Undergraduate Intern - C-SIG Research

Job description

The Mayo Clinic Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology's (C-SiG) mission is to improve understanding of the signaling pathways that control the function of gastrointestinal cells in health and disease. A portion of our C-SiG resources are focused on supporting the development of biospecimen collections related to microbiome research. The human microbiome is a collection of all the microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, eukaryotes, and archeae) that live in and on our bodies. An interesting fact is that because of their small size there are 10 times more bacteria in the average human body, than there are human cells. In general, these microbes are not harmful to us, and they are often essential for maintaining good health. The C-SiG Clinical Core provides services to researchers who are interested in collecting stool samples to characterize the human microbiome in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and analyze its role in human health and disease. Performs a variety of clerical and support functions to researchers such as database entry, abstracting of disease diagnosis, performing clinical database searches, guiding participants to where they have their blood drawn, assists with co...