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FUTURE-MINDS-QB Doctoral Bridge Program in Quantitative Biology and Biomedical Data Science

I strongly support your mission and would be delighted to hear from those interested in gaining research experience in statistical genomics. Our group currently has projects in microbial sequence analysis, single cell RNA sequencing and a general interest in developing novel methods for biological discovery in genomics. Please see http://salzmanlab.stanford.edu/

My lab focuses on plant computational genomics, particularly forest trees. We integrate genome variation, transcriptomic, and epigenetics data to investigate how environment and genetics interact to yield phenotypes.

Happy to support the work of the BWCB network, in my roles as an Associate Professor, PI of a computational lab, Director of JHU's PhD Program in Computational Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology.

My research focuses on the genetic basis of cancer disparities.

I am Director, Talent Acquisition for the Allen Institute. I am also a black woman. I'd like to be an ally and leverage my position within the research community to amplify the voices and contributions of those that have historically been voiceless and to support professional development opportunities for those that have historically been ignored.

I would like to contribute in any capacity I could.

I'm a computational biologist and geneticist at Embark Veterinary -- we do everything we can to advance dog health and wellness through genomics!

Hi! I'm an industry bioinformatics scientist and a Cornell alum (PhD in Genomics w/ concentration in Comp Bio, 2018). Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any help.

I'm a co-chair of the Mentoring Program for the Massachusetts chapter of AWIS (Association of Women in Science). I would love to stay in contact so we can share information about our mentoring program and other AWIS-Mass resources your members could benefit from!

I have a PhD in Biology and expertise in the fields of population and statistical genomics. I'm happy to mentor or collaborate with any of the woman in this group looking to advance their careers. I am also looking for collaborators to help advance diversity and create an inclusive environment in computational biology through Virtual Lab Meeting Training Programs and the development of teaching modules.

I'm a black guy, and I'm really interested in having more female folks in the comp-bio space.

I look forward to reading about your research. I just started my post-doc in computational immunology (simulating T-cell collectives). Feel free to reach out if you have questions or would like to connect!

Boston Women in Bioinformatics meetup group provides a platform for women and welcomes allies in bioinformatics for conversations, trainings, workshops, panels and much more, with an open mind!

I teach math and stats at a small Canadian college. My background is mathematical biology and number theory. I aim to amplify the voices of Black womxn in STEM by sharing their work in my classroom whenever possible

I teach a Computational Modeling course for 11th and 12th grade students at a high school in NYC, and I'm seeking lots of varied sources to contribute to what we see and do in the class. Students are especially interested in what kind of careers this work could connect to because they usually haven't thought about many of the topics in this class before! The class is offered through the science department at my school and is also focused on social justice topics once we get past some initial intro-to-coding work. This group seems amazing! And thank you for the things you have available for us to learn from! ❤️

I recently graduated with my PhD in Genome Sciences and now work as a computational biologist/data scientist at a biotech company.
I am happy to talk about applying to graduate school and transitioning from academia to biotech.

We need our young women to know you exists. Unfortunately, mainstream media is not going to highlight the scientific and engineering achievements of Black Women. We must share this information through social media.

I am a computational scientist in the precision medicine space aiming to mentor.

I am a postdoc in statistical genetics and received my PhD working on human population genetics. I would be happy to contribute as a mentor or collaborator.

mentoring around inclusive undergrad teaching, writing teaching statements, writing diversity statements. Colleague of Dr. Nyasha Chambwe.

I am a feminist anti-racist cis white male computational biologist.

Thank you for allowing allies to join!!!!! Together we are stronger. Resist! Much love for all of you.

I would like to help connect Black Women with, internships, and job openings, and general networking in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics pharma community!

Interested in training or faculty positions at the University of Colorado? Please reach out. Also a member of the International Society of Computational Biology's equity, diversity and inclusion committee. Happy to provide advice or mentoring, too.

I am a hiring manager and would like to post jobs here.

I’m an Administrator for Computational Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I’m interested in recruiting and supporting black womxn in the fields of computational oncology, physics, and engineering. We are currently recruiting on all levels. I look forward to helping the community and having a meaningful partnership between MSK and your network.

Looking to mentor, collaborate and be involved in any capacity that is helpful.

I am happy to mentor, collaborate, and/or help in any general way that I can

Hi, I am a Computational Science Recruiter at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and would like to help your network with collaborating with our scientists and also find positions within our labs. Please accept my request to join your network. I look forward to helping the community.

I would like to be a mentor and/ or collaborate

I am hoping to learn the scientists and hopefully collaborate in the future.

I would like to be a mentor. I have experience in Statistical Genetics and modeling of genetic variation with small sample size RNA-seq and ChIP-seq. I can also talk about the transition to industry and the scientific research opportunities there.

I'd like to be a mentor and collaborate with researchers!

I would like to be a mentor

I would like to be a mentor

I would like to join as a mentor, or assist in other ways if I can be helpful (I am a biostatistician, but work on related problems).

I would like to be a mentor, particularly for those interested in non-traditional career paths outside of academic faculty.

I am hoping to collaborate with other scientists. I study plant epigenomics using my computational skills. I mostly focus on ChIP-seq.

I would love to mentor and collaborate with scientists. As co-chair of ISCB Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee I would also like to know how to better support your mission

I am a soon-to-be MIT alum, and would like to connect people with opportunities in cellular agriculture (jobs, fellowships, seed grants).

I am hoping to learn about the resources, activities, and needs of Black Women in Comp Bio, especially to direct future mentees toward this community for mentorship in ways I cannot directly provide.

I am a professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at UW-Madison. I am interested in recruiting and supporting black womxn in the field of computational biology at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral/faculty levels. I can be most helpful with respect to programs at UW-Madison, which include MS and PhD programs in Biomedical Data Science, but would like to also support efforts at the regional (Midwest), national, and international levels.

I really like this community and I am inspired by this initiative! I have experience in writing personal statements, CVs, fellowship applications, among others and I would me more than happy to help any black womxn interested in applying to graduate school.

I would like to be a mentor or assist in any way I can.

I work in computational biology and would be happy to help someone who is just getting started in the field.

I'm currently an investor at an early-stage venture firm in Oakland, CA, Better Ventures (better.vc) and we have been looking to 1) back more diverse founders and 2) invest in the computational biology space. If there are any womxn who are a part of your network who have started a company or are thinking of starting one, I'd be happy to chat and help in whatever way I can. Thanks for all the work you're doing to empower Black womxn in this field!

I am hoping to collaborate with scientists.

Open to collaborations and sharing job opportunities!

Am a biologist and biological database curator. Would love to offer mentorship, encouragement, share about non traditional career paths and generally support.

As a black scientist, I would like to collaborate, mentor and be helpful to black womxn scientists.

What an excellent group and idea. I work in a bioinformatics core facility and am always interested in making bioinformatics inclusive, diverse, and welcoming.

I would like to help in any way we can productively contribute to your success.

I hope to support this community. In particular, I would like to recruit and support black women during graduate school (I am currently a post-doc at UCLA, but I will be an Asst Prof in Computer Science at UMD starting July 2021). Thank you so much for your time and energy!

I am a professor of computer science - field that suffers from very poor diversity numbers, even if looking at gender alone. I am actively involved in mentoring undergraduates in computational biology research and I am looking to broaden the network from which I recruit students. Also, I am interested in using computational biology to help increase academic success and retention for students from under-represented groups. Finally, as an academic administrator, I am interested in fixing the end of the "academic pipeline" by helping scientists from underrepresented groups obtain faculty positions and receiving adequate support to ensure success.

I am not a scientist; however, I am the events manager of the Human Cell Initiative and would like to serve as an ally and help in any way that I can be of service.

Thank you,
Kristine

I would like to serve as a mentor to black women scientists and other minority scientists

I'm available to "ask me anything" about computational biology (networks, pathways, single cell genomics) and careers.

I am happy to help with mentorship, networking, and promoting areas for systemic change, including as part of the Human Cell Atlas

I would like to be a mentor, I have been supporting women in comp bio / machine learning for a while, but I have not had the pleasure to support a black women in comp bio because sadly, there are too few....

I would like to be a mentor

I’d be delighted to act as a mentor.

I am passionate about diversity and equality and hope to collaborate with you as an ally.

I want to a part of this community.

I would like to engage with you, learn from you, collaborate, and help training the next generations.

I'd like to make sure that opportunities that are supported by the NIH/NCI are distributed widely within this community.

I am a 2nd year Bioinformatics graduate student at Boston University with 3 years of prior experience with Clinical Bioinformatics. I would like to offer my time and support to this amazing community through volunteering in any capacity!

I would like to learn about any opportunities where I can be an ally in this space

I'm a computational biologist in Matt Sampson's lab at Boston Children's/Harvard Med, #kidneyomics. I'd love to mentor and/or share work I've been doing related to APOL1 kidney disease.

I am a talent acquisition leader and would love to support black women in the STEM field in whatever way possible.

I am a Pediatric Nephrologist leading a computational genomics lab at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School that seeks to discover causes, treatments, and cures for nephrotic syndrome. I'd greatly appreciate the opportunity to provide mentorship, internships, and/or post-doctoral positions to interested Black womxn in computational biology. I'd also be psyched to present a research seminar about Computational Biology in Pediatric Kidney Disease if that is of interest to this group.

I'm a grad student at MIT in computational biology and am happy to serve as a mentor to undergraduates, or in any other capacity.

I am a computational biologist and would love to be a mentor to womxn earlier in their careers! I can also help connect any interested members to positions at Harvard and several companies that I work with, where there is an immediate need for applicants.

I share the same value this network represents and would love to be an ally to connect and support minority women in STEM.

I would like to connect with the community to mentor/collaborate/share opportunities at the intersection of computer science and biology as part of the Troyanskaya lab at Princeton University and the Flatiron Institute. We have an inclusive, supportive, and highly collaborative environment driven by respect for individuals and wonder at the natural world. We tackle problems in human health and disease using functional genomics, network-based approaches and wetlab experiments. Science can be a tough business - might as well be nice and have each other's back!

I would like to connect with this network as a colleague, a mentor, and a mentee. I work in the agricultural industry (ornamental horticulture) and can help connect and support scientists interested in industry careers in plant computational biology.

I would like to provide support for scientists working in Europe, specifically Germany. From mentoring to possible scientific collaboration, I will try to be an outspoken and useful ally.

I teach and conduct research in computational biology, and am interested in supporting, mentoring, learning from, and collaborating with network members.

I would like to be a mentor! I am currently in the Penn MD/PhD program and in the Genomics and Comp Bio program.

I would like to help connect people with mentorship opportunities, internships, job openings, and general networking in the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics pharma community.

Happy to be a mentor, am also looking to hire in BioNLP & knowledge-based biomedical data science, and recruit graduate students and postdocs into the training program in Colorado

I would like to offer to be a mentor, and I would like to occasionally post job announcements for my company. (Note: I am a white cis/het male.)

I would like to mentor and collaborate with members of this community; and otherwise contribute in any other way that I can.

I would like to be a mentor and colleague. We – the Krishnan Lab (www.thekrishnanlab.org) – are intent on sharing what we know and creating opportunities for new research experiences.

I follow your twitter account and want to support this group as an ally. I am interested in mentoring and collaborating with Black women computational biologists and amplifying their voices and science.

I'm happy to mentor or collaborate, and generally help in any way I can.

I would like to be involved in teaching efforts if there are opportunities. I teach workshops on research computing skills with The Carpentries and ones on microbial metagenomics.

I would like to connect with scientists interested in serving on a journal editorial board, sharing their story as a researcher profile, or writing a review or commentary for a biological sciences journal.

I would like to connect with any and all computational biologists - as a mentor or mentee or friend.

Hi! I'm Jasen, and I'm a bioinformatician/research tech (pre-MSTP) at Northwestern University. I would like to get to know other Black folks in computational biology, and contribute to this community.

I am a postdoc and would be happy to help mentor-- particular support I can provide includes graduate school topics and early career grant writing.

We seek to employ and collaborate with Black women in computational biology.
I am research director at a non-profit environmental health research institute called Silent Spring Institute. Our multidisciplinary staff focuses on identifying preventable causes of breast cancer and other adverse health outcomes for women. We have a history of projects with environmental justice/disparities focus and an established practice of community-based research. We look forward to following your organization and seeking opportunities to collaborate.

I'm part of a bioinformatics group at a core facility at NIH. I'm interested in providing internships, mentoring, and job opportunities.

I often organize scientific meetings and panels and am always looking for female and/or black speakers.

I would be happy to be a mentor, as well as, help promote opportunities in bioinformatics for black women in the field.

I work in computational rare disease genomics. I would like to be a mentor, collaborator, or contribute in any way that is helpful.

I lead a quantitative and computational biology research group at the Colorado State University. Starting 2021, I will also run an annual NSF-funded undergraduate q-bio summer school (focus on statistical inference applied to single-cell experiments). I am looking for collaborations (with students, faculty and industry) to help improve representation and support for WOC in these research and educational programs.

I recently graduated with my PhD in Epidemiology from University of Washington. My research focuses on phylogenetic analysis of pathogen genome sequences to understand disease transmission. I'm happy to help review personal statements for grad school and fellowship apps, discuss careers and research in genomic epidemiology, or mentor on projects.

I'd love to help mentor those interested in common complex trait genetics & genomics. Work with Broad Institute and International Common Disease Alliance to promote equitable genomically-informed global health.

I am a geneticist by training and now lead a data science group in pharma, focusing on neurology drug discovery. I am more than happy to answer questions on life & job searching in industry.