2024 Summer Camp

miRcore Research Camps for High School Students

Having successfully run online summer camps during the pandemic, miRcore will hold Summer 2024 camps to pursue the best of both virtual and in-person camps. Our online format will allow nationwide reach and participation. Our in-person camps will provide students opportunities to perform experiments and build friendships with other regional students.
 

Our camps are available for academically motivated high school students (including incoming freshmen). We emphasize discussion in small groups of five or six campers, each group supported by its own teaching assistant throughout the camp. A unique feature of our camps is that students will be eligible to continue their learning experience with the miRcore Volunteer Program, which meets throughout the school year online and in person (optional). MVP students continue learning about computational biology research, programming, teamwork, community outreach, and leadership (including founding/leading GIDAS club).

Churchill Scholar Karthik R.

 I cannot stress enough how much you and miRcore have changed my life, not just by helping me get into UM or into the Koschman lab or this scholarship, but also for exposing me to the field of biological research and personalized medicine. Deciding to take the computational biology camp in 8th grade has been one of the best decisions. Without miRcore or the summer camp, I most definitely would not be in this position today.

 

Karthik profile

● MVP member 4 years in high school (Vice President of Research, 2 years)
● Helped miRcore programs as a University of Michigan undergraduate
● Helped miRcore programs while in master’s at Cambridge University, UK
● Supporting miRcore while as a medical student at Stanford

Summer Camps Offered in 2024

If you are taking multiple camps, you pay only one application fee. Please use the same transaction id on multiple camp application forms.

Computational Biology (CB) In-Person Camps

Session 1 (University of Michigan): June 17 – June 21, 2024

Session 2 (University of Michigan): June 24 – June 28, 2024

Session 3 (Scripps Research Institute): July 22 – July 26, 2024

Computational Biology (CB) Virtual Camps

Session 1: June 17 – June 21, 2024

Session 2: June 24 – June 28, 2024

R Research  Programming Virtual Camp

Date: July 8 – July 12, 2024

We highly recommend taking a CB camp beforehand if possible.

The R Programming Camp is not just a programming camp; it provides essential tools and datasets with which students can develop their own research projects. Students will learn TCGA big data analysis using microRNA sequencing data of cancer patients for RNA biomarker analysis, tumor prediction using machine learning tools, and graph generation.

Biotechnology Sequencing (BTS) Hybrid Camps

Date: July 29 – August 2, 2024

We highly recommend taking a CB camp beforehand if possible.

The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) has provided access to the University of Michigan’s high performance computing system Great Lakes Slurm cluster for all BTS campers to run calculations in a Linux environment.

Sequencing Your Genome Camps

Total 3 weeks

Week 1: CB in-person preferred (Any camp okay)

Week 2: BTS (Date: July 29 – August 2, 2024)

Week 3: Analyzing your genome data (Date: August 5 – August 9, 2024)

Students will have their genome sequenced (Self-data analysis is only for non-medical research purposes) as sole custodians. Age: 16+ on the first day of the camp. Both parental and student agreements are needed. Contact email for additional questions: camp@mircore.org.

Previous Invited Speakers

Philip Maini, PhD

Professor of Mathematical Biology,
University of Oxford

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Michael Boehnke, PhD

Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor,
University of Michigan

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Eric Green, MD, PhD

Director,
National Human Genome Research Institute,
National Institute of Health

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Adam Lauring, MD, PhD

Associate Professor,
Department of Internal Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases),
University of Michigan

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David Orentlicher, MD, JD

Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law,
University of Nevada Las Vegas

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