Metagenomics: a summer internship position and post-doc search

Hey students: if you are looking for a summer internship in marine metagenomics and you can get your application together before June 16th, Jonathan Eisen posted information about an open position on his blog.

It also looks like he's looking for post-docs (see the side bar on the right of this page.)

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