Undergraduate Research Initiative

Undergraduate students interested in gaining Bioinformatics Research Experience:

Undergraduate students who are interested in interning in a Bioinformatics/Biotechnology laboratory should contact the lab technician to see if there is availability for an intern. If you are invited by the technician and adviser, please note that it is an honor to receive an internship experience. Volunteer Form

Current Undergraduate/Post Baccalaureate Interns

Spring 2009

Chaevien & Chaevia Clendinen|UNC Charlotte Biology majors | Interns in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory | Project: Continuation of culturing & sequencing the Brucella Melitensis ORF library | Chaevien and Chaevia will each graduate with the BS in Biology from UNC Charlotte in June. From here, Chaevia is going to Princeton University for her PhD in Biology. Chaevien is going to the University of Florida for her PhD in Biology.

Eric Hastie| Received his BS in Journalism from University of Florida, currently pursuing a Biology degree at UNC Charlotte | Interns in Dr. Fodor's Metagenomics laboratory | Project: Assisting with the collection and analysis of metagenomic samples from human subjects.

Fall 2008

Michael Benfield | UNC Charlotte Math major, Computer Science minor | Intern in Dr. Fodor's laboratory | Project: Developing an ARISA viewer program

Bartolome Calicdan | Received his Bachelors of Science in Biology from UNC Chapel Hill, pursuing a minor in MIS and a certificate in computer programming at UNC Charlotte | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory | Project: Final design and implementation of LIMS system

Chaevien & Chaevia Clendinen | UNC Charlotte Biology majors | Interns in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory | Project: Continuation of culturing & sequencing the Brucella Melitensis ORF library

Previous Undergraduate Interns

Aurora Cain | Received Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science at UNC Charlotte | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Summer 07 - Summer 08 | Project: Designing a visual analysis tool for genomic database sets | Currently a PhD student in Bioinformatics at UNC Charlotte

Meagan Davis | Biology major at UNC Chapel Hill | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Summer 07 | Project: Laboratory setup & protocol design | Currently pursuing a BS in Biology at UNC

Ashley Eakright | Received High School diploma from Charlotte Area | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Fall 2007 | Project: Hybridization Protocol Design & Implementation | Currently pursuing a BA in Biology at UNC Charlotte

Marisa Fessler | UNC Charlotte Biology major | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Summer 2008 | Project: Printing Protocol Design and Implementation | Currently pursuing a BS in Biology at UNC Charlotte

Anita Hoyt | UNC Charlotte Biology major and Biotechnology minor | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Spring - Summer 2008 | Project: Culturing & sequencing the Brucella Melitensis ORF library | Currently finishing a BS in Biology from UNC Charlotte

Robert Jacobs | Biology major at UNC Chapel Hill | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Spring 08 | Project: Oligreen staining of glass microarray slides | Currently pursuing a BS in Biology at UNC

Shatavia Morrison | Received Bachelor's of Science in  Software Information Systems and minored in Biology at UNC Charlotte | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Fall 07 - Summer 08 | Project: Chromosomal separation & sequencing for Vibrio Vulnificus, Design of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for Microarray Core, Minimum nucleation of 50mer oligos & critical analysis of GEO microarray database submissions| Currently a PhD student in Bioinformatics at UNC Charlotte

Bianca Oliver | North Carolina A&T State University Biology major | Intern in Dr. Gibas' Microarray laboratory Summer 2008 | Project: Hybridization of low concentration series, time series & temperature series, as well as Agilent Array protocol design | Currently pursuing a BS in Biology at NC A&T and lab member for a cancer research lab at NC A&T, as well as a lab intern at NIH Microarray laboratory for Fall 2008

Hiep Tu | Received Bachelor's of Science in Biology with minor in Biotechnology | Intern in Dr. Fodor's laboratory Spring 2008 | Project: Experimental aPCR and ARISA with environmental samples | Currently pursuing a degree in Pharmacy at UNC Chapel Hill