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Internship/Masters project:
Single stem cells analysis by microfluidicsUniversity of British Columbia, Centre for High-Throughput
Biology, Vancouver, Canada Interested in finding out how stem cells make fate choices? Do want to
learn and use state of the art single-cell high-throughput genetic technologies, microfluidics and live
cell microscopy? Than this may be the project for you. We aim to identify and track individual stem
cells and determine differences in their state to improve our understanding of their development. To
do so we use live cell microscopy and microfluidic integration, a technique that creates devices with
thousands of valves and reaction chambers to manipulate and interrogate individual cells with
modern high-throughput genetic methods
(http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/n7/full/nmeth.1614.html). I’m a postdoc in the Hansen
lab http://www.chibi.ubc.ca/faculty/carl-hansen/hansen-lab/ (which is a lot of fun, by the way) and
have an opening for a student to work on this exciting project. You will be working on a main
research project this means things will go fast and you must be willing to keep up with that and
really go for the project. Due to the many methods involved in this project (microscopy,
microfluidics, single-cell transcriptomics) it is most suited for a project of 6 months or more, the start
date is flexible. All of this at the UBC, in a beautiful city surrounded by amazing mountains and the
pacific ocean.
Send me email if you would like to know more, Marijn van Loenhoutm.t.j.vanloenhout [at]
gmail.com