Undergraduate Summer Research Position

Funded by an NSF Career Award, the Carvunis lab is offering a paid 10 week-long summer position running from May 31st, 2022 to August 12th, 2022. The undergraduates will learn how to design and execute a research experiment while practicing various wet-lab techniques including cloning, microbial phenotyping, high throughput robotics, and bioinformatics. The undergraduates will meet weekly with their summer mentor, participate in the laboratory’s journal clubs, attend small group meetings, local seminars, and present their research at the weekly group meeting at the end of the summer. Interested applicants should reach out to Kate McCourt with any question (kmm325 [at] pitt [dot] edu). The link to the advertisement is here.