1. 加州大学洛杉矶分校UCSF
这是多少学医学和生物人的梦想啊!值得介绍的专业是:
Graduate Program in Biological and Medical Inxxxxatics, http://www.bmi.ucsf.edu/
(1)整个Program有45名教授,非常庞大,研究力量也非常强。Program的录取要求是至少本科学历,同时the core curriculum assumes that students have substantial computer literacy, and are knowledgeable of the basic life sciences, introductory calculus, matrix manipulation, and elementary statistics. In addition, students should have additional coursework or experience in some aspect of computer science, which could include database or algorithm design, elementary knowledge of a programming language, software engineering, or database or system administration.
(2)很早以前在它们的网站上看见了给国际学生的note,大意是申请它们这个program是如何如何困难,竞争如何如何厉害,给国际学生的奖学金非常有限,请大家不要浪费60美元的申请费。不过现在找不到这条信息了,算一个好的信号。
2. 加州伯克利分校UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley没有医学院,但是它的生物很强,同时,因为地理的关系,也和UCSF保持着很好的合作。UC Berkeley的Bioengineering系,http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/,和UCSF合作成立了Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/index.html
(1)研究方向就包括 Computational Biology, Bioinxxxxatics, and Genomics,http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/graduate/bioinxxxxatics.html,有15位来自UC Berkeley和UCSF的教授。
(2)申请要求:要求申请者对生命科学有着浓厚的兴趣,同时要能证明有着很强的数学和物理的背景。另外,Appropriate academic preparation includes a two-year college mathematics sequence, including calculus and differential equations, and a one-year sequence in physics and chemistry, plus extensive upper-division work in either engineering or biology. A course in linear algebra is highly desirable.
UC Berkeley还建立了一个Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology, http://computationalbiology.berkeley.edu/graduategroup.html. 但是和前面介绍的其他学校不同的是,这不是一个stand-alone的group,申请者需要通过申请单独的系来进入这个group。
http://computationalbiology.berkeley.edu/graduategroup.html 列出了教授们的大致的研究方向,可以先看看对谁感兴趣,再申请具体的系。
从http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/faculty/index.html 可以查到在统计系里面,哪些教授在做生物信息的研究工作,值得提到的有Dr. Michael I. Jordan, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/
和Dr. Sandrine Dudoit, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~sandrine/ .
在CS系,有3个教授从事计算生物的研究,分别是Michael Jordan, Richard Karp 和Gene Myer, http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Areas/CS/CB/ 。
3. 加州洛杉矶分校UCLA
UCLA的医学院排名第11。UCLA的Bioinxxxxatics Program的链接是:http://www.bioinxxxxatics.ucla.edu/
(1) 申请者需要通过申请单独的系,包括Biological Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Biomathematics,Biostatistics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Human Genetics, Mathematics, Microbiology,Immunology and Molecular Genetics, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology和Statistics系。具体的申请要求和截止日期请参考http://www.bioinxxxxatics.ucla.edu/apply/program_departments.htm。
(2) 核心课程包括:
Statistics 100A: Introduction to Probability Theory
Chemistry/Biochemistry 260: Bioinxxxxatics and Genomics
Math/Statistics 254: Statistical Methods in Computational Biology
Chemistry/Biochemistry 202: Bioinxxxxatics Interdisciplinary Research Seminar