EawagAcronym | Eawag | Homepage | http://www.eawag.ch/ | Country | Switzerland | ZIP, City | | Address | | Phone | | Type | Academy | Current organization | Eawag | Child organizations | | Memberships | |
Open OpportunitiesWe are searching for an intern to work on the detection of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance in wastewater. We are a research and surveillance laboratory that uses state-of-the-art methods on culture- and molecular-based detection of pathogens in complex matrices. We are looking for interns to help us with our surveillance of wastewater for respiratory pathogens including influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and coronaviruses, as well as surveillance of antimicrobial resistance include MRSA and VRE. Interns are trained on methods for the molecular detection using digital PCR, an advanced tool for quantitative detection of nucleic acids, as well as on extraction of DNA and RNA. Interns are also engaged in the development of new assays, and contribute to management and logistics aspects of the work. All of our methods are directly relevant to commonly used tools in research and clinics for routine diagnostics. - Environmental Sciences, Microbiology
- Internship, Master Thesis
| The International Research Center on Water and Environment (CIRSEE) of SUEZ, multinational corporation specializing in water and waste management services, in collaboration with Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, offers an internship in the development of an innovative pollution measurement system. - Applied Hydrology (Drainage, Flooding, Irrigation, Quality, etc.), Environmental Sciences
- Internship, Master Thesis
| Do you want to be part of an innovative research project that has the potential to make a real-world impact? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. You will work in a multidisciplinary research environment, and you will have the chance to gain valuable experience in machine learning and data analysis. - Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing, Environmental Sciences
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
| Drinking water distribution plays a critical role in safeguarding public health, affecting the quality of the water than is delivered to consumers’ taps. While most studies investigated the impact of either distribution or stagnation on the prokaryotic (i.e., bacterial and archaeal) communities in drinking water, the relative importance of the two aspects has not been properly compared. In addition, very little information is available on non-prokaryotic microbiome members (i.e., viruses, eukaryotes), both with respect to their occurrence in drinking water and the extent to which they are impacted by stagnation and water distribution.
While amplicon sequencing approaches are limited by primer coverage and allow to recover only taxonomic information, shotgun metagenomics can overcome these limits, allowing to monitor the DNA derived from all microbiome members and gather information regarding both taxonomy and functional potential.
This project aims to leverage shotgun metagenomics to evaluate the impact of water distribution and stagnation on the entire microbiome composition. - Microbiology, Water and Sanitary Engineering
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
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