PAID FELLOWSHIP Opportunity in Fall 2021 for Biology Scholars

Commitment: 10 hours per week, 5 hours required between 9am-5pm and 5 hours flexible to meet your schedule
Work location: 5 hours in-person at UC Berkeley campus, 5 hours remote
Equipment requirements: Computer and regular/reliable internet service for remote work
Hourly rate: $18 per hour – paid student worker position (no work study requirement)
How to apply: Send CV, a short cover letter describing your interests and motivations for joining our lab, and names and contact details of three references to John Marshall at [email protected]
First review date: August 1st 2021 (apply by this date for full consideration)

Fellowship description:

The Marshall Lab at UC Berkeley is seeking an undergraduate student for a part-time research fellowship to assist in mathematical and computational aspects of a project to engineer mosquitoes incapable of transmitting malaria, dengue and Zika to humans. Our work on this project spans collaborations with molecular biologists, ecologists and epidemiologists. We develop mathematical models and software to fit models to data generated in the lab and predict how gene-edited mosquitoes could be expected to perform in the wild. As the technology develops, considerations regarding field trial design and implications for disease transmission to humans are becoming increasingly relevant.

We are interested in an undergraduate research fellow who has strengths in computer science and/or mathematics, as well as an interest in the biological sciences, including one or more of molecular biology, ecology or epidemiology. The research fellow will work with postdocs and graduate students in our research group on a project that emphasizes their skill set and is aligned with our research program. A time commitment of 10 hours per week is expected, with flexible hours to be coordinated with other research group members. Significant contributions to the project will have the potential to lead to co-authorship on research publications and may form the basis for an undergraduate research dissertation.

This fellowship is exclusively available to undergraduate UC Berkeley students in the Biology Scholars Program and is a paid position. Extension to subsequent semesters is possible based on interest and performance. Interested students should send their CV, a short cover letter describing their interests and motivations for joining our lab, and names and contact details of three references to John Marshall at [email protected]. 

More information about our research group is available at https://www.marshalllab.com/ and other group members are listed at https://www.marshalllab.com/people.html. Research groups that we collaborate with include the UC Irvine Malaria Initiative (http://malaria.bio.uci.edu/), the UC Davis Vector Genetics Lab (https://vectorgeneticslab.ucdavis.edu/), the Akbari Lab at UCSD (https://www.akbarilab.com/), and the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society at UCSD (http://tigs.ucsd.edu/). The successful fellow will have access to this excellent network of UC scientists.