Call to host visiting scientists from the H3Africa program

[Andelman, Shaina B]

Dear Faculty;

Opportunity to host an intern from the H3Africa genome program

Interested potential host faculty are requested to provide contact details and a short statement of potential project area. Hosts will be contacted once interns are selected. Interns will be available to visit from Sept 1 2015

H3Africa is a program established through funding from the UK Wellcome Trust and the NIH HGRI. It supports genomics studies across Africa and also a network of associated bioinformatics teams and developments across the continent as part of H3ABionet. Harvard is a training node for the program and as part of that role, is funded to provide support for up to 2 interns who will visit for up to 3 months.  Trainees will be quantitative biologists/bioinformaticists with a heterogeneous area of backgrounds,  will have experience in bioinformatics, and will have been competitively selected from a pool of applicants from institutions across Africa. Most applicants will be members of the H3ABionet network of bioinformatics researchers across Africa.

This call seeks potential host faculty who will provide a research home for the visitor (a senior graduate student, a post doctoral trainee or junior faculty member). Interns may bring a project with them, or may be willing to take part in an ongoing project. The opportunity exists to establish a project with an intern, and/or to work with datasets generated within H3Africa.  Visitors (maximum time 3 months) will establish training and research goals prior to arrival, overseen by a Harvard-H3 training committee, made up of the HSPH training team, and select members of the H3 education committee. 

Visitors will be exposed to a series of up to date research developments in genomics and will be supported in their efforts to develop research techniques, methods and experimental designs in genome bioinformatics and biostatistics. They will collaborate and/or intern with leading laboratories in genetics and genomics across Harvard and at the Broad Institute. Applicants will be selected on the basis of home project need, ability, ongoing sustainability and potential. They will partner with a member of the Harvard/MIT faculty pool. Visitors will attend selected lectures and courses that complement training requirements.

Interns will be administratively managed by members of the HSPH bioinformatics core, projects will be agreed by the host lab and the intern. Win Hide at HSPH is the academic liaison. 

For further details, or to express interest in hosting, please contact Win at wh...@hsph.harvard.edu