Fwd: PhD summer Internship opportunities at Calico

[Chaoying Gu]

Forwarding a great PhD summer internship opportunity from Shenjie Wu (Calico Life Sciences), shared through Julia Lazzari-Dean, who gave the Photobears talk earlier this semester on “Moving beyond localization in fluorescence microscopy: mapping function with lifetime and polarization.” Both Shenjie and Julia are Berkeley alum and now Senior Scientist at Calico.

Apply here and check the forwarded email for more details!

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From: Shenjie Wu <wu...@calicolabs.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Subject: PhD summer Internship opportunities at Calico
To: <chaoy...@berkeley.edu>

Dear Chaoying,

I hope that you are doing well. Julia, who has spoke at photo bears event before on her polarization method for fluorescence microscopy, and I are hiring a Summer 2026 intern to develop new fluorescence-based assays for synuclein aggregation. This is a great opportunity for a PhD student interested in microscopy, chemical biology, and Parkinson’s disease. The perspective intern will have the opportunity to work with the microscopy team and experts in Parkinson’s disease biology to develop a new readout for synuclein aggregation in cells.

we would encourage anyone from the imaging community at Berkeley who also has background and interest in biophysics and neuroscience to apply for this opportunity:https://www.calicolabs.com/careers/?gh_jid=8326871002.

The internship is a 12-week paid program, on site in South San Francisco, CA. The application deadline is February 1, 2026, but the interview process could start as early as in Jan 2026. Calico (Calico Life Sciences LLC) is an Alphabet-founded research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies and model systems to increase our understanding of the biology that controls human aging and age-related diseases.

Both Julia and I were trained in Berkeley, and we would love to have the opportunity to work with talented Berkeley graduate students again.

Best wishes,

Shenjie

  Shenjie Wu, Ph.D. | Senior Scientist
Calico Life Sciences LLC | 1170 Veterans Blvd. | South San Francisco, CA 94080
T: (510) 326-0725 | wu...@calicolabs.com