Student Internship Projects

This page allows you to have a look at all the internship projects offered at WEHI.

Semester 1 2025 Projects

AIVE - Research Software / Articifical Intelligence

The project would involve a series of stages to bring the software infrastructure to a level that will help with development in a complex research environment where currently only 2 people in the world know the software. For more details see the AIVE project and the AIVE public wiki.

BioNix - Research Software

This project helps with reproducibility in the field of Bioinformatics. For more details see BioNix project and the BioNix Getting Started Wiki.

Genomics Invoicing - Research Software

This project helps the Genomics lab quote their complex product range to internal and external clients. For more details see Genomics Invoicing project.

Duplex Sequencing Plugin - Research Software

This project helps the Genomics lab streamline quality control plot generation for duplex sequencing data. For more details see Duplex Sequencing Plugin project

Ongoing Projects

Data Commons / REDMANE - Research - Full-Stack Web Developer, Data Engineering

This project aims to create a proof-of-concept for a Data Lakehouse / Data Commons at WEHI. For more details see Introduction to REDMANE, Data Lakehouse / Data Commons project and the Data Commons Wiki.

Clinical Dashboards - Research - Data Analytics, Full-Stack Web Developer, or Data Engineering

This project helps to setup foundational infrastructure for adding visualisation dashboards for clinically-adjacent data. For more details see Clinical Dashboards project., the Extract PDF Wiki, and the Clinical Dashboards Wiki.

Student Organiser - Full-Stack Web Developer

This project aims to improve the web application that WEHI RCP uses to help streamline the recruitment of students for the internship program. For more details read the student organiser project.

Potential Projects that are dependent on various factors

Genomics Metadata Multiplexing - Research - Data Engineering, Full-Stack Web Developer, or Software Engineering

This project helps to setup infrastructure to keep track of what happens to a sample once it reaches the Genomics Facility. For more details see Genomics Metadata Multiplexing project. and the Genomics Metadata Multiplexing Wiki

Quantum Computing in Bioinformatics - Research - Data Analytics, Software Engineering

This project is looking to create foundational knowledge of quantum computing in bioinformatics. For more details see Quantum Computing in Bioinformatics project and the Quantum Computing Wiki.

Imaging - Research - Data Engineering, Full-Stack Web Developer

This project helps with the current work around automated processing of images from microscopes to the High Performance Compute. For more details see Imaging project and the Imaging Getting Started Wiki.

Immunology Web Application - Research - Full-Stack Web Developer

This project looks to make Cyton, a sophisticated mathematical model, accessible to the scientific community by creating a web application that researchers can access with their browsers from anywhere in the world. For more details see Immunology Web Application project.

Conference Organiser - Full-Stack Web Developer

This project involves creating a web-based application to help conference organisers of RSEAA24, an international conference of Research Software Engineers that is held in September. For more details see the GitHub repo for the Conference Organiser.

Previous projects

Haemosphere - Research - Data Analytics or Full-Stack Web Developer

This projects looks to improve on Haemosphere, which is like a web-based pocket dictionary for visualising and comparing genomic blood datasets. For more details see Haemosphere project and the Haemosphere wiki.

Capacity Planning (Storage and Compute) - Professional - Data Analytics, Full-Stack Web Developer or Data Engineering

This project looks to create models to forecast capacity and create dashboards to demonstrate current usage and help make informed decisions for storage and compute at WEHI. It also created a Storage Calculator that is now being implmented into REDMANE. For more details see Capacity Planning Storage and Compute project.

mixOmics - Research - Software Engineering

This projects looks to improve the mixOmics toolkit, an R package dedicated to the statistical integration of omics data sets. For more details see mixOmics project.

schex Bioconductor - Research Software Engineering

This project helps with understanding what could be streamlined when maintaining software packages for the popular Bioconductor community. For more details see schex Bioconductor project, the Bioconductor Maintenance wiki and the schex Bioconductor package.

Research Data Workflow Processing - Research - Data Analytics or Data Engineering

This project looks to define Research Data Management workflows and use them to benchmark High Performance Compute on WEHI infrastructure and beyond. To learn more about it, please read the presentation, Benchmarking domain-specific research workflow solutions at an international level as well as the GitHub from the students from 2023 that has three public Tableau graphs. A presentation of this work is available on Sharepoint (WEHI access only).

Immunology modelling - Research - Data Analytics or Software Engineering

This project helps with enhancing the framework API for agent-based modelling in Immunology. For more details see Immunology modelling project

Genomics Quality Control - Research - Full-Stack Web Developer

This project helps to setup infrastructure to collate and display Quality Control (QC) information from Genomics workflows. For more details see Genomics Quality Control project.

cryo-EM - Research - Data Analytics or Data Engineering

This project looks to report and analyse Big Data cryo-EM workflows and use machine learning to inform future experimental design. For more details see cryoEM project and the cryo-EM wiki.

Flux - Research - Software Engineering

This project helps with the current work around automated processing of images from microscopes to the High Performance Compute. For more details see Flux project.

LoxCodeR - Research - Data Analytics or Software Engineering

This project looks to improve on LoxCodeR, a way of barcoding stem cells to follow how they differentiate to form other types of cells. For more details see LoxCode project.

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