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Collaborative Traineeship Program

Overview of Traineeship Program

The Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (BICB) Graduate Traineeship Program prepares students to be researchers and leaders in the interdisciplinary areas of computer science, informatics, mathematics, statistics, and the biological and health sciences. Integrated into the trainee program is a research experience driven by co-advisors drawn from the University of Minnesota, Mayo Clinic, IBM, Hormel Institute, and from other institutions.

This two-year graduate traineeship program is open to University of Minnesota Graduate School and Mayo Clinic Graduate School students (Master's or Ph.D.) who are interested in pursuing interdisciplinary work in the areas of biomedical informatics and computational biology.

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2007-09 Traineeships

The BICB program awarded nine traineeships for the 2007-09 academic years. The trainees, their advisors, and projects are listed below:

Trainee	Advisors	Research Project
Xiting Cao Biostatistics, U of M	Ann Oberg, Mayo Clinic Baolin Wu, U of M	Statistical Methods for Mining Large-Scale Biomedical Data
Gang Fang Computer Science and Engineering, U of M	Richard Mushlin, IBM Judith Berman, U of M Vipin Kumar, U of M	Finding Local Patterns in Biomedical Data Sets
George Giambasu Chemistry, U of M	Carlos Sosa, IBM Darrin York, U of M	RNA Catalysis
Rohit Gupta Computer Science and Engineering, U of M	Piet de Groen, Mayo Clinic Karla Ballman, Mayo Clinic Vipin Kumar, U of M	Application of Data Mining to Medical and Genomic data: Finding Connections to Phenotypic Traits
Dimitrije Jevremovic Computer Science and Engineering, U of M	Carlos Sosa, IBM Dan Boley, U of M Friedrich Srienc, U of M	Computation of Metabolic Pathways
Dingcheng Li Linguistics, U of M	Guergana Savova, Mayo Clinic Jeanette Gundel, U of M William Schuler, U of M	Mining Unstructured Medical Data
Andrew Norgan Mayo Clinic Graduate School	Carlos Sosa, IBM David Katzmann, Mayo Clinic Jean-Pierre Kocher,Mayo Clinic Claudia Neuhauser, U of M	Screening for a WW-Domain Inhibitor
Brian Skjerven Scientific Computation, U of M	Kirk Jordan, IBM Darrin York, U of M	New Quantum Models for Biological Reactions
Ze Tian Computer Science and Engineering, U of M	Jean-Pierre Kocher, Mayo Clinic Rui Kuang, U of M	Mining Genetic Determinants of Human Disease

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2007-08 Traineeship

The BICB program awarded one traineeship for the 2007-08 academic year. The trainee, their advisors, and project are listed below:

Trainee	Advisors	Research Project
Brian Fett Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of M	Tim Mullins, IBM Marc Riedel, U of M	Synthesizing Stochasticity in Biochemical Systems

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2008-10 Traineeships

The BICB program awarded four traineeships for the 2008-10 academic years. The trainees, their advisors, and projects are listed below:

Trainee	Advisors	Research Project
Gowtham Atluri Computer Science and Engineering, U of M	Vipin Kumar, U of M Piet de Groen, Mayo Clinic	Discovery and Characteristics of Patients with Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury (iDILI)
Raamesh Deshpande Computer Science and Engineering, U of M	Chad Myers, U of M Dennis Wigle, Mayo Clinic	Identifying Disease-Specific Networks in the Context of Cancer
Ming Huang Chemistry, U of M	Darrin York, U of M Zigang Dong, U of M Hormel Institute Carlos Sosa, IBM	Interface of Computational and Molecular Biology
Weiqi Wei Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, U of M	Stuart Speedie, U of M Christopher Chute, Mayo Clinic	Informatics of Clinical Phenotype Characterization

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2008-09 Traineeship

The BICB program awarded one traineeship for the 2008-09 academic year. The trainee, their advisors, and project are listed below:

Trainee	Advisors	Research Project
Adriana Fitzgerald Electrical and Computer Engineering, U of M	Marc Riedel, U of M Tim Mullins, IBM	Research in Computational and Synthetic Biology: Studying Techniques for Synthesizing Biochemical Reactions

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Contact Information

Michael Olesen
Director of Information Technology,
Bioscience Program, and Research
University of Minnesota Rochester
300 University Square
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Rochester, Minnesota 55904
Phone: 507-258-8018
UMTC Office: 612-625-6414
Fax: 507-280-2820
E-mail: olese001@umn.edu

Jim Clausen
Program Management Consultant
Bioscience
University of Minnesota Rochester
300 University Square
111 South Broadway
Rochester, Minnesota 55904
Phone: 507-258-8214
Fax: 507-280-2820
E-mail: claus158@umn.edu