Internships
Photo By: Flo Gardipee After the second year, the Trainee will participate in a 3-6 month internship in an educational, governmental, medical, academic, or commercial organization in the United States or abroad. Committed internships sites include:
Potential committed internships sites include:
- NIH/NIAID – Rocky Mountain Laboratories
- Montana Department of Public Health
- Keck Graduate Institute
- The Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute
- The Institute for Ecosystem Studies
- The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
- The Consortium for Conservation Medicine
- Emory University Program In Population Biology, Ecology And Evolution
- New Zealand Bioinformatics Institute
- The University of Helsinki, Finland
- Alimetrics Ltd., Helsinki, Finland
Requirements for the internship program include:
- Internship proposal and approval by the M-EID Graduate Education Committee, internship mentor, and M-EID administration in the semester prior to the internship.
- Presentation of an overview of the Trainee’s internship experience and accomplishments at the M-EID forum upon return from the internship.
Previous M-EID Trainee's Internships:
- Erin Landguth’s internship at the University of California-Davis
- Erin fulfilled this internship opportunity at the University of California-Davis in the spring 2007. This internship had direct application towards on her research. Erin was able to integrate scientific Python, cellular automata modeling, and disease propagation at a center in the forefront of complex systems research. Thus, approximately three months of Erin's time focused upon dissertation research in these areas. During her internship Erin participated in
- A course from Dr. Jim Crutchfield titled, "Nonlinear Physics: Modeling Chaos and Complexity". This course explored the origins of intrinsic unpredictability (deterministic chaos) and the emergence of structure (self-organization) in natural complex systems. It was developed using dynamical systems theory and focused on analyzing periodic and chaotic behaviors and bifurcations between them. In addition to this mathematical track, an important, parallel theme was the construction of exploration tools for nonlinear processes. That is, in addition to developing the mathematics of qualitative dynamics, it was also a practical class. She designed and built interactive tools for simulating and visualizing complex systems using Python. Erin produce and presented her final work "A Stochastic Cellular Automata Model for Landscape Epidemiology" at UCDavis and for the Applied Mathematics Seminar this Fall 2007
- Participated in Dr. Jim Crutchfield's research group. This transdisciplinary-working group combined sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Some of their research includes agent-based modeling and cellular automata, two areas directly related to Erin’s own research.
