A springboard into research for Bachelor students
A new summer internship at the Biozentrum of the Univerity of Basel enables Bachelor students in the sciences to immerse themselves in cutting-edge research projects for up to nine weeks.
16 March 2018
What questions arise in day-to-day scientific research? How is it to work as a scientist? And how does a research group work? The opportunity to get to the bottom of these questions, to actively participate in everyday research life and to work on a real project in cutting-edge research, is offered by the Biozentrum to 20 selected Bachelor students, with this new chance to experience what scientific research is all about. The program starts in summer 2018.
«With the new Biozentrum Research Summer, we offer motivated students the opportunity to experience first-hand research at an even earlier career stage than they do already,» says Prof. Sebastian Hiller, head of the new internship program.
The program is not only open to applicants from Biology, but also to interested Bachelor students from the Nanosciences, Chemistry, Physics, Computational Sciences and related fields.
During mid-July to mid-September, the students work for up to nine weeks under the supervision of an experienced scientist in one of the Biozentrum’s research groups. The participants can train their scientific thinking, as well as how to document and present research results and how to deal with different question in the life sciences and they will also learn different lab techniques.
The subject matter of the research projects is diverse, ranging from structural, computational and cell biology to developmental biology, microbiology and neurobiology.
Interested students can apply until April 6 at www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/researchsummer.
