Center for Causal Consequences of Variation (CCV)
The Church Lab (Department of Genetics) at Harvard Medical School is offering paid, 10-week summer undergraduate research internships for students interested in a research career in genome sciences. Research Interns will participate in a variety of projects with the Center for Causal Consequences Variation (CCV), a Center for Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) focused on development of cutting edge methods for genomics that hold promise for significantly advancing biological and medical research. CCV is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, and funding for these internships is through the Diversity Action Plan of the CCV.
This is a great
opportunity to gain research experience in the following areas of genome
science research:
·
Molecular
Biology
·
Computational
Biology
·
Genetics
and Development
·
Cellular
Biology
·
Bioinformatics
·
Biotechnology
·
High
Throughput Sequencing
·
And
more!
By
participating in CCV summer internships, students will gain a broader knowledge
of genomics and bioinformatics and experience outstanding cutting edge
scientific research. Research Interns will have the opportunity to:
·
Work
closely with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and scientists
·
Work
on a supervised independent project
·
Attend
lab meetings, read and discuss recent literature related to their project
·
Attend
seminars given by scientists and researchers from Harvard, MIT and the Broad
Institute
·
Present
research to other students, scientists, and mentors.
Duration: 10-week internships will begin in
June 2012 (date TBD). All interns are
expected to devote 40 hours per week.
Housing: Undergraduate interns will receive
assistance in securing housing.
Stipend: $4,000
Eligibility:
Outstanding students who have
finished their freshmen, sophomore or junior years and who have interest in
research careers are
encouraged to apply. Please note that students must be either US
citizens or permanent US residents (green card holder) from an underrepresented
minority group. (Click here for NIH
guidelines on what minority groups are considered underrepresented in the
biomedical sciences.) Undergraduate applicants must be enrolled in a college/university.
Application
Requirements: Application
Form (PDF,
MS
Word), Official Transcript, Research Statement, and Two Letters of
Recommendation
Deadline: All application materials are due
on a rolling basis. NOTE: April 23, 2012: Admissions for summer
2012 are now complete and no more applications are being accepted! Please try again in 2013. Thank you for your interest!
Contact: Please email your application and supporting documents to both Alex Hernandez-Siegel (ahs@genetics.med.harvard.edu) and Yveta Masarova (ymasar@genetics.med.harvard.edu). Items that must be sent by regular mail can go to Alex Hernandez-Siegel.
Last modified: 4/26/2012 8:59 AM by John Aach