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MGI Undergraduate Scholars Program
Location: St. Louis, MOAgency: McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington Univ-SOM
Due Date: February 15, 2024
GPA: 3.00
Stipend: 4,500.00
Description: This 10-week summer program focuses on engaging students in mentored research, training them in scientific presentation and the basics of computer programming, and preparing them for a career in research-based science. Our Summer 2024 program will run from June 3 through August 2, 2024. The application for the 2024 program will open in November, 2023 and will close February 15, 2024. Please use check back on this page for the application link. Students receive a competitive stipend of at least $4,500. In addition, housing on the Washington University campus and travel are paid for by the program. All students participating in the OGR Undergraduate Scholars programs will take part in cutting-edge research as part of an independent research team in a lab at the Washington University School of Medicine. All students will give oral presentations on their research findings as part of a Closing Symposium at the end of the program. Selected labs: Available projects for OGR participants come from essentially all fields of biology, with a common thread being that all project leverage genomics-based approaches. Below are a small sampling of current OGR mentors and relevant research areas Luis Batista – stem cells, iPS cells, telomerase, DNA repair, DNA damage, tissue dysfunction, telomeres Barak Cohen – systems biology, enhancers and gene regulatory networks, non-coding genetic variation, computational biology, genomics Kerry Kornfeld – genetics, cell biology, and developmental biology Christopher Maher – non-coding RNAs, lncRNAs, cancer genomics, transcriptome, bioinformatics Rob Mitra – Deciphering the transcriptional regulatory networks that control development, single-molecule proteomics. Matt Walter – cancer, functional genomics, gene expression profiling, hematopoiesis, stem cells, tumor biology Ting Wang – Evolutionary characterization of gene regulatory networks, biological function, and regulation of transposable elements, computational epigenomics.
Contact Information
Phone: 314-286-1800Email: outreach.MGI@wustl.edu
Web Site: https://www.genome.wustl.edu/outreach/ogr/ogr-usp/
