Intern/Aide

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

ID: 7300035 (Ref.No. 21543-en_US)
Posted: 1 month ago

Job Description

Summary

With the recent progress of next generation sequencing and long read technologies, it is an exciting time for the medical genetics field. Deciphering the individual genomic variations such as single by up to multiple kilo base pair variations and their relation on DNA molecules is key to improve our understanding. These insights are key to predict their implications of these variations on genes and thus proteins.

Job Purpose

Provides temporary administrative or laboratory support to a department while gaining practical work experience.

Job Duties

Explores genome visualization tools like IGV or UCSC Genome Browser.
Assists in building simple pipelines for structural variation detection.
Support data quality assessments under supervision.
Helps analyze pathogen genomes for infectious disease research.
Contributes to group projects on genomic workflows using long-read sequencing.
Prepares and presents findings from assigned tasks for peer review.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be enrolled in high school or be a high school graduate (or equivalent secondary education) or enrolled in an institution of higher education.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.

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