Summer internship scheme 2012

If you are thinking about a career in science and want to gain experience in cutting-edge research techniques, we hope you will consider coming to work with us through our Summer Internship scheme.

By becoming an intern, you will be a member of one of our research teams, and your work will be an important contribution to the group’s discoveries. Summer Internships are an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a research group and to get career advice from fellow students and mentors.

They are also a great way to meet new people; we are a small, friendly department, located in the heart of London. We hope you will come and join us.

About our research

• The research in the department is highly interdisciplinary.
• The tools of biochemistry, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science and mathematics are all being used to probe the detailed molecular interactions involved in maintaining health and causing or curing disease. The techniques we use include: X-ray crystallography; Electron microscopy; Single molecule biophysics; Computational biology.
• Your Summer Internship will allow you to gain experience in some of these techniques and to work with some of the leading experts in these fields.

Eligibility

• Our Summer Internships are largely funded by the Nuffield Foundation or other learned societies. In order to be eligible for a research bursary from these organisations you must be:
• taking an undergraduate science degree
• considering research as a career
• expecting to achieve a First Class or good Upper Second Class degree result (references will be required)
• in the middle years of your degree e.g. the internship will take place in the Summer vacation before the start of the final year of study
• registered at a UK university for the majority of your degree

Working hours

• Working hours will be 35 hours per week for approximately eight weeks, or part-time over a longer period.

Stipend

• Summer Internships will last 6-8 weeks. You can expect to receive a stipend of between £180 and 200 per week during your internship.

How to apply

• A list of potential projects is available on the ISMB website. Potential interns should contact the relevant supervisor by the end of January 2011 or by the date specified for particular projects.

Further information

Please contact us if you have any queries about the Summer Internship scheme.