Education
& Training
Cohort-based programs
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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.
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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.