Undergraduate Biology

Bruins-In-Genomics (B.I.G.) Summer Research Program

University of California, Los Angeles

Official Website qcb.ucla.edu

About This Program

An eight-week full-time computational biology and bioinformatics research immersion run by UCLA's Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, running late June to mid-August. Students join a UCLA faculty lab and work on a genomics or computational biology project. Note the eligibility change that took effect in 2026: the programme now supports only UCLA undergraduates sponsored by a UCLA faculty member and no longer accepts applicants from other institutions, and it does not provide a stipend. Applicants are expected to be planning graduate school applications and preferably to have taken bioinformatics coursework. Worth knowing about precisely because older listings still describe it as nationally open, which it is not.

Program Details

Field
Biology
Level
Undergraduate
Country
United States
State / Province
California
Institution
University of California, Los Angeles
Application Deadline
1 March first review, 1 May final
Online Available
In person
Funding / Award
No financial support listed
Women-Only Program
Open to all; women encouraged

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