Summer Internships

Each year SSRL participates in SLAC's summer science program, accepting interns with specific interests in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics. Applicants for the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program must have completed at least one year of college-level physics to be selected. SLAC particularly encourages applications to this program from students belonging to groups under-represented in physical science careers, such as women, minority students and low-income students.

Students are paired with staff members and are given specific projects to work on for the duration of the internship. Students also attend scientific lectures and tours of the Silicon Valley high-tech industries

From left: Intern Nancy Fathali, SLAC Director Jonathan Dorfan, SULI Program Contact Helen Quinn, SMB scientists Aina Cohen and Paul Ellis at the 2002 graduation ceremony.

Please visit SLAC's Undergraduate Programs page for more information: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/gen/edu/undergraduate.html.
The Macromolecular Crystallography group occasionally accepts interns outside the SULI program dependent on project funding.

Year	Intern	Project	Mentor(s)	Program
2008	Laura Aguila	Analysis of plastics for use as a sample container for X-ray diffraction experiments report	Aina Cohen	Recent graduate of Monta Vista High School
2008	Sameep Tandon	Analysis of plastics for use as a sample container for X-ray diffraction experiments report	Aina Cohen	Recent graduate of Monta Vista High School
2007	Benjamin J. Cherian	Cryojet controller DHS JAVA BluIce client.	Jinhu Song	Caltech Intern
2007	Brendon Soltis	Integration of beamsize information to JPEG images..	Jinhu Song	H. S. Intern
2007	Christina Homer	Evaluation of XREC and C3D for Automated Centering. report	Ana Gonzalez Graeme Card	UC San Diego Intern
2007	Michael M. Berger	Automation of a new protein crystallization method.	Irimpan Mathews	H. S. Intern
2007	Laura Byrnes	Crystallographic studies of two bacterial antibiotic resistance enzymes: Aminoglycoside Phopshotransferase (2'')-Ic and GES-1 beta-lactamase. report	Clyde Smith	SULI
2007	Rosanne Joseph	Temperature Measurements on Cryogenic Cooling Systems at SSRL Macromolecular Crystallography Beamlines	Herbert Axelrod	UC Berkeley Intern
2006	Johannes H. Decker	Protein crystallization using a new crystallization method.	Irimpan Mathews	Stanford University Intern
2006	Deepa Mathew	Manuscript for "Diffraction Based Automated Crystal Centering". Robot development studies: sample pin orientation and ice formation on hardware.	Mike Soltis	Penn State U Intern
2006	Sandhya Jacob	Prolonged Exposure of Lysozyme Crystal to X-rays Results in Measurable Site Specific Radiation Damage. report	Graeme Card Ana Gonzalez	UC Berkeley Intern
2006	Jonathan O'Keefe	Autoindex status monitoring to notify BluIce. Consolidate code for BluIce: move repeated code from several Widgets into base class.	Jinhu Song	UC Santa Barbara Intern
2006	Brendon Soltis	Video taping and editing movies of robot operation and calibration. PowerPoint presentation design and photo editing. Robot development studies: sample pin orientation and ice formation on hardware.	Jinhu Song Mike Soltis	H. S. Intern
2006	George Boxer	Energy Minimization using Redundant Dihedral Degrees of Freedom.	Henry van den Bedem	Princeton University Intern
2006	Rosanne Joseph	Crystallization and structure studies of TM1389, a putative methyltransferase, from Thermotoga maritima. Structure of apo and heme bound TyrA- a member of a new class of plant peroxidase.	Herbert Axelrod Chloe Zubieta	H. S. Intern
2005	Olga Krasnykh	Structure solution and refinement of two mutants of a heat shock protein from P. tremula	Ana Gonzalez Irimpan Mathews	H.S. Intern
2005	Deepa Mathew	Automated Protein Crystal Centering	Mike Soltis	Univ. of Chicago
2005	Laura Corbet	Automated Protein Crystal Centering	Mike Soltis	H.S. Intern
2005	Rosanne Joseph	The X-Ray Crystallographic Refinement of TM1389-A SAM-dependent Methyltransferase from Thermotoga maritima. report	Herbert Axelrod	H.S. Intern
2005	John O'Keefe	DHS for new DAQboard (analog I/O and digital I/O) for remote sample light intensity control	Jinhu Song	UC Santa Barbara Intern
2005	George Boxer	Building a consensus protein model by dynamic programming	Henry van den Bedem	H.S. Intern
2004	Olga Krasnykh	Stability of Thymidylate Synthase Complementing Protein mutants from Thermatoga maritima	Irimpan Mathews Mike Soltis	Stanford University Intern
2004	Sandhya Jacob	Development of an automated protein crystal alignment system using X-rays.	Mike Soltis	H.S. Intern
2004	Deepa Mathew	Development of an automated protein crystal alignment system using X-rays.	Irimpan Mathews Mike Soltis	H.S. Intern
2004	Jessica Johnsen	Optimization of crystal growth by using seeding techniques. Tests of the Stanford Automated sample Mounting system.	Tzanko Doukov	H.S. Intern
2004	Chasen Soltis	Adminitrative assistant.	Amanda Prado	H.S. Intern
2004	Nick Nguyen	Structure solution of Populus tremula SP1 mutants Upgrade of the SMB web site	Ana Gonzalez	H.S. Intern
2004	Zepu Zhang	Development of software for diffraction image analysis	Ashley Deacon	Stanford University Intern
2004	Fred Lo	Structure determination of chicken muscle lactate dehydrogenase.	Clyde Smith	Stanford University Intern
2004	Bryan O. Mitchell	Structural Analysis of Thymidylate Synthase Complementing Protein mutants from Thermatoga maritima	Irimpan Mathews	Paine College
2003	Nick Nguyen	Structure solution of Populus tremula SP1 mutants Upgrade of the SMB web site	Ana Gonzalez	H.S. Intern
2003	Zepu Zhang	Development of software for diffraction image analysis	Ashley Deacon	Stanford University Intern
2003	Zepu Zhang	Development of software for diffraction image analysis	Ashley Deacon	Stanford University Intern
2003	Deepa Mathew	Structural Analysis of Thymidylate Synthase Complimenting Protein from Thermatoga maritima in the Presence of Deoxythymidine 5'-Monophosphate report	Irimpan Mathews	H.S. Intern
2002	Zepu Zhang	Development of software for diffraction image analysis	Ashley Deacon	Stanford University Intern
2002	Zachary Anderson	Development of an algorithm for the automatic alignment of x-ray beams report	Ana Gonzalez, Henry van den Bedem	SULI
2002	Nancy Fathali	Model Building of the TM protein	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	SULI
2001	Zepu Zhang	Development of software for diffraction image analysis	Ashley Deacon	Stanford University Intern
2001	Nancy Fathali	Sequencing, model building and refinement of an enzyme critical for valine catabolism - 3-hydroxyisobutyrate dehydrogenase (HIBADH)	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	SULI
2001	Tamar Jones	Advanced mechanical and electrical training for macromolecular crystallography hardware	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	H.S. Intern
2001	Rajinesh Narayan	Sequencing, model building and refinement of an enzyme critical for valine catabolism - 3-hydroxyisobutyrate dehydrogenase (HIBADH)	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	SULI
2001	Richard Urata	Software development for the crystallographic data collection package "Blu-Ice".	Tim McPhillips	H.S. Intern
2000	Marilena LoVerde	Crystallization of GABA_AReceptor report	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	SULI
2000	Amy Wu	Crystallization of GABA_AReceptor report	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	SULI
1999	Tamar Jones	Mechanical and electrical training for macromolecular crystallography hardware	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	H.S. Intern
1999	Andrea Kurtz	Development of crystallization conditions for several proteins including horse skeletal muscle myoglobin. report	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis, Nick Sauter	SULI
1999	Silpa Nalam	Development of crystallization conditions for several proteins including horse skeletal muscle myoglobin. report	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis, Nick Sauter	SULI
1999	Amanda Prado	Development of a PowerPoint presentation to describe crystal cryo-cooling presentation	Aina Cohen, Paul Ellis	H.S. Intern