Corporate Social Responsibility

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BGI Australia is offering Internship Program as part of corporate social responsibility to contribute to the university education for science undergraduate students in Australia. The interns will be supervised at all times by a professional laboratory technician throughout the relevant training. 

Program Focus: 

The internship will provide hands-on training for the interns to form and strengthen the skills to perform either one or more of the following:

• Next generation sequencing library preparation
• Basic bioinformatics pipeline
• Knowledge and operation of Next-generation sequencing laboratory
• Quality control of Next generation sequencing samples.

Subject to the suitability and interest of each participant, the internship may include some or all of the tasks below:

1. Consistent and competent preparation of WES, WGS and RNA Sequencing Library Preparation;
2. Effective preparation and maintenance of MGISEQ-2000 Sequencer and auxiliary equipment eg MGIDL-200;
3. QC of samples using Gel electrophoresis;
4. Operation of various QC equipment such as Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer, Qubit and Nanodrop;
5. Execution of Bioinformatics QC and analysis pipeline;
6. Execution of automated data delivery script to upload data into FTP server.
7. As part of this internship, the intern is also expected to follow and comply to the following standards:
8. Adhere to company and institute OH&S standard;
9. Compliance with company record keeping standard;
10. Maintain clean and tidy work area;
11. Follow company and institute procedure for handling waste, glassware and dangerous chemicals.

Upon completion:

BGI will produce a standard Internship Program Certificate upon the completion of the internship. However an exemplary internship certificate of one or more of the following areas may also be issued based on performance:

1. Successful completion of 3 preparations of WES library prep;
2. Successful completion of 3 preparations of WGS library prep;
3. Successful completion of 3 preparations of RNA library prep;
4. Successful completion of independent 3 MGISEQ2000 sequencing experiment;
5. Three independent execution of Bioinformatics QC and analysis pipeline;
6. Three independent Execution of automated data delivery to FTP server script;
7. Successful operation of 3 preparations of Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer run;
8. Successful operation of 3 preparations of Qubit;
9. Successful operation of 2 QC using Nanodrop;
10. Successful completion of 2 QC using Gel electrophoresis.

The certificate will add value to your résumé when you start your job-seeking journey and get your “foot in the door” ahead of others.

To submit an application to become a BGI intern, please send your résumé stating your current curriculum, areas of interest for future career, strengths and weaknesses, work experience (if any), and any other information we would love to learn about you, to bgi-australia@genomics.cn. 

Note: this unpaid internship program is not an employment.