Application deadline: February 10th, 2023.

UQ-bio Summer School
The UQ-bio Summer School is intended to help students acquire essential skills to advance predictive modeling of cellular regulatory systems. Participants will be exposed to a survey of work in quantitative biology and provided with hands-on instruction in selected techniques. The emphasis of the 2023 program will be experimental and computational techniques useful to understand cellular regulatory networks at the single-cell level.

The program will seek to get students working together on small mentored projects. Participants will have access to several pre-recorded technical lecture videos, and will attend daily live events including: research seminars from top scientists in the field (~4 hours per week), mentored problem sessions (~4 hrs per week), project-specific software tutorial sessions (4 hrs per week), career discussion forums (~2 hr per week), student presentation sessions (~2 hrs per week), laboratory tours and single-cell experiment demonstrations (~4 hrs per week), and more. The summer school is designed for undergraduate students and early stage graduate students, or anyone with a quantitative background who is new to modeling cellular regulatory systems/networks.

Apply
Applications are open now via the program website. The program is FREE for undergraduates and junior graduate students with interests in quantitative biology.

Applications are due February 10, 2023. In-person participation will be limited to 30 students based on past coursework and statements of interests. All events are free to all participants.

Program
The program will feature daily live events (Monday through Saturday) including research seminars from top scientists (5hrs/week), mentored project sessions (4hrs/week), hands-on and hackathons (2hrs/week), laboratory tours/demonstrations, and more. The summer school is designed for undergraduate students and early-stage graduate students, or anyone with a quantitative background who is new to modeling cellular regulatory systems/networks.

The 5 modules of the 2022 UQ-bio summer school will be:

• Bootcamp Basics to get Started with Scientific Computing in Python (May, Online)
• Single-Cell Optical Microscopy Experiments and Image Processing (May 31 – June 3)
• Multivariable Statistics and Machine Learning for Single-Cell Data (June 5 - 7)
• Stochastic Simulations of Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Processes (June 7 - 10)
• Master Equation Analyses of Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Processes (June 12 - 13)
• (Optional) Quantitative Cell and Molecular Biology Symposium (June 13-14)