Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology - The International Internship Program (I2P) - Winter 2024-25

These competitive internships are targeted at students who have finished or are in their final year of a bachelor’s program and students enrolled in a Master's program in search of a hosting institute for their thesis. The internships offer:

• Full integration into a research group with access to GMI's core research facilities
• Training on how to perform scientific research at the highest level
• Guidance on career development and PhD opportunities
• A competitive salary
• Travel reimbursement for international students

Research at the GMI covers a broad range of topics including molecular, cellular, and developmental biology as well as biochemistry, evolution, and quantitative and population genetics.

In addition to being part of a research group at the GMI, the interns will participate in journal clubs, progress meetings, social activities, and a diversity of other mentoring events.

Requirements and Application documents:

• An academic CV that outlines academic training and details of previous internships (2 pages max.)
• A cover letter that (i) describes previous research experience, (ii) identifies the GMI research group that you would like to join, and (iii) explains the choice of the research group (1 pages max.)
• Two reference letters, one of which should be from a mentor who supervised a previous research project.

Applications:

The duration of the internships will be decided by individual groups but is expected to be between three and six months. There will be two application deadlines each year. For summer internships, the application deadline is April1st and the students are expected to start in the following June or July. For the winter internships, the application deadline is December 1st and students are expected to start in the following February. Applications should be sent as a single PDF file (Surname_Name.pdf) to internships@gmi.oeaw.ac.at.

About the Gregor Mendel Institute

A world-class institute focused on basic research in plant biology

The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) was founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in 2000 to promote research excellence in the area of plant molecular biology (founding director: Prof. Dieter Schweizer). It is the only international center for basic plant research in Austria and one of only very few throughout the world.

Research at the GMI covers many aspects of molecular biology, including basic mechanisms of epigenetics, cell biology, plant-pathogen interactions, developmental biology, and population genetics. While Arabidopsis thaliana is the primary model organism in most groups, the focus is on basic biology and a wide range of organisms are studied. For more information about what we do, please visit the individual lab pages, or our list of publications.

The GMI is part of the Vienna BioCenter, one of Europe's foremost life science research locations, located close to the center of Vienna. We share a building with another institute of the ÖAW, the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), and other neighbors include the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and the Max Perutz Labs Vienna - a joint institute of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. Several core services, including high-throughput plant phenotyping and next generation sequencing, are provided by the Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities (VBCF).

The GMI provides a lively, international working environment with around 130 people embedded in a campus with over 1700 people from more than 70 countries. The working language is English and we provide an on-campus Child Care Center.