Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): A Cyberlinked Program in Computational Biomolecular Structure & Design

The Program:

• One week of Rosetta Code School, where you will learn the inner details of the Rosetta C++ code and community coding environment, so you are fully prepared for the summer!
• 8 weeks of hands-on research in a molecular modeling and design laboratory, developing new algorithms and discovering new science.
• The summer will finish with a trip to the Rosetta Conference, where you will present your research in a poster and connect with Rosetta developers from around the world. The sponsor, NSF, will provide housing, travel expenses, and a stipend.

Projects Include:

• “Designing new protein switches for synthetic biology applications”
• "Antibody engineering by deep learning " 
• “Designing small-molecules that break down cancer-driving protein”
• “Design of novel transposases for scarless DNA-insertion using Rosetta”
• “De Novo Protein Design for Immunotherapeutics”
• “Design of Dengue Virus Subunit Vaccines”
• “Applying high-throughput experimental data to guide computational protein design”

Desired Skills & Experience:

• College Sophomores or Juniors preferred.
• Major in computer science, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and/or biophysics.
•  Available for at least 10 weeks during the summer of 2020.
• Interest in graduate school
• While not required, we seek candidates with some combination of experiences in scientific or academic research, C++/Python/*nix/databases, software engineering, object-oriented programming, and/or collaborative development.
• Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply, per NSF guidelines.

Compensation

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