hear from you both! There is quite a big overlap in the places I applied to as well. I hope the submissions went well and all the best! Stanford BMI Harvard BIG and SSQB MIT CSB Princeton QCB Yale BBS-CBB UW Genome Sciences and MCB Duke CBB Tri-Institution Comp Bio University of Chicago GGSB Brown Comp Bio Little Rabbit 1
Little Rabbit Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 Nice thread! I'm applying to: Tri Comp Bio Weill Cornell Cornell Comp Bio Princeton QCB Mount Sinai JHU Med School-BME JHU School of Eng-BME Cold Spring Harbor Rockefeller NYU Biomedical Informatics NYU GSAS Biology NYU Tandon BME Columbia IPCMB Rutgers (New Brunswick) NJIT CS Van Andel Institute Good luck to everyone!
Crucial BBQ Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 On 10/1/2020 at 7:48 PM, tzenst said: Hello everyone! I hope you all are well as you can be, considering everything 2020 has collectively thrown at us. I saw posts about computational biology/bioinformatics/systems biology programs for previous years but there is nothing posted for the 2021 cycle. I thought I'd be nice to get things started for this cycle - it was great read through previous posts for those interested in more computationally-inclined programs. It'd be nice to hear about everyone's thoughts on where they are applying to and to hear about news/updates/tips anyone has as well as we progress with applications. All the best and stay safe. The nature of GradCafe, things get mixed. Examples of this include those interested in marine biology posting to Earth Sciences and those interested in bioinformatics or computational biology posting to Computer Science or even Medical. Those interested in ecology may be at a lost. As most will likely know, bioinformatics programs may be housed in a variety of schools/departments, and sometimes even within the same university (school of medicine, CS department, biology department, cell/molecular, etc.). Bioinformatics cast a wide umbrella over 10 or subject areas and with most things turning to 'informatics and 'omics these days, likely more. As someone with an MS in bioinformatics I strongly encourage you to know what type of bioinformatics you want to study before you apply anywhere. My background is marine biology with a solid mix of Interdisciplinary studies thrown in (chemistry and biology). I have an MS in bioinformatics. My interest, as you may guess, is to combine the two for a Ph.D. Where I am applying/applied: University of Maine. University of Maryland, MEES. University of Rhode Island. University of New Hampshire. Brown. Maybe University of Delaware. Little Rabbit and tzenst 2
sea_cactus Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 Hi Everyone - senior undergraduate student here. I've applied to: Harvard BIG Stanford BMI MIT CSB HST MEMP Columbia BMI UPenn GCB Yale CBB Dartmouth QCB Good luck everyone!
EggplantFondue Posted December 6, 2020 Posted December 6, 2020 Thanks for starting this thread @tzenst! I applied to: MIT CSB MIT BE Harvard BIG Harvard SSQB WashU Biology Columbia Systems Biology Yale CBB Cambridge Physics Thinking about MIT EECS but finding it very hard to get motivated in what I suspect is an even more competitive applicant pool. Fingers crossed, we get to meet during the virtual interviews cycle! 564654899865 and tzenst 2
Sky_china Posted December 6, 2020 Posted December 6, 2020 Honestly, what's everyone's safty school. Honestly, looking at the school list just kills my dream to any reachy school lol... EggplantFondue, june_97 and xinfy 2 1
EggplantFondue Posted December 6, 2020 Posted December 6, 2020 I applied to Cambridge in October and received an acceptance so I decided to only apply to reach schools afterwards. @Sky_china don't feel bad about your selection of schools. It looks like a wonderful distribution, and I think the most important thing is just to apply. After that it's all up in the air for everyone, not only program acceptance but also research itself. There are going to be leading labs in every institution 564654899865 and Little Rabbit 2
tzenst Posted December 6, 2020 Author Posted December 6, 2020 On 12/6/2020 at 11:29 AM, EggplantFondue said: Thanks for starting this thread @tzenst! I applied to: MIT CSB MIT BE Harvard BIG Harvard SSQB WashU Biology Columbia Systems Biology Yale CBB Cambridge Physics Thinking about MIT EECS but finding it very hard to get motivated in what I suspect is an even more competitive applicant pool. Fingers crossed, we get to meet during the virtual interviews cycle! No problem! Good luck with your applications and hope to bump into you too.
ChagyrskayaNeanderthal Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 I have applied to: Penn State Bioinformatics and Genomics [interview request 12/7] UPenn GCB [interview request 12/8] Harvard BBS Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology UW Genome Sciences UCLA Bioinformatics UC Berkeley CCB UChicago GGSB Princeton QCB Stanford Biology UCSC PBSE-BMEB UCSF BMI UNC GDBBS Emory PBEE Best of luck, everybody!!
Sky_china Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 First Congratulations ! Juat wondering are you contacted by the department or the professor ? UPenn is my top choice, very nervous and a little sad
ChagyrskayaNeanderthal Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 Just now, Sky_china said: First Congratulations ! Juat wondering are you contacted by the department or the professor ? UPenn is my top choice, very nervous and a little sad Thank you so much! It was the GCB program coordinator, Maureen Kirsch, who contacted me. I'm not sure about their timeline for sending all of the invitations this year - fingers crossed for you!!
sea_cactus Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 Harvard BIG Stanford BMI MIT CSB HST MEMP Columbia BMI UPenn GCB [interview invitation 12/8] Yale CBB Dartmouth QCB
ChagyrskayaNeanderthal Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 Just now, sea_cactus said: Harvard BIG Stanford BMI MIT CSB HST MEMP Columbia BMI UPenn GCB [interview invitation 12/8] Yale CBB Dartmouth QCB Congrats!!
sea_cactus Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 Just now, ChagyrskayaNeanderthal said: Congrats!! Thanks, you too! "See you" there.
sea_cactus Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 Just now, ChagyrskayaNeanderthal said: Congrats!! Thanks, you too! "See you" there.
kaffeinatedkat Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) Hi! I'm applying to: UCSF - BMI UCLA - Medical Informatics USC - QCB UCSD - Bioinformatics UC Berkeley - CB UPenn - GCB Harvard - BIG Stanford - BMI MIT - CSB Yale - CBB Brown - CB Princeton - QCB Good luck to everyone!! Edited December 8, 2020 by kaffeinatedkat
Sky_china Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 5 minutes ago, kaffeinatedkat said: Hi! I'm applying to: UCSF - BMI UCLA - Medical Informatics USC - QCB UCSD - Bioinformatics UC Berkeley - CB UPenn - GCB Harvard - BIG Stanford - BMI MIT - CSB Yale - CBB Brown - CB Princeton - QCB Good luck to everyone!! are you sure its UCLA mecial informatics not the system and computational biology program? medical informatics is very different from bioinformatics just curious
kaffeinatedkat Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 Yes, so they have a new medical informatics subset: https://biomedicalinformatics.ucla.edu/, and I am interested in bioinformatics in medicine so I decided to apply medical informatics at UCLA. It was a part of the biosciences application.
sea_cactus Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Has anyone heard back from any programs this week? Not sure when to be expecting responses.
Sky_china Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 51 minutes ago, sea_cactus said: Has anyone heard back from any programs this week? Not sure when to be expecting responses. I think you could expect dartmouth soon but others could take some time.
just_fine Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) 12.10 Got a short 15 min interview from Caltech Biology (Interview time: 12.14-12.16) Edited December 11, 2020 by just_fine update information ChagyrskayaNeanderthal, Little Rabbit and 564654899865 1 2
ChagyrskayaNeanderthal Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) Just now got an interview request from Princeton QCB! Penn State Bioinformatics and Genomics [interview request 12/7] UPenn GCB [interview request 12/8] Princeton QCB [interview request 12/11] Harvard BBS Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology UW Genome Sciences UCLA Bioinformatics UC Berkeley CCB UChicago GGSB Stanford Biology UCSC PBSE-BMEB UCSF BMI UNC GDBBS Emory PBEE Edited December 11, 2020 by ChagyrskayaNeanderthal tzenst, Little Rabbit, Sky_china and 1 other 4
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