Biological Machine Learning Internship, Bactobio

Salary not provided

London

4-5 days a week in office

Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter

Job no longer available

Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter

21-100 employees

BiologyScienceBiotechnology

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

London

4-5 days a week in office

21-100 employees

BiologyScienceBiotechnology

Company mission

To create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Ideal candidates will have deep learning experience, programming skills, and at least a basic understanding of molecular biology or genetics

What the job involves

We are looking for passionate and driven PhD students who have an industry internship as a funded component of their doctoral program and are interested in exploring life at a dynamic biotechnology start-up
These are fully immersive, on-site placements at our London office and laboratories and last a minimum of three months
Reporting To: Neythen Treloar
In this role, you will explore and apply DNA large language models at Bactobio
Working with microbiological DNA sequencing data and state-of-the-art foundation models (e.g. , DNABERT, Nucleotide Transformer), you’ll have the freedom to experiment with various datasets, methodologies, and evaluation techniques
Ultimately, you’ll shape the project’s direction, with opportunities to focus on areas such as model fine-tuning, the development of benchmarking tools and approaches, embedding investigation, and multimodal modelling
Our previous interns come from a range of programmes, including PIPS, iCASE, and MRC LID

Application process

Screening Call
On-site Interview

Salary benchmarks

Our take

With the highest genetic diversity of any organisms on earth, bacteria hold tremendous potential for novel treatments, gene therapy, and commercial applications. But to this day, under 1% of all bacteria have been cultured in labs for chemical discovery.

Bactobio is a biotechnology company helping realise the full potential locked in bacteria, by harvesting bacterial metabolites from biological dark matter. Its Bacterial Community Cultivation platform enables new bacteria to be cultured and screened for novel applications.

In order to make more ground-breaking discoveries, Bactobio is expanding its business operations team and used 2022 funding to advance its discovery pipeline. By seeking to strengthen brand awareness and market analysis, as well as guide the core direction of the company, it is setting out to help define the future of biotechnology.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

57% female employees

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Company benefits

New lab and office space in central London
Learning and development opportunities
Bike2work scheme
Enhanced Sick Pay
Weekly team activities including board games, sports activities, and socials on Fridays
Complimentary snacks, fruits, tea, coffee, soft drinks...
Flexible start and finish times within the company’s core hours
Diverse team of colleagues (check out our website to meet us)
25 days holiday
Pension plan

Company HQ

Vauxhall, London, UK

Leadership

Dr Daniel Hansen

(CEO & Co-Founder)

Having worked for 2 years at Barclays, Daniel took a PhD at Imperial and became a LMU Munich Exist Fellow, before co-founding Bactobio in July 2019.

Dr Mark Wilkinson

(CSO & Co-Founder)

Mark joined Bactobio in 2020 and oversees scientific projects from microbial generation through to compound discovery.

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