Joining the BCB Faculty
Joining the BCB Faculty
Thank you for your interest in becoming a faculty mentor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BCB is administered through the Department of Genetics, but we are an interdepartmental PhD program.
The most important role of Curriculum faculty is to mentor students, both as the advisor and by serving on dissertation committees. In addition, Curriculum preceptors are expected to actively participate in programmatic activities, such as attending and hosting speakers in our seminar series, attending occasional student defenses, attending annual meetings of BCB faculty, and, if possible, attending the annual Department of Genetics / GMB / BCB scientific retreat. Moreover, as a member of the Curriculum you will be called on you from time to time to help with other types of service such as contributing to teaching (courses, lectures), serving on committees, and other activities described in the application form.
Application:
To be considered, please send the following to the Director of Graduate Studies (a single combined PDF is preferred):
1) Your NIH biosketch.
2) A completed version of this form BCB_Faculty_Application_Template2024, with any required attachments.
These items will be distributed to the members of the BCB Steering Committee. If they approve, you will be appointed for a three-year term, after which you will be evaluated for reappointment.
After Approval:
Once approved by the BCB Steering Committee, you should provide the following items to BCB’s Curriculum Administrator:
- Name (as you prefer it listed on the BCB website).
- Professional Title.
- Current Photo (headshot).
- Office Phone.
- Office Location.
- Preferred Email.
- Lab Website.
- Research Areas. Choose all applicable from: Bioinformatics, Comparative Genomics and Molecular Evolution, Computational Biophysics, Computational Genomics, Computational Systems Biology, Image Analysis, Statistical and Population Genetics.
- Research Interest. 1 to 2 sentence research interest statement.
The Curriculum Administrator will also work with you to schedule a date in the fall to give a presentation about your research to the first and second year students in the BCB Colloquium.
Information on how BBSP works:
For recruiting BBSP students for rotations, read over the For Faculty page of the BBSP, including “How BBSP works for faculty”, “Setting up Rotations”, “Expectations for a Rotation”, “Feedback Meetings with Students”, and “Rotation Grades”.