Fall 2019 orientation activities:
| Sep. 10 | Campus-wide new graduate student orientation |
| Sep. 16-20 | BISB boot camp (schedule) in SSPPS 1160 |
| Sep. 19-20 | Campus-wide new international graduate student orientation |
| Sep. 23 | Bootcamp Challenge Ropes Course at UCSD Forest |
| Sep. 25 | Campus-wide new teaching assistant orientations by ASE and The Commons (for BISB, usually applies to 2nd-3rd year students, not incoming students) |
| Sep. 25 | BISB Exchange at Sanford Consortium, Roth Auditorium |
The week-long boot camp for incoming first-year students of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program aims to:
- Introduce new students to the Program, its faculty and students, the courses, and research opportunities.
- Foster student community and collaboration among students of the first year class, and to students in upper classes.
- Convey the bar for the core curriculum and key classes, as well as the research excitement and work ethic characteristic of the program's best students.
- Provide incoming students with an opportunity to remedy deficiencies prior to taking the core classes.
In addition to boot camp, new graduate students should also attend the Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Exchange, and various campus-wide orientations:
- New Graduate Student Orientation (mandatory for all new graduate students)
- International Student Orientation (mandatory for all new international students). Follow the link for information on registering and what to bring.
- TA orientation and training:
- In September, there are campus-wide teaching assistant orientations by ASE and The Commons, usually announced by email rather than a website link. These are for students doing their first TAship that school year; other programs have TAships in the first year, but for BISB, this usually applies to 2nd-3rd year students.
- Throughout the school year, The Commons has many workshops and other programs available for graduate student TAs.