Internship Experiences

Internship Website

Here is a link to the Life Science Internship homepage. It explains how to get an internship and then includes several internships that are distributed by region.

http://lifesciences.byu.edu/studentservices/Internships/Internship_Guide/Howtogetaninternship.aspx

Paid Internship position in Biotechnology in CA
Job title:  Student Intern-NTR H&B New Technology R&D
DepartmentH & B New Tech R & D
Company:  Access Business Group - 460
Location/Worksite: Buena Park
Duration: 3 to 6 months
Paid Intership

Job description
A graduate student working in a technical area of the corporation on a temporary, full time work assignment. Work assignments will be of a project nature which is meaningful to the intern’s field of study. Technical areas of the company for internship purposes are defined as the Engineering, Chemical and Quality disciplines. Interns will be given an opportunity to apply their knowledge in a real world work environment with the guidance of a mentor. The skills developed from this internship will be a vital component of the intern’s professional development.
The internship in the New Technology Group will be primarily responsible for evaluation of microarray and literature mining of genomics data and use of the data for various nutritional investigational purposes.
This internship is located at Nutrilite in Buena Park, CA.  
NOTE:  This internship is restricted to US graduates and Permanent Residents
Requirements
Viable Candidates:  Bachelors, Masters level or PhD level students in biological sciences, biochemistry, computational biology, bioinformatics or computer science students with a background in, or knowledge of, biological (specifically microarray) databases.  Pathway analysis would be part of this internship program.  Familiarity with Linux and Windows (preferably) operating systems.  For the right candidate this internship can be extended to six months. 
Additionally, strong interpersonal and communication skills are a must.

Please send resumes to the following email address:
sramakrishnan@nutrilite.com

Opportunity in Japan
Hello All!

I recently received an email about an internship opportunity for various majors, including Life Science, at a top rated bank in Japan. They want people who are fluent in Japanese. It doesn't say a lot about the opportunity, but it looks like something that would be right up the BioTech alley. I don't think that I can attach the word document about it here, so I will email it to one or two of your club leaders, or you can email me at interns_mmbio@byu.edu and I will forward the email to you.  Please be aware that in order to get this internship you will need to complete an interview September 19th, which is coming up. Interviews need to be scheduled ahead of time, so get the information from me or someone else, FAST. If you're worried about a scholarship or credits or anything like that, then feel free to talk to me and I can try and help you work things out, thanks!

Jenna Saunders Meeks

Internship Coordinator

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology

751 WIDB

Brigham Young University

Phone: 801-422-2479

Fax: 801-422-0519

interns_mmbio@byu.edu

Resume Samples
Hi All,

My name is Michael and I know that you guys are looking for internship information.  I found a book at Barnes & Noble called "Internships" by Peterson's and another one from Vault.  They both look pretty good.  Also, you may want to view some of the Sample Resumes on ResumeEdge.com.  They were pretty helpful.

Internship for foreigners

Hi everyone,

I am writing to you to ask for any information about internship opportunities for graduated student from other country.

On July 2006 I graduated from the university (Agriculture University in Poland) and I obtained master degree in Biotechnology. After graduation I did an internship in Biotech Company in UK. Currently I am looking for internship programme in biotechnology area in US or Asian country. I am interested in protein stabilization, molecular biology, physiology and plants’ genetics and GM plants registration.

I will appreciate any information/advice how I should look and apply for an internship.

Thanks!

Justy

My e-mail:  koksinelka@interia.pl

To Elliot--inquiry about your China summer internship

Hi Elliot,

I'm trying to find a biology research internship in China, and I found your posting about your experience really interesting. I couldn't find an email address for you, so I'm wondering whether you could email me and talk about how you find your internship. I would really appreciate any insight or advice you have. My email address is pei@uchicago.edu 

Thank you so much!

Sincerely,

Susan Pei

thanks!
Thanks for all the information you provided about internships and graduate school at the meeting a few weeks ago.  I am so excited to get an internship!  

Just wanted to add that if you go to the Home -> Archives page, there are some internship files linked to our 18 Oct 2006 meeting. Lauren put them together and they provide very useful advice to getting internships in biotechnology, genetics, etc. 

Internships in China
Anyone interested in interning at the Beijing Institute of Genomics, feel free to contact me. I worked there over last summer and had a great time. I can give you additional information and get you in touch with one of the project leaders.

Speaking Mandarin is not necessary in the lab, and the Institute works on a variety of projects. They have teams in proteomics, bioinformatics, genetics, virology, etc. The Institute also has labs in Hangzhou.

Business Biotech Research

I will be going to Argentina to present a paper in Biotechnology Business in Bioagriculture and Biofoods. I am currently researching Finnish and American companies and will start writing my paper during spring. I am working closely with Dr. Hansen to get published in a scientific journal. If you have any questions of getting involved with business research I have some pointers to give you (i.e. professors who would possibly like to work with you). Just email me at afelin@gmail.com

Academic Internships
Hey everyone.  This summer I will be going to the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO to work as a technician in a molecular plant pathology lab.  I interned there two summers ago and had a wonderful experience.  The members of my lab asked if I knew any really great students interested in interning there this summer, so if you are or want more information, email me pitt.lauren@gmail.com.  

China internship
I guess we either need to ax these message boards or start using them. So I'll write the first post here.

This summer I'll be doing an internship in China with a genomics research institute. Here's how I found it.

I'm studying bioinformatics and on the side learning Chinese, so I really wanted to find an internship that would meld the two interests (since that's the career I'm sort of envisioning right now). So I started searching...and thankfully, searching early, since with an idea like this, you pretty much have to create the opportunity yourself, and it takes time and work.

The Kennedy Center wasn't helpful at all - all they did was refer me over and over to their website, or to a list of unhelpful websites. The Biology Internship office was nice and tried to be helpful, but they didn't have any leads, just ideas.

So I started networking with professors. This was a great experience for many reasons, one being the fact that it got me talking to professors that I never had a good enough excuse to bother. I was surprised some of the connections they had.

In the meantime, I hit up online directories of biotech companies and started compiling a list of phone numbers and websites. It was a little tricky, since many sites were in Chinese, but some looked promising.

I had previously emailed a professor who was away on a sabbatical, and he wrote back suggesting that I check out one particular research institute. This is where I got amazingly lucky. I found the out-dated English version of their website, stumbled upon a faculty CV with an email address. I wrote a descriptive email outlining my goals, grades, lab experience, and personality. It was a shot in the dark, but I got a response almost immediately! One lab director, who had studied in the US, was coincidentally on her way to SLC for the American Human Genetics conference, we ended up having a great conversation together over the phone. The rest is history.

The great thing is that I had other leads that may have also proven fruitful. It was a great experience in networking, and seriously, anyone looking for internships abroad need not be afraid to try. I hope this is helpful; I'll post again after the summer to say how it went!