[徵人] Bioinformatics Intern/Distance Intern
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標題: [徵人] Bioinformatics Intern/Distance Intern
時間: Tue Sep 13 01:56:03 2011
Project Description:
Fall 2011 Bioinformatics Intern/distance internship. At this time, we have
two openings for research
intern/distance intern at the Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory with faculty
affiliated with Harvard and MIT. Our projects involve machine learning and
network analysis method development, and application to bring bottom-up
data-driven (e.g. Bayesian network learning) and top-down knowledge-driven
approaches (ontologies) together and abstract out key information/underlying
relationships. These projects involve work with a laboratory affiliated with
the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard/MIT Division of
Health Sciences and Technology.
There are two opportunities that require strong programming skills
(medicine/molecular biology, CS, engineering, math, and/or physics background
a plus). For one opportunity, a strong background in
medicine/molecular biology, genetics, and evolution would be a plus. For the
other opportunity, a background in probability, network theory, linear
algebra, machine learning, and/or signal processing
would be a plus.
One research project involves work on biomolecular and knowledge networks.
Specifically, we are looking at learning new knowledge (applicable to
diseases) from large, interconnected biological
datasets. This project involves developing inference framework from
biomedical literature through cutting edge learning and inference techniques
over Bayesian networks.
The other opportunity involves working with genome-scale data to capture the
complex pattern of dependency among causal genetic and environmental variants
for several diseases and behaviors such as lung cancer, pancreatic cancer,
alcoholism, and nicotine dependence. The goal of this project is to integrate
the small to moderate effect size of many causal variants underlying complex
traits to obtain a
comprehensive picture of the traits. We will construct prognostic models able
to predict the risk of developing of the traits.
Some features of this particular opportunity include:
- Potential for a high-impact publication by the end of the opportunity
(previous students alums have won national awards and have been accepted to
top graduate/medical programs including Harvard MD/PhD).
- Networking at Harvard/MIT community via lab meetings, journal club,
seminars, etc.
- A self-contained project that can be done within a semester or two- but
also has room for expansion for the ambitious student.
- Flexible work hours
- Independence (can be a plus or minus- i.e. student must be highly motivated
and put in the time to be successful).
- Flexible start/end dates Please note that this opportunity may be either
for-credit, experience, or potentially funding.
- Can work from abroad and/or come to US for summers, term, etc. In the
past, this led to a master thesis for the international student.
- Please apply asap as the 2 positions are being filled on rolling basis.
Contact: Please send a CV to Aaron Merlob at (alterovitzra@mit.edu) if you
are interested.
http://www.mit.edu/~gil/
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