The Institute for Genomic Research is a not-for-profit research institute with interests in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products. The summer fellowship program provides an environment the enables hands-on science training in methods in molecular biology, informatics and DNA sequencing. Each fellow will be assigned a mentor who is a member of the Institute’s faculty. The mentor will have responsibility for training the fellow and assigning, supervising and reviewing the fellow’s work Undergraduate fellows will receive between $815-$925 stipend bi-weekly.