Fish Health and Microbiology - Free Accommodation

AquaBioTech Group actively encourages students and post-graduates to undertake internship training sessions at our company so as to gain valuable practical, applied and hands-on experience.  We offer a minimum of 6 months duration for internships.  Interns receive no remuneration but accommodation will be provided by the company at no charge. Costs of travel and living expenses are the responsibility of interns or their sponsoring institutions.

The intern will be involved in routine monitoring of the stock fish located in our facilities through routine inspections as well as microbiological examinations. On the other hand, the tasks performed in the microbiology laboratory will not only involve that work but also all the other tasks that we routinely do as part of a monitoring of the hygiene in our RAS systems, diagnostic of the fish that underwent a challenge trial, maintenance of our stock bacterial cultures, cryopreservation of newly received isolates and maintaining stocks.

The intern will report directly to the Aquatic Veterinarian. The position therefore demands a person with some knowledge of fish health and/or microbiology; a biology background is recommended, but not mandatory. English (spoken and written) is essential, as well as good organization skills. Motivation for quality work is fundamental, especially considering the total workload of a standard week that is usually highly demanding. The candidate will work on a shift base schedule and the work is split between dry and wet-labs.