<p>Go to the ICB website, check out people and you will find a huge list of the researchers/professors in the program. Once you are in UCSB, start contacting each of them and see if they have any work for you as an undergrad. Take your transcript with you and show it to them and let them know that you are very dedicated and would do any kind of work to assist them in their project. It is important to let them know that your primary goal is to learn. You will never know what kind of help they need. If they ask you to be a computer technician in their lab, do it. It will get your foot in the door. If they ask you to assist one of their PHD students, do it. Just be open to what they ask, even if they ask you to clean petri dishes for a month. lol, I would do it. </p>
<p>I don’t know if ICB is looking for undergrads, and there is nothing wrong with working with the other institutes as well. </p>
<p>For example: [url=<a href=“http://www.stemcell.ucsb.edu/people/]People[/url”>People | William K. Bowes Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering | UC Santa Barbara]People[/url</a>]
Do you notice how they have all the faculty’s email addresses and phone numbers? After you admit to UCSB, contact them after your first quarter (mainly after you settle down and get some good grades to show for). Ask them politely if they have any work, don’t pester them. Stay in touch with the ones that you think are nice and you would enjoy maintaining relations with. If you don’t land anything, keep asking them once every quarter and visit them during their office hours. Study up on what their research is on and go and discuss with them (show them that you want to learn).</p>
<p>Its all about maintaining relations, having the drive to learn and being motivated. If not in the beginning, you will get an opportunity to participate in something later on.</p>