The Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo, directed by the remarkable Paul Vanouse, are now accepting residency applications for the 2017-18 academic year. Deadline is June 30!
More info here: http://www.buffalo.edu/gem/
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Application for Interdisciplinary Residency
Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts (www.buffalo.edu/gem/coalesce) is a hybrid studio laboratory dedicated to enabling hands-on
creative engagement with the tools and technologies of the life sciences, and is a major facet of the Genome, Environment and
Microbiome Community of Excellence at the University at Buffalo. Coalesce is currently accepting proposals for Biological
Art residencies. We accept 4–5 residents per academic year. A residency is active for the entire year, however actual periods in
residence will vary and should be mutually agreed upon by Coalesce and the artist. We suggest a minimum of one month in
planned residence and we encourage residents to stay for two or three months as residents will likely be learning many new
techniques and biological experiments often require long incubation periods. Each resident will receive technical support,
access to laboratory equipment, and up to $1500 in laboratory materials and supplies.
Access to Laboratory Equipment
In the Coalesce lab you will have access to a sterile hood, fume hoods, an anaerobic glove-box, a gassing station, a
thermocycler, an autoclave, incubators, water baths, electrophoresis equipment, DNA transilluminators, a digital imaging
station, a bioinformatics station, centrifuges, dissecting and compound microscopes, and other equipment.
The University at Buffalo is a premiere research institution that contains many facilities across the arts and sciences for imaging,
analysis, processing, visualization, machining and fabrication of all kinds with which researchers are encouraged to engage. Coalesce
residents will have access to many of these services, including Sanger and next-generation sequencing, spectroscopy, electron,
confocal and fluorescence microscopy, and many others.
Structure of Residency
• Each resident artist will pair with a scientist at the University at Buffalo who will advise broadly on a strategy to complete the
work and assist with the process of ensuring environmental health and safety compliance.
• Residents will have access to the research laboratory
• Coalesce staff will provide training, assistance and consultation.
• Residents will have access to a range of university services for the duration of their residency.
• Residents will present their work (or a related topic) at least once during Coalesce monthly discussion forums.
• Residents should list Coalesce and GEM in their project credits. For example: “This project supported by Coalesce: Center
for Biological Art, and the Genome, Environment and Microbiome Community of Excellence, University at Buffalo.”
Selection Criteria
Quality and originality of proposal. Feasibility of project. Applicability to our community strengths: genomics, environment
and microbiome.
Application Procedure
As part of your submission, please prepare a single PDF file containing the following:
1. A description of the proposed project (500 words.)
2. An artist statement including links to previous projects and their relationships to the proposed project (500 words.)
3. A description of the specific components of the project to take place at Coalesce and a rough timeline. Be sure to
specify if activities are to take place primarily in the Fall or Spring academic semester.
4. A two-page curriculum vitae.
Submit this proposal via the application form at www.buffalo.edu/genomeenvironmentmicrobiome/coalesce/residency-
application.html.
Review of applications will begin on June 30, 2017. Applying by this date will allow the fullest consideration of your
proposal. Applications received after June 30 will be reviewed monthly on a rolling basis.
