Application and Workshop Fees

Application

To apply, please complete the application form here. The application deadline is Monday, 30th April 2018. All applicants will be notified by Monday, 21st May 2018.

To keep the workshop as personal as possible, we are limiting participation to 36 attendees. Each application will be reviewed by the instructor team, and we will select 36 students who will be offered a place on the course. There will be a waitlist in the event a selected student cancels and a place on the course opens up.

In reviewing the applications, we will be looking for:

• Familiarity with the MinION platform - maybe you’ve run one, maybe you’ve analysed data from someone else’s MinION run, maybe your lab has just purchased one
• Basic proficiency on the command line - you will need to be comfortable working with files in a Unix/Linux environment
• Enthusiasm about using the MinION in future projects

We also expect students to attend all five days of the course, and to be able to pay the workshop fees within two weeks of being accepted to Singapore Nanopore Camp 2018.

Places will be offered based on merit, but amongst equally qualified candidates, preference will be given to local candidates, including students, faculty, and staff based in academic institutions in Singapore.

The 36 successful students will be offered places on the course and the remaining applicants will be assigned a waitlist number. Accepted applicants must confirm their registration and pay the workshop fee by noon, Thursday 7th June 2018 or else their place will be offered to someone on the waitlist. Cancellations will open places to waitlisted students; the waitlist will be kept active until Friday, 14th September 2018.

Workshop Fees

The workshop fee is SG$1,400, subject to 7% GST. Singapore Nanopore Camp 2018 runs on a break-even basis and we’ve calculated the workshop fee so as to cover our major expenses. For transparency purposes, the bulk of the workshop revenue - 60% - covers costs related to instruction (flights, accommodation, meal per diems, and a small honorarium for our instructors, all of whom are taking time away from their families and their laboratories to run the course), while 30% covers the costs of the MinION flow cells and reagents, and 10% covers hospitality expenses (the opening reception, coffee breaks, sequencing field trip and closing dinner). Please note that we cannot provide tuition receipts for income tax purposes.

Cancellations before 15th August (Singapore time zone) will receive a 50% refund of their workshop fee. Cancellations from 15th August onwards will forfeit the workshop fee.