<p>I am an international interested in doing a PhD in the field of genetics, specifically gene or protein regulation. This can mean just about anything from transcriptional regulation through translational regulation to post-translational control.</p>
<p>I would also like to do research on a ‘broad question’ (meaning screens of some sort) or ‘fundamental question’ (meaning examining something specific which has an effect on a host of other processes - such as regulation of RNA Pol II)</p>
<p>Finally, I would like to be in a interdisciplinary environment with access to compsci/systems people and engineers as well as biologists/chemists.</p>
<p>My stats and LoR should be very good so hopefully getting accepted isn’t a problem - question is where should I go? Do you have any suggestions about genetics/biochemistry/molecular biology programs and/or labs that fit my needs?</p>
<p>Since you’d like to do research on a “broad question”, though your question is specific i.e., which lab or programs, it’s hard to tell right away which laboratories fall into your multi-interest. </p>
<p>You may want to look at the school programs first as in life sciences or biosciences. Some school has particular strong program, for example molecular biology, but might be having few faculties working on computational systems and vice versa. Telling which school is good for particular field among hundreds of schools in US alone, is hard enough, to mention a particular lab that fit your interest, would be a needle or might I say?, a hammer big enough as Thor’s in a haystack. </p>
<p>Now it’s already August, you can comb through every faculty research area until your deadline. IMO, the first filter you’d need is school strength in your research interest, compsci/systems,engineering,biologists/chemist/genetics/biochemistry/molecular biology. And then you can browse through faculty.</p>
<p>I’m already combing thorough schools, programs and faculty (and it is taking huge amounts of time) - I was hoping that someone already in the field could point me in some kind of direction…</p>
<p>I like your idea of multiple filters, so far I have been applying two and then combing through everything, if I apply more my workload will go way down.</p>
<p>Maybe I should simplify the above question to - which schools have the best genetics programs and also have several systems biology and/or engineering labs?</p>
<p>From what I remember check out these schools because there is a lot of research on transcriptional regulation and has access to compsci/systems people and engineers as well as biologists/chemists.</p>
<p>Uc Davis
UC San Diego
University of Virginia
Harvard</p>
<p>I think Uc Davis might be a match for you. Look into it.</p>