Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology
The Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology (GGSB) is an interdisciplinary PhD granting program that brings together over 70 biologists from many academic departments. The GGSB program is aimed at training PhD scholars for careers as independent scientists in basic and applied biomedical research and education.
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Spotlight: UC COMBO Unlocking the code for a new generation of scientists
Maggie Steiner, Human Genetics PhD’25, vividly recounts the first time she saw UC COMBO, a trainee-led organization at the University of Chicago, come to life.
“We were in a room with 70 middle schoolers,” she said, recalling the inaugural workshop the group held about three years ago at Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy on Chicago’s West Side. “The programming ran smoothly, our volunteers were amazing, and I remember just standing there thinking—this is what we’ve been working toward.”
That workshop, part of a renewed initiative to bring computational biology into middle and high school classrooms, marked the successful relaunch and rebranding of UC COMBO (short for Computational Biology Outreach) after the pandemic forced an earlier version of the group to pause operations.
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