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The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide
Education and training are two essential ingredients for a successful career. On one hand, universities provide students a curriculum for specializing in one’s field of study, and on the other, internships complement coursework and provide invaluable training experience for a fruitful career. Conseq...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29346365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005802 |
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author | Anupama, Jigisha Francescatto, Margherita Rahman, Farzana Fatima, Nazeefa DeBlasio, Dan Shanmugam, Avinash Kumar Satagopam, Venkata Santos, Alberto Kolekar, Pandurang Michaut, Magali Guney, Emre |
author_facet | Anupama, Jigisha Francescatto, Margherita Rahman, Farzana Fatima, Nazeefa DeBlasio, Dan Shanmugam, Avinash Kumar Satagopam, Venkata Santos, Alberto Kolekar, Pandurang Michaut, Magali Guney, Emre |
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description | Education and training are two essential ingredients for a successful career. On one hand, universities provide students a curriculum for specializing in one’s field of study, and on the other, internships complement coursework and provide invaluable training experience for a fruitful career. Consequently, undergraduates and graduates are encouraged to undertake an internship during the course of their degree. The opportunity to explore one’s research interests in the early stages of their education is important for students because it improves their skill set and gives their career a boost. In the long term, this helps to close the gap between skills and employability among students across the globe and balance the research capacity in the field of computational biology. However, training opportunities are often scarce for computational biology students, particularly for those who reside in less-privileged regions. Aimed at helping students develop research and academic skills in computational biology and alleviating the divide across countries, the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology introduced its Internship Program in 2009. The Internship Program is committed to providing access to computational biology training, especially for students from developing regions, and improving competencies in the field. Here, we present how the Internship Program works and the impact of the internship opportunities so far, along with the challenges associated with this program. |
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spelling | pubmed-57729972018-01-26 The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide Anupama, Jigisha Francescatto, Margherita Rahman, Farzana Fatima, Nazeefa DeBlasio, Dan Shanmugam, Avinash Kumar Satagopam, Venkata Santos, Alberto Kolekar, Pandurang Michaut, Magali Guney, Emre PLoS Comput Biol Education Education and training are two essential ingredients for a successful career. On one hand, universities provide students a curriculum for specializing in one’s field of study, and on the other, internships complement coursework and provide invaluable training experience for a fruitful career. Consequently, undergraduates and graduates are encouraged to undertake an internship during the course of their degree. The opportunity to explore one’s research interests in the early stages of their education is important for students because it improves their skill set and gives their career a boost. In the long term, this helps to close the gap between skills and employability among students across the globe and balance the research capacity in the field of computational biology. However, training opportunities are often scarce for computational biology students, particularly for those who reside in less-privileged regions. Aimed at helping students develop research and academic skills in computational biology and alleviating the divide across countries, the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology introduced its Internship Program in 2009. The Internship Program is committed to providing access to computational biology training, especially for students from developing regions, and improving competencies in the field. Here, we present how the Internship Program works and the impact of the internship opportunities so far, along with the challenges associated with this program. Public Library of Science 2018-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5772997/ /pubmed/29346365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005802 Text en © 2018 Anupama et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Education Anupama, Jigisha Francescatto, Margherita Rahman, Farzana Fatima, Nazeefa DeBlasio, Dan Shanmugam, Avinash Kumar Satagopam, Venkata Santos, Alberto Kolekar, Pandurang Michaut, Magali Guney, Emre The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
title | The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
title_full | The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
title_fullStr | The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
title_full_unstemmed | The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
title_short | The ISCB Student Council Internship Program: Expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
title_sort | iscb student council internship program: expanding computational biology capacity worldwide |
topic | Education |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29346365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005802 |
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