Description

The Research Training Group (RTG) is a newly funded NSF program intended to stimulate interdisciplinary research in Mathematical Biology.

The funding will be used to support postdoctoral fellows, advanced graduate students and undergraduate students.

Postdocs

Over the course of this program we will support 8 postdoctoral fellows. These fellows will have received a PhD in Mathematics or a related field with substantial applied mathematical content. Experience in biology is not required. They will work in some area of Mathematical Biology with a Mathematics Department mentor and a Life Science mentor.

The appointment has a two course teaching load per year, along with other mentoring activities in the Math Biology program. RTG postdoctoral positions are available only to US citizens and permanent residents.

Application for these postdoctoral positions is made to the Mathematics Department. (see www.math.utah.edu/positions) A statement of intent and interest in Mathematical Biology and willingness to engage in interdisciplinary study and research is required of all applicants.

It is helpful, but not required, that the applicant identify which of the four program areas (Biofluids, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, or Physiology) is the preferred area of research emphasis.

Graduate students

RTG graduate student fellowships are available and will be awarded on an annual basis. To apply for an RTG fellowship, a student must have at least one year of teaching experience as a Teaching Assistant, have passed at least two of three written qualifying exams and a plan for completing the third.

The application includes a written research proposal (about one page in length) and letters of support from a Mathematics Department advisor and a Life Science advisor who is not a member of the Mathematics Department. Applications are due on February 20th of the academic year preceding the award year.

RTG graduate student fellowships are available only to US citizens and permanent residents. Application for RTG fellowships is made directly to the RTG program director. RTG graduate fellows are expected to establish Utah residency prior to their first semester of support.

Undergraduates

Each semester we will run an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) that will involve a group of four undergraduates in a computational laboratory in Mathematical Biology. The REU project description will be made at the beginning of each semester.

2009-2010 REU Announcement and Application form