Summer camp payment

2017 Summer Computational Biology Research Camp Payment Options

miRcore-name

<Check payment>

– Make the check payable to miRcore

– Please indicated the full name of your child (camper) on the check memo

– Mail it to: miRcore, 2929 Plymouth Rd. Ste 207, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

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<Paypal/Credit Card payment>

Please indicate the camp name your are paying for and the full name of your child (camper) in the note before you complete your payment.

 

Students without membership


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Students with membership


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*Please read the following for more information regarding camp goals and scholarship opportunities.

Our goals for high school student camps

  1. To give high school students an opportunity to enjoy science (Hear Marianne talking about it at TEDxYouth).
  2. To provide high school students tools for Science Fair projects.
  3. To recruit high school miRcore volunteers.
    1. In-depth computational biology research throughout the school year.
    2. Opportunity to be GIDAS (Genes In Diseases And Symptoms) club leaders.
      1. Prepare high school students for the Genes and Health Contest.
      2. Prepare high school students to present at the Research Conference and publish an abstract.
    3. Learn various aspects of computers, science, and medicine in the real world.
    4. May write a research paper for publiation in the Jounal of Emerging Investigators.
      1. Activated NF-κB Pathway in an Irf6-Deficient Mouse Model for Van der Woude Syndrome. Sanika S. Kulkarni(1), Jungwoo Chang(2), and Inhan Lee(3):(1) Pioneer High School, (2) Huron High School, (3) miRcore, Ann Arbor, MI.
      2. Transcriptional Regulators are Upregulated in the Substantia Nigra of Parkinson’s Disease Patients. Marianne Cowherd(1) and Inhan Lee(2): (1)Community High School, (2)miRcore, Ann Arbor, MI.
  4. To identify talented miRcore volunteers for a mentored advanced research project.
    1. Publication
      1. H. Kabat, L. Tunkle, and I. Lee.   ceRNA Search Method Identified a MET-activated Subgroup Among EGFR DNA Amplified Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing  22, 438-448 (2017).
    2. DREAM challenge participation
      1. Minjun Kim under the mentorship of Prof. Yuanfang Guan (Univ. of Michigan). Team PureMichigan. Tied 2nd place in the Disease Module Identification Challenge. 2016.
      2. Team those kids without phds. 11th place in Alzheimers Disease Big Data DREAM Challenge 1 Subchallenge 2. 2014.
      3. Team FastRun. 42nd rank in NIEHS-NCATS-UNC DREAM Toxicogenetics Challenge Subchallenge 1. 2013.
      4. Jungsoo Chang (6th) and Marianne Cowherd (16th) in NCI-DREAM, Drug Sensitivity and Drug Synergy Challenge Subchallenge 1. (unofficially ranked by DREAM; submitted after the challenge due date) 2012.
    3. Science Fair participation
      1. Neerja Garikipati, Semi Finalist of Siemens Competition. 2016.
      2. Grace Ganzel, 2nd Place Grant Award at the Southeast Michigan Science Fair (invited to Intel International Science and Engineering Fair) 2014.

 

Scholarship for students with free or reduced price lunch

We have a limited number of partial scholarships available for students.  If you would like to apply for one, please submit the copies of the following documents.

 

  1. First two pages of Federal income tax return for 2016 or 2015 (if you did not file for 2016 yet).
  2. Proof of free lunch or reduced price lunch.
  3. Please have your student answer the following questions: Why do you want to take this camp? What are your favorite subjects and why?
  4. Please indicate how much you can provide of the total fee as well.

Please mail it to:

miRcore, summer camp scholarship, 2929 Plymouth Rd. Ste 207, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 (We will inform you of our decision via email).