Links
Hope the following links are of some use whether you are interested in contacting suitable PhD/postdoc supervisors, choosing a scripting language to learn or trying to secure funding for your studies and early career. Do let me know if you find any additional resources (email).
Going on conferences
Science posters (they can print on crease-free fabric and even design your poster!)
Some labs working on molecular evolution and genomics
Laurence Hurst, University of Bath
Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh
Wen Hsiung Li, University of Chicago
David Penny, Massey University
Blair Hedges, Penn State University
Sudhir Kumar, Arizona State University
Alexey Kondrashov, University of Michigan
Kenneth Hastings, McGill University
Hiroshi Akashi, Penn State University
Laurent Duret, Universite de Lyon
Martin Lercher, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat
Csaba Pal and Balazs Papp, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian A. of Sc.
Genomic data
NCBI
UCSC
Ensembl
Open Source Scripting languages
TCL/TK
Perl
Phyton
R
MySQL
Fellowships
Royal Society
Wellcome Trust
The British Academy
Leverhulme Trust
Starting up grants and awards
Royal Society
European Research Council
Leverhulme Trust
Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine
Funding for UK/EU students
Funding at the University of Bath for postgraduate studies
Webpage with some options
Funding for overseas students
ORS
British Council
UK-China Scholarships for excellence (China)
CONACyT (Mexico)
Women in Science
L’Oreal UK women in science fellowship
Daphne Jackson Trust
Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowships
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award
FEBS Women in Science Award
The real wide world
BBC news
Channel 4 news–Snowmail
El Universal
