Biological Machine Learning Internship, Bactobio
4-5 days a week in office
Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter
Open for applications
Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter
21-100 employees
Open for applications
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.
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.
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Insights
57% female employees
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 values
- Impact
- Empowerment
- Collaboration
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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