FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

How To Apply

Our application process is unconventional. We do ask for the usual academic and biographical information and reference letters. However, in addition we will ask you to nominate one (or more) Janelia Farm lab heads to be your mentor (and also one or more at the partner university, if you wish). We then ask you to write a short research proposal targeted to that person's lab. This proposal will be a very significant factor in our admission decisions. During the interview you will be asked to explain this proposal.

The thirty-one Janelia Farm lab heads who are interested in recruiting a student are:

Bruce Baker		Loren Looger
Robert (Eric) Betzig		Jeffrey (Jeff) Magee
Gwyneth Card		Gabe Murphy
Dmitri Chklovskii		Eugene (Gene) Myers
David Clayton		Eva Pastalkova
Joshua Dudman		Michael Reiser
Sean Eddy		Dmitry Rinberg
Roian Egnor		Elena Rivas
Timothy Harris		Gerald Rubin
Harald Hess		Louis Scheffer
Vivek Jayaraman		Julie Simpson
Alla Karpova		Scott Sternson
Luke Lavis		Karel Svoboda
Albert Lee		James Truman
Tzumin Lee		Marta Zlatic
Anthony Leonardo

DEADLINES:

We will review completed applications (including the reference letters) for the Fall 2009 class as they are received. The deadlines for submitting competed applications are:

University of Chicago: December 1, 2009 2 p.m. ET

Apply here for the University of Chicago

University of Cambridge: March 1, 2010 2 p.m. ET

Early applications will be processed upon completion. Please allow 6 weeks review time.

Apply here for the University of Cambridge

Both applications will open September 1, 2009.

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