Re: If you need students for small bioinformatics projects
Hi, Tanya,
Many thanks for taking the time to write this message. I do have at
least one idea [1] that might fit well for this, but I wouldn't be able
to participate--at least for this cycle. It is a very nice idea and I
hope we could take advantage of it.
Thanks and regards
Afif
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/07/msg00088.html
على السبت 3 أيلول 2016 17:03، كتب merlettaia:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m writing you in case if someone has a small research
> bioinformatics-related project to this academic term and wishes to find
> some smart student (or students) to do it.
>
> Our St.Petersburg’s local bioinformatics school (named Bioinformatics
> Institute) provides 1-year study program in bioinformatics for
> biologists and software developers (this year ~40 students applied). It
> is additional education program, and combines lectures every Saturday
> (except holidays) with 1 course project for fall and spring terms +
> summer internship.
>
> For now they are looking mentors, who could provide projects and guide
> students to do them.
>
> Project supervising can be done remotely, for example, via Skype or
> email. It would be good if you could provide 1 hour per week. For
> student study project should take approximately 10 hours per week. This
> semester they start learning bioinformatics, and probably couldn’t do
> too complex tasks (of course, it depends on student personality).
>
>
> I should also mention that at my university (named “Academic
> University”) this 1-year course is included to Master degree education
> program. It means that some of this year’s students are studying at this
> program now.
>
> Since this is a part of main education for them, this course project
> means *a lot*. They'll be expelled if they do nothing useful. And that's
> why they will do their best not too fail (there is also a very tough
> selection to this MSc program and a very saturated program in fall
> semester in 1st year of education - so please don't push too hard! 2nd
> MSc program students are also interested in course projects - since in
> fall they are usually starting to write their thesis and look for thesis
> mentor - you may provide project for them also).
>
> Other students should be also good and most probably could communicate
> in English (but you can interview them to be sure).
>
> Here are basic projects requirements:
>
> *
>
> for 1 student, or for a team (1 student with biological + 1 with
> software development or CS background)
>
> *
>
> project can be done for 3 months
>
> *
>
> not very difficult project where you can guide
>
> *
>
> educational :)
>
> I believe there is no fee for mentoring, scholarship for students is
> fully optional (in most cases there is no scholarships). But I may be
> wrong, because I haven’t tried mentoring before - for sure it is never
> mentioned in registration forms for mentors or elsewhere :)
>
> Projects will be announced at September, 17th. Mentors wish to see them
> by September, 10th.
>
> If you are interested, you can write to team (at)
> bioinformaticsinstitute.ru <http://bioinformaticsinstitute.ru> to ask
> for details and describe your project. They have a Google Doc for
> project descriptions, but for now it is available only in Russian, I
> think if you’ll just write them and describe your project it will be ok
> (or I can give you a link to it).
>
>
> I could also help you while mentoring since I live in St.Petersburg and
> can go at that school at Saturday to find your student and try to
> persuade him/her not to be lazy :) Or even I can help them with some
> basic knowledge and/or coding - if you’ll decide to provide something
> related to structural bioinformatics, I’ll be happy to be involved =)
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tanya.
>
> P.S. - I've also told this school's mentors about Outreachy internships
> program, but not sure if they'll decide to mention it. Some of my
> friends know about it and they are interested in bioinformatics-related
> projects. Andreas, I hope you are reading and will use this knowledge
> for a great good :)
> P.-P. S. - I just thought that it might help some of you to accelerate
> your work or research. That's why I finally decided to write this.
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Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
http://afif.ghraoui.name
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