Intern Bioinformatics Life Technologies - Foster City, CA

 


Intern - Bioniformatics
Employment Dates: May/June 2013-August 2013

Responsibilities

You will be working in the Ampliseq (tm) bioinformatics team of the ION Torrent division of Life Technologies, designing and working on methods for the design of highly multiplexed PCR assays that amplify transcripts, genes and genomic regions for sequencing on ION Torrent next-generation DNA sequencers.

Requirements
Intern candidates must be currently enrolled at an accredited college or university pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD program. Graduating students are eligible only if they are returning to school the following semester to pursue the next level degree.

Preferred Majors
Bioinformatics, or Biology/Comp. Sci double major

The Company
At Life Technologies, we believe in the power of science to transform life and the power of people to make it happen. If you’re ready to take charge of your impact in the world, you can do it here. We re-orient medicine toward preventing disease, unveil the wonders of personalized and regenerative medicine, ensure the safety of our food and water, deepen our understanding of human genetics, help to sustain the environment and empower a new generation of crime fighting with 21st-century forensic tools. We’re a diverse group of individuals united in the privilege of shaping discovery and improving life. Created by the combination of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc. in 2008, Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE) is a global biotechnology tools and solutions company dedicated to improving the human condition.
Life Technologies - 21 hours ago