Responsibilities
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.
- Support vaccine candidate design by applying modern sequence analysis and/or structure prediction tools.
- The role requires comfort with command-line tools (bash/zsh).
- Basic experience with R, Python and/or similarfor data analysis is expected.
- The intern must be able to troubleshoot independently and document work thoroughly.
- Experience with sequence alignment tools is helpful but not mandatory.
- Provide various support to experiments and activities within the lab.
Desired Majors / Minimum Qualifications + Skills:
*Include relevant courses, college year/graduation year (e.g., rising sophomores and above), and preferred majors if applicable.
Majors such as Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics, or related areas; Rising Sophomores and above.
This role will focus on bioinformatics within a vaccine design and development lab, and candidates will need to have familiarity with command-line interface computing and basic coding experience. Prior experience with sequence alignment tools is desirable but not required.