Opportunities

If you are interested in computation, statistics, genomics, infectious disease, immunology, please consider joining us!

(Also check out some Family Resources and Activities at NC State: https://onboarding.ncsu.edu/family-resources).

Graduate student

Depending on your background and interests, we can accept graduate students from the following graduate programs:

• Bioinformatics: https://brc.ncsu.edu/genomics/bioinformatics
• Genetics and Genomics Scholars umbrella program: https://ggscholars.org
• Functional Genomics: https://brc.ncsu.edu/genomics/functional-genomics
• Genetics: https://genetics.sciences.ncsu.edu/
• Comparative Biomedical Sciences: https://cvm.ncsu.edu/education/comparative-biomedical-sciences
• NIH T32 Chemistry of Life Training Program (CLTP): https://chemlife.ncsu.edu/training-program
• NIH T32 Comparative Molecular Medicine Training Program (CMMTP): https://research.ncsu.edu/cmi/cmmtp

Note: Graduate admissions are managed by independent committees. PhD students will do rotations (usually three) in the first year to decide a lab for dissertation research. 

Postdoctoral fellow and staff researcher

• Please email Dr. Peng (xpeng5@ncsu.edu) your CV, cover letter describing research interests or research statement, contact information for three references.

Undergraduate student

• Please email Dr. Peng (xpeng5@ncsu.edu) your research interests and schedule an in-person discussion.
• Also please check out the funded NIH T34 U-TEAM: Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Training in Comparative Biomedical Research program: https://research.ncsu.edu/cmi/training-opportunities/u-team-nih-t34/