Bioinformatics/Computational Biology PhD - UCSC,Duke or UNC?

busterbluth
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:30:28 +0000

On the matter of the UC system’s financial problems, when I visited at UCSF they had a slide saying that the total university budget that comes from state dollars is around 7% of the total, and the amount of graduate education money that comes from the state is close to 0%. I’m sure the situation is a little different at UCSC since they have lots of undergraduates on campus, but my guess would be that state money doesn’t affect grad students directly for the most part. I’m sure it would be a totally reasonable question to ask them if they didn’t talk about it when you visited!

I’m currently undecided on where I’m going, but I’ll likely be at one of the bay area schools, so maybe I’ll run into you at some point I’m hoping that being affiliated with qb3 will allow me to spend some time on each of the UC campuses in the area at some point during grad school.

On a related note, do you know if there is any mechanism for students studying bioinformatics/comp bio at the various UC campuses to get together, like a student conference or retreat? I haven’t heard of anything like that yet, which to me seems like a shame. In the bay area alone there are many students at Davis, UCSC, UCSF, and Berkeley working on various aspects of this field, and it would be unfortunate if there is no way for these students to interact with their future colleagues in the area.