Antimicrobial Resistance (TPAMR)

The application deadline is Friday, January 31, 2020 (11:59 pm CST).
(All components of your application, including recommendations, must be received by the deadline.)

Interviews: February 24, 2020
Appointment Start date: July 1, 2020.
Trainees will have the opportunity for reappointment (total of two years) if progress is satisfactory.

Note: Primary mentors may sponsor only one applicant.

The Gulf Coast Consortia is committed to providing equal opportunity in training for individuals with disabilities and individuals from racial and ethnic groups who are currently under-represented in STEM fields. We welcome applications from all qualified trainees, regardless of ethnicity, race, or disability status. All GCC member institutions are ADAAA compliant and have offices of disability support services that provide accommodations and support services to trainees, faculty, staff, and visitors.

Selecting your mentors:

• Identify a primary mentor, who will be a member of the TPAMR Training Faculty. (typically, this will be the faculty in whose lab you are a postdoc, clinical fellow or PharmD).
• Select at least one co-mentor from the current list of TPAMR Training Faculty.
• Select an additional co-mentor either from the current list of TPAMR Training Faculty or one who is an Early Stage Investigator (ESIs, are not yet TPAMR faculty).  Current ESI faculty participating in TPAMR are: Jessica Galloway-Peña, PhD, Asst. Professor, Infectious Diseases, MDA; Blake Hanson, PhD, Asst. Professor, Center for Infectious Diseases, UTH School of Public Health; William Miller, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, UTH; Truc Tran, PharmD, Division of Infectious Diseases, UTH.
  *NOTE: It is preferable that mentors come from different departments and different institutions.

Components of the application

Items needed from others:

1. Mentor Recommendation form from all mentors (download form). Mentors are to email their completed forms directly to herrera@rice.edu.
2. Two (2) Letters of Recommendation from people other than your mentors. The recommenders should email them directly to herrera@rice.edu. These letters must be received by the application due date. These recommendations are not required to be on letterhead or signed, as long as the name, title, department and institutional affiliation are included in the text. These recommenders may be former professors, employers, etc., and describe qualities that they observed in the applicant which qualify him/her to be a TPAMR trainee.

Items needed from trainee applicant:

Email all following items in one email to herrera@rice.edu:

1. Fellowship Application form (download form). Components besides educational background and published papers include:
2. • Project description
   • Laymen’s description of project
   • Mentoring and Training Plan
   • Career Goals
   • Curriculum – Complete the curriculum section with your proposed courses or workshops. Note: TPAMR requires a Foundations course, offered at UTHealth each fall.
   • International Component – Indicate if you are interested in pursuing the optional international component in Colombia.
   • Brief Individual Development Plan (IDP)
3. CV or resume: Email to herrera@rice.edu a current resume or CV outlining your professional work experience and academic history, including the dates you received your degree(s).
4. Transcripts are required from postdoctoral applicants: official copies are preferred, but unofficial copies will be accepted. Email the following as PDFs (not photos)
   • Undergraduate transcripts from all institutions you attended
   • Master’s degree transcript (if applicable)
   • Doctoral degree transcript, which includes a listing of courses attended (not just a diploma); documentation must also include the official receipt date of your doctoral degree (e.g. “conferred May 9, 2019”). If the transcript is in a foreign language, you must submit an English translation for all degrees; you may use a copy of the transcripts that you provided to your institution.
5. Proof of US or Dual citizenship (birth certificate or passport; a driver’s license is not proof of citizenship) or Permanent Residency (“Green Card”): email a clear PDF scan (not a photo). You must already have received your Green Card to be eligible to apply. If a Permanent Resident is appointed to a fellowship, s/he must provide a notarized copy of the card to the GCC to submit to the agency. Inquire in your department about finding a Notary Public to do this.

Interviews:

Applications are reviewed by, and selected applicants are invited to interview with, the Program Directors and the TPAMR Steering Committee. All applicants will be notified via email whether or not they have been selected for an interview. Interviews are a total of 15-20 minutes (8-minute presentation + Q&A) and are held within one month of the application deadline. Interviews include a brief presentation of the research project, planned coursework, and mentoring plan.

*Mentors (primary and co-mentors) are expected to attend the interview in support of their trainee.

*See the section Instructions for Interviews for details about limits on time and number of slides.