Presented By: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS)
ITiMS application due, March 1!
Funding for graduate students
* Funding for dissertation research, trainings and travel.
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.
ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.
Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department
Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.
Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!
* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition, stipend, & insurance) for up to 2 years.
ITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.
Requirements:
1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)
2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies; laboratory techniques; statistics/bioinformatics; and mathematical modeling
3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches
4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department
Students can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.
Proposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.
Directors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu); Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)
Visit our website for more on How to Apply!
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