Contacting or joining
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Contacting us
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Please contact Dr. (C.) Titus Brown directly at ctbrown@ucdavis.edu.
If you're going to ask him for a recommendation letter, please read
`this blog post
`__
by Jonathan Eisen first. Titus would like to be asked at least two weeks
before the deadline!
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Joining the lab
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Our research largely centers around making sense of biological data,
which involves working with many different "wet lab" and field
biologists on data analysis from many different systems. We are also
very interested in sustainable scientific software development
practice and open source software development. We are interested in
working with computer scientists, biologists, physicists, engineers,
and more.
If you are interested in graduate school, please apply to UC Davis
through an appropriate program *before* contacting Titus -- the lab
takes students from `the CS grad group
`__, as well as others. (The
home grad group should rarely be an obstacle to joining the lab.)
If you are already a UC Davis student and would like to visit the lab,
please contact us directly.
If you are interested in coming to UC Davis to work with Dr. Brown,
please contact him via e-mail with your C.V. and a (short!)
description of what you're interested in doing.
In all cases, please indicate that you have read this Web site by
including the phrase "skylar dragon" in your e-mail. I will use this
to filter out people who don't know how to use google or have too
short an attention span to read my lab Web site thoroughly.
Collaborating with the lab
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We prefer to teach and train others in doing their own data analysis,
rather than collaborating on it -- see `our training efforts
`__. However, in cases
where the data analysis may require the development of novel methods,
please get in touch!
Asking Dr. Brown to be on your PhD committee
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Please read `this blog post
`__ -
then contact Titus if those terms are reasonable.