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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Kylie Fisher <<a href="mailto:kgfisher@mit.edu">kgfisher@mit.edu</a>><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Biology Internships in Israel - for distribution
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">November 12, 2014 at 11:58:11 AM EST<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(84, 141, 212);">Fully-funded Summer internships in Israel 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(84, 141, 212);">Wealth of historical sites all in a few hour drive</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">*
No language course requirement<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">All
expenses paid</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>5 Day trip/in-country summer seminar *<span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Diverse
opportunities (details below)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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More information on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://misti.mit.edu/student-programs/location/israel" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">MISTI MIT-Israel website</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Apply through the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://misti-csm.symplicity.com/students/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">MISTI portal</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> for
summer internships by Nov. 30, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the field of medicine at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.tasmc.org.il/e" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Sourasky
Medical Center</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">. As an intern you will research IBD, colorectal cancer and liver diseases, with focus on innate immunity. Applicants should have knowledge of immunology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of food science, signal processing, smartphone application design, and software. As a summer intern at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.bt9-tech.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">BT9
Ltd</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">,</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you
will create prediction models, programs for data mining and reports generation, engineer hardware for sensors and RF communication devices, or program sensor devices. Applicants should have experience in the aforementioned areas (at least one).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of research and development at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.protalix.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Protalix</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">.
As a summer intern you will work on characterization of recombinant proteins produced in plant cells. Applicants must have knowledge and experience in cell biology as well as biochemistry (ELISA/WB/enzymatics). Exceptional applicants will have a Masters degree
or above.</span><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of business development and strategy, chemicals, construction, maritime, and environmental science. As a summer intern at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ide-tech.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">IDE
Technologies</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">, you will contribute to novel water desalination technologies and wastewater treatment via product or business development work. Applicants must have good mathematical
skills and have knowledge of process/mechanical/maritime design or business development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of biology and medicine at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Ben Gurion University</b>. As a summer intern you research how specific fat depots contribute to diseases
associated with obesity. Applicants should be familiar with the following: molecular biology, cell culture, methods related to sampling of environmental particles, and laboratory animals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of biology, medicine, and neuroscience at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Hebrew University</b>. As a summer intern you will study miRNA changes under acute stress,
inflammation, ischemic stroke and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease to understand their contributions to higher brain functions. Exceptional applicants are familiar with experimental molecular neuroscience and bioinformatics analyses of high throughput datasets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of education and information technology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Technion</b>. As a summer intern may choose to work on a variety of research projects:
middle school science education, innovation in MOOCs, and outdoor authentic learning via Wandering. Applicants should be familiar with science education research, teaching and learning methods, online education tools, and Next Generation Science Standards
(NGSS).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of biology and neuroscience at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Tel Aviv University</b>. As a summer intern you will combine electrophysiology and super resolution
microscopy to study the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in health and in brain disorders. Applicants should have basic knowledge of biology or neuroscience. Exceptional applicants are familiar with cloning, electrophysiology, and imaging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the field of computational structural biology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Hebrew University</b>. As a summer intern you will model and test the structures of proteins
and/or their interaction with partners. Applicants should be familiar Perl/Python/Java/C++ (at least one). Exceptional applicants are familiar with protein structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Tel Aviv University</b>. As a summer intern you will study the production of reactive oxygen
species (ROS) by phagocytes, specifically mapping of the hotspots of interaction between the catalytic oxidase component Nox2 and the cytosolic activator p67phox. Applicants should have theoretical knowledge or biochemistry and molecular biology, hands-on
experience in basic techniques in biochemistry and molecular biology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of cognitive science and experimental psychology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Hebrew University</b>. As a summer intern you research high level unconscious
processes, including unconscious reading or math and emotion perception. Applicants should be familiar with experimental design, programming, and data analyses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of medicine and neuroscience at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Tel Aviv University</b>. As a summer intern you will develop sensitive functional assays and novel
methods for transcriptome profiling. The research group aims to discover novel biological principles by which RNA affects formation and inheritance of complex traits. Applicants must be seniors or graduate students who can stay for a 3+ month period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of biotechnology, nanoscience, physical chemistry, and physics at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Technion</b>. As a summer intern you can develop an algorithm to
identify and predict the regulatory output of DNA sequences that control gene expression. Alternatively you can work on applications to detect single molecule sub-cellular processes and make nano-scales models of complex chemical processes. Exceptional applicants
are enthusiastic and have quantitative skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of agriculture, biology, chemistry, and physics at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Hebrew University</b>. As a summer intern you will study cell wall structures
that lead to twisting and coiling awns in seed dispersal units of grasses. Applicants should be comfortable with basic laboratory research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the field of computational biology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Weizmann Institute of Science</b>. As an intern you will develop tools for metabolomics analysis. Applicants
must have programming experience and some biology background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the fields of ecological and evolutionary physiology at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Tel Aviv University</b>. As an intern you will conduct field work on circadian rhythms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the field of desalination and water treatment at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Ben Gurion University</b>. As an intern you will research antibiofouling surface development
or novel desalination membrane fabrication. Applicants should be familiar with organic chemistry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the field of medicine at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Tel Aviv University</b>. As an intern you perform genomic analysis of diseased individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Explore the field of water irrigation at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Ben Gurion University</b>. As an intern you will research pathogens and indicators in treated wastewater, irrigated
soil and crops, and changes in soil microbial diversity and secondary metabolites production following desert rain. Applicants should have completed basic biology and chemistry coursework.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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