If you are an undergraduate at UC-Berkeley interested in gaining research experience or know someone who is, check out our lab entry at the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). The project description is a huge mouthful, and personally I think it sounds much more intimidating than it needs to be. So below is my argument why, if you’re interested in a research career or graduate school, you should consider in working in my lab, even if you aren’t specifically interested in genome evolution or computational biology. (more…)