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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Diana Chien<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, May 20, 2016<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Apply to be a Microbiome SuperUROP: 5/26 deadline<br>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dear Biology undergrads,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Are you looking for an extraordinary research opportunity for the coming academic year? Would you like a chance to perform cutting-edge research on the human microbiome – the ecosystem of microbes
 that live in and on our bodies? If so, apply to the SuperUROP program hosted by the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Microbiome SuperUROPs perform research with an emphasis on translational applications of microbiome science, become active members of the Center’s community, and benefit from additional mentorship
 to develop their scientific skills.&nbsp;Last year’s SuperUROPs have begun publications and received job offers based on their work.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This year, we have a variety of both wet-lab and computational SuperUROP projects being offered by microbiome labs at MIT, MGH, the Broad Institute, and other excellent institutions in Boston-Cambridge
 – apply now!</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Eligible Applicants</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: All MIT undergraduates with previous research experience.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Application instructions</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">&nbsp;and program information</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:
</span><a href="http://microbiome.mit.edu/get-involved/#superurop" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://microbiome.mit.edu/get-involved/#superurop</span></a><u><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Deadline: </b>Thurs., 5/26</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Diana Chien, PhD</font>
<div><font size="1">BE Communication Lab Manager/Instructor</font></div>
<div><font size="1">56-211 | <a href="http://be.mit.edu/communicationlab" target="_blank">
be.mit.edu/communicationlab</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="1">Microbiome SuperUROP Administrator</font></div>
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