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2024 Summer Intern - Biology Research | Ai Development - High - Content Perturbation Screens

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Genentech

Jan 29

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Healthcare
    Science
  • San Francisco

Requirements

  • Required education:
  • Must be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student)
  • Required majors:
  • Computational Biology, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or similar quantitative or computational fields
  • Required skills:
  • Scientific programming experience in Python and familiarity with a deep learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX
  • Strong foundation in Data Science and Statistics
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with active learning frameworks for experimental design
  • Familiarity with self-supervised representation learning methods, such as contrastive learning
  • Basic familiarity with transcriptomics data and the concepts of high-content perturbation screens such as Perturb-Seq
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
  • Complements our culture and the standards that guide our daily behavior & decisions: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.
  • Track record of tackling challenging biological problems with advanced computational methods

Responsibilities

  • Train ML models to learn representations of imaging and/or transcriptional readouts in the Python ecosystem (e.g., in PyTorch)
  • Evaluate learned representations for biological discovery, and measure the effect of confounders
  • Develop models to predict the outcome of unseen perturbations
  • Present on the scientific findings

Genentech

Science & Healthcare
Industry
10,001+
Employees
1976
Founded Year

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