Education

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Undergraduate

PGFI has a strong commitment to strengthening genome sciences at PENN and is specifically interested in promoting genomics education among undergraduates.

• Penn Genome Frontiers Institute Excellence in Genomics Undergraduate Award
  Recognizing graduating seniors for their scholarly accomplishments and notable contributions to research in the genome sciences.
• Undergraduate summer research program
  Provides a stipend for selected undergraduates to immerse themselves in lectures on bioinformatics and RNA biology, while doing research with PGFI faculty mentors.
• The departments of Biology, Computer Science and Mathematics have instituted concentrations in Computational and Mathematical Biology for undergraduates.

Graduate

Students interested in Masters level work in the broad area of Genomics/Computational Biology can take the Bioinformatics track in the Masters in Biotechnology program. In addition, PGFI has encouraged the development of four graduate level courses for students in the Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB) Graduate Group.  Graduate students in GCB are housed in the Penn Center for Bioinformatics until they move into their thesis labs. PGFI also supports a graduate student award that provides a year's stipend to a deserving recipient, based upon written and oral presentations of the graduate student's research.

Educational Facility

Please check our Educational Facility page for information about PGFI offered workshops.