Multi Omics NETwork Analysis Workshop

Location

The program will be hosted at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, just 20 - 30 minutes outside of Denver. Accommodations will be arranged at The Benson Hotel & Faculty Club.

Eligibility 

This summer program is designed for post-baccalaureate researchers, including MS/PhD students, research staff, post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and junior and senior research investigators. It primarily focuses on the education of U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Applicants should possess sufficient programming experience to run provided code templates in the form of RMarkdown and/or Jupyter Notebooks.

Although each participant will have free access to the ANVIL cloud computing resources, each participant will need to bring a laptop computer that is capable of connecting to the internet.

Program Benefits

Travel and Accommodations: All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for participants.

Meals and Incidentals: Participants will receive full support for food and incidental expenses during the program.

Application Requirements

Application Form: Application TBA

Document 1: Personal Statement

• This statement should demonstrate your basic programming skills in R and/or Python (e.g., past courses, coding examples, description of current projects).
• Additionally, it should describe your background and interests, your educational goals, and your reasons for being interested in the MONET program.
• The statement should be no longer than 500 words and must include your name and affiliation at the top.

Document 2: CV

• An electronic copy of your CV is required, with PDF format preferred.

Letter of Support

• A letter of support from a mentor or supervisor is required for students and post-doctoral fellows.
• The letter should not exceed 2 pages, must be double-spaced, and should be submitted with the correct email address for your recommender. We will contact them directly.
• We recommend informing your recommender that they will receive an email request for their letter of support.

Important Note
Please have all documents ready prior to completing the application.

Interest Indicator Form

* Please note that this schedule is tentative and subject to change. All times are in Mountain Time (MT).

The workshop is organized to provide immersive and active experiences for participants. The schedule consists of a variety of different formats: traditional lectures, hands-on session, tours, group activities, and lunch sessions with break-out discussions.

• Lunch sessions are less structured, but will include discussions on cross-cutting topics with experts on responsible conduct of research; race, ethnicity and ancestry in omics research; omics data privacy; data harmonization; and computing resources and platforms.  

• Tours of cores (sequencing, microarray or mass spectrometry) on campus and the region will provide overviews of the technologies that generate multi-omics data. 

• Keynote speakers will be invited from across the country to provide a perspective on cutting-edge topics related to the workshop.  

Questions? Contact us for more information:

MONET@cuanschutz.edu