HHMI Genetics Fellowship & Genetics Visiting Fellowship- Janelia (US) & University of Verona (Italy)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Genetics Program for the US and Overseas Graduate Students at Janelia Campus. This program allows exceptional students from the United States and abroad to spend time at Janelia working on all or part of their thesis research. The Janelia Graduate Research Fellowship is a fully-funded, collaborative PhD program for independent, committed graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program in the United States or abroad. Required course work at the student’s home university must be completed before joining Janelia. Degrees are granted by the home university. Students will conduct research at Janelia for a minimum of one year and a maximum of 3 years. The application process can be perused at: HHMI Genetics Fellowship
Benefits include:
- Stipend of $47,500 per year
- Health insurance, plus other benefits
- Payment of all programmatic travel costs
- Travel to scientific conferences and courses
- Janelia will pay an institutional allowance of $10,000/year to the student's home institution during the time the student is working at Janelia.
Genetics Visiting Fellowship Department of cell and Molecular biology, University of Verona, Italy, invites young fellows to spend 4-12 weeks in their lab to learn comprehensively - Genome editing, using CRISPR/Cas9, RNA interference; - Cell cultures, transfections, nucleofections, Immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, cytofluorimetry, cell sorting (FACS), Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation, etc; - Basic molecular biology techniques (gene cloning, blots, PCR, sequencing, etc.)