Education

& Training

Cohort-based programs

  • The Lighthouse Scholars Ph.D. Program

    Our doctoral cohort is training in integrative approaches to studying viral ecology, evolution, and emergence. Students have up to four years of fellowship support, and participate in the two year long Integration Workshop series, mini-rotations across Verena labs, and monthly professional development workshops.

  • Fellows in Residence

    We award three $5,000 fellowships each semester to postdoctoral fellows or advanced graduate students from non-Verena labs. Fellows work with a team investigator on a short-term research project, and are encouraged to participate in team research collaborations and training programs.

The integration

workshops


Interdisciplinary Team Science
Washington, D.C. • July 27-28, 2023

Model-based reasoning; boundary objects; collaborative science and synthesis research (with Deana Pennington).

Virology
Virtual • May 22-23, 2024

Viral life cycles, pathogenesis , tropism, and evolution; in vitro and in vivo experiments; viral diagnostics in field settings.

Immunology
Virtual • Fall 2024

Innate/adaptive and cellular/humoral axes; common assays and their interpretation; computational approaches to data.

Data Science & Data Fluency
Virtual • Winter 2024

Data & model life cycles; taxonomies and ontologies; reproducibility and collaborative coding; major data sources.

Ecology & Evolution
Virtual • Spring 2025

Topics TBD.

Actionable Science
Washington, D.C. • Dates TBD

Climate change; planetary health; biosecurity; pandemic prevention; international law and governance.