VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
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Futures in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
(Summer 2005)

Time: Occasional Thursdays (times and dates to be announced)
Place: Bioinformatics Computer Core Lab (Rm 104), Life Sciences Bldg
        or Conference Room, Life Sciences Bldg
        or Rm 250, Life Sciences (North Wing)
Conveners: outside speakers
Audience: All participants

  • What distinguishes one graduate school from another?
  • What is life like in graduate school?
  • What possible lives are there beyond graduate school?

Research with an MD degree - Gary An (Cook County Hospital)
Thursday, July 6, 12:30 PM, Conference Room

Science in industry vs academia - Yuan Gao (VCU)
Thursday, July 20, 12:30 PM, Conference Room

The road to the postdoc - Ryan Baugh (California Inst Technol)
Thursday, July 27, 12:30 PM, Conference Room

Big changes in direction - André Valente
(National Cancer Institute)
Thursday, August 3, 12:30 PM, Conference Room

Taxonomy of Graduate Schools - Jeff Elhai
Friday, August 4, 9:00 AM, Computer Core Lab (Life Sciences 104)

Dual career couples in science - Round Table Discussion
Tuesday, August 8, 12:30 PM, Life Sci 250

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