Co-op/Internships and Summer Research Opportunities
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The organizations that have already updated their sites for 2012, or offer opportunities on an annual basis are indicated by a (2012) after the co-op link. You are welcome to check the details for those organizations that have not, as of yet, updated for 2012 as the details for 2012 will likely be similar to that currently given for 2011.

This website lists opportunities from the larger Co-op/Internship and Summer Research Opportunities in the Life Sciences website that offer experience in bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology or proteonomics

In addition to the valuable experience and good pay that a Co-op or Internship will give you, very many of the Opportunities listed on this website also provide Travel Reimbursement, Housing and Meals. So, don't let concerns about living expenses or the location of an organization posted on this website prevent you from checking out an exciting and challenging Co-op or Internship position!! If travel support, housing and meals are provided, this information will almost always be included in the details about the Co-op or Internship that can be found by clicking on the co-op website next to the organization's name and location.

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Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL - co-op (2012) REU-China: Ecological and Environmental Research in an Urbanized Landscape - "three days at AAMU followed by six weeks at Nanjing Forestry University in China and the remaining three weeks again at AAMU" - "Each REU participant will receive a $3000 scholarship, paid bi-weekly for the duration of the program. Travel, housing, and research related expenses will be covered" - Research Areas include: Comparative genomics among select plant species
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX - co-op (2012) "Electronic applications will be available in December and due Jan. 10" - Summer Medical And Research Training (SMART) Program - includes projects in areas of computational biology
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME - co-op (2012) Research Experience for Undergraduates: Gulf of Maine and the World Ocean - Mentors and Project Opportunities include Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, DNA Structure and Genomics
Boston University, Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology (CELEST), Boston, MA - co-op (2012) "...experimental and/or computational approaches to the neuroscience of learning""
Broad Institute Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) "The SRPG 2012 application will be available in early December" - The Summer Research Program in Genomics
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY - co-op (2011) Key dates include Summer, 2011 - Biology is one participating department with "Faculty in structural genomics...."

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA - co-op (2012) Important dates are for 2012 - Amgen Scholars Program - "Amgen Scholarships may be offered in the following fields: Bioinformatics"
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2012) "The 2012 program dates are TBA" - Undergraduate Research Experiences in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences - "mentored research experiences in... computational biology and bioinformatics".
Center for Genomic Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2011) scroll down to CGS Summer Internship Program - Contact information provided.
Clemson University, Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson, SC - co-op (2010) need to scroll down to find information - includes...high-throughput genomics.
Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Cold Spring Harbor, NY - co-op, application (2012) Summer Undergraduate Research Program - "10-week summer program to work with senior Laboratory staff members on independent research projects in: Computational biology"
Cornell University, Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY - co-op (2012) Summer Internship in Bioinformatics

Delaware State University, College of Agriculture and Related Sciences, Dover. DE - co-op (2012) Molecular Genetics & Genomics
DePaul University, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, Chicago, IL - co-op (2012) REU in Medical Informatics
Duke University, Graduate School, Durham, NC - co-op (2012) Summer Research Opportunities Program - Possible Departments of Study include Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Duke University, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Durham, NC - co-op (2012) "The 2012 Summer Fellowship Program application will be available here on November 15, 2011." - "open to current Freshman, Sophomore and Junior students from 4-year colleges and universities having successfully completed (or currently enrolled in) at least one biological sciences course."

Gallaudet University, Biology Department, Washington, DC - co-op (2012) Summer Internships in Molecular Genetics and Bioinformaticsfor deaf or hard-of-hearing undergraduate science majors

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA - co-op (2010) Harvard Summer Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Harvard University, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) "The application period for the 2012 Summer Internship Program will begin in the second week of January 2012" - "spans many fields of science, from biology (including systems biology, biophysics, boinformatics and genomics)"
Harvard University, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) "The application deadline is January 31, 2012." - Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Summer Scholars Program

Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2011) Proteomics Summer Intern
IIowa State University, Ames, IA - co-op (2012) Molecular Biotechnology & Genomics

J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD - co-op (2012) "Look for 2012 updates in December"

Kansas State University, Division of Biology, Konza Prairie Biological Station, Flint Hills area of Eastern Kansas - co-op (2012) "Ecology, Evolution, and Genomics of Grassland Organisms"
Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY - co-op (2012) Undergraduate Summer Research Program - "students to receive gene-based research and/or informatics experience

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA - co-op, application (2011) "Applications are due no later than February 28th of each year" - Opportunities include Biology and biotechnology, genome biology, microbiology
LeHigh University, Biosystems Dynamics Summer Institute, Bethlehem, PA - co-op (2012) "Interdisciplinary team projects may include research in genomics, bioinformatics, gene expression, behavioral neuroscience, and reproductive biology"

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI - co-op (2012) Summer Research Intern Programs - "Areas of research concentration may include: clinical research, laboratory research, epidemiology/public health, agricultural health and safety research, or biomedical informatics"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computational and Systems Biology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) "We begin screening completed applications in late January for six (6) Summer Internships"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) MIT Summer Research Program in the Biological Sciences, Neuroscience, and Biomedical related fields"Research in such areas as...computational biology...genomics..."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) "The application deadline is January 31, 2012." - Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Summer Scholars Program
Medical College of Georgia is now the Georgia Health Sciences University, College of Graduate Studies, Augusta, GA - co-op (2012) "We encourage you to check back in November for our 2012 Summer STAR program application." - Student Training And Research (STAR) Program - STAR Mentors include Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina, College of Graduate Studies, Charleston, SC - co-op (more details - click on Summer Undergraduate Research Program for a pull down menu) (2012) "Program dates: May 29, 2012 to August 3, 2012" - Research Areas include Bioinformatics and Proteomics
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI - co-op (2012) Undergraduate Summer Research Experiences in Plant Genomics
Mississippi State University, Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State, MS - co-op (2012) "Solid background in computer science or the life sciences; Research opportunities in artificial intelligence, algorithms, graphics and visualization, functional genomics, genome analysis, bio-ontologies, and other areas"
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, ME - co-op, (scroll down to Summer Research Fellowships:), application (2012) - Research Mentors in Bioinformatics and Genetics & Comparative Genomics
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence, Salisbury Cove, ME - co-op, application (2012) eligible undergraduate students must attend a Maine college or university - supports student research at several colleges and universities - "Projects focus on a research question in functional genomics"
Mt Sinai Graduate School of Biological Sciences, New York, NY - co-op (2012) Summer Undergraduate Research Program - Areas of Research include computational neuroscience, computational biomedicine and genomics

National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD - co-op (2012) "application - Please check back in mid-November for information on Summer 2012" - Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research"
National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston, TX - co-op (2012) "The application period for the 2012 NSBRI Summer Internship Program is open and closes Dec. 31, 2011" - Summer Internship Program - "hands-on experience in space biomedical research at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California" - "(FAQ) The research laboratories that often select interns include...medical informatics..."
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA - co-op (2012) Apply to specific job openings by clicking on the links below. Biology, Biochemistry, Biostatistics; Computational Science"

Ohio State University, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, OH (and 5 to 7 participating Institute Partners in AZ, IN, MN, PA, TX and VA - scroll down for list) - co-op (2012) project topics include: Statistical Phylogenetics, Mathematical Neuroscience, Bioinformatics, Chemogenomics, Environmental Statisticss
Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Portland, OR - co-op (2012) Summer Biomedical Informatics Internship
Oregon Health & Science University, Graduate Studies Program, Portland, OR - co-op (2012) "Please visit us again in December for the 2012 application cycle" - Equity Summer Research Program - "Students will work on a specific project with faculty. Lab mentors have come from the following departments and programs: Medical Informatics
Oregon State University, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascades, OR - co-op (2012) Ecoinformatics Summer Institute

Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2012) Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Program
Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Orient Point, NY - co-op (2102) Research Participation Program - "be completing an undergraduate (B.A., B.S. or equivalent) degree in microbiology, immunology, molecular biology, virology, epidemiology, computational biology, biostatistics, or other discipline related to foreign animal diseases"
Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton, NJ - co-op (2012) Summer Research Program in Molecular and Quantitative & Computational Biology
Purdue University, Biochemistry, West Lafayette, IN - co-op (2012) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of Proteins - "research projects include.. proteomics..."

R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN - co-op SEARCH (2011) select Internships from Job Category pull down menu -> 2011 Internship Program - Summer Intern Project Descriptions include Bioinformatics
Rice University, Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX - co-op (2011) "Unfortunately we will not be offering the TCN REU this summer (2012) " - Summer Undergraduate Internship in theoretical and computational neuroscience
Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, School of Engineering, New Brunswick, NJ - co-op (2012) "2012 Applications will be available shortly. Please stay tuned" - Cellular Bioengineering with opportunities in stem cell engineering, systems and computational biology, cell-active biomaterials, and micro/nanoscale biosystems

Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Studies, New York, NY - co-op (2012) - "Students may work with faculty in the disciplines of:..computational biology.."
Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK - co-op (2012) scroll down to Placements and select Undergraduate - projects include virus genomics - "Applications are accepted from November 22 to 28th February each year "
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM - co-op (2012) "...genetic algorithms, the science of networks... "
Spanish National Cancer Centre, Madrid, Spain, - co-op (2012) Summer Training Opportunities "open to undergraduate students of any nationality who are in their final two years of studies in the Life Sciences or related subjects (e.g. Biology, Biomedicine, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Bioinformatics). Students will receive a bursary of 1.120€ (Euros) for expenses plus the reimbursement of travel expenses."
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA - co-op (2012) "2012 Application period will begin November 1, 2011 until February 1, 2012"- Stanford Summer Research Program/Amgen Scholars Program - participating programs include Biomedical Informatics
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO - co-op (2012) Summer Scholars Program - research "Topics include..computational biology, modeling and technology"

Texas A&M University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College Station, TX - co-op (2012) "open to pre-baccalaureate undergraduate students majoring in biochemistry, chemistry, genetics, biology, or any life science" - "wide-ranging possibilities in ....genomics, ...
Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College Station, TX - co-op (2012) Research Areas include Bioinformatics
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME - co-op (2012) Summer Student Program - research areas include Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Genomics
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ - co-op (2012) "The application for the 2012 summer will open on January 10, 2012" - Helios Scholars Program - be enrolled as a full time student at an accredited Arizona college or university OR a graduate of an Arizona high school attending an accredited academic institution out of state
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL - co-op (2012) "Applications will be accepted for the 2012 Summer IBS REU program; however, acceptance is contingent on the renewal of NSF funding." - Integrated Biosciences Research Experience for Undergraduates - "research in...plant genomics, biocomplexity in the environment, bioinformatics, animal sciences and cell & molecular biology"

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Genetics, Birmingham, AL - co-op (2012) Faculty members' research topics areas include Bioinformatics, Genomics and Pharmacogenomics
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - co-op (2012) Amgen Scholars Program - Research Areas include Computational Biology, Genetics/Genomics & Development
University of California at Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Molecular & Cell Biology, Plant & Microbial Biology, Berkeley, CA and the Joint Genome Institute, Walnut creek, CA - co-op (2011) NSF Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Cell, Developmental and Evolutionary Biology
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA - co-op (2011) Collabortive Research & Education in Agricultural Technologies & Engineering (CREATE) - one Faculty Mentor in Plant Genomics
University of California at Riverside, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Riverside, CA - co-op (2012)
University of California at Riverside, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Riverside, CA - co-op (2012) Research Experience for Undergraduates
University of California at San Diego, Office of Graduate Studies, San Diego, CA - co-op (2012) Summer Training Academy for Research in the Sciences - eligible research areas include bioinformatics
University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, CA - co-op (2012) "research projects in the fields of ... computational chemistry..."
University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Computer Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA - co-op (2012) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology - "undergraduates who are juniors or seniors in ..., bioinformatics.."
University of Chicago, Chicago Center for Systems Biology, Chicago, IL - co-op (2012) Research Experience for Undergraduates
University of Colorado, Denver, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Denver, CO - co-op (2012) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program for underrepresented Populations - "Specific questions being researched focus on many areas including..genomics, proteomics.."
University of Connecticut Health Center, Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, Farmington, CT - co-op (2012) "annually sponsors a summer undergraduate research program " - scroll down to Summer Undergraduate Research Internships in Cell Analysis and Modeling - includes "Computational modeling & Computational biology and bioinformatics .."
University of Georgia, Department of Genetics, Athens, GA - co-op (2012) Fungal Genomics & Computational Biology
University of Georgia, Department of Genetics, Athens, GA - co-op (2012) Summer Undergraduate Fellowships in Genetics - "Research in the areas of ... genomics, bioinformatics"
University of Illinois at Chicago, Laboratory for Product and Process Design, Chicago, IL - co-op (2012) - includes projects in "Bioinformatics for Molecular Drug Design and Characterization
University of Kansas, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Lawrence, KS - co-op (2012) "Applications will be accepted at any time. Applications received prior to March 25 will be reviewed for participation in the summer of the same year" - "Areas of research include ... Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, ..."
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Lexington, KY - co-op (2012) "A wide variety of projects are offered, including research in structural biology, biophysics, proteomics, protein and nucleic acid chemistry, membrane biochemistry, and molecular biology"
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - co-op (2012) "Summer 2012 application will be available in mid-November. Application deadline for Summer 2012 is February 15, 2012" - Life Science Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (participating programs include Molecular genetics & proteomics program)
University of Minnesota, Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - co-op (2012) scroll down to Undergraduate Internship Program in Scientific Computing and Graphics - "Please check back in Fall 2011 for information about the Summer 2012 program"
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - co-op, application (2012) Plant Genomics Internships
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of Graduate Education, Chapel Hill, NC - co-op (2012) Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - "research projects under the guidance of faculty mentors in the following areas: biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, cellular biophysics, structural biology, computational biology, genetics, genomics, and proteomics"
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Graduate College, Oklahoma City, OK - co-op (2012) Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Microbiology & Immunology is one Participating Programs & Research Areas and includes ...microbial genomics/proteomics,...
University of Oregon, Biology Department, Eugene, OR - co-op (2012) Research Experiences for Undergraduates Summer Program in Molecular Biosciences - Research Areas include: genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology
University of Oregon, Biology Department, Eugene, OR - co-op (2012) "SPUR 2012 Online Application Available in November " - Summer Program for Undergraduate Research - Research Areas include: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Computational Biology
University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Graduate Studies, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2012) "applicants are strongly encouraged to apply via The Leadership Alliance (2012) application" - Genomics and Computational Biology are Laboratory Research areas
University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, Philadelphia, PA - co-op (2012) Summer Program in Computational Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh, Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) National Center of Excellence, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2012) Summer Research Program - "a summer research opportunity for undergraduate students in the field of computational modeling and simulation of infectious diseases"
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Pittsburgh, PA - co-op (2012) Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology (TECBio): Simulation and Visualization of Biological Systems at Multiple Scale
University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane St Lucia, Queensland, Australia - co-op (2012) "Applications must be received by 5pm, 30 August 2011" - Summer Research Scholarship Program commencing in mid-November and concluding in mid-February - includes Genomics & Computational Biology
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY - co-op, application (2012) Summer Scholars Program - program mentors include Genetics, Genomics and Development
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, San Antonio, TX - co-op, more details (2012) "Program dates June 4, 2012 to July 27, 2012" - Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar Summer Program - "Opportunities are available to study molecular biology, animal models, genomics, and drug discovery as well as DNA repair, cell cycle biology and stem cell biology."
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, San Antonio, TX - co-op (2012) participates in the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar Summer Program - "Opportunities are available to study molecular biology, animal models, genomics, and drug discovery as well as DNA repair, cell cycle biology and stem cell biology."
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - co-op (2012) "The 2012 Amgen Scholars Program Application will be live by November 15th, 2011" - Amgen Scholars Summer Program - 2011 Amgen Faculty included Genome Science and Medicine, and Genome Science
University of Washington, Biomedical and Health Informatics, Seattle, WA - co-op (2012)
University of Washington, Genomics Outreach for Minorities, Seattle, WA - co-op (2012) "The application for next summer's (2012) program will be available in December" - scroll down to Undergraduate Summer Research Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI - co-op (2012) Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Research Program (several participating departments/programs including Computational Biology and Biophysics)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Bioinformatics, Madison, WI - co-op (2012) Computational Biology and Biostatistics Summer Research Program - "majoring in ...biology, and have successfully completed at least one year of calculus"
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Proteomics and Functional Genomics Core Facility, Oshkosh, WI - co-op (2012) Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Proteomics and Functional Genomics
University of Wyoming, Department of Molecular Biology, Laramie, WY - co-op (2011) Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology Undergraduate Summer Research Program
US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, Fort Detrick, MD - co-op, application (2012) "..opportunities exist in the following areas: Computational Biology, Neuroscience Regenerative Medicine, Infectious Disease Proteomics/Genomics

Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI - co-op (2012) Laboratories and Investigators include Computational Biology
Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA - co-op (2012) Microbiology in the Post Genome Era
Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA - co-op (2012) Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology - "Applications from students ...the computational sciences are welcome"

Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY - co-op (2012) Molecular and Cellular Biology Research Experience for Undergraduates - "The diverse range of projects covers molecular genetics, cell biology, neuroscience, and structural, as well as, computational biology"
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO - co-op (2012) Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) "quantitatively-oriented undergraduates who are interested in the biological and health sciences. SIBS-BRIDGE at WUSM has a concentration on statistical genetics/genetic epidemiology, and bioinformatics"
Washington University in St. Louis, The Genome Institute, St Louis, MO - co-op (2012) Opportunities in Genomics Research: Undergraduate Scholars Program
Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Detroit, MI - co-op (2012) SURP Faculty interests includes projects related to genomics and bioinformatics
Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY - co-op (2012) Summer Research in Investigative Biotechnology - Sequence finishing and genome annotation of C. scatologenes is one research project
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV - co-op (2011) Biological Responses to the Environment from Genes to the Ecosystem - "Research will focus on some aspect of ... genomics "
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, FL - co-op (2012) Research Experience for Undergraduates - "The following projects are available to the REU program: •Genomics, Memory and Neuronal Evolution, •Genomics, Memory and Neuronal Evolution"