Graduate students:

We have an opening for one rotating graduate student. Projects will be tailored to the interests of the individual. Once a final lab is chosen, a graduate student usually works on two projects initially which can be of the same type or different (see below).

 

Projects include:

Mouse models of diseases; measuring effects on DNA repair in development and over age as well as other phenotypes. A choice of mouse models are available to work with. Each model is associated with a human disease, usually with early onset cancer and sometimes with accelerated aging phenotypes. This project will require molecular biology, tissue culture and significant amounts of animal work.

Bioinformatic and computational analysis to reveal global biological systems. Using data that we have generated from multiple genomic screens, this project will examine protein interactomes and phenomes using bioinformatic methodologies. This project is anticipated to have a large in silico component, manipulating databases, limited computer programming and using several bioinformatic programs. Hypotheses generated will be tested in the lab using genetics, molecular biology and tissue culture methods.