Summer Genomics & Data Science Internship

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC); Hamilton; On-site; NZD 12,357,000 - 16,476,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) invites applications for a paid summer internship in its R&D group. The project focuses on evaluating long-read sequencing approaches (ONT and PacBio) for structural variant discovery in dairy cattle, using multiple tissue types.

The role includes analyzing sequencing quality metrics, performing SV discovery, and comparing with SNP-array data to guide future sequencing strategies.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate experience in molecular genetics
• Command line/HPC experience
• We particularly encourage genetics or data science students to apply

Responsibilities

• Assess and compare quality of long-read sequencing data from ONT and PacBio across ear tissue, blood, and semen.
• Perform structural variant discovery using long-read data and compare with short-read data from the same animals.
• Investigate concordance between sequencing-based variants and SNP-array inferences.

Skills

Molecular genetics

Command line

HPC

Education

NZQA levels 6-10

Tools

HPC

Job description

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) invites applications for a paid summer internship in its R&D group. The project focuses on evaluating long-read sequencing approaches (ONT and PacBio) for structural variant discovery in dairy cattle, using multiple tissue types.

The role includes analyzing sequencing quality metrics, performing SV discovery, and comparing with SNP-array data to guide future sequencing strategies.