Bioinformatics Careers Hunter College

CAREER OPTIONS Computational Biologist

Each summer the ICBP, the Integrative Cancer Biology Program of the NCI (National Cancer Institute) supports a Summer Cancer Research Fellowship program for selected undergraduates. The selected candidates will spend 9 weeks at one of 12 Centers for Cancer Systems Biology. In 2014, the program will run from June 2 to August 1 at MSKCC, and applications will be accepted between December 2, 2013 and January 2, 2014. The program's website is: http://icbp.nci.nih.gov/education-and-outreach/summer

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the largest science and energy laboratory in the federal Department of Energy. Areas of research include materials science, nautron sciences, energy science, high-performance computing, systems biology and national security. The internship runs for10 weeks, from June 2 to August 8 of 2014, with participants being engaged in a research project under the direction of a laboratory scientist/engineer. Each participant will get a $500 weekly stipend and limited travel reimbursement/housing allowance. To be eligible, you must be a full-time undergraduate student with a minimum GPA of 3.0. The application deadline is January 10, 2014. To learn more about the program and how to apply, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSCdUJ8cavw

The new NIH supported Post Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) is now accepting applications. The program is designed to provice a year long intensive laboratory based research experience to underrepresented minority college graduates who want to pursue a PhD or MD/PhD in a research intensive program, but lack sufficient research experience. Additional information and the application are available at http://einstein.yu.edu/education/phd/prep-program/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/broad-institute-director-finds-power-in-numbers.html?_r=1&emc=eta1Small excerpt: "His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics, in a subfield so esoteric and specialized that even if someone gets a great result, it can be appreciated by only a few dozen people in the entire world. But, he left that world behind and, with no formal training, entered another; the world of molecular biology, medicine and genomics."

"Soon Dr. Lander had become a central figure in the effort to sequence the human genome, leading the largest of the three centers that did most of the work. He combined his mathematics and the biology and chemistry he'd learned hanging out in labs. And he added insights about industrial organization, achieved in his business school days, to streamline the effort and control costs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/business/dna-sequencing-caught-in-deluge-of-data.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 Small excerpt: "The field of genomics is caught in a data deluge. DNA sequencing is becoming faster and cheaper at a pace far outstripping Moore's law, which describes the rate at which computing gets faster and cheaper. The result is that the ability to determine DNA sequencing is starting to outrun the ability of researchers to store, transmit and especially to analyze the data."

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Bioinformatics Careers Hunter College