454 Life Sciences is one of the leading biotech companies in the world. It is provider of high throughput genome sequencing equipment and sequencing services. For example, 454 sequencing technology was used to sequence parts of the Neandertal genome.

454 Life Sciences is now offering a summer internship to an outstanding undergraduate student at Virginia Tech. If you have worked in a lab at Virginia Tech as undergraduate researcher for a year and are interested in a unique work experience in the biotech industry, contact Boris Vinatzer (vinatzer@vt.edu) and indicate “454 internship’ in the subject line. To find out more about 454 Life Sciences, go to www.454.com.