The Vertex Single Cell Genomics Co-Op program is a 6-month experiential training program for students currently working towards an advanced degree in Systems Biology, Developmental Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or other related fields. If you are passionate, collaborative, and growth-minded, a co-op at Vertex will help you gain meaningful experience in our analytical sciences functional areas and serve as a launchpad for your career. Please note that Vertex reviews applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close this job posting prior to the listed deadline. The co-op student's primary role is applying bioinformatics skills to interpretate bulk and single cell RNA sequencing data to deepen our understanding of the stem cell differentiation process, and monitor the differentiation progress. Specifically, they will use bioinformatics tools, such as Seurat or Scanpy, to map time course differentiation trajectory and identify potential correct and wrong trajectories of our process. Using the knowledge gained in this activity, the candidate will then nominate lists of genes to enable development of other RNA-based assays to closely monitor stem cell differentiation process. The co-op student will also assist in wet lab construction of single cell RNA sequencing libraries, and operation of Illumina sequencers.