Intern, Immunobiology

IAVI • Jersey City, NJ

9h

About The Position

The Immunobiology Team at IAVI’s Design and Development Laboratory (DDL) evaluates the immune responses elicited by vaccine candidates in animal models. Modern tools for sequence analysis and structure prediction can aid significantly in the design of these candidates by assessing conservation of immunogens across global strains and anticipating the effect of mutations. The Intern will use computational tools to support the research conducted by the Immunobiology team.

Requirements

• Comfort with command-line tools (bash/zsh).
• Basic experience with R, Python and/or similar for data analysis is expected.
• The intern must be able to troubleshoot independently and document work thoroughly.
• Majors such as Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics, or related areas; Rising Sophomores and above.
• Familiarity with command-line interface computing and basic coding experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with sequence alignment tools is helpful but not mandatory.
• Prior experience with sequence alignment tools is desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support vaccine candidate design by applying modern sequence analysis and/or structure prediction tools.
• Provide various support to experiments and activities within the lab.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed