Dear programmers,

We (that is, a cancer research team at the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) are offering a summer internship.

We have developed a novel high throughput method to screen interactions between cancer genes and drugs or gene-gene interactions (which has been featured in a few newspapers recently) and are in need of some help with developing tools in R to analyze our data or filter output from an already existing analysis. The work can include visualisation of data as well depending on your level of expertise.

Requirements:
You should have basic programming skills in R and an open and creative mind. Knowledge of biology is advantageous but not required for the task.

About us:
Our team is a young, international (hence the language) group of biologists and you would be working in our lab (situated in the 9th district on the AKH campus) together with a postdoc.
We are excited about our work and we hope to transfer this excitement to you as well.

Why join:
This is a good opportunity for you to get your feet wet in bioinformatics and contribute to the
identification of new anti-cancer agents and therapies without too strict skill/entry requirements.
You will be exposed to an environment quite different from what you might be used to and participate in the daily life in a cancer research lab. Plus, we have free beer and t-shirts (ok, that was a lie, we have t-shirts though).

If all this caught your interest please drop us a line at:

snijman [at] cemm.oeaw.ac.at (for Dr Sebastian Nijman, the project leader)
markus.muellner [at] meduniwien.ac.at (for me, the guy you will be working with)

For more information you can also check these websites:
http://www.cemm.oeaw.ac.at
openwetware.org/wiki/Nijman