JOB DETAILS:
2. Internship Student-Molecular Laboratory Assistants (Two (2) positions)

About the position
The Molecular Laboratory Assistants Internship students will be supporting general laboratory operation and maintenance.

Key Responsibilities:
• Support in conducting research under the direction of the supervisor and assisting in daily laboratory operation and mainte nance.
• Support proficiently handling standard laboratory procedures, including extraction of DNA and RNA, DNA quantification, assays for SNP, RAPOS, SSRS, AFLPs, and other markers systems, gel electrophoresis, protein purification, centrifugation, enzyme. assays, isolation of DNA from agarose and acrylamide gels, isolation and purification of plasmid DNA, ligation and transformation of E. coli with DNA constructs, the maintenance of insect and pathogen collections, perform detailed observation of plant, insect and/or pathogen growth in growth chamber, as well as supporting collecting, processing and analyzing data.
• Specific Qualifications and requirements
• The positions require knowledge of and experience with basic molecular biology methods, including DNA sequence and fragment analysis. Because methods and technologies in science change rapidly, the internship students also must be receptive to and adept at, evaluating and learning new technologies involving both biological and chemical methods.

Please send your application letter & CV as one PDF document to t.lija@cgiar.org copy to Teshale.Mamo@cgiar.org  and L.Tango@cglar.org 

Alliance-Bioversity & CIAT is an equal opportunity employer.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.