Jobs
757 days ago
University of British Columbia -
A post-doctoral fellowships (PDF) position in the field of machine learning/computational biology is available in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia/Vancouver General Hospital. The incumbents will join an interdisciplinary team working to establish a program on machine learning applications in pathology and genomics. Candidates are expected to have extensive experience in one or more of the following areas: diverse areas of machine learning and statistics especially deep neural networks, statistics, and image processing. The candidate will play an important role in the project team, including authoring grants, conducting large-scale international projects, managing collaborations, disseminating research findings, and assisting in managing junior lab members. Organizational Status: The successful candidate will report to the Principal Investigator (Director of AI Research at OVCARE, Dr. Ali Bashashati).
757 days ago
University of Arizona -
An NIH R01-supported postdoctoral fellow position in bioinformatics is available within the Kruer laboratory of the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Research Institute and University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Work in the lab focuses on neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders of childhood, spanning both common and rare diseases. Successful candidates will have strong programming and analytical skills. The fellow will take ownership of projects integrating genomic (WES and WGS) and transcriptomic datasets across eukaryotic systems working collaboratively with bench scientists (molecular & cellular biologists, geneticists, neuroscientists) and physicians within the lab to characterize fundamental disease mechanisms. Opportunities in phenomics, metabolomics, algorithm development, and single cell analysis exist. Early career scientists will receive mentoring in proposal development, grantwriting, peer review and scientific communication to complement their professional development and prepare for positions in either academia or industry. The successful applicant will have opportunities to work both independently and as part of large collaborative teams across major research networks and to publish high-impact manuscripts.
757 days ago
Washinton University in St. Louis -
The Cruchaga Lab in collaboration with the GSK Genetics Therapy Area is recruiting a self-motivated, self-driven Postdoctoral Research Scientist to work on QTL mapping, Colocalization and Mendelian Randomization. Our group generates and analyzes genetic and multi-tissue proteomic data from large and well-characterized cohorts of Alzheimer disease cases and controls. Proteomic and other omic data (transcriptomics, metabolomics and lipidomics) will be used to perform QTL mapping, Colocalization and Mendelian Randomization to identify novel causal genes, proteins and pathways for Alzheimer disease risk, onset and progression, as well as to create new prediction models and identify druggable targets. We are seeking a highly motivated researcher with strong analytical skills, especially in Quantitative human genetics and Mendelian Randomization to lead the analyses for these projects. The new Postdoctoral Research Scientist will join a large team, currently 30+ members, which is led by three faculty members, four postdocs, several PhD students, and three senior scientists.
Recent publications:
Yang Chengran et al, Nat Neurosci. 2021 Sep;24(9):1302-1312 Laura Ibanez, et al. Genes (Basel). 2021 Aug 15;12(8):1247 Claudia Olive, et al. J Alzheimers Dis. 2020;77(4):1469-1482 Umber Dube et al, Nat Neurosci. 2019 Nov;22(11):1903-1912
769 days ago
CHU de quebec -
The bioinformatics laboratory of the research center of the CHU de Québec – Université Laval (CHUL) invites applications for a Bioinformatician post-doc position in Microbial Metagenomics (shotgun / 16S). This full-time fixed term position is for approximately 12 months (based on length of grant funding), with the possibility of extension. The Bioinformatician in Microbial Metagenomics will report directly to Arnaud Droit, principal investigator and director of the computational biology laboratory. The successful applicant will join an interdisciplinary team focused on developing and applying computational methods in microbial metagenomics, but also various other OMICs-type projects, especially in cancer research. The team uses state-of-the-art applications of high throughput sequencing to analyze patient cohorts, identify biomarker signatures, and identify bacterial sequences that could potentially serve as diagnostic markers. The Bioinformatician in microbial metagenomics will develop new methods and support the continued development of approaches for resolving genomes from metagenomes (16S and shotgun), performing comparative and functional genomics analyses, and curating pan-genomic sequence databases. The position will take place in a context of an international collaboration with a private partner. It will start as soon as possible. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
769 days ago
University Health Network -
The Latner Thoracic Surgery Laboratories at the University Health Network in Toronto is inviting applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow. The successful candidate will lead a project defining genomic and transcriptomic features in esophageal adenocarcinoma. Our samples include laser capture microdissected whole genome and RNA-seq samples from pre-treatment primary tumour biopsies, post-treatment surgical resections, and metastatic biopsies. We have current sequenced approximate 40 whole genomes with matched germline data and 50 whole transcriptomes with a goal to reach NN samples. The candidate will be part of an integrative group including members from a comprehensive clinical program in esophageal cancer, experts in esophageal adenocarcinoma patient derived organoid models, cancer biologists, and bioinformaticians. The successful candidate will be supervised by a clinician-scientist PI and a bioinformatics/genomics PI.